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FAQ # 105
QUESTION 105 : This verse is used to say some born again believers
lost their salvation, "So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have
children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for
slander. Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan" (1
Tim 5:14,15). Hence, lost their salvation, is that so?
If you do anything out of the will of God, that is "considered"
following satan. When you grieve the Holy Ghost (Eph 4:30), you did so
because you followed satan; sensitized through your flesh. That doesn't
mean you have lost your salvation, because some time or the other you'll
grieve the Holy Ghost. In this particular passage Paul encouraged Timothy
not to allow young women to join the widow board because after a while
satan will tempt them, seeing that they were used to sex in marriage.
So in order for them not to break the pledge of widowhood by either giving
into fornication or marrying again, don't even put them on it let them
find another husband. Simply church business, not teaching that someone
was eternally castrated after being born again. Read verse 11-12.
One person said, "The truth is, he who has no 'assurance of Salvation,'
will go through His whole life in insecurity questioning his relationship
with God, and in a real sense unconvinced that God was telling the truth
when He 'Promised' us that He would never leave nor forsake us. For you
cannot have that assurance when you are not sure that Christ has obtained
an eternal redemption for us wherein He will always be with us
as he declared" (Tony W.).
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