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Please pray for me!
My name is Zack and I really desperately need prayer for my salvation and my doubt as I have been doubting my salvation for years and I still doubt and it has not gotten much better even though it has been years since I supposedly got saved in High School and no matter how much I pray and ask other people to pray and they pray for me I still doubt my salvation and fear hell and worry and fear and get scared and doubt did I really truly accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead and confess him as Lord and call upon the name of the Lord or am I just self-deceived with false assurance and I doubt and worry and get scared so I definitely need prayer please!
I have always doubted my salvation and feared Hell and felt I haven't lived the holy, righteous Christian life I was called to live. I always thought of myself as someone who put emphasis on the "fire insurance" policy and one of the reasons I always get so fearful and doubtful and repeat sinners prayers and try to rededicate my life to him again to make sure I get right with God and am saved is because I fear Hell. I feel like I've been more worried with not going to Hell and that is why I want to make sure I'm a Christian and I haven't really lived the life I've been called to live. I feel like I became a Christian or thought I became a Christian mainly out of fear of Hell and I feel like if I'm truly saved why do I care so much about fire insurance and keep on repeating those sinner's prayers and regiving and dedicating my life to Christ and accepting him as my Lord and Savior and believing in Jesus but not practicing what I preach. I fear Hell and feel like I'm not saved because I'm not bearing fruit or producing works with my faith.
PLEASE HELP! I have been a Christian (or at least I hope I am!) for many years, probably since early high school years ago and I am nearly done with college now. I have pretty much always doubted my salvation, more so than could possibly be healthy, and I constantly fear of eternal damnation in Hell. I think I am a Christian, I hope I am. But eternal separation from God is eternal torment in the lake of fire for endless agony for eternity, so you'll understand why I feel so scared. This will be a long plea for prayer and Wisdom so I apologize from the start.
Obviously having some doubt of your salvation every once in a while isn't the worse thing that could happen. One shouldn't be prideful and arrogant or boast, we shouldn't be so sure we're saved that there's no way I won't go to heaven and I don't need to examine my life and look at myself, because "I'm so great I know I'm going to Heaven, no need to examine myself at all!". That's the wrong attitude to have. A healthy fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom. The Bible says to put ourselves to the test and to examine our fruit and works to see if they match our profession and if we have and uphold the faith in Jesus Christ. Obviously those who pass the test wouldn't be the Laodicean Church.
That being said, I am still afraid of eternity should I turn out not to be a Christian. Many people, have said before that many will think they are in Christ and profess so as well but will be sorely disappointed when they die and find out otherwise.
When I read these articles on blogs or news sites or any other Christian website, and they say how many think they are Christians but are not and will find out the hard way, I get SO SCARED!
Here's what I believe, or at least what I think I believe and hope I believe.
I believe that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to salvation. I believe I am NOT a good person, and there are no good people save for Jesus. I believe that there are no righteous, not one, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. All have sinned, and the wage for sin is death. I have sinned, I am unrighteous, unholy and unworthy of God. I am not good, and deserve to die. No amount of good works will ever save me. I will never be good enough to get into heaven myself. God's standard of good is perfection, and I fail.
I believe in one God of course, but even the demons in Hell believe in and fear one God. Going to church means nothing, many of those casual churchgoers will be left behind. It's more than just "believing" in Jesus as that he was a good person and teacher, it's about accepting him personally as your lord and savior.
I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior (I hope I did and I keep telling myself that as I say the sinner's prayer over and over again dozens of times a month). I believe that I was dead in my sins and trangressions and deserved eternal Hell and separation from God but in his mercy God sent his one and only begotten son to die for us so that we may have a relationship with him and not perish but have eternal life. By accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, the blood of Christ covers your sin and makes you righteous and holy in God's eyes, you are born again and a new creation.
Romans 10:9 says: "That if you confess with your mouth 'Jesus is Lord!', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved!"
That's it, no works, no fruit, no baptism (thief on the cross), no last minute confessions before death, no going to church every week and filling the offering jar, no mandatory Bible readings or repeated rituals, nothing.
Just accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead and that God sent himself to die upon that cross so the calvary's sacrifice would atone for the sins of mankind. I did not deserve this. In God's grace and mercy, he provided a way to save a wretch like me so that I may have a relationship with him and not perish but have eternal life. I was unrighteous, unholy and unworthy, and still he bled for me. How someone can truly reject that is beyond me.
