Will continuing to smoke cigarettes and pot cause the Lord to blot my name out of the book of life and therefore lose my salvation and end up missimg out on going tto heaven and being with the Lord firever?
The reason your asking this, is the spirit leading you. i grew up the son of a tobacco farmer in kentucky. when we went to church on sunday, there was a 20 minute break between sunday school and church and most all the men were tobacco farmers, or associated with it somehow for their living. almost all smoked and that is what they did in this 20 minute break. the women would go out back by the outhouse. there was good christians men and women here as was my dad and mom.
you will not go to hell for but one thing: rejection of jesus christ and his sacrifice for your sins the scriptures tell us he died for all our sins and all our sins were future when he died 2000 some years ago. however let me say this, there is natural consequence for not listening to the spirit when he leads you in something, being a smoker myself for 45 years when i gave my life to and truly fell in love with jesus christ at the age of 44 i continued to smoke for another 8 years and like you i started to wonder if my smoking offended any portion of my relationship with the lord. then i started being a foster parent to teenage boys and taking them to youth groups and summer youth camps etc. found myself not wanting to smoke around these young people. so by the power vested in me broke out the nicorite gum ,made it thru camp,by the grace of god. got home took the right approach! prayed for deliverance from the desire, because i knew this wasn't good for me and i really didn't like it anymore. so as i smoked i kept saying, outloud to myself if someone was around: i am the righteousness of christ and after about a month or so one morning looked at that stogie as i put it out and said thank you father for delivering me from this. put it out and never missed it, again by the grace of god! here is where the natural consequence ,april 2020,took my bladder, prostate and 19 lymph glands. i am a very healthy survivor and praise him everyday for his mercies. and have a great ministry. his peace in you
For we are saved by grace through faith ( Ephesians 2:8-9), receive the remission of sins through faith ( Acts 10:43), and became God's children through faith in Jesus Christ ( Gal. 3:26). As saved person, we are to glorify God in whatsoever ye do ( 1 Cor. 10:31) and be filled with the Holy Spirit ( Eph. 5:18). Lastly, God forbids us to continue in sin ( Romans 6:12-15). I am praying for you that you will be convicted that even God promised us about the assurance of salvation but He also forbids us to continue in sin and sin cannot please Him.
God saves and forgives sin of those who genuinely follow and obey Him. But the fact that you're asking this says to me that you think it's wrong. If you think it's wrong why continue to do it? If you're a Christian why not do everything you can to please God and treat your body as a holy temple? 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
A Christian is a follower of the teachings of Christ and Biblical doctrines
1Peter 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Romans 12:1-2
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
Ask yourself am I being Holy.? Am I being transformed ?
To be conformed is taking on the shape of an object such as jelly in a bowl. To be transformed is taking on a completely new form such a catapiller being transformed into into a butterfly. Why would someone come to Jesus for salvation from the evils of this world and all that is sinful and still desires that which occupies the sinners world and mind.
If there is no desire in my heart to want the sincere milk of the word of God with a corresponding desire to follow and obey its teachings I would have to question the reality of my conversion.
Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God
you will not go to hell for but one thing: rejection of jesus christ and his sacrifice for your sins the scriptures tell us he died for all our sins and all our sins were future when he died 2000 some years ago. however let me say this, there is natural consequence for not listening to the spirit when he leads you in something, being a smoker myself for 45 years when i gave my life to and truly fell in love with jesus christ at the age of 44 i continued to smoke for another 8 years and like you i started to wonder if my smoking offended any portion of my relationship with the lord. then i started being a foster parent to teenage boys and taking them to youth groups and summer youth camps etc. found myself not wanting to smoke around these young people. so by the power vested in me broke out the nicorite gum ,made it thru camp,by the grace of god. got home took the right approach! prayed for deliverance from the desire, because i knew this wasn't good for me and i really didn't like it anymore. so as i smoked i kept saying, outloud to myself if someone was around: i am the righteousness of christ and after about a month or so one morning looked at that stogie as i put it out and said thank you father for delivering me from this. put it out and never missed it, again by the grace of god! here is where the natural consequence ,april 2020,took my bladder, prostate and 19 lymph glands. i am a very healthy survivor and praise him everyday for his mercies. and have a great ministry. his peace in you
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God saves and forgives sin of those who genuinely follow and obey Him. But the fact that you're asking this says to me that you think it's wrong. If you think it's wrong why continue to do it? If you're a Christian why not do everything you can to please God and treat your body as a holy temple? 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Matthew 5:30
1Peter 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Romans 12:1-2
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
Ask yourself am I being Holy.? Am I being transformed ?
To be conformed is taking on the shape of an object such as jelly in a bowl. To be transformed is taking on a completely new form such a catapiller being transformed into into a butterfly. Why would someone come to Jesus for salvation from the evils of this world and all that is sinful and still desires that which occupies the sinners world and mind.
If there is no desire in my heart to want the sincere milk of the word of God with a corresponding desire to follow and obey its teachings I would have to question the reality of my conversion.
Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God
Nor will he ever enter therein.
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