According to Jesus, not everyone is going to make it.

[B-A-C]

Both Peter and Paul say God wants everyone to be saved.

2Pet 3:9; The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

1Tim 2:3; This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
1Tim 2:4; who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

So then, if this is the will of God, does that mean everyone is saved?
According to Jesus, the answer is no. In fact it seems the majority will not be saved.

Matt 7:13; "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
Matt 7:14; "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Many go through the gate that leads to destruction. "Many". Few go through the gate that leads to life. "Few". It would seem that few, is less than many.

Someone asked Jesus "Are just a few people being saved?". This was His answer.

Luke 13:23; And someone said to Him, "Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?" And He said to them,
Luke 13:24; "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Again, we see that word "many". Many will try to enter the narrow door, but will not be able.

There is another verse I would like to add, for a little context here.

Rev 7:9; After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

It says here, that a "great multitude" ... so large, that no one could count them. ( However, I suspect God knows how many there are ). These people have white robes and are before the throne of Jesus.
If we keep reading, we find out these were people who were martyred in the Great Tribulation, but my point here is, even just this group of people, is a quite large number of people.

So then, is the Bible contradicting itself? Which is it? A large group or a small group?

Well, there are currently about 8 billion people on the Earth. That's just the people who are alive right now today. Presumably, depending on which internet article you read, there are more people on the Earth alive today,
than all the people who have ever been on the Earth over the several thousand years. If you're a Christian that believes in creation, that would be since Adam and Eve.
So let me speculate here here for a second, and take a wild guess. Let's say there have been about 15 billion so far. Let us also say, that only 10 percent of those people get saved. ( I know this is all guess work ).

That's still 1.5 billion people that get saved. ( Assuming the 10 percent is correct ). It could be more, it could be less, I really don't know. But either way, Jesus says... "few" find the path to life. "many" find the path to death.

 

[B-A-C]

Now obviously, there are Atheists, that don't believe in God/Jesus the Bible, etc... There are also Muslims, Hindu's, Buddhists, and thousands of other religions that follow false gods.

None of these people... ( unless they are converted to Christianity ) are going to make it. The great masses of the Earth are unsaved. The vast majority of people don't know Jesus.
Oh most of them have heard of Him. But they don't believe in Him as a Savior, redeemer, the resurrected Son of God.

So what are we to do? Well there is the great commission.

Mark 16:15; And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
Mark 16:16; "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
Mark 16:17; "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
Mark 16:18; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Matt 28:18; And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Matt 28:19; "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
Matt 28:20; teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Jude 1:22; And have mercy on some, who are doubting;
Jude 1:23; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

Rom 10:13; for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."
Rom 10:14; How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?
Rom 10:15; How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!"
Rom 10:16; However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?"
Rom 10:17; So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Faith comes by .. "hearing". It could be from reading something. But it says here, "hearing". Someone speaking the gospel to them.
Now it does happen from time to time that God visits people in dreams or visions. Some people who never met a preacher or missionary do get saved occasionally. But it's pretty rare.
99 percent of the people who receive Jesus, do so because someone told them about Jesus. Who are you telling? Who are you snatching out of the fire? Who are you witnessing to?

Heb 11:6; And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

 

[B-A-C]

Rev 20:11; Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.
Rev 20:12; And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.
Rev 20:13; And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.
Rev 20:14; Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Rev 20:15; And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

One day all of these people who never accepted Jesus will stand before the throne. Some of them will likely be people that both you and I know.
Their names are not in the Book of Life. Could the reason be, that you never told someone about Jesus?
I am sure on that day, millions of people will be crying out, screaming... why didn't someone tell me?

Now it isn't our job to convert them, we can't force people to accept Jesus. But it is our job to share the gospel.

 

[A servant of the Kings]

I want to share with you having received a lot of guidance from Jesus, and our Father, that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is also written here:

“Neither do they say, 'Behold, here it is!' and 'Behold, from here to there!', for behold, the Kingdom of God is within some of you.”

This is the arameic translation of Luke 17:21, (God has told me it is the correct translation, cause the Kingdom is within us that have chosen God, within those that has chosen satan it is not).

