No One is Beyond

2nd Peter chapter 3 offers a reminder that Jesus came to earth and gave His life for the whole world, so that those who believe on Him might be saved. We can find these words in that chapter:
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

In verse 9, we see the promise that Jesus loves everyone so much that He gave His life, so that through His death and resurrection, we might receive His new life. And, He calls us to walk in obedience to Him, in response to the inward work that He has done inside our hearts. Essentially, our degree of fruitfulness is a display of the faithfulness of God, for saving us and giving us the ability to walk with Him and to allow His life to flow through us.

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We can recognize that our Savior died for all, and that He will save those who call upon Him in faith and confess His Lordship, believing that He is risen. 1st John chapter 2 says this:
1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

There are some people that, unfortunately, believe there are some whom Jesus cannot save, but we have to be reminded that if we come to Him in faith, He will keep His promises.

So, we now have the case of an influencer on a website called, OnlyFans. If you're not familiar with it, according to The Stream, it's a "subscription platform used primarily to distribute self-produced pornography."  

The Stream website recently included the story of one of the top individuals appearing on this highly objectionable site - she goes by the name of Nala Ray. The article notes:

At a low point, she cried out to God and now says, “I’m a new creature in Christ.”

Nala did a lengthy interview with Michael Knowles on his podcast.  The article says:

Some public voices claim Nala must be insincere. While speaking with Knowles, she responded to one of her detractors, Pearl Davis, saying she can’t hold hard feelings against her. “I feel as though maybe she may be lost and maybe hasn’t received love like I have received from Christ.”

Well-known influencer Laura Loomer posted on X about "these OnlyFans girls...:"

They will never be respectable no matter how much they cry to God. 

Praying to be a respectable person doesn’t work once you do sex work.

It’s best that we shun women like this from society forever.

Laura, like Pearl Davis, unfortunately, is misguided - a person is not beyond being saved. Nothing you've done in the past can keep you out of the Kingdom now, if you surrender to Christ. Rejecting Him, though, will mean that you will live apart from Him forever in a place of eternal punishment. 

The Stream piece went on to state: 

One post on X ridiculed Christians for believing “this woman can truly be saved.” Samantha B., who says she herself was formerly an OnlyFans model, responded, “Nala, your brothers and sisters in Christ love you. Welcome home.”

Samanatha also reportedly encouraged Nala and stressed that while she immediately left the platform and realized that God did not make her "pansexual," she still had to deal with the issue of "self-worship."  Samantha said, "Sanctification takes time."

Nala has recently married - her husband was involved in her making the decision to follow Christ. She deleted her OnlyFans account, and now says:

“It is not what God has for my life,” she said. “I am supposed to be truly leaning into Christ and His love and modesty and learning what a wife looks like, like a Proverbs 31 woman, you know in God’s eyes, and getting closer to God by reading my Bible and praying. And I have, through that, gotten to know God on a such a level of deepness that again continues to change my life. It directs my decision making in such an amazing way.”

Knowles tweeted out that Ray made $9 million through her involvement with OnlyFans. 

The Christian Post also covered Nala's transformation, quoting from a Fox News interview, in which she said:

"I was reaching out to God and like, 'Wow, God, my life is a mess and I feel so lonely. I feel like this is not what I should be doing with my life,'" she said. "The craziest thing happened. I ended up getting saved and getting baptized in, I believe, later December. I can't even tell you how much my life has changed since then."

"Everything in my life has just kind of come to this room where I can now observe it and then be like, 'OK, so I don't really want to do this anymore,'" she continued. "I knew that this isn't what God wanted me to do with my life."

This story can be a reminder that no one is beyond the hand of God.  So, if you are praying for someone to come into a saving knowledge of Jesus - don't stop.  It can become discouraging to pray for a person and share the gospel, but the Bible encourages us not to grow weary in doing good.  We can recognize the incredible power of the Holy Spirit to convict someone to give his or her heart to Jesus.

We can also remember the amazing nature of the new life that Jesus has provided for us.  We are told in Scripture that we have passed from death to life - we are crucified with Him, laying down our own lives, so that we can walk in His new life.  If we know Jesus, then each day we can seek to walk with Him, to be obedient, to be yielded to His Spirit, with our lives governed by His Word.  This type of change is not possible through human means - we cannot save ourselves.  But, lasting, fruitful transformation is available through the power and presence of the living Lord.