THAT BEING SAID!!! I read things from many Godly and Christianlike people and leaders and teachers who say that some will be self deceived and think they are in Christ but are not. I DO NOT WANT TO BE SELF DECEIVED! What if I thought I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, but I did not? What if I didn't really believe he rose from the dead and he is the lord and savior to us all? What if I believe or know that is true but didn't personally accept him as my Lord and Savior myself? What if I am deceiving myself? Only God knows my heart, he said not to judge each other until we are judged before God himself.
Are Lukewarm Christians people who were once saved and lost their salvation, or people who were never saved to begin with? Can you lose your salvation, or can you give it up and forfeit it and reject Christ and willing choose to apostasy and fall away from and leave the faith and have nothing to do with God and give up your salvation despite once being saved and sealed with the Holy Spirit and be damned as a former Christian despite being predestined to have your name written in the book of life?
Not all who say to him, Lord Lord, will enter the kingdom of Heaven. They will say things like "did we not cast out demons and perform miracles in your name?" and he will say, "where were you when I was hungry and needed something to eat, when I was thirsty and needed some water to drink, when I was naked and needed clothing, depart from me, I never knew you." The Bible says "Why do you call me Lord Lord, but not do what I do?". Not all who say they belong to him will enter the kingdom of Heaven but those that do THE WILL of the father. The Bible says to put yourself to the test and you will know them by their fruit. And that faith without works is dead.
So if I truly have saving faith in Christ, why do I not produce works and bare fruit of the Holy Spirit, and feel conviction of the Holy Spirit when I sin? Perhaps I feel conviction if I ever have felt guilty, but I can doubt even that! So if salvation cannot be lost, then either I am saved and doubt or am not saved and was never saved to begin with.
The seed that sprouted for a season but withered left the flock because they were never with them. No one will take you from the Lord's hands once you are his. The Bible says all who call upon the name of the lord will be saved. But not only do I not feel saved (I know we can't go off of feelings), but I feel like I don't live it.
If I am truly in Christ and believe what I say I believe, that Gospel and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and if I truly have accepted him as my Lord and Savior and repented of my sins and am born again a new creation, why do I feel I do not live it?
With saving faith comes good works, they say? Why do I feel like I produce no good works and bare no fruit of the Holy Spirit? Have I truly received grace if I keep on sinning? Just because we received grace, is that a license to keep sinning now that we've been pardoned? NO, absolutely not Paul says! If I am in Christ, why do I keep sinning and not living a more holy and righteous life that he called me to live, and why have I not done more for the kingdom of God and produced such works as evidence of my faith? Even now, I feel as though my heart may be far from God, conspiring against him in all my sinful nature and evil wickedness.
I pray that I am saved and that if I am not then I call upon the name of the Lord to save me! I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit and feel the conviction of him when I sin. I believe that without accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and have the blood and holy sacrifice of Jesus Christ to atone for your sins I may not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
But did I truly ever personally accept him as my Lord and Savior if I haven't completely changed my life and lived in repentance where the works and fruit are surely produced and the sinful lifestyle of my past has ended? Did I die to myself and pick up my cross and follow Jesus? Did I turn away from sin and decide to choose to whom this day I will serve and honor God and turn towards Christ and his sacrifice on the Cross instead?
Surely God would not let me be self deceived as to think I am saved when I am not? I do not want to go to Hell! I used to be a Calvinist who belived in TULIP and once saved always saved, but regardless, if I am not yet with him, is he calling me to him? I believe because of my sinful nature I cannot choose to break free of my sinful nature and realize my need for a savior and the errors of my previous lifestyle and being dead in my sins without the need for Christ's death and resurrection on the cross unless God calls me to him and softens my heart and fills it with the message of the Holy Spirit.
If I was not one of the elect, surely I would be dead in my sins and transgressions and not realize my need for a savior and choose to break free of my sinful nature and repent unless God himself called me to him and softened my heart and put something in it to make me realize I was missing something and empty and dead inside, and all the world had to offer me could not fill that God shaped hole in my heart.