So the path that leads to Father, is the path that leads within, cause Father is in the Kingdom. It is written about it here:

6 “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. “

The Kingdom of heaven is Good, only God is good:

18“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.

The Kingdom is light, as God is light, and as the body of Christ is inside Father:

20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

Father is Light:

5And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

Thus to walk towards the Kingdom on the path we must walk towards the light of God within us:

4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

The way to walk towards the light within is to clean:

3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

The way to purify is through repentance

Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

We also need Gods grace, to reach the goal cause even though we can knock, we cannot open the door, and even though we can ask, we cannot give answers hidden to us:

7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

When we are repenting,we are asking for purity, when we are repenting we are asking for Him Who is pure, Him who is Love.

36“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” 37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38This is the first and greatest commandment.…

Jesus has told me that all who are following Him on the way that leads to our Father who is in the Kingdom, has every chance to arrive, and that He will be the solicitor for all who tried after the death of the body of flesh, but that those who turned their back to God and walked the other way, cannot, and will not arrive at the final destination that the way of Jesus leads to.

So it is very important to keep walking the way, and never turn our back to God and decidedly walk the other way. But if we stumble, and make a little detour now and then, it is expected, since none of us are perfect. It is not ideal, but it is to be expected.

 

[B-A-C]

This is the arameic translation of Luke 17:21, (God has told me it is the correct translation, cause the Kingdom is within us that have chosen God, within those that has chosen satan it is not).

Luke 17:20; Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
Luke 17:21; nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."
Luke 17:22; And He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
Luke 17:23; "They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.
Luke 17:24; "For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.
Luke 17:25; "But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
Luke 17:26; "And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
Luke 17:27; they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28; "It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
Luke 17:29; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30; "It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
Luke 17:31; "On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.
Luke 17:32; "Remember Lot's wife.
Luke 17:33; "Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Luke 17:34; "I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.
Luke 17:35; "There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.
Luke 17:36; ["Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left."]
Luke 17:37; And answering they *said to Him, "Where, Lord?" And He said to them, "Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered."

Matt 24:22; "Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Matt 24:23; "Then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'There He is,' do not believe him.
Matt 24:24; "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Matt 24:25; "Behold, I have told you in advance.
Matt 24:26; "So if they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, 'Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them.
Matt 24:27; "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matt 24:28; "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

It would appear that the context here is the second coming ( or rapture depending on your point of view ). Jesus is saying if someone tells
you they met Jesus in private. Out in the woods, or in some secret room... don't believe them. ( Joseph Smith meeting Moroni in a clandestine meeting in the woods comes to mind )
When Jesus returns... It will be like lightning flashing across the sky. It won't be a secret that only a very few people will know about.

Rev 1:7; BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

Every eye will see Him. Even non-believers will see Him.

 

[A servant of the Kings]

Luke 17:20; Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
Luke 17:21; nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."
Luke 17:22; And He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
Luke 17:23; "They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.
Luke 17:24; "For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.
Luke 17:25; "But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
Luke 17:26; "And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
Luke 17:27; they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28; "It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
Luke 17:29; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30; "It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
Luke 17:31; "On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.
Luke 17:32; "Remember Lot's wife.
Luke 17:33; "Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Luke 17:34; "I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.
Luke 17:35; "There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.
Luke 17:36; ["Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left."]
Luke 17:37; And answering they *said to Him, "Where, Lord?" And He said to them, "Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered."

Matt 24:22; "Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Matt 24:23; "Then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'There He is,' do not believe him.
Matt 24:24; "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Matt 24:25; "Behold, I have told you in advance.
Matt 24:26; "So if they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, 'Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them.
Matt 24:27; "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matt 24:28; "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

It would appear that the context here is the second coming ( or rapture depending on your point of view ). Jesus is saying if someone tells
you they met Jesus in private. Out in the woods, or in some secret room... don't believe them. ( Joseph Smith meeting Moroni in a clandestine meeting in the woods comes to mind )
When Jesus returns... It will be like lightning flashing across the sky. It won't be a secret that only a very few people will know about.

Rev 1:7; BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

Every eye will see Him. Even non-believers will see Him.

