"If the righteous are BARELY SAVED, what will become of the ungodly and wicked?
What will become of the ungodly and wicked? If a person is not saved, where will they go when their life ends? What does it mean to die the second death? Do we die once or twice? If you are born again, do you only die once? How is it that the righteous are barely saved and avoid the second death? By being born again will your spiritual birth prevent you from dying a second time? Is that what it means to be saved by God from eternal separation and receiving eternal life? The Word tells us that it is appointed unto every man to die once and then the judgement. What is the difference to an individual when that judgement comes. How are we BARELY SAVED?
We may not like to think about it, but anyone who is not saved is condemned to eternal death and separation from God, in other words Hell. Those who are not saved by God are "dead men walking". They are unaware of their impending eternal death and separation from God. This is disturbing to those of us who are saved and even more so to God. Jesus Christ does not want even one soul to be lost or any person to perish. It is the Lord's desire that all people come to a saving knowledge of His gift of eternal life. Life and death, heaven and hell, await every individual and they have a choice to accept or reject Jesus Christ the Lord God and His gift. What have you done? Are you BARELY SAVED?
Peter confirms this concept that the righteous are barely saved in our One Truth Today. It is not anything that we do or have done that leads to our gift of eternal life. It is only our choice to accept God and believe in His Word that barely saves us. We accept and believe that the Lord will save us and have mercy on us. He is our salvation and by being born again spiritually we avoid the second and eternal death. This is the "GOOD NEWS" that Jesus Saves. We must spread the Word to everyone we know. We must help others because we are BARELY SAVED ourselves.
