What is your understanding? I'm not talking here about enduring to the end, but are we saved as long as we have the Holy Spirit? So please don't make this into a OSAS debate. God bless!
Romans 8:9
"However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him."
Ok, being in the Spirit means you have the Holy Spirit and Romans 8:9 says if you don't have the Holy Spirit you aren't saved, but it doesn't say that if you have the Holy Spirit you are. On the contrary reading Romans 8:12-13 it seems having the Spirit is not equal with being saved if we not live by the Spirit.
"So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live."
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This is basically what Paul was saying.
1) When you are born as a child in this Physical World, you are totally in the Flesh, both Physically, and Spiritually.
When you become Saved.
2) First you become a Believer, (Forgiveness of sins), then you become Baptized, this is where you DIE to the Flesh, (The Sinful Nature) of man, you don't die Physically, but Spiritually, and are Born Again unto the Spirit.
Mar. 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
It is at this point your Saved. the Holy Spirit indwells you and you become a Child of God, the moment you come up out of the water, you Live and Walk in the Spirit.
Rom. 6:4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
From this point, you don't decide if you will Walk in the Spirit or not, think of it this way, when you were born Physically, you didn't have to decide if you would Live and Walk in the Flesh, you just did because you were a Physical, Fleshly, Human Being.
Now you are a Spiritual being, because you have been given the Holy Spirit,(through Baptism) so we Walk in the Spirit, it's not a choice, it's a REALITY.
You are no longer who you were.
Gal. 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
So then, it's at this point you have a choice to make, you don't want to hear about OSAS so I won't go any further in that direction, but you fear the loss of the Holy Spirit,.....ie, (Are you Saved)?
You can either believe, Once I receive the Holy Spirit, I am Dead to the Flesh, (The Sinful Nature) not Physically dead, but if now I lose the Holy Spirit, what then happens to me, if I am already dead to the Flesh Spiritually, and the life you now live is by the Faith of the Son of God?
You either do have the Holy Spirit and are Saved, or you have lost the Holy Spirit and are not Saved, with this understanding.
Heb 6:4-6
4) For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5) And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6) If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Heb 10:26-29
26) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27) But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28) He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29) Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?