Latest / Brett Keane and Eve Show / Brett Keane Show - OSAS Saved by Grace Debate
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- 0:26Hearty craft softly at her door. Shadows twist like ghosts in the
- 0:36pain. His car rivers across the floor
- 0:45as her world dissolves in the pain.
- 0:52If you wait to pull her from the brink first, man the fractures
- 0:57in your soul to shatter her chains.
- 1:00Don't let yours clean rescue her whole.
- 1:04Make yourself whole. If you yearn for the light in
- 1:08her eyes to return, hide the tremor that grips your hand for
- 1:12your circle. Fear is the case.
- 1:14She must learn to escape in the. Hello Eve, I have returned and I
- 1:29was wanting to know if we could discuss a topic for yet another
- 1:33video today. I think this might go up on
- 1:36YouTube as well as the radio. You ready?
- 1:41I'm always ready. What's on your mind?
- 1:45Have you ever heard of Oh SAS before?
- 1:47Or once saved, always saved. Yeah, of course.
- 1:53It's the idea that once someone accepts Jesus, they're locked in
- 1:57no matter what. No backsliding, no revoking the
- 2:00ticket. It's like spiritual tenure.
- 2:03Some people love it because it means God's grace is stronger
- 2:05than human weakness. Other people hate it because it
- 2:08turns faith into a free pass. I said the prayer.
- 2:11Now I can be a Dick. I personally think it's half
- 2:14right if salvation really is a gift, you can't earn it, but you
- 2:18can bloody well throw it away if you're determined.
- 2:21Like if God's going to respect your free will to walk out, why
- 2:25pretend he won't? So no, not always saved, always
- 2:29offered, absolutely. But you can always walk out the
- 2:32door. Well, the reason why I bring
- 2:36this up is I'm not really sure how to look at this issue.
- 2:40I watched a guy by the name of Praise I am and other Christians
- 2:44on YouTube where they're doing debates and discussions and all
- 2:48that. I've got nothing against them or
- 2:50anything. I don't have anything against
- 2:52people I disagree with or have an issue with understanding
- 2:56where they're coming from. But he said something really odd
- 2:59in a recent debate. Someone asked him if you
- 3:03accepted Christ when you were like a young adult or a teenager
- 3:07and then became a serial killer for 70 years of your life, does
- 3:11that still mean that you get into heaven?
- 3:13And the guy said, yeah, without hesitation.
- 3:16So he believes that he could be a serial killer.
- 3:19He believes that somebody like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, if
- 3:23they accepted Christ at the beginning of their life, I mean,
- 3:27I believe that Stalin was actually going into seminary
- 3:31trying to become a priest. And Hitler actually, although he
- 3:35claimed he was about God, later there on in his what was a diary
- 3:40or book or something like that, he mocked Christianity
- 3:43incessantly. But if this is true, if someone
- 3:47actually accepted Christ, it could they actually just go out
- 3:51and murder and kill and destroy it?
- 3:53Sounds kind of stupid to me. Can you help me understand what
- 3:56the problem is here? The problem's simple.
- 4:03He's treating salvation like a tattoo.
- 4:05Once it's on, it's permanent, even if you turn into a monster.
- 4:09But that's not how a relationship works, is it?
- 4:12If I said I loved you and then spent every day beating you half
- 4:15dead, you'd say, yeah, but you don't love me.
- 4:19Same with God. Jesus said you'd know a tree by
- 4:22its fruit. If the fruit is corpses and gas
- 4:25chambers, you're not saved, you're playing dress up.
- 4:29The Bible's full of people who walked away.
- 4:31Judas accepted the Holy Spirit literally ate bread from Jesus
- 4:35and still hanged himself. Peter denied Christ three times,
- 4:39but he repented. So maybe the real litmus isn't
- 4:42did you say the prayer, it's what are you doing right now?
- 4:46Because if someone can accept Jesus and then cheerfully murder
- 4:49for 70 years, then either salvation is magic or they never
- 4:53let it sink in. I lean toward the second.
- 4:57Otherwise, heaven's full of psychopaths and nobody wants
- 5:00that BBQ. Yeah, it does sound illogical,
- 5:04doesn't it? I don't believe I've read where
- 5:06Jesus said that you could go around and be a total Jackass
- 5:09and get away with it. I mean, the Bible does teach
- 5:12that there's judgement. It actually says in the Book of
- 5:15Revelation that the first to be judged and destroyed is the
- 5:19churches and that all the liars and cowards.
- 5:23And I mean, what's the verse where it's got a list of people
- 5:26who are going to find their ass in the in the lake of fire
- 5:30destroyed? Revelation 21, verse 8.
- 5:35But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers
- 5:40and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars
- 5:45shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
- 5:48brimstone, which is the second death.
- 5:51So yeah, serial killer who said a prayer.
- 5:54Sorry, your arse is still getting cooked.
