Laodicea’s Sin was their faith in worldly success

There are three different types of Eternal Security based on how one deals with the question of backslidden or apostate Believers.

Those who say the backslidden or apostates simply never were “Truly Saved”, Calvinists are among those.  This to me isn’t actually Eternal Security at all because it offers no Assurance of Salvation, a Believer who thinks this is how it works ultimately has the same fear that believing Salvation can be lost carries.

Free Grace Eternal Security is based on a belief that believers will face a post Resurrection Corrective Punishment for our Sin, but are Saved regardless as seen in 1 Corinthians 3.  This was my soteriology before I became a Universal Salvation believer, and the gist of it is very much what I still believe, I now simply recognize that ALL Punishments God meets out are for Correction or Purification and never retributive.  I in fact now more then ever believe people can feel Eternally Secure in their Salvation.

Hyper Grace is the form of Eternal Security that rejects any type of Afterlife or Eschatological punishment for believers and insists any consequences a believer faces for their sins are limited to during this life.  A Free Grace believer does not entirely rule out facing consequences during this life playing a role, but Jesus warned against assuming bad things happening to a believer are always a punishment, as does The Book of Job.

Hyper Grace is most popular in the Charismatic Movement which is also where Prosperity Theology originated, and it’s easy to see how those two ideas can go together.  These are Christians who feel how much wealth they have proves they have God’s favor.

And that way of thinking is exactly what Laodicea was rebuked for.

Revelation 3:17-18 Because thou sayest, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing," and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

This is in contrast to the Smyrnaean Christians who were Poor by Earthly Standards but in Truth Rich.

However the correct conclusion that a type of Eternal Security is a factor in Laodiceanism will be used by some against all forms of Eternal Security. Assurance of Salvation is what’s promised to the Overcomer in each of these messages.  But there are also consequences.