How saved are you? The importance of Eternal Security.

There are other ways to find security and grace outside of OSAS/ES (using those two interchangeably). Why do I feel secure if I reject OSAS? I don't see at all how you can explain that if I need to listen to your tapes over and over to feel secure. I am going to say some things you could take personally if you wanted, but I don't mean them to be insulting. it is just the truth that I have observed. What you did was submit yourself to hearing the same thing over and over, which is how indoctrination works. Theo on CARM claims he found Calvinism by reading the Bible. He said this multiple times. But for some reason he never "saw" it in the Bible until he encountered James White. He didn't really find Calvinism in the Bible, someone told him that's what the Bible says, then he "looked up" the verses already being told how to interpret them. God could have spoken to you that ES is true without those tapes, assuming you even read the Bible. But until forceful repetition occurred, apparently the God who can make you eternally secure wasn't powerful enough to just tell you that you are secure through the Bible alone. I don't buy that at all. I once believed I committed the unpardonable sin, albeit under heavy delusion, but still I really believed it. And yet today I feel secure by the grace of God. And the very reason the motivation that drove you was thinking you were falling away and wanting to feel secure, is the wrong motivation to seek out a truth. You let a deceiving spirit in. The Bible just does not match OSAS on any level.

peace in Christ

Thats what I meant, how this works for different people. How we all view salvation in different ways. I hear what you are saying.
I just finished the last video you linked. I really liked Matt Powell. He was very clear and precise.
If our salvation is not secure, how could Jesus say about those to whom He gives eternal life, “and they shall never perish”? John 10:28 If even one man or woman receives eternal life and then forfeits it through sin or apostasy, will they not perish? And by doing so, do they not make Jesus’ words a lie?

So, if there is a potential for losing salvation it would seem to be not only with those who have a rebellious heart toward God but with those who are innocently led astray by false doctrines as well. Paul expresses his amazement and concern over the Galatians “deserting” the truth and turning to “a different gospel” Gal. 1:6. They believed a lie. About this same group of deceived Christians.

I'm a Paul guy and he later tells us,

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.... You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? Galatians 5:4-7
I like how Paul gets right to the point to describe the Galatians present status: They are “severed from Christ” and “fallen from grace.”

A similar situation surfaces in Paul’s first letter to Timothy. Here Paul predicts that in the last days some believers will be tricked into following false doctrines:

But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron. 1 Timothy 4:1–2.

So once again the phrase “fall away” appears. Here the context clearly implies a turning away from the faith, a rejection of what was once fully embraced.

In these last two examples, the believers in question did not fall into “sin” in the moral or ethical sense. They were simply deceived into believing something that was a distortion of the truth. Yet these passages seem to indicate that the consequence of their naivete was eternal damnation.

So, I agree with you, we are definitely dealing with a lying, deceiving spirit. The good news is we know the truth and it has set us free.

I'm planning to set this Saturday aside and upload some of those types of materials. I will start out with a few of these:

The Trinity
The Deity of Christ
The humanity of Christ
The Bodily Resurrection, Ascension and 2nd Coming of Christ
The Gospel essential
The paper on Jesus being forsaken
And a couple on the differences between calvinism and mainstream Christianity from a historical perspective.

If a Christian does not want to risk falling away or their love going cold Jesus gave us the sure-fire remedy. It's in the Bible. You must abide in Jesus. Some translations say remain, but I like abide as "live" in Jesus and His love.

John.15
[1] I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
[2] Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
[3] Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
[4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
[5] I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
[6] If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
[7] If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
[8] Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
[9] As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
[10] If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
[11] These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
[12] This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
[13] Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
[14] Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
[15] Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
[16] Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
[17] These things I command you, that ye love one another.
[18] If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
[19] If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
[20] Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
[21] But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
[22] If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
[23] He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
[24] If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
[25] But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
[26] But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
[27] And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

I have been thinking about this since your post to me and the one Chalcedon posted yesterday and I have come this far...

I think it is posable to become apostate, fallaway, your love for God to grow cold and be in danger of losing one's salvation. To be deceived, for the enemy to have a stronghold of deception in your mind. Now if you die in that state of unbelief after calming to being a Child of God at some point in your life would you get the dreaded words "Depart from me, I never knew you". 

I'll Keep an open mind on this topic and Yes I have a few book and I have talked to a few pastors. I did a 3 day fast and some hardcore praying and was amazed how God answered my prayers. The takeaway was I have the Holy Spirit.

“He Will Teach You All Things” John 14:26 But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

When we receive the Holy Spirit, we begin to learn what exactly the Word tells us to do, It is the gift of God to have the Holy Spirit in us. This is a personal issue for me. As in:

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.—Php 2:12-13.

I'm not talking about works salvation more like to work out your salvation with fear and trembling is simply to work out what God has already worked in. God has worked salvation in us. I'm going along with His plan, my way never works.

I do apricate you concern and I'm open to any and all other thoughts on this topic.

If one must meet necessary conditions (being a sheep that hears and follows Christ) in order to initially gain the promise of eternal life, then it only makes sense that one must CONTINUE to meet those same conditions of hearing and following in order to maintain that promise of eternal life.  That's why both verbs 'hear' and 'follow' are after all in the present tense denoting an ongoing, sustained action.  Therefore it makes sense if one quits meeting these necessary conditions of hearing and following then one loses the promise of eternal life.  Jesus never made His gift of eternal life unconditional no matter how the Christian lives as Jn 10:27-28 shows. 

Jesus did make it a certainty that as long as one continues to hear and follow, it is a certainty he will never perish or be plucked out of God's hand.  Yet that certainty is based upon the condition one continues to hear and follow.  Therefore I can know with certainty that as long as I hear and follow Christ I will never perish and I have that certainty apart from the teaching of eternal security which leaves false certainty that one can quit hearing and following turning to live in sin yet be saved anyway as Charles Stanley wrongly teaches.