I agree with his premise that self murder like any other murder is the act that the most shows a lack of faith. I don't believe that any sin in and of itself will send a believer to hell but sin certainly has the capacity to kill faith and with no faith one is on one's way to hell. So if someone decides to act on an impulse to simply murder themselves and then puts a gun to their head and pulls the trigger then it's difficult to see how that final act has not killed the person's faith, since there is no time left for thinking about things and repenting while death lingers. But as long as there is no definite statement of rejecting the faith before murdering oneself then I agree with his statement that he doesn't want to set himself up as judge and declare to the person's relatives that the one who committed suicide is now in hell. Let God be the judge of that.
I mentioned "self murder". That is because some acts of suicide amount to that but all suicides don't. There are many types of circumstances just like there is with killing an other human being. So my discussion above relates the worst case scenario.
For the Child of God there is a difference between denying Him outright and being unbelieving or faithless.
People can be sick and oppressed mentally and emotionally, just as one can be sick and oppressed physically.
Failing to receive healing and deliverance is not an unpardonable sin.
II Timothy 2:11-13
(11) It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him:
(12) If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him: if we deny Him, He also will deny us:
(13) If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself.
John 20:27
Then saith He to Thomas, ..... and be not faithless, but believing.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
Quest (09-01-2018)
tschau (09-01-2018)
I didn’t watch the video so I’m not sure what it discussed, but Brother Hagin always said that a person could get sick in their head just like to get sick in their body and while they’re sick in the head do something they wouldn’t normally do. He didn’t believe a Christian went to hell just because they committed suicide. Obviously if they weren’t saved they went to hell.
tschau (09-01-2018)
Sin that carries one to Hell is perpetual sin that erodes the relationship, potentially to the point one does no longer have faith in the savior...this is why believers at different levels of growth should not fear losing their salvation at any given moment...I have never been one of those who believes one can oscillate in and out of salvation...Faith in the finished work of Jesus is the source of salvation...PERIOD...
I agree with Ravi...one should never think it's ok to meet the Lord under those circumstances....
I would agree that in some cases that would be true, but not as a blanket assessment due to demonic activity we allow and engage with or sin we deny and lies we choose to believe to the point our minds no longer are rational....reaching a point where one can no longer recognize conviction would make it no less murder...