I have been hit by that lightning many times, it is the lightning of Gods light, in the Kingdom of heaven, it is not, lightnings in the sky above the earth.

If you like to see what happens to my body of flesh as those lightnings hit, I would be happy to send a video, it is not a secret.

I will be temporarily replaced by Gods light at those occasions.

Jesus wants me to spread the knowledge about How He led me to Father, and how others may also receive the lightnings from God
That will let us know Jesus returned:

20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

 

[NoHype]

I want to share with you having received a lot of guidance from Jesus, and our Father, that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is also written here:

“Neither do they say, 'Behold, here it is!' and 'Behold, from here to there!', for behold, the Kingdom of God is within some of you.”

This is the arameic translation of Luke 17:21, (God has told me it is the correct translation, cause the Kingdom is within us that have chosen God, within those that has chosen satan it is not).

So the path that leads to Father, is the path that leads within, cause Father is in the Kingdom. It is written about it here:

6 “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. “

The Kingdom of heaven is Good, only God is good:

18“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.

The Kingdom is light, as God is light, and as the body of Christ is inside Father:

20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

....

Those in Christ still need to be careful thinking about that 'within you' idea, because the occultists use that idea to point to their transcendental meditation theories from eastern religions, in becoming one's own master through spiritual exercises, and projecting one's spirit outside one's body.

Lord Jesus' meaning that the kingdom of heaven is "within you" is simply a pointer to our 'spirit/soul' part of our makeup that dwells within our flesh body (see 2 Cor.5).

His future Kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36), because His future Kingdom will involve us being changed to the "spiritual body" that Apostle Paul taught in 1 Corinthians 15. That's the body of the world to come, a glorious body like Christ's resurrected body.

 

[A servant of the Kings]

Those in Christ still need to be careful thinking about that 'within you' idea, because the occultists use that idea to point to their transcendental meditation theories from eastern religions, in becoming one's own master through spiritual exercises, and projecting one's spirit outside one's body.

Lord Jesus' meaning that the kingdom of heaven is "within you" is simply a pointer to our 'spirit/soul' part of our makeup that dwells within our flesh body (see 2 Cor.5).

His future Kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36), because His future Kingdom will involve us being changed to the "spiritual body" that Apostle Paul taught in 1 Corinthians 15. That's the body of the world to come, a glorious body like Christ's resurrected body.

It is not in your interest to contradict Jesus or the bible:

“Neither do they say, 'Behold, here it is!' and 'Behold, from here to there!', for behold, the Kingdom of God is within some of you.”

4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

It may cost you dearly, do repent as soon as possible

 

[NoHype]

It is not in your interest to contradict Jesus or the bible:

“Neither do they say, 'Behold, here it is!' and 'Behold, from here to there!', for behold, the Kingdom of God is within some of you.”

4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

It may cost you dearly, do repent as soon as possible

You are the one that is misrepresenting the matter. You do not understand what Apostle Paul meant by a 'prophet'. I agree with Bullinger, it is one who Testifies of Scripture, not adding... to Scripture.


What Apostle Paul actually... taught... WITHOUT... man's twisting from 'another spirit':

1 Cor 14:1-4
14 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Paul is pointing to teaching under unction of The Holy Spirit with that word for "prophesy".

2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

That means it is giving The Word in edification to the congregation.

4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
KJV

 

[NoHype]

It is not in your interest to contradict Jesus or the bible:

“Neither do they say, 'Behold, here it is!' and 'Behold, from here to there!', for behold, the Kingdom of God is within some of you.”

4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

It may cost you dearly, do repent as soon as possible

Just so you know also, I don't listen to those who twist God's Word like you did in your post about God's Kingdom, where you said:

You said:
"So the path that leads to Father, is the path that leads within, cause Father is in the Kingdom."

That sounds exactly what a New Ager would say promoting eastern meditation and eastern religions.

The ONLY PATH to The Father, as written in God's Word, is through Faith on His Son Jesus Christ, our ONLY Mediator to The Father for us (Acts 4:10-12; 1 Timothy 2:5).