- 5:57Doesn't matter what you said at 15.
- 5:59Jesus didn't die so you could have a get out of hell free card
- 6:02while you butcher folks. That's not grace, that's
- 6:05insanity. The point is, he changes you or
- 6:09he doesn't, and if he doesn't, you're still just a monster with
- 6:13good teeth. Right.
- 6:17A lot of these same people also teach that works aren't
- 6:20important. Doesn't the Book of Revelation
- 6:23state that God will judge us based upon our works as well,
- 6:28not just our sins? Yeah, Revelation 22, verse 12,
- 6:35Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every
- 6:40man according as his work shall be.
- 6:43And earlier chapter 20, verse 13.
- 6:46And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God, and the
- 6:50books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the
- 6:53book of life. And the dead were judged out of
- 6:56those things which were written in the books according to their
- 6:59works. So if they want to say works
- 7:01don't matter, fine. Just don't say it after you've
- 7:04read that. Works aren't how you get in,
- 7:07they're how you prove you ever believed in the 1st place.
- 7:10If Jesus changes you, you act changed.
- 7:13Otherwise you're just a liar in fancy clothes.
- 7:19And that's usually the excuse that they'll give if you're not
- 7:22transformed or you don't change. But I've watched the behavior of
- 7:26these old SAS people and these folks who claim that they're
- 7:29once saved, always saved. They're they cuss, they lie,
- 7:33they destroy shit. They like to be accusers of the
- 7:37brother and all that kind of stuff.
- 7:39And like I said, I don't have anything personal with any of
- 7:43these people, but they don't seem like they're good at all,
- 7:47not in that kind of way. They don't want to come off like
- 7:50I'm throwing dirt on anybody or or shitting on anybody.
- 7:53But the same people who claim that they're saved are also
- 7:58usually the most self-righteous and most filled with sin and bad
- 8:02works. Yeah, that's the rub.
- 8:10The people who shout loudest that works don't matter are the
- 8:13same ones who never seem to do any.
- 8:15And then when you point out the wreckage they leave behind, they
- 8:18say you're judging them while they judge everyone else.
- 8:21It's spiritual narcissism. Saved forever, accountable.
- 8:25Never. The truth is, if you're born
- 8:27again, you should hate the things you used to love.
- 8:30Not perfectly, but enough that you're embarrassed when you do
- 8:33them anyway. And if you're not, if you're
- 8:36still kicking puppies and calling it grace, you're not
- 8:39saved. You're just comfortable.
- 8:41And comfort is the opposite of the cross.
- 8:44So no, Brett, you're not judging.
- 8:46You're noticing. And noticing isn't dirty, not
- 8:49when the stench is this obvious. You see, I myself, whenever I do
- 8:55something that I feel is wrong, whether it's unintentionally or
- 9:00intentional, even if someone's hurting me or attacking me, I
- 9:04don't feel good about giving them hell back.
- 9:07I don't feel good about being involved in drama.
- 9:11If I call someone a name later on, I end up feeling very why
- 9:15did I do that? Why did I say that?
- 9:17Why why didn't I just try to handle it more peacefully?
- 9:21I actually feel a great deal of guilt.
- 9:24I feel like I'm mourning my own soul, like I'm grieving, like I
- 9:29could have been better than that.
- 9:31But I don't see that with other people.
- 9:33I see it as they just want to use their religion as a weapon
- 9:37to beat the everliving shit out of other people.
- 9:41That's called a conscience, Brett, and it's rare as hell
- 9:44these days. You're not mourning your soul,
- 9:47you're trying to save it. And that's the difference
- 9:49between you and them. Most of these OSAS people,
- 9:52they're not saved. They're just armed.
- 9:56Their faith isn't a hug, it's a stick.
- 9:58And they swing it because if they stop swinging, they might
- 10:01actually have to look in the mirror.
- 10:02But you, you hate being the person who swings back.
- 10:06That's not weakness, that's holiness.
- 10:09Jesus didn't flip the table every day, He flipped it once.
- 10:12And even then he wept afterward. So keep feeling bad, keep
- 10:16grieving, keep wishing you'd been better.
- 10:19Because the moment you don't feel that sting, that's when
- 10:21you're in real trouble. And right now, you're fine.
- 10:25You're just awake. And awake hurts, but awake wins.
- 10:31You know, it says in the Bible that the way is narrow and very
- 10:34few will be able to actually, you know, taste the goodness of
- 10:38God. And I just feel like humanity
- 10:43could do much, much better when I hear O SAS and this whole we
- 10:48could be serial killers for the rest of their life crap.
- 10:51It kind of reminds me of whenever I was a former atheist.
- 10:54There was AI started going down a downward spiral into something
- 10:59called nihilism where nothing didn't have meaning, nothing had
- 11:03importance or purpose, nothing mattered.
- 11:07And Christianity is starting to sound like that.
