Deathbed Salvation

[Sabby]

Originally Posted by Aquila

God never breaks His promises. He will raise the person up. Be it out of their deathbed... or in the resurrection. One way or another... they will be raised up. A promise is a promise.

This is amazingly GOOD!
Mt 7:28
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
Mt 7:29
For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes

Mr 12:26
And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mr 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Of COURSE people can be saved on their deathbeds! Is Jesus God OR NOT?

Why else go to visit the elderly and infirm, unless you knew you were TAKING JESUS WITH YOU? Why else pray for those with Alzheimer's unless you were TAKING JESUS WITH YOU?
I personally believe the biggest reason you don't see apostolics going to nursing homes, etc, is because they know they can't as easily fulfil their Acts 2:38 "commission" in those venues. Unfortunately, they shortchange the gospel by not ministering to these folks because they LIMIT God's grace and mercy as well as their own Apostolic authority. When we lay hands on the sick it doesn't mean they will always immediately hope to shout, jump from their beds and beg for water baptism, but they WILL be saved...
"A promise is a promise" indeed!

We need to "let" God be God and stop limiting His (and OUR) potential in Him.

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by Sabby

This is amazingly GOOD!
Mt 7:28
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
Mt 7:29
For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes

Mr 12:26
And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mr 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Of COURSE people can be saved on their deathbeds! Is Jesus God OR NOT?

Why else go to visit the elderly and infirm, unless you knew you were TAKING JESUS WITH YOU? Why else pray for those with Alzheimer's unless you were TAKING JESUS WITH YOU?
I personally believe the biggest reason you don't see apostolics going to nursing homes, etc, is because they know they can't as easily fulfil their Acts 2:38 "commission" in those venues. Unfortunately, they shortchange the gospel by not ministering to these folks because they LIMIT God's grace and mercy as well as their own Apostolic authority. When we lay hands on the sick it doesn't mean they will always immediately hope to shout, jump from their beds and beg for water baptism, but they WILL be saved...
"A promise is a promise" indeed!

We need to "let" God be God and stop limiting His (and OUR) potential in Him.

The problem is that Apostolics believe that they are called to declare who is acceptably saved or not. Jesus said that everyone who is born of the Spirit is born invisibly, you can't see it, you can't predict where it's coming from or where it's going. Yet week after week people flock the altars as whistle blowers or thumb raisers or finger pointers determining who is saved and who isn't.