 

[A servant of the Kings]

You are the one that is misrepresenting the matter. You do not understand what Apostle Paul meant by a 'prophet'. I agree with Bullinger, it is one who Testifies of Scripture, not adding... to Scripture.


What Apostle Paul actually... taught... WITHOUT... man's twisting from 'another spirit':

1 Cor 14:1-4
14 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Paul is pointing to teaching under unction of The Holy Spirit with that word for "prophesy".

2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

That means it is giving The Word in edification to the congregation.

4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
KJV

Well I have warned you, I have told you that I a one of Gods servants, that He made me a prophet
I have told you that the Kingdom is within, the exact same message as Jesus gives you in the bible.

I will warn you again, the Temple of God within, the seven lamps before the throne
is very Holy.

For your own sake, do not contradict Jesus about the Kingdom being within
Or about the body being a temple.

These are very Holy things

It is because it is a Temple of God, that the Holy Spirit will dwell with us

31Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven

Now I have warned you very sternly, no one can say I did not warn you,
Now it is between you and God

 

[A servant of the Kings]

Just so you know also, I don't listen to those who twist God's Word like you did in your post about God's Kingdom, where you said:

You said:
"So the path that leads to Father, is the path that leads within, cause Father is in the Kingdom."

That sounds exactly what a New Ager would say promoting eastern meditation and eastern religions.

The ONLY PATH to The Father, as written in God's Word, is through Faith on His Son Jesus Christ, our ONLY Mediator to The Father for us (Acts 4:10-12; 1 Timothy 2:5).

Are you calling the apostle John new age also?

3Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. 4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

And what about Jesus? “Neither do they say, 'Behold, here it is!' and 'Behold, from here to there!', for behold, the Kingdom of God is within some of you.”


Be quick to repent, God may still accept your repentance

Some people worshipping false gods are aware of some parts of the Temple of God within
but they will defile it, worship false gods, it is a very grave sin.

It is like both children of God and heathens has a tongue
It is how we use them, that is the difference when it comes to tongues

I child of God may speak the languages of angels after receiving tongues
Praising God

The heathen may use his tongue for vile language, and to curse at God

 

[B-A-C]

Well I have warned you, I have told you that I a one of Gods servants, that He made me a prophet
I have told you that the Kingdom is within, the exact same message as Jesus gives you in the bible.

I will warn you again, the Temple of God within, the seven lamps before the throne
is very Holy.

For your own sake, do not contradict Jesus about the Kingdom being within
Or about the body being a temple.

OK. But it's a debate for another thread, and has nothing to do with "not every one is going to make it".

 

[twcstp]

Obidience to the laws (Statues, Judgements) and the Instructions given to His people by His holy prophets who were moved by His Holy Spirit to record and and deliver His Word (His laws and decrees) is the truth which is spoken of by His Son, Jesus Christ, in the New Testament:

John 17:17-26​

John 17:17-26 KJV​

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

◄ 1 Corinthians 3:16 ►

Verse (Click for Chapter) King James Bible Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Finally,

John 6:63
King James Version​

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

In God's word the truth is followed up with more passages supporting the validity of the truth. Our opinions are not more important than the Word that is supported by the Word and this

John 14:15-31
King James Version​

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.


Be blessed.

 

[Samson2020]

Obidience to the laws (Statues, Judgements) and the Instructions given to His people by His holy prophets who were moved by His Holy Spirit to record and and deliver His Word (His laws and decrees) is the truth which is spoken of by His Son, Jesus Christ, in the New Testament:

The law of ordinances and commandments was replaced with the spiritual law of Love thy God, Love thy neighbor. Jesus took away the Mosaic Law
that was purely a physical thing, until His appearance on earth, the New covenant was the spiritual aspect of the Law which is to love. The sacrifices
of the old Law for sins was completely fulfilled by His crucifixion. "There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin"

Isaiah 53:6 "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on Him the INIQUITY OF US ALL."

Luke 15:4 What man of you having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after
that which is lost, until he find it?

John 3:35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given ALL things into His hands.

