OSAS applies to ANY man who has RECEIVE-ED Gods gift of Salvation, Offered BY God Himself.
You seem to be confounded BY “WHEN” Gods gift of Salvation, WAS, IS, CAN BE Received.
Under the OLD Covenant, Salvation WAS RECEIV-ED...AT THE “PHYSICAL” bodily Death, of a Believing Individual.
Under the NEW Covenant, Salvation “CAN” BE RECEIVED-ED...”BEFORE PHYSICAL DEATH”......BY a heartfully BELIEVING Individual, WHO Confesses his TRUE HEARTFUL BELIEF, IN God and IN Jesus being the Christ Messiah.
SUCH an individuals, ^^, “CONFESSION” EXPRESSLY INCLUDES “The Lords Forgiveness”.....AND EXPRESSLY INCLUDES “the individual” Laying down his Bodily LIFE IN DEATH, “SPIRITUALLY” Crucified WITH JESUS.”
^ THEIR SALVATION “IS” Received, BEFORE Physical Bodily Death.
^ THAT “IS” the Primary basis FOR the NEW COVENANT, given men...
Called a “BETTER TESTAMENT”...BY, THROUGH, OF, Christ Jesus.
OLD Covenant revealed in the OT.
NEW Covenant Prophecy given in OT SHALL be given;
Jer 1:
[
31] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
REMINDER of a NEW Covenant WILL be made;
Heb.8
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8] For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
NEW Covenant revealed;
[
13] In that he saith, A
new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
WHO is the MEDIATOR of the NEW Covenant, expressly JESUS.
Heb.12
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24] And to Jesus the mediator of the
new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
The Testament of the appointed MEDIATOR of the NEW COVENANT, IS so much BETTER than the OLD COVENANT.
Heb 7:
[
22] By so much was Jesus made a surety of a
better testament.
WHY IS the Testament of the appointed MEDIATOR of the NEW COVENANT, so much BETTER than the OLD COVENANT?
Scripture itself TELLS YOU...
Heb 7:
[
22] By so much was
Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
** WHAT IS THIS
SURETY that Jesus (the Mediator) MADE, that WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE “OLD COVENANT”?
.....POWER....of God....superseding the power of men.
* Under the OLD Covenant, individual men who BELIEVED, had to “maintain” their belief, until their physical death.... “BY THEIR OWN human will-power”.
* Under the NEW Covenant, individual men who BELIEVE, AND Accept the Lords Offering........”THEY ARE KEPT IN BELIEF”....EXPRESSLY BY GODS POWER, that ENTERS THEM, via Baptism OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (is WHICH Gods HOLY SPIRIT ... WHICH IS HIS POWER!)
* Men acting under their OWN power, can believe, can deny, can wonder, can believe, can doubt, can deny, can believe....GET IT?
* Never heard men WAVERING from day to day?
* We have Scriptural Examples, specifically...Jesus’ own chosen disciples, wavering via their own power and BEFORE receiving the Power of the Holy Spirit IN them.
* We can hear men in our own day...wavering from day to day...claiming belief according to Gods Word, claiming to deny, claiming to doubt, claiming to believe things that Jesus DID NOT teach, but attributing those teachings, TO Gods Word.
Jesus IS the Mediator of the NEW Covenant.
It is Jesus WHO reveals the Better Testament VIA the Words out of His Mouth.
It is Jesus WHO offers men the EXPRESS option to SURELY RECEIVE Salvation
BEFORE their Physical bodily Death.
IF any BELIEVING man, elects to NOT accept Jesus’ OFFERING, that is that mans Individual Choice, and that man IS REPEATEDLY WARNED, CAUTIONED, of EVIL and WICKEDNESS ... IN THIS WORLD....and “such an individual, relying on his OWN POWER... IS:
A PRIME TARGET of EVIL spirits and WICKED men...to SWAY that individual AWAY from BELIEF IN the Lord God...IS:
Warned, they are relying on their own power, (called ENDURING, to their end, via their own power.)
THUS....Also that which IS REPEATEDLY WARNED in Scripture IS: get to getting, MAKE your decision TO ALLOW the OFFERING VIA, JESUS: OF GODS POWER to KEEP YOU IN BELIEF....is THE POWER, THAT WHICH no evil spirit and no mans persuasion ... CAN UNDO.
Glory to God,
Taken