OSAS/Preservation of the Saints? Creation and the examples God gave us in His Word says otherwise.

Many will continue to make the mistake by saying that I am supporting a works based salvation. What Jesus did on the cross is something that no man other than Himself could do. Jesus was God manifested in the flesh. He came to die for our sins as no one else or nothing else can satisfy the debt owed by our sins. It was indeed a free gift for anyone who would accept it.

After the decision is made to accept the gift there are expectations or conditions if you will and they are called fruits. We are the branches spoken of and if we do not bear fruit meet for repentance then we get cut off and thrown into the fire.

I usually have to explain myself further to those who are bent towards defending what is carnal in their lives.

I am not saying a believer has to do anything as they can go on sinning but that will simply equate them as a branch not bearing fruit and thus they will be thrown into the fire by God, the husbandman of the vine.

A true believer sees it more along the lines that they "get to" bear fruit for God. After having been separated from God and then reconciled they really do become a new creature with new desires. Any carnal issues after that will be an occasional slip but not a habitual falling into sin.

It is not by mistake that Jesus and Paul both pointed to the vine and branches as a demonstration within creation as to how God’s plan of reconciliation worked.

If you cannot see it you are not alone as many others today and back towards Calvin’s time missed it as well.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse…Romans 1:20

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. Romans 11:16-23

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. John 15:1-10