​Suffering From  Self-induced Misery
Part Two of Four
Divine forgiveness, opening the gates of Heaven to all born-again believers, doesn’t mean that there may not still be consequences to be endured now, at some future point in time, or in eternity (1). 
God alone determines to what extent any one of us will be divinely disciplined (2) by the Court of Heaven, