I addressed you on another post about this same issue only weeks ago. I don't say this with an abrasive tone, so don't read that into my text because I say this out of genuine concern to help you. I told you before that when a Christian sins and, after being warned, continues to be stubborn God is going to visit them with trouble and distress (Romans 2:9), with the rod (Psalms 89:31-34), and with the threat of withdrawing His Holy Spirit from them and perhaps even leaving them in a desperate situation where they will waste away from the exhaustiveness of the discipline (Psalms 51:11, Psalms 39:11).
Remember that God often disciplined Israel in ways that reflect the spiritual (and sometimes also physical) discipline we receive in Christ. Think of the 70 years of captivity in Babylon he lead them into. Those who were alive for the punishment would have died in it, and even their children would have grown old within the consequences. Yet this was discipline and not condemnation, and he returned them to their own land. For comparison, what did Paul say about the immoral brother in Corinth? "When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord (1 Corinthians 5:4-5)."
Because you would not repent after many warnings, but have not yet thrown off Christ (which is a sure sign of condemnation) the Scriptures are clear that God will lay a heavy discipline upon you and may even cast you to the outside where you will suffer great loss and be made to pay back many more times than you stole (as in the case of David with Bathsheba; he lost not only the wife he stole, but all his other wives, four of his children, his health and worst of all his closeness and peace with God for an enduring time).
God will make your sins not worth the time or pleasure gained in them, and if you remain and endure your punishment, it will have it's intended effect for which God has sent it and you will be an example of what happens to the disobedient son, but a son nonetheless. If you fall away, then you will be exposed as the false convert you always were and will not have lost salvation but revealed you never had it. But here is always the command, regardless of where you find yourself or think you may be presently: Repent and turn to Christ.
Remember that God often disciplined Israel in ways that reflect the spiritual (and sometimes also physical) discipline we receive in Christ. Think of the 70 years of captivity in Babylon he lead them into. Those who were alive for the punishment would have died in it, and even their children would have grown old within the consequences. Yet this was discipline and not condemnation, and he returned them to their own land. For comparison, what did Paul say about the immoral brother in Corinth? "When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord (1 Corinthians 5:4-5)."
Because you would not repent after many warnings, but have not yet thrown off Christ (which is a sure sign of condemnation) the Scriptures are clear that God will lay a heavy discipline upon you and may even cast you to the outside where you will suffer great loss and be made to pay back many more times than you stole (as in the case of David with Bathsheba; he lost not only the wife he stole, but all his other wives, four of his children, his health and worst of all his closeness and peace with God for an enduring time).
God will make your sins not worth the time or pleasure gained in them, and if you remain and endure your punishment, it will have it's intended effect for which God has sent it and you will be an example of what happens to the disobedient son, but a son nonetheless. If you fall away, then you will be exposed as the false convert you always were and will not have lost salvation but revealed you never had it. But here is always the command, regardless of where you find yourself or think you may be presently: Repent and turn to Christ.
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