In the past I believed in "Once Saved Always Saved" but now I am wondering about apparent warnings about losing salvation. My prayer request is that God would reveal to me His truth regarding the promises of eternal security and also the apparent warnings about loss of salvation, and if there is any danger in coming close to losing my salvation if I fail to follow God faithfully.
Recently God has delivered me from an addiction. However since there have been seasons in my life where I have been trapped in an addiction to sin, I am wondering if during these times I would be destined for hell if my life on earth would be done and I would have to stand before God. In Matthew 25:48-51, the servant of the Lord is described. In this passage Jesus says that if His servant starts to get drunk and no longer is ready for His return, that he will be assigned a place with the hypocrites and end up going to hell.
The obvious warning about falling away in Hebrews 6 and 10 is that if someone turns his back on following the Christian faith, that they will end up lost. A Christian author named Joshua Harris is known for having walked away from Christianity recently.
What my concern is for myself is even though I have never renounced Christianity, that if I relapse and get caught in an addiction to sin, that I might be cast out with the workers of iniquity. Matthew 7:21-23 is the well known passage where people who think they knew Jesus are cast out as workers of iniquity and Jesus says He never knew them. Psalm 125:5 says that those who turn to crooked ways will be banished with the "workers of iniquity". In Job 31, Job says that he made a covenant with his eyes and that his motivation to keep the covenant is that ruin will come to the wicked and disaster will come to the "workers of iniquity". (I think that a number of modern translations may use a different word than iniquity.)
In addition I had submitted a prayer request in the past where I was desperate and asked for the chastening of the Lord and an encounter with the terror of the Lord. The encounter with the Lord was fulfilled through a psychiatric hospitalization where I had a scary dream where I stood before the presence of the throne of God and was cast out before His presence.
Based on the above warnings and the encounter with the terror of the Lord, it is easy to conclude that if I am trapped in an addiction to sin, where this addiction is continuing week after week or sometimes daily, that I could be very well cast out from Jesus' presence with the workers of iniquity if there is ongoing sin in my life.
God has recently rescued me from the addiction and I am walking in consistent victory and freedom now, but because it is possible to relapse and get caught again, this question is still a concern to me. I know that if people pray for God to reveal His wisdom on this issue, that God is able to clearly reveal to me if my salvation is permanent, or if there is a possibility of being cast out when I stand before God's judgment throne.
Also I am seriously considering changing my username to Isaiah 55:6-7 since I do not really believe in "Once Saved Always Saved" anymore.
Recently God has delivered me from an addiction. However since there have been seasons in my life where I have been trapped in an addiction to sin, I am wondering if during these times I would be destined for hell if my life on earth would be done and I would have to stand before God. In Matthew 25:48-51, the servant of the Lord is described. In this passage Jesus says that if His servant starts to get drunk and no longer is ready for His return, that he will be assigned a place with the hypocrites and end up going to hell.
The obvious warning about falling away in Hebrews 6 and 10 is that if someone turns his back on following the Christian faith, that they will end up lost. A Christian author named Joshua Harris is known for having walked away from Christianity recently.
What my concern is for myself is even though I have never renounced Christianity, that if I relapse and get caught in an addiction to sin, that I might be cast out with the workers of iniquity. Matthew 7:21-23 is the well known passage where people who think they knew Jesus are cast out as workers of iniquity and Jesus says He never knew them. Psalm 125:5 says that those who turn to crooked ways will be banished with the "workers of iniquity". In Job 31, Job says that he made a covenant with his eyes and that his motivation to keep the covenant is that ruin will come to the wicked and disaster will come to the "workers of iniquity". (I think that a number of modern translations may use a different word than iniquity.)
In addition I had submitted a prayer request in the past where I was desperate and asked for the chastening of the Lord and an encounter with the terror of the Lord. The encounter with the Lord was fulfilled through a psychiatric hospitalization where I had a scary dream where I stood before the presence of the throne of God and was cast out before His presence.
Based on the above warnings and the encounter with the terror of the Lord, it is easy to conclude that if I am trapped in an addiction to sin, where this addiction is continuing week after week or sometimes daily, that I could be very well cast out from Jesus' presence with the workers of iniquity if there is ongoing sin in my life.
God has recently rescued me from the addiction and I am walking in consistent victory and freedom now, but because it is possible to relapse and get caught again, this question is still a concern to me. I know that if people pray for God to reveal His wisdom on this issue, that God is able to clearly reveal to me if my salvation is permanent, or if there is a possibility of being cast out when I stand before God's judgment throne.
Also I am seriously considering changing my username to Isaiah 55:6-7 since I do not really believe in "Once Saved Always Saved" anymore.
