You have an odd way of generating thought--questioning the salvation of another is against the rules. Basically that is what you did.That was not my intent, Monsieur, and I offer my apologies for you inferring that from that question. The reason why I asked you is to hopefully gender some thought from you on your stance. If you belong to God, you are no longer under Satan's rule, but God.
Christ is my Lord (not Satan), although Christ has left me to live in the kingdom of Satan to be a light in this world, and salt on this earth. I do believe the Bible teaches us to do that. God's kingdom needs no light and no salt. We aren't there yet.
"Out of it" in a spiritual sense, but not "out of it" physically. This is still Satan's domain. "Love not the world. What world? The world that Satan has domain over. He is the god of this world, the world in which we live in.That is what makes us different from the world. The world is referring to the lost, and we have been chosen out of it and its and Satan no longer has us as his servants.
Family is one thing. The world or kingdom is quite another. We are still in Satan's kingdom. We are not "home yet." We are strangers and pilgrims traveling through a foreign land (Satan's land) traveling to our home where our citizenship is (Phil.3:20), but we are not there yet.Satan works in those who are disobedient, and we are no longer that. Now, the only reason why we are obedient is because of Christ's obedience. When we sin(and yes we sin), we are being disobedient, and I will never deny that. But then the chastening of the Lord takes place as He chastens them He loves. When you we growing up, when you disobeyed your parent(s), you were corrected I am sure. But that does not mean that you were under someone else's rule. You still belonged to them. When we sin, we are not under Satan's authority because God corrects us with His 'rod of correction.' It is this 'rod of correction' that shows us we belong to Him.
He is the god of "this world," meaning this world-system, the world that we are to hate, the world that we are not to love.Yes we live in this world, but Satan is not the 'god' of all its inhabitants.
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
--God hates the world. It is not of the Father.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
--Speaking to Christians James says that if you are a friend of the world you are the enemy of God.
That is how much God hates this world, this world system that Satan is the ruler over.
Again, we are strangers and pilgrims in this kingdom which we live in, but our citizenship is in heaven.
Satan does have his rule here. So we are in this world of his, but we are not "of the world."
The same concept holds true when I go to a foreign nation. I am in that nation as a foreigner. I live there temporarily. I am there but not "of there." And I am thankful when I "come home."
That will never be properly exegeted from any passages in the bible. Satan is As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
As just demonstrated one can be in a nation or kingdom and yet not be of that nation. We are in a kingdom but not of it. Our citizenship is in heaven.
1Pe 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1Pe 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: (ASV)
Yes, and we still live here among the unregenerate also.Here it shows that Satan is the ruler of the kingdom of the air and I do not deny it. But who does he have as his servants? It is those who are disobedient. In other words, the unregenerate.
Though I have changed my address a few times I still live in the same city in which I was saved. I haven't moved much geographically. It is the same world, and it is Satan's world. Love not the world. We have a purpose here.Here it shows that we, too, once lived in the world. We not only lived in the world, be we were of the world. We were gratifying the cravings of our flesh. But when God made us alive in Christ, we became no longer of the world, though we still live in the world.