We have now received almost 100 email questions from our listeners related to the very sobering

question of Christians, Suicide and Salvation.

Several recent emails related to the Suicides of Pastures have come in, Andrew, a regular

podcast listener from Ankini, Iowa writes in, Pastor John, recently the Family Pasture

at a local church committed suicide.

So what happens to the soul of a professing born-again believer who commits suicide?

Is this the unforgivable sin?

Does this show that the person was never actually a believer because he did not persevere?

Or is it possible for someone that commits suicide to still go to heaven?

So Pastor John, these are hard questions, but they are, they're not new questions to you.

I have been involved closely in several suicides in my life.

I cleaned up the basement after the police removed the body of a man who shot himself in

the head and I used a broom to sweep the blood and the stuff into a dust pan and pour

it down the laundry sink so his wife would not have to see what we found.

And then I did his funeral five days later.

He was a professing believer.

I've done a funeral for a young woman who leaped from the window of the locked ward at

the hospital down the street from my house where she was being safely kept in her psychological

distress and she died by jumping out of the window.

So let's be clear now, self murder is serious.

We are playing with fire here.

It is spiritually and eternally serious to murder yourself.

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