Lena's Discipleship Journalin' Today to Hebrews 3

Let’s address the falsehood of “Once saved, always saved”, today.
Let’s go back to the original scripture most salvation prayers come from. Romans 10:9-10. 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
Beware, for the word “confess” here is much more than we would think in present day United States-ese.
It means to adhere to (until the end). Stick with it, stay. A word uttered by a living voice, word embodied (meaning the way we know it was spoken is we see the action that tells us of the word). We add weight to it by living it out, which validates it in us. We maintain its usefulness and value.
The passage also says, confess “Jesus is Lord”, not merely acknowledge Him as Savior.
It means you choose to live as though He is Your Master, and you are the servant. Live as though you are inside of a committed relationship with Him, forever, a relationship that never ends, a never exiting relationship, where there’s mentally and physically no way out, with no desire to ever be anywhere else.
If we live this way, we will be saved!
God was angry with them…why? They did not uphold their end. They did not uphold the covenant promise of commitment to Him forever. They acted in love with themselves or with others.
They did Not enter in to the rest! They disobeyed.
Disobedience is the exact enemy of love. Rebellion is an enemy of commitment. When one makes commitment with another, they take on the enemies of the other. Rebellion and disobedience are God’s mortal enemies. If we are His and in covenant with Him, they have also now become our enemies. We cannot bed down with the enemies of our lover/friend. If we do, we betray our lover. This makes God mad. Mad enough to nullify our own promise made to Him to stay with Him forever. We are the ones who do that. He stays, forever. We choose to fellowship Him or others. It is our choice. If we choose to live for and with God’s enemies that is spiritual adultery.
Adulterers were judged severely, because God wants us to see how serious it is to break covenant. Adulterers were stoned, signifying death of a covenant with eternal damnation to follow lest one repent, meaning – turn back to the covenant.
This is a daily covenant. I renew it by action everyday. Today I hear and heed His voice. Today I live for Him, hating His enemies enough to not live with or eat with or sleep with them, no matter what.
I love right, I hate wrong, as God defines it, and my relationship with God grows in love. Rooted and grounded.