Would God truly let me be so self deceived? To have come so close to believing it, only to miss it. To seek him out and search for the truth, when the Bible says he is always knocking at the door to our heart and all the seek out and search for the Lord WILL FIND HIM!? Surely, O Lord, Father God, you would not allow me to believe I was in Christ and had accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and found salvation in Christ and was among the good shepherd's flock, only to realize he was damned to Hell and completely wrong all his life the moment he died?
SURELY an unbeliever who has not truly accepted Jesus as their Savior and Lord would not be as concerned about their relationship with God as I am...would they? First of all, I have asked Jesus to save me. He said in the Bible that he would never turn anyone down who comes to him. So I ask myself, "Is Jesus Christ a liar?" The answer, HELL NO! He has promised that once you are saved, you cannot be removed from his Father's hand or his. Again, is Jesus Christ a liar? And again I say a resounding NO!
Of course Jesus Christ is not a liar, he is a Holy and Righteous God incapable of lying, sin, unjustness, unholiness or unrighteousness and he is The Way, The Truth, and The Life and no one gets to the father but through him (John 14:6).
I just want to know I am saved and have reassurance of my salvation again and that I am going to Heaven, and not have fear of Hell consume me, but only if it is true. I don't want false assurance. I don't want to believe a lie is true that I am saved if I am not. If I am not saved I hope I get saved and God helps me to know it and truly accept Christ as my lord and savior. I would want to get saved and then know it but not believe a lie that I am only to wind up in Hell for eternity too late with no second chances.
But if I am saved for real and truly sure, I would want God to give me reassurance of my salvation again once and for all so I could put aside all fear and doubt and rest assured I was saved and be at peace. But I would NEED TO KNOW for certain that this assurance of salvation and peace and calm of God was just that, and truly of God. That it was really the Holy Spirit that was reassuring me and not the false deceptive lies of Satan. I would rather be saved and have my enemy the devil make me believe lies to doubt it and end up in Heaven with a miserable fearful life on Earth before that then believe a lie from Satan and have a peaceful and reassuring life on Earth only to end up in Hell for eternity because I had false assurance and was self or satanically deceived.
When people say many will proclaim and truly think and believe they are Christians only to die and burn in Hell, I get SCARED! I just want to be truly saved in Christ and forgiven for my sins and in paradise and in Heaven with Jesus for eternity and I want to know I am going there when I die!
They also deny eternal security and say you can lose your salvation and that people justified through faith that fail to be sanctified in an ongoing process are not worthy and can lose their salvation if all they get is justified through faith in Christ but never get sanctified by taking the next step and living for him in a process.
Until very recently, I thought that was so unbiblical, it sounded like works based salvation by trying to maintain or earn their salvation through their own righteousness of which we have none, and saying only Christians living righteously on the lookout for Christ return that have the oil in their lamps and aren't being worldly or in unrepentant sin when he returns, it scares me because sating you have to be a superchristian and that you can lose your salvation seemed like unbiblical lies and false teachings/doctrines of demons straight from the pit of Hell, but I'm gullible because having faith like a child can be a double edged sword and I've always doubted and now I doubted more.
Someone once told me God gave him a message and put it in his heart to tell everyone about how Christians that aren't living for Christ and walking with him and living righteously and repenting from the world and sin, are unworthy, and how being justified by faith in Christ was not enough but if you do not do the next step of being sanctified through a repenting, holy and righteous lifestyle in the next step of a continuous ongoing lifetime process, makes you unworthy of God. So being saved and justified by faith by declaring the Lord Jesus saves you, but not getting sanctified still makes you unworthy and he also said you can stray off the narrow path of life to salvation in Christ alone and lose your salvation. He said you can lose salvation after being justified and your name can be blotted out of the book of life and that Jesus is coming for a bride whose robes are holy and clean. I need some Biblical Discernment of the Holy Spirit and prayer for my salvation so bad right now please!
I know the Bible is Holy and infallible and inerrant and the inspired word of God and therefore there are no contradicting versus or errors in it however sometimes there are SEEMINGLY contradicting versus such as the James verse about faith without works being dead when the Bible also says we are saved by faith not works, lest no man boast, and the workaround Christians have come up with for that was that we are saved by faith not works but that genuine faith will produce works and bear fruit of the Holy Spirit, of which I’m afraid that I have not and get scared and worried and fearful and afraid that my faith is not real or genuine or is nonexistent because I have not produced works or bore fruit of the Holy Spirit and keep on seemingly unrepentantly sinning and sinning and feel like I don’t repent or feel conviction of the Holy Spirit and turn away from my sin and pick up my cross and follow him!
