Jesus said his place would be with the unbelievers! Who was he speaking about? In our day, many professing evangelicals wrongly think only the continuous tense unbelievers in Jesus will be the solitary ONES lost in the end. That is clearly NOT the case, according to Jesus’ teachings:
But suppose the servant says to himself, “My master is taking a long time in coming,” and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers. (Luke 12:45,46)
Jesus said the man was a servant who had a master taking a long time to come. Jesus is called the master in several Scriptures (Lk. 5:5; 8:8; etc.) and he is also the one who is coming back (1 Thess. 1:10; 5:23; etc.). His return is also a late coming (Mt. 25:1-12)! Hence, the servant of Luke 12:45 was a servant of Christ Jesus, who was his master. He was a believer, who was following Jesus at one point, but something happened. He became a backslider and never returned to God! It all started from entertaining a single thought, My master is taking a long time in coming. After that, he had a behavioral change for the worse. He began to do something EVIL, which he wasn’t doing before! He began to:
- beat the menservants and maidservants
- eat and drink and get drunk
In other words, he became a violent drunk. Did he remain saved? Not according to Jesus! Because of his ungodly behavior, He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers. So even though he wasn’t an unbeliever, he would still be assigned to the same place (the lake of fire) with the unbelievers! Unbelievers will NOT be the only ones there:
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars–their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. (Rev 21:8)
Others will be with the unbelievers, according to Rev. 21:8 and though that list doesn’t include drunkards a similar listing does:
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6:9,10, NASB)
Folks, if you reap eternal life or not depends on where you are spiritually at the end of your life, not if you were ever saved. Do NOT be deceived. The saved can become lost and the lost can be saved at the end of their lives, which will change their eternal destinies. Jesus wasn’t joking when he taught the end of the man in Luke 12:45,46 would be with the unbelievers. Neither was he joking when he gave us this:
All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. (Mat 10:22)
Jesus has the words of eternal life (John 6:68). Do you know him (1 John 2:3,4)?
