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BEWARE: The dangerous false teaching of the “once saved always saved” (OSAS) doctrine, or “eternal security” teaching. This teaching creates a false sense of security, which is very dangerous because it leads people to believe that they are saved (at times) when they are truly lost. This is a grave error!
We know that we are saved when we are walking in obedience to the Bible, have a relationship with Jesus Christ, our conscience is clean before the Lord, we are meeting the conditions of the New Testament demands, and the Holy Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are God’s children, and that we are on the right track. Simply put, we need to be walking with God and pleasing Him.
The eternal security teaching is a kind of con job that opens things up to allow for looser living, and can make people think they are saved when they are not meeting the conditions. They have been duped. Too many Christians are trusting in this teaching, and too many pastors teaching it.
Do you think you can kill yourself and still go to heaven because of the OSAS teaching? This is not what the Bible teaches, and it gives people a false sense of security, making it a dangerous doctrine for people’s souls.
There are people who have killed themselves trusting in the eternal security teaching to get them to heaven.
God is not the author of suicide—the devil is. God has not given suicide as an early ticket to heaven, for those too weak to go all the way. This is a deception. It is unthinkable to commit suicide. God expects us to overcome.
Of course, there are always ministers and pastors that will lie at the funeral to comfort mourners. But, is it the calling of pastors to lie to comfort people, or warn people in order to save them, even if it makes them uncomfortable momentarily? Who is the truly loving person, and who is being the true man of God in that case?
Firstly, the Bible does not teach the eternal security doctrine but it says that we must “continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel” (Colossians 1:23).
Secondly, even if it did, committing suicide would certainly be an abuse of the doctrine.
People get so emotional about this. “Do you know what I am going through?” or, “do you know what they are going through?”, they might say. The biblical response would be, “do you know what Jesus went through?” He did not sin, nor quit, nor bail out—He overcame. He overcame and expects us to.
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
(Revelation 3:21 KJV)
“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”
(Hebrews 12:3)
The previous verse says that He “endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).
He faced the pain of the cross, he tolerated much opposition from sinners, but He completed His mission victoriously, and now sits beside God the Father in a highly exalted position.
Will you finish your mission? Will you run the race set before you?
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
(Hebrews 12:1-2)
Will you overcome as Christ did, and as He commands you to?
If you overcome, finish your mission and run your race, you are obeying God and His command in Scripture. If you don’t, you are in disobedience.
Suicide is a heinous act. Why do we think that God would be so understanding about it? We can lie to ourselves if we want, but it does not change the facts. God determines truth, not our emotions.
We put great value on human emotion yet have little regard for God and His word. This is wrong.
While God is a good God, and one full of compassion, His truth in His word is still the bottom line. Many times, we look at things from our point of view, but God from His point of view.
There are many testimonies of how God prevented a suicide at the very last second, showing God’s compassion and also His ability to deliver.
The Bible teaches that all sinners go to hell and that only Christians who walk the strait and narrow make it to heaven. Our emotions don’t come into it, because God does not take counsel from fallen man.
God does not take pleasure in human pain, but many, many times He tries to speak, but we simply don’t listen.
Could you honestly stand before God and justify your act of suicide? The answer is no, you could not.
“Go ahead and kill yourself, God will understand. Doesn’t the Bible teach once saved always saved? What have you got to lose?”.
Who do you think would plant such thoughts in your heart, God or Satan? Well Satan of course, not God. Where is your Scripture for this sort of thinking? Could you imagine the apostles teaching such a thing? Of course not!
To tell people that by committing suicide they will not forfeit their eternal salvation is to encourage people to kill themselves.
God is a God of compassion, but more importantly a God of truth. He is a God of truth, righteousness, holiness, and justice, not just a God of compassion.