Eslyn Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 24 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 37 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/13/2018 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/24/1986 Share Posted May 8, 2018 What is your take on it is never too late for anyone who is alive? Does this include people who have been baptized as well? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 185 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,204 Content Per Day: 3.35 Reputation: 16,629 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2018 People can be baptized for various reasons. Â A man boasted that he had been baptized in a baptist church and in an episcopal church, but the one that got him the most clients was the Elks Lodge. Â He had joined churches for selfish reasons, not because he had repented and turned to Christ for forgiveness. Â Yes it was possible for him theoretically to come to Christ till he died. Â But the truth is that he had been hardening his heart, time after time, till he no longer cared whether he was going to hell. Â He had blasphemed the work of the Holy Spirit. Â Welcome to Worthy, Eslyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SisterActs2 Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 23 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,000 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 1,655 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/27/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/08/1950 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Welcome Eslyn. We have a saying - "While there is life there is hope." Someone may refuse the Lord until the last moment, then understand and believe - and are then prepared to receive Him as Saviour and Lord.  3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Adams Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 26 Topic Count: 61 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 9,602 Content Per Day: 4.02 Reputation: 7,795 Days Won: 21 Joined: 09/11/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2018 Not quite sure of the complete meaning of the OP question. But in my mind, what I have learned, is that God is a God of the last minute type. He is never early or late. He outfoxes the foxes and He out-thinks His adversaries. If our last breath is to ask His forgiveness, then as He rightly states in the scriptures, the late worker is still to be recompensed for the full day's pay as those that have been there the whole day have earned. This idea did not set well with the disciples until they understood its real meaning. No one earns the right to have the Gift of Salvation - it is readily available until the very last moment, no matter what. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hidden In Him Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 12 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 449 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 423 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/21/2017 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/16/1964 Share Posted May 8, 2018 8 hours ago, Eslyn said: What is your take on it is never too late for anyone who is alive? Does this include people who have been baptized as well? Greetings, Eslyn. Yes, of course this includes people who have been baptized. Baptism is merely an outward ceremony symbolizing a deeper truth; that we are to die to the old man and be raised up in newness of life in the new, through the Holy Spirit (preferable the baptism in the Holy Spirit). But there are many who have observed the outward ceremony who did not live out what it was meant to symbolize, whereas there are some who are living out the spiritual truth in their lives without having actually gone through the ceremony yet. So the more important question is: While it is never too late, are you ready to die to your old life and put on the new? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoob57 Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 35 Topic Count: 99 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 40,796 Content Per Day: 7.95 Reputation: 21,264 Days Won: 76 Joined: 03/13/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/27/1957 Share Posted May 8, 2018 2 Peter 3:9 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance KJV 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Frances Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 38 Topic Count: 365 Topics Per Day: 0.17 Content Count: 8,700 Content Per Day: 3.97 Reputation: 10,045 Days Won: 64 Joined: 03/27/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2018 Welcome to Worthy! Your question makes me think of thief on the cross. Although he did not have a water baptism he believed in Jesus and Jesus said he would be with him in Paradise. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adstar Posted May 8, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 12 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,399 Content Per Day: 0.43 Reputation: 1,307 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2018 12 hours ago, Eslyn said: What is your take on it is never too late for anyone who is alive? Does this include people who have been baptized as well? Where there is life there is hope...  A person can still be saved right up to the moment of their deaths if they come to believe the LORD Jesus Christ and trust in the Atonement He secured for their salvation before they die.. Except for one who has blasphemed the Holy Spirit.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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