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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I think this is missing a very important point that we learn in Matt 18.
Very often Christians think it is a binary choice -- overcomer or outer darkness. Matt 18 begins with "who is the greatest" and ends with the one being sent to debtors prison. But why? Because he violated the principle "forgive us as we have forgiven those that sin against us".
On this thread there have been mentioning of those who have no hope of being an overcomer to the point it has become a sad joke. But, can't you at least forgive those who have sinned against you? That is all it takes to avoid outer darkness.
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And we also need to consider the words spoken to the faithful servants in Matthew 25,
"Well done good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in a FEW things; I will set you over many. Enter into the joy of your master."
As I mentioned earlier, this was quite the eye-opener for many of us when a brother recently shared his experience of the Lord touching him about this matter. Many of us get the idea with the Bema and overcoming that the bar is set really high and we must be a SuperSaint to somehow get over it. (I was so inspired that a 4 page paper on the subject just flowed out of me and I posted it on this forum a couple weeks ago. So far I think the only one who acknowledged it was Drake . .
See here for "Faithful in a Few Things" paper )