John 6:39 And this is the FATHERS WILL WHICH HATH SENT ME, THAT OF ALL HE HATH GIVEN ME (all things) I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING,
but raise it up again at the last day.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him THAT WORKETH ALL THINGS AFTER
THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL.

 

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So then, if this is the will of God

Yes.

does that mean everyone is saved?

Not yet. As is obvious by just looking at our own neighborhoods.

So then, is the Bible contradicting itself? Which is it? A large group or a small group?

You point out a very necessary issue to discuss.

The first fruits unto God and the Lamb are the future kings and priests, that are also lords of the Lord.
In the second dispensation of time there must be a way where in the lords are fruitful, for Jesus did say that those who received the word and were fruitful
would bring forth fruit some 30, some 60, some 100 fold. Matt 13:23
In order for that to take place the overcoming spiritual seed that we received form Jesus must be matured to perfection. All come in the unity of the faith.
It is only then that those lords will be able to pass the same overcoming spiritual seed to the next group. That could only happen after the second
resurrection, for not one of us can give perfected spiritual life to anybody because we are not perfected yet.

Consider, Jesus got the Holy Ghost from the Father, But He still need to be perfected in order to become the life giving Spirit that He is today.
When the first group are perfected and glorified they too are sons of God and are just like Jesus, unto whom nothing shall be impossible and they are
allowed to sit with Him in His throne just as He sat down in His Fathers throne. Father gave life to the Son, the Son gave life to us, And we shall
be afforded the luxury of giving life unto the next group.

We know that the fullness of the Gentiles must be brought to fruition in order for ALL Israel to be saved, they are provoked to jealousy. When
they see what God has done through Jesus Christ in the first group they will wail and howl because they were not chosen. However; being
placed back into the world similar to how it is now the election shall continue for the seed of Jesus(us), shall have seed of their own.

Freely we have received and freely we shall give to them.

I know you do not see that as possible and most don't, but how else is is possible to fulfill the 30, 60, 100 fold parable seeing that everything
He said was Spiritual. Isa 59:21 consider it carefully.

This is how the multitude arrive in heaven when the kingdom is turned over to the Father, and death will have been destroyed for ALL
shall have entered into the life that was ordained prior to the formation of the world. Titus 1:2

Now does this mean they will not go through what other followers of Jesus have gone through and just get a free pass from suffering? NO, for it is the
righteous suffering that a Christian goes through that matures and perfects the son, and that is absolutely necessary.
Their opportunity is in the next death period.

Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of TIMES,(death periods) He might gather together in one(spirit)
ALL THINGS IN CHRIST(the anointing, not Jesus' last name), both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him.

We for some reason think that God is not allowed to give the gift of life unto others, as He has done for us, for it is a gift and not something earned.
And since it is a gift why do we wish to limit who God can gift life to? Did we die for the sins of the world or did His Son? And what did His
death purchase? A small group or ALL of us?

As mentioned in Isa 53:6 The iniquity of ALL of us was laid on Him, thus He paid the price for ALL of us.

Again no free passes, but the initial introduction to Jesus and life eternal is a gift Rom 5:18 But the son must be matured in order to be worthy of
the Kingdom, the fullness of God residing in him.

Take no offense for none is intended.

 

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Galatians 3:24-27 KJV
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ

Romans 7

7 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?​

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

 

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Romans 7

7 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit,

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual:
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So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God

Which is Love God with everything and first, and Love thy neighbor as thyself. As Jesus said the entirety of the law can be summed
in those 2 commandments.

Matt 22:40 "On these 2 commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

 

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Isa 55:11 So shall the word go out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PLEASE, AND IT
SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING WHERETO I SENT IT.

What was the word of God sent to accomplish? Was it not salvation?

"The Iniquity of us all was laid on Him"- The outcome of this? Justification unto life via His righteous act.

Free pass? No. Right to struggle to overcome the world? Yes. How do they begin that process? Receiving FAITH as Eph 2:8 tells us that "God saved you by
His grace when you believed, AND YOU CAN'T TAKE CREDIT FOR THIS; IT IS A GIFT FROM GOD."

So if I can't take credit for this GIFT, how can I condemn others that have not received that gift yet?

 

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Who are you condemning?