Notice that it says to repent AND be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. There is this false message going around that repentance only means to repent of unbelief, and there is clearly more to it than that. Repentance means turning away from sin.
Then you have him saying that every soul that won't hear the Lord will be destroyed. This doesn't mean just having his words enter one ear and go out the other. It means to actually observe what Jesus says and obey it. All of that is true, but if you say that to the wrong people, you will be called a legalist and a Judaizer.
But that is why we need to examine what it is they mean by BELIEF . For there is belief as the devils have and it does not save , then their is true belief that does save .
Devils do believe and how they do tremble even . But devils are not hearers and doers . REAL FAITH , TRUE BELIEF , would LOVE JESUS Above all , and Love is not in lip alone , but by who we obey is our love seen .
For who we obey , what we obey , what we are led of and what we follow , IS WHAT WE LOVE , whether its sin unto death aka the lusts of the flesh , OR JESUS and the grace found in HIM which teaches us to deny such things and to be living righteously , soberly and godly in this present world .
I could sum it up so simple . In order to be saved , HAVE FAITH IN CHRIST ALONE , and once you come to HIM , CONTINUE IN HIM , continue to obey HIM , to follow HIM , to endure faithful to the end , or you will be cast out .
THINK about that . IS That not the overall understanding that NOT ONLY JESUS TUAGHT but the apostels taught .
How often JESUS spoke of this . He gives the parables , He said to those who even believed on HIM , IF you continue in me , CONTINUE , the truth shall make you free , and That if ye continue NOT
you are cast out . Now ponder on that as we read in so many places where paul and others kept that torch of truth LIT and going .
FOR ye are made partakers of CHRIST , IF , my friends , IF you continue with the HOPE you had at the beginning , steadfast UNTO THE END .
Let us go back to what JESUS said . When JESUS was telling his OWN , the apostels about how men would hate them , kill them , persecute them ,
HE ALSO told them , BUT HE WHO ENDURES TO THE END , THAT ONE WILL BE SAVED . TO THE END .
Now lets look at what paul tells the church in rome . He tells them of the great hope they have since now they have been grafted into the tree by FAITH IN JESUS
And he tells them of the severity of GOD towards those who did not BELEIVE . He gives hope to the lost by saying they can be grafted back into their own tree , IF they continue not in unbelief in Christ
BUT LOOK OUT for paul says something else , and folks better not be highmend but fear . FOR he says goodness towards THEE MY FELLOW BELEIVERS , IF , woe something is about to get said ,
IF you CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS , otherwise my fellow beleivers , YE WILL BE CAST OUT .
JUST like JESUS HAD SAID .
Look at how serious peter took it too , when he describes what happens if a BELEIVER came to CHRIST , TASTED of the goodness , was made a partaker , and then returns to the pit and is overcome .
THE LATTER end is worse with them .
NOW where did PETER GET THIS FROM . look at what JESUS told about one who can be made clean , and yet the devils return and the latter end of that one is worse than the beginning . FOR IT Would have been better to NEVER have known the way of righteousness , than after KNOWING IT , to Turn away . LOOk at how paul says the identical things in Hebrews and in quite a few places in just that book alone and other places .
THE over all view of the early church was , YE ARE SAVED by grace alone , by our FAITH IN JESUS period , but if one continue not in HIM , they will be cast out .
HOW come paul and peter and john and others all warned the same way . AND ALSO look at the message to the seven churches . IDENTICAL TO the entire pattern JESUS had set .
Error gets spotted , some even had VERY GOOD FIRST LOVE , yet were not continuing , and they were warned REPENT OR ELSE and how many reminders in that book
about HE who is faithful UNTO THE END .
SO why on earth do we who remind get the title of , YADONT TRUST JESUS , LEGLALIZER , JUDAIZER , HATER , etc . SEEMS to me like THEY DONT TRUST IN JESUS .
CAUSE HE SAID IT FIRST . and guess what , IF JESUS HIMSELF said if a man continues not in me he is cast out . I TRUST JESUS , KNOW what I mean . I MEAN HE aint just some man . HIS WORDS ARE TRUTH
and as such , THEY NEED TO BE BELEIVED AND HEEDED , OBEYED and KEPT upon the heart . AND IF we have the SPIRIT , WOULD NOT the SPIRIT REMIND us of what JESUS SAID . exactly .
ITS called the HELPER , NOT THE TWISTER .