[SIZE=11pt]Other versus scare me as well, such as Hebrews 10:26-27. [/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]Hebrews 10:26-27 New International Version (NIV)[/SIZE]
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
Is that me? Do I keep on deliberately and unrepentantly sinning in an unrepentant lifestyle even after I have received knowledge of the truth, and therefore no sacrifice for my sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume me as an enemy of God and is that or could that be why I feel as if though I have kept on deliberately and unrepentantly sinning because I actually am and therefore that’s why I also feel that I have full knowledge of the truth and therefore no excuse for I am not ignorant and it would have been better if I had never heard the gospel message than to hear it and know the truth and then reject it and that therefore that’s why I always doubt my salvation and fear hell because no sacrifice for my sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and raging fire that will consume the enemies of God, including me, which would be why I feel as though there is no sacrifice for my sins any longer or why I fear hell and almost even expect it, because versus like this and many other verses and warnings in the Bible apply to me? Please pray for me and help!
I am truly sorry for taking up so much of your time I know this is a long question and apologize again in advance if this bothers you, but with all due respect, this is my ETERNAL SALVATION on the line, and well, I believe it's important for me!
I pray that if I'm not saved I get saved and if I am saved God will let me know without a doubt I'm saved and remove all fear and doubt and worry and let me know for sure without a doubt it is from God where I get this reassurance from God himself I am saved and he fills me up with the Holy Spirit which convicts me and lets me know for sure that I am saved and that the only difference between a sinner and a saint is the blood of Jesus Christ and that I have the blood of Jesus Christ and his holy and perfect sacrifice covering me and that I have nothing to fear!
Please pray for me and please offer me any advice you have on dispelling doubt of my salvation and having reassurance and knowing I am saved and getting right with God if I am not but if I am in Christ help me know it and stop believing a lie from Satan the enemy and living my life in fear! Help me stop being a slave to sin but free in Christ! Jesus is Lord!
Thank you and Amen!
Your Brother in Christ Zack (who hopes to soon stop doubting that part!)
My name is Zack and I really desperately need prayer for my salvation and my doubt as I have been doubting my salvation for years and I still doubt and it has not gotten much better even though it has been years since I supposedly got saved in High School and no matter how much I pray and ask other people to pray and they pray for me I still doubt my salvation and fear hell and worry and fear and get scared and doubt did I really truly accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead and confess him as Lord and call upon the name of the Lord or am I just self-deceived with false assurance and I doubt and worry and get scared so I definitely need prayer please!
I have always doubted my salvation and feared Hell and felt I haven't lived the holy, righteous Christian life I was called to live. I always thought of myself as someone who put emphasis on the "fire insurance" policy and one of the reasons I always get so fearful and doubtful and repeat sinners prayers and try to rededicate my life to him again to make sure I get right with God and am saved is because I fear Hell. I feel like I've been more worried with not going to Hell and that is why I want to make sure I'm a Christian and I haven't really lived the life I've been called to live. I feel like I became a Christian or thought I became a Christian mainly out of fear of Hell and I feel like if I'm truly saved why do I care so much about fire insurance and keep on repeating those sinner's prayers and regiving and dedicating my life to Christ and accepting him as my Lord and Savior and believing in Jesus but not practicing what I preach. I fear Hell and feel like I'm not saved because I'm not bearing fruit or producing works with my faith.
PLEASE HELP! I have been a Christian (or at least I hope I am!) for many years, probably since early high school years ago and I am nearly done with college now. I have pretty much always doubted my salvation, more so than could possibly be healthy, and I constantly fear of eternal damnation in Hell. I think I am a Christian, I hope I am. But eternal separation from God is eternal torment in the lake of fire for endless agony for eternity, so you'll understand why I feel so scared. This will be a long plea for prayer and Wisdom so I apologize from the start.
Obviously having some doubt of your salvation every once in a while isn't the worse thing that could happen. One shouldn't be prideful and arrogant or boast, we shouldn't be so sure we're saved that there's no way I won't go to heaven and I don't need to examine my life and look at myself, because "I'm so great I know I'm going to Heaven, no need to examine myself at all!". That's the wrong attitude to have. A healthy fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom. The Bible says to put ourselves to the test and to examine our fruit and works to see if they match our profession and if we have and uphold the faith in Jesus Christ. Obviously those who pass the test wouldn't be the Laodicean Church.
