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So what if it is to late for me? What if one of the thoughts I have had put me beyond forgiveness?Well, in Matthew 7, Jesus says:
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
I became a Christian as a 5-year-old child and there were times I had sin strongholds and wasn't pursuing God with all my heart. I wonder even today if God would count me as one whose heart is fully His or if my failings add up in His mind to a lukewarm faith.
We must bear some fruit (John 15:2, 6) or else we don't have the Holy Spirit. If God judges a person to be fruitless, I think it's because they had a false confession or committed blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. We don't need to go around questioning everyone's salvation on account of their visible sins, but we should hold our brothers and sisters accountable in a loving way, encouraging them to turn from their sins and pursue the Lord wholeheartedly.
I don't want people to feel insecure in their salvation, but the fact is, we must keep our faith until the end (e.g., Matthew 24:13, 1 Corinthians 15:2). Not everyone agrees it's possible for a Christian to commit blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, but I believe it is (Hebrews 6:4-6, Revelation 22:19).
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