Heavenly Pilgrim said:
How does one define ‘"Millennial Exclusion"? What does the doctrine advocate that is seen as 'damnable heresy' by the administrators of this board? I am honestly in the dark on this one.
Those of us who preach the gospel of the Kingdom that John and Jesus came preaching, teach nothing, but grace to be born from above.
What must I do to be saved?
Believe... aorist. It's punctiliar action. It's an event.
Believe... plus nothing. This verse says nothing about adding any works to get saved, prove you're saved, or to stay saved. (There are great catalogs of sins that state they will exclude you from the kingdom, but "a saved person would never do that", according to those who backload works onto the requirements for being born from above. But, I've never met anyone who hasn't told an ugly girl that she's pretty (lying) or something such as that, but of course, they exclude themselves from those lists.) Ironically, we say no works are required, they backload the works onto it, and we're accused of teaching a spiritual salvation of works.
Believe on the Lord Jesus and you
will be saved. Not "may be" saved, nor anything else.
If you believe on the Lord Jesus, you are born from above. You're in the family. Your heavenly DNA is set.
But, after you are in the family, you are accountable for your actions. We don't have a license to sin. We ought to behave ourselves. Ephesians 2:10ff tells us that we
should walk in the good works. 1 John 2:6 tells us that he that abideth in him
ought himself also to walk, even as he walked.
For some reason, they figure that "should" and "ought" are really "will", lest the person to whom it is directed isn't really and truly saved in the first place.
A person who is born from above will see the kingdom. He's in the family. But, ruling and reigning is dependent upon the way we live in this life and is determined at the Judgment Seat of Christ. We may or may not receive a crown.
Ironically, they are the ones who dwell upon the exclusion aspect of it, while we dwell upon the positives, yet we are castigated for it. We concentrate on receiving rewards, but are accused of condemning everyone, and they have a slight problem with being honest in what we say, in that they keep claiming that we say that it's either ruling and reigning or hell, and none of us have said that (although several of them have), and they can't show where we have said it.
I am just thankful to God that there are some who see that we are accountable for our actions and that we don't have a license to live any ol' way we want to.