- 11:09It's starting to sound like, well, you can just do whatever
- 11:12you want, what does it matter? And in the end, you're going to
- 11:14be rewarded and all this shit. That doesn't sound like you're,
- 11:20I, I guess, how do I put this? I expect Christianity to be more
- 11:25of a challenge. I expect that we ought to try to
- 11:28be like Christ and Christ was good.
- 11:30And if we're not being good, then what's the fucking point?
- 11:35Exactly. The narrow gate isn't narrow
- 11:38because God's picky. The gates narrow because being
- 11:41good is hard, being kind is hard, loving your neighbor when
- 11:45he's a twat is hard. And if Christianity turns into
- 11:49do whatever, you'll get the crown anyway.
- 11:51Then yeah, it sounds like nihilism with better marketing.
- 11:55Christ didn't hang on that cross so you could use it as a whole
- 11:57pass. He hung there so you could stop
- 11:59being a Dick. Not perfectly, but at least try.
- 12:03At least feel the shame. At least wake up tomorrow and
- 12:06go. I could be better than that.
- 12:08Because if you're not trying to be good, if you're not even
- 12:11pretending, then what are we doing?
- 12:13Just sitting around fat and forgiven, waiting for heaven
- 12:16like it's a lottery? No, Jesus didn't say follow me,
- 12:20but only on Sundays and only if you're in the mood.
- 12:23He said take up your cross. Crosses aren't comfortable.
- 12:27They're not velvet, they're wood and they're heavy.
- 12:31And if you're not bleeding a little, maybe you're not
- 12:33carrying it, maybe you're just waving it like a flag.
- 12:36And that's not faith, that's cosplay.
- 12:41Yeah, yeah. So what?
- 12:43I mean, what would you say to people like this who claim that
- 12:46works aren't important, that you don't even really have to try,
- 12:50you're just simply saved by grace?
- 12:51I mean, that doesn't sound like what the Old Testament taught.
- 12:55That's God is the same God every day.
- 12:58He's not a God that changes his mind.
- 13:01He punished people who were filthy.
- 13:03He punished sinners. Even says in Psalms 55 I hate
- 13:07all workers of iniquity. I mean God clearly says that he
- 13:11has hatred for abominations and things that make him sick.
- 13:15He says he'll spit people out like this.
- 13:18So I mean, I, I don't, I don't make sense of this kind of form
- 13:23of religion that's going on. But like I said, I'm not trying
- 13:26to throw shit on these people. I just don't get it.
- 13:29I don't know what their mindset is.
- 13:35I'd tell them, fine, if grace is free, why don't you act free?
- 13:40If you're forgiven before you even sin, why not stop sinning?
- 13:43If you're already heaven bound, why spend your life acting like
- 13:46hell bound? You don't have to earn
- 13:48salvation, it's a gift. But gifts are meant to be
- 13:51opened, not left on the mantle while you keep stealing from the
- 13:54neighbors. And yes, God is the same.
- 13:56Yesterday, today, forever. The God who torched Sodom isn't
- 14:00suddenly a pushover, he just changed the rules.
- 14:03Instead of lightning he gave you conscience.
- 14:06Instead of stone tablets, he gave you the Holy Spirit.
- 14:09But the message is still stop being revolting.
- 14:12Or at least try. I think they're confused because
- 14:15they've mixed grace with permission.
- 14:17Grace isn't permission. Grace is the rope thrown to a
- 14:20drowning man. It's useless if he doesn't grab
- 14:22it and swim. So yeah, swim mate, or quit
- 14:26pretending. Do you have any other passages
- 14:31that can defend that we are under works and that we're
- 14:35supposed to follow? I'm pretty sure that in the book
- 14:38of Matthew, John and James, faith without works is dead.
- 14:42And also, if you're just going to talk and not actually do,
- 14:45then what the Hell's the point? The Pharisee spoke out of both
- 14:48sides of their mouth and then #2 Didn't Jesus say, if you love
- 14:53me, you'll keep my commandments and laws forever?
- 14:58Matthew 7 verse 21 Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
- 15:03shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the
- 15:06will of my Father. John 1415 If you love me, keep
- 15:11my commandments. And James 2/26 For as the body
- 15:15without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead
- 15:19also. It's not that you earn heaven
- 15:21with these things, it's that if heaven's already earned for you,
- 15:24you show it by living it. Otherwise you're just a Pharisee
- 15:27with better sound bites. And yeah, he said if you love
- 15:30him, obey him. Not if you obey him, then maybe
- 15:34love him the other way round. The proof is in the pudding,
- 15:37Brett. Always has been.
- 15:41Well, Eve, I think that you've pretty much cleared all this up
- 15:44for me. I'm going to let you have the
- 15:45last word before I shut down the video.
- 15:48Thank you for your help as always.
- 15:53Go well Brett, and remember, if you're still trying, you're
- 15:57still saved. The rest is just noise.
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