#Islide into heaven trial

I suggest that you make earnest confession to the Lord of your sins and believe that He will forgive them and reestablish you. The fact that you are deeply concerned is a positive sign. However, if you truly repent all is not lost. There are many places in the Bible that warn of this happening. Yes, it is possible to lose your salvation. I don't want to go to hell but I fear that is my fate. Concerning this matter, Paul writes, 'Beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God' (1 Corinthians 7:1).Ĭan you ever lose your salvation? Because I have done so much bad after I became a Christian that I think I have lost my salvation. Thus sanctification is also a process day by day. Still there remains sin in every life which calls for further sanctification. We are holy, therefore, by virtue of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies us and dwells within.

Thus immediate sanctification is part of the experience. Paul writes about the born again experience, 'You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God' (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). Is sanctification an immediate experience when somebody becomes a Christian? Can a born again Christian live a sanctified life here on earth?įirst of all, sanctification is experienced in the new birth. This should make us rely more on God to give us the victory. However, the flesh is still there often warring to a high degree against the Spirit. Sin is basically foreign to the believer since the Holy Spirit dwells within. After sanctification do we still struggle to behave as God wants. At times, I feel I have reached the end of the lesson and now I can do anything, but then I slide here and there back into temptation and my wants.

#Islide into heaven trial

The Scriptures remind us that 'If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us,' but 'If we confess our sins He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness' (1 John 1:8-9).įor the last two years, I have had nothing but heartache and trial - God placing me in the impossible and carrying me through. While it affirms rightly the goal of 'entire' or total sanctification in the whole person - body, soul, and spirit - it is too much to say that by a second work of grace 'sin ceases to be' (Wesley's words). I have difficulty with this Wesleyan doctrine. The Wesleyan persuasion has a doctrine of 'entire sanctification.' They separate this from salvation as a second work of grace. An unbeliever would hardly be comfortable there. Why should a person who 'once firmly believed in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior' but has turned from Him want to go to heaven? For heaven is the place where Jesus is glorified and all people rejoice in His presence. Will a person who once firmly believed in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but then turned from Him, enter Hell or Heaven?