The more I study scripture, the more I become convinced that most Christians have it completely wrong. Especially in the umbrella of the teachings of OSAS (Once Saved Always Saved)/Eternal Security.
(Begin Edit.) While I do believe eternal security can exist, I also believe it’s conditional, just like salvation is. The only way it can be achieved is by abiding in Jesus. And therefore, I believe the way OSAS/Eternal Security is understood and taught is wrong. I believe it is possible to lose your salvation, but I also believe the conditions for it happening are going to be extremely extenuating circumstances. And (as almost everyone likes to point out) we have been given free will in whether to choose to be saved, I believe (and have been advised in prayer on this subject) that a person can also choose to walk away from the faith (although I can’t fathom why someone who has experienced the goodness of God would do so). Remember the examples of the sower and the seeds? Some receive the word gladly among the rocky soil but once they come into tribulation or persecution they fall away because they have no root in themselves, and others receive the word amongst the thorns, but the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and they never become fruitful. That’s not my words; they were said by Jesus Himself in Mark 4. (End of edit.)
God's grace is not a license to sin willfully and expect that you're still going to be in good standing with Him when you stand before Jesus Christ and give an account for your life.
I'm not trying to condemn anyone to hell. That isn't my judgment to make. I can't see the intentions or the conditions of a person's heart, nor do I ever fully know what is going on in a person's life; only God can do that. God is the only one who can see the entire picture and His judgment will always be perfect and righteous.
BUT
1 Corinthians 10:12 NASB
12 Therefore let the one who thinks he stands watch out that he does not fall.
Read 1 Corinthians 5 line by line along with these cross references (in parenthesis at the end of each applicable verse) for this passage that were in my ESV and NASB hard copy versions, and get back to me. Hopefully the Lord will give you eyes to see and the heart to receive what what the scriptures said to me.
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 NASB
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father’s wife. (2 Corinthians 12:21, Leviticus 18:8, Deuteronomy 22:30, Deuteronomy 27:20)
2 You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst. (1 Corinthians 4:6, 1 Corinthians 5:13, 2 Corinthians 7:7-10)
3 For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present. (Colossians 2:5, 1 Thessalonians 2:17)
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, (2 Thessalonians 3:6, Matthew 16:19, Matthew 18:18, John 20:23, 2 Corinthians 2:10, 2 Corinthians 13:3, 2 Corinthians 13:10, 1 Timothy 5:20)
5 I have decided to turn such a person over to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. (1 Timothy 1:20, Job 2:6, Acts 26:18, Proverbs 23:14, 1 Corinthians 1:8, Luke 22:31)
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? (James 4:16, Galatians 5:9, 1 Corinthians 15:33, Matthew 16:6, Matthew 16:12)
7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. (Mark 14:12, 1 Peter 1:19)
8 Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (Exodus 12:15, Exodus 12:19, Deuteronomy 16:3, Matthew 16:6, Matthew 16:12, Mark 8:15, Luke 12:11)
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people; (2 Corinthians 6:14, Ephesians 5:11, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:14)
10 I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. (1 Corinthians 10:27, Ephesians 5:5, Colossians 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:9, John 17:15)
11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person. (2 Thessalonians 3:6, Acts 1:15)
12 For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? (Mark 4:11, 1 Corinthians 5:3-5, 1 Corinthians 6:1-4)
13 But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the evil person from among yourselves. (Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 17:7, Deuteronomy 17:12, Deuteronomy 12:21, Deuteronomy 22:21-22, Deuteronomy 22:24, Judges 20:13)
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