<p>1:5 <i>Now I desire to have you remember (as you know all things already) that the Lord having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that did not believe</i>- Israel were therefore &ldquo;saved&rdquo; from Egypt, as all those who are baptised are &ldquo;saved&rdquo; from sin. If one of those Israelites had been asked, &ldquo;Are you saved?&rdquo; their response could have been, &ldquo;Yes&rdquo;, but this would not mean that they would <i>ultimately</i> be saved. Salvation was a status, but the believers had to abide in it. Baptism, passing through the Red Sea (1 Cor. 10:1,2), was no guarantee of ultimate salvation. It seems that the false teachers were justifying sexual immorality (:4) on the basis of some 'once saved always saved' teaching.</p>