That being said, I am still afraid of eternity should I turn out not to be a Christian. Many people, have said before that many will think they are in Christ and profess so as well but will be sorely disappointed when they die and find out otherwise.
When I read these articles on blogs or news sites or any other Christian website, and they say how many think they are Christians but are not and will find out the hard way, I get SO SCARED!
Here's what I believe, or at least what I think I believe and hope I believe.
I believe that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to salvation. I believe I am NOT a good person, and there are no good people save for Jesus. I believe that there are no righteous, not one, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. All have sinned, and the wage for sin is death. I have sinned, I am unrighteous, unholy and unworthy of God. I am not good, and deserve to die. No amount of good works will ever save me. I will never be good enough to get into heaven myself. God's standard of good is perfection, and I fail.
I believe in one God of course, but even the demons in Hell believe in and fear one God. Going to church means nothing, many of those casual churchgoers will be left behind. It's more than just "believing" in Jesus as that he was a good person and teacher, it's about accepting him personally as your lord and savior.
I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior (I hope I did and I keep telling myself that as I say the sinner's prayer over and over again dozens of times a month). I believe that I was dead in my sins and trangressions and deserved eternal Hell and separation from God but in his mercy God sent his one and only begotten son to die for us so that we may have a relationship with him and not perish but have eternal life. By accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, the blood of Christ covers your sin and makes you righteous and holy in God's eyes, you are born again and a new creation.
Romans 10:9 says: "That if you confess with your mouth 'Jesus is Lord!', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved!"
That's it, no works, no fruit, no baptism (thief on the cross), no last minute confessions before death, no going to church every week and filling the offering jar, no mandatory Bible readings or repeated rituals, nothing.
Just accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead and that God sent himself to die upon that cross so the calvary's sacrifice would atone for the sins of mankind. I did not deserve this. In God's grace and mercy, he provided a way to save a wretch like me so that I may have a relationship with him and not perish but have eternal life. I was unrighteous, unholy and unworthy, and still he bled for me. How someone can truly reject that is beyond me.
THAT BEING SAID!!! I read things from many Godly and Christianlike people and leaders and teachers who say that some will be self deceived and think they are in Christ but are not. I DO NOT WANT TO BE SELF DECEIVED! What if I thought I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, but I did not? What if I didn't really believe he rose from the dead and he is the lord and savior to us all? What if I believe or know that is true but didn't personally accept him as my Lord and Savior myself? What if I am deceiving myself? Only God knows my heart, he said not to judge each other until we are judged before God himself.
Are Lukewarm Christians people who were once saved and lost their salvation, or people who were never saved to begin with? Can you lose your salvation, or can you give it up and forfeit it and reject Christ and willing choose to apostasy and fall away from and leave the faith and have nothing to do with God and give up your salvation despite once being saved and sealed with the Holy Spirit and be damned as a former Christian despite being predestined to have your name written in the book of life?
Not all who say to him, Lord Lord, will enter the kingdom of Heaven. They will say things like "did we not cast out demons and perform miracles in your name?" and he will say, "where were you when I was hungry and needed something to eat, when I was thirsty and needed some water to drink, when I was naked and needed clothing, depart from me, I never knew you." The Bible says "Why do you call me Lord Lord, but not do what I do?". Not all who say they belong to him will enter the kingdom of Heaven but those that do THE WILL of the father. The Bible says to put yourself to the test and you will know them by their fruit. And that faith without works is dead.
So if I truly have saving faith in Christ, why do I not produce works and bare fruit of the Holy Spirit, and feel conviction of the Holy Spirit when I sin? Perhaps I feel conviction if I ever have felt guilty, but I can doubt even that! So if salvation cannot be lost, then either I am saved and doubt or am not saved and was never saved to begin with.
The seed that sprouted for a season but withered left the flock because they were never with them. No one will take you from the Lord's hands once you are his. The Bible says all who call upon the name of the lord will be saved. But not only do I not feel saved (I know we can't go off of feelings), but I feel like I don't live it.
