I do think judgment will begin with the house of God, though for most it will merely be in the form of chastisements rather than condemnation unto physical or spiritual death. That is possibly what you are saying, yes?
I am saved. I am already judged and and found righteous in God's eyes through the blood of His son. That is the fundamental heart of Christianity. Anything else is a false gospel.
True to your statement and also to Pearl's statement, but this also depends on us as well. Do you want God's will or reject it. If you want it than you will behave like it and if you reject it that is also reflected. Otherwise the justification bestowed on us if we have been granted clemency, becomes a mockery as one of the writers of hebrews said if we continue to practice sin.
The apostles make reference to this in their writings in some form. So that we take the opportunity we were given seriously and not find ourselves in the previous state we were before repenting and making Jesus our Lord. God's mercy is the chastisement that will begin in the church first to hopefully provoke some unto salvation if they are in another state or unbelief. The doctrine that most of the church lives by now, once saved always saved, isn't the body of the context in the new testament and surly not God's word wholly. It really wasn't a concept marketed to us before the last 3-400 years and much more so recently. Before that most of the writings concern our hope reflected our belief (faith) so that we would obtain the promise. Today, the promise reflects the hope regardless of the belief. And that lack understanding is ushering in the abomination of desolation because we don't take God's kingdom and living a life as a partaker of it.
I like the way Paul say it.
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree, do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” True enough; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either. Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?
Romans 11:17-24
Jesus innocent death and His blood gave to us justification to be reconciled to God in spite of our sin. It was something we could not do ourselves. We could not justify ourselves in the sight of a Holy God which I am sure we all agree . But this gift is given with the same responsibility as was the law through Moses and is has now been placed in salvation through Jesus Christ. It is not my place to affirm anyone's salvation because it is it through accepting, believing and following the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It is my place to encourage as we see in the scriptures to live in a way that is right.
Peter said, "Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble, and you will receive a lavish reception into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
This way of speaking can make some nervous, but it isn't false gospel. 2 peter 1:10
