Hi Frank
There definetly should be balance in a Christian life. I am not saying a Christian should go out and be a drunk and gossip and whatever ones weakness is. I am saying if a person believes the Gospel that Jesus died for his or her sins and that he rose from the grave, if a person really believes Jesus took his or hers place on the cross for all past present and future sins, then that person is sealed with the Holy Spirit. God has grabbed hold of that person and holds him securely. The sin this person committs as a Christian believer will not in any way shape or form take away the security he/she has in Jesus Christ. God promised he will not let go.
 
Now about your statement on The New Covenant. First of all this covenant was not in affect until AFTER Jesus died. So in the four Gospels they had to believe in Jesus and still follow the Law of Moses. After Jesus died he sent the Apostles out to preach repent and be baptize. If you look at the message Peter preached in Acts 2 they were to repent of killing the Messiah. Repent means to change their mind. And then they were to be baptized with water. This was the message preached until God called out the Apostle Paul to teach and be the apostle to the Gentiles.God tells us through the aposlte Paul that he BLINDED the Jews for a while.
 
After the rapture, in which every true believer will be raptured, the Gospel of the Kingdom will be back in affect. YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT God does not make it harder for Jews during this time period we are living in. Everyone, Jew or Gentile, has the option of this FREE Gift. But after the rapture a person must hope to be counted as worthy. Before the rapture, a person IS counted worthy because of the faith in Jesus. Not of any work or that person becomes boastful.After the rapture a person is to help their neighbors in need and NOT take the mark of the beast to allow their faith to produce works.
 
So to clear it up.
1-I am not dividing up the Jews from the Gentiles. During any dispensation both can come to salvation by God's way.His way is different at different times. It just so happens God put BLINDERS on the Jews for now. Very few have found the way. I did not put blinders on the Jews, God did it.
2-A person can be saved ONLY by the way God has said he can be saved and he has a different way now than he did when Moses was the spokesman. I think we can agree on that. IF you agree to that then you agree that there are at least two ways God has used in the past to deal with mankind. Where most people miss the division is where God called out Paul with a NEW MYSTERY GOSPEL that no-one knew beforehand. I did not make that up it is all throughout the writings of Paul.
 
The scriptures do not contradict as long as you do divide the Word by knowing who is being written to.
How do you reconcile what Paul said a person who has no works is still righteous because of his faith verses what James said faith without works is dead? How do you say that Paul and the other aposltes preached the same Gospel when Paul says he did not come to baptize but Jesus sent the apostles out to baptize? They were given DIFFERENT marching orders.
And I will leave it at this:
How can you explain that Paul promised the people at Corinth, which is a carnal church, that they would eventually lose that corrupt body and get a new incorrupt body. He told them that they would still be in the rapture even though they were a church full of envy and sin. Guilty of 1 sin makes you guilty of all if you are trying to keep the law to make you perfect.
 
I truly hope you understand God's way and put away the silly pride of thinking you can be worthy enough by your own merit when that would be impossible.I truly understand your feelings on the "balance" and wondering how God can save that old drunk. But thank God he did give that old drunk a way to be saved. God will work on any believer that has believed in the Gospel of grace he shown to Paul. We are to try to let God live through us but unfortunatley a lot of believers are just like the church at Corinth. BABES IN CHRIST. But at least they are IN Christ.
 
thanks
Mike W