If I am truly in Christ and believe what I say I believe, that Gospel and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and if I truly have accepted him as my Lord and Savior and repented of my sins and am born again a new creation, why do I feel I do not live it?
With saving faith comes good works, they say? Why do I feel like I produce no good works and bare no fruit of the Holy Spirit? Have I truly received grace if I keep on sinning? Just because we received grace, is that a license to keep sinning now that we've been pardoned? NO, absolutely not Paul says! If I am in Christ, why do I keep sinning and not living a more holy and righteous life that he called me to live, and why have I not done more for the kingdom of God and produced such works as evidence of my faith? Even now, I feel as though my heart may be far from God, conspiring against him in all my sinful nature and evil wickedness.
I pray that I am saved and that if I am not then I call upon the name of the Lord to save me! I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit and feel the conviction of him when I sin. I believe that without accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and have the blood and holy sacrifice of Jesus Christ to atone for your sins I may not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
But did I truly ever personally accept him as my Lord and Savior if I haven't completely changed my life and lived in repentance where the works and fruit are surely produced and the sinful lifestyle of my past has ended? Did I die to myself and pick up my cross and follow Jesus? Did I turn away from sin and decide to choose to whom this day I will serve and honor God and turn towards Christ and his sacrifice on the Cross instead?
Surely God would not let me be self deceived as to think I am saved when I am not? I do not want to go to Hell! I used to be a Calvinist who belived in TULIP and once saved always saved, but regardless, if I am not yet with him, is he calling me to him? I believe because of my sinful nature I cannot choose to break free of my sinful nature and realize my need for a savior and the errors of my previous lifestyle and being dead in my sins without the need for Christ's death and resurrection on the cross unless God calls me to him and softens my heart and fills it with the message of the Holy Spirit.
If I was not one of the elect, surely I would be dead in my sins and transgressions and not realize my need for a savior and choose to break free of my sinful nature and repent unless God himself called me to him and softened my heart and put something in it to make me realize I was missing something and empty and dead inside, and all the world had to offer me could not fill that God shaped hole in my heart.
Would God truly let me be so self deceived? To have come so close to believing it, only to miss it. To seek him out and search for the truth, when the Bible says he is always knocking at the door to our heart and all the seek out and search for the Lord WILL FIND HIM!? Surely, O Lord, Father God, you would not allow me to believe I was in Christ and had accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and found salvation in Christ and was among the good shepherd's flock, only to realize he was damned to Hell and completely wrong all his life the moment he died?
SURELY an unbeliever who has not truly accepted Jesus as their Savior and Lord would not be as concerned about their relationship with God as I am...would they? First of all, I have asked Jesus to save me. He said in the Bible that he would never turn anyone down who comes to him. So I ask myself, "Is Jesus Christ a liar?" The answer, HELL NO! He has promised that once you are saved, you cannot be removed from his Father's hand or his. Again, is Jesus Christ a liar? And again I say a resounding NO!
Of course Jesus Christ is not a liar, he is a Holy and Righteous God incapable of lying, sin, unjustness, unholiness or unrighteousness and he is The Way, The Truth, and The Life and no one gets to the father but through him (John 14:6).
I just want to know I am saved and have reassurance of my salvation again and that I am going to Heaven, and not have fear of Hell consume me, but only if it is true. I don't want false assurance. I don't want to believe a lie is true that I am saved if I am not. If I am not saved I hope I get saved and God helps me to know it and truly accept Christ as my lord and savior. I would want to get saved and then know it but not believe a lie that I am only to wind up in Hell for eternity too late with no second chances.
But if I am saved for real and truly sure, I would want God to give me reassurance of my salvation again once and for all so I could put aside all fear and doubt and rest assured I was saved and be at peace. But I would NEED TO KNOW for certain that this assurance of salvation and peace and calm of God was just that, and truly of God. That it was really the Holy Spirit that was reassuring me and not the false deceptive lies of Satan. I would rather be saved and have my enemy the devil make me believe lies to doubt it and end up in Heaven with a miserable fearful life on Earth before that then believe a lie from Satan and have a peaceful and reassuring life on Earth only to end up in Hell for eternity because I had false assurance and was self or satanically deceived.
When people say many will proclaim and truly think and believe they are Christians only to die and burn in Hell, I get SCARED! I just want to be truly saved in Christ and forgiven for my sins and in paradise and in Heaven with Jesus for eternity and I want to know I am going there when I die!
