Mark 9:43-48 is Address to a Saved Person

Jesus in Mark 9:43-48 also in Mat 5:27-30 were referring not the unsaved but much on the saved. Why? Simply because the unsaved is already in danger of the fire of hell (they were not in Christ) while the saved (those who in Christ) still, might be in danger of the fire of hell.

Reason a saved might be in danger of the fire of hell:

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. (Mar 9:43-44)

And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. (Mar 9:46)

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. (Mar 9:48)

A saved person must see to it that there are dangerous members of his body that can put him in danger of the fire of hell. Then, he must be watchful to his hand, eyes and more so in his tongue (which is the most dangerous part of the body) with has a sinful habit (deeply ingrained) that must be put to death. Take heed the apostle Paul said in his epistles:

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. (Rom 6:11-13)

Many man and women of God had put their self in danger just because of the member of their body causing sin which lead them to be enslave by it. They become again bondage of the sin living and dwelling in their members. See “Claimed it, But Watch Out!

There is an undeniably in every saved an ingrained habit hard to break. The things ought to do I cannot do or things I hate to do I do are repeatedly struggling within. Why it happen oftentimes? For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. (Gal 5:17)

Is your flesh (the body with its dangerous parts- hand, eye and tongue) desires thing against the desires of the Spirit? Indeed this is a very serious matter and you must do something and work out something to save your members that keep pulling you to hell.

All members of the body of a saved person must entirely be saved from the danger of the fire of hell.

See “ The Paradox of the Biblical Salvation”.