They also deny eternal security and say you can lose your salvation and that people justified through faith that fail to be sanctified in an ongoing process are not worthy and can lose their salvation if all they get is justified through faith in Christ but never get sanctified by taking the next step and living for him in a process.
Until very recently, I thought that was so unbiblical, it sounded like works based salvation by trying to maintain or earn their salvation through their own righteousness of which we have none, and saying only Christians living righteously on the lookout for Christ return that have the oil in their lamps and aren't being worldly or in unrepentant sin when he returns, it scares me because sating you have to be a superchristian and that you can lose your salvation seemed like unbiblical lies and false teachings/doctrines of demons straight from the pit of Hell, but I'm gullible because having faith like a child can be a double edged sword and I've always doubted and now I doubted more.
Someone once told me God gave him a message and put it in his heart to tell everyone about how Christians that aren't living for Christ and walking with him and living righteously and repenting from the world and sin, are unworthy, and how being justified by faith in Christ was not enough but if you do not do the next step of being sanctified through a repenting, holy and righteous lifestyle in the next step of a continuous ongoing lifetime process, makes you unworthy of God. So being saved and justified by faith by declaring the Lord Jesus saves you, but not getting sanctified still makes you unworthy and he also said you can stray off the narrow path of life to salvation in Christ alone and lose your salvation. He said you can lose salvation after being justified and your name can be blotted out of the book of life and that Jesus is coming for a bride whose robes are holy and clean. I need some Biblical Discernment of the Holy Spirit and prayer for my salvation so bad right now please!
I know the Bible is Holy and infallible and inerrant and the inspired word of God and therefore there are no contradicting versus or errors in it however sometimes there are SEEMINGLY contradicting versus such as the James verse about faith without works being dead when the Bible also says we are saved by faith not works, lest no man boast, and the workaround Christians have come up with for that was that we are saved by faith not works but that genuine faith will produce works and bear fruit of the Holy Spirit, of which I’m afraid that I have not and get scared and worried and fearful and afraid that my faith is not real or genuine or is nonexistent because I have not produced works or bore fruit of the Holy Spirit and keep on seemingly unrepentantly sinning and sinning and feel like I don’t repent or feel conviction of the Holy Spirit and turn away from my sin and pick up my cross and follow him!
[SIZE=11pt]Other versus scare me as well, such as Hebrews 10:26-27. [/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]Hebrews 10:26-27 New International Version (NIV)[/SIZE]
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
Is that me? Do I keep on deliberately and unrepentantly sinning in an unrepentant lifestyle even after I have received knowledge of the truth, and therefore no sacrifice for my sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume me as an enemy of God and is that or could that be why I feel as if though I have kept on deliberately and unrepentantly sinning because I actually am and therefore that’s why I also feel that I have full knowledge of the truth and therefore no excuse for I am not ignorant and it would have been better if I had never heard the gospel message than to hear it and know the truth and then reject it and that therefore that’s why I always doubt my salvation and fear hell because no sacrifice for my sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and raging fire that will consume the enemies of God, including me, which would be why I feel as though there is no sacrifice for my sins any longer or why I fear hell and almost even expect it, because versus like this and many other verses and warnings in the Bible apply to me? Please pray for me and help!
I am truly sorry for taking up so much of your time I know this is a long question and apologize again in advance if this bothers you, but with all due respect, this is my ETERNAL SALVATION on the line, and well, I believe it's important for me!
I pray that if I'm not saved I get saved and if I am saved God will let me know without a doubt I'm saved and remove all fear and doubt and worry and let me know for sure without a doubt it is from God where I get this reassurance from God himself I am saved and he fills me up with the Holy Spirit which convicts me and lets me know for sure that I am saved and that the only difference between a sinner and a saint is the blood of Jesus Christ and that I have the blood of Jesus Christ and his holy and perfect sacrifice covering me and that I have nothing to fear!
Please pray for me and please offer me any advice you have on dispelling doubt of my salvation and having reassurance and knowing I am saved and getting right with God if I am not but if I am in Christ help me know it and stop believing a lie from Satan the enemy and living my life in fear! Help me stop being a slave to sin but free in Christ! Jesus is Lord!
Thank you and Amen!
Your Brother in Christ Zack (who hopes to soon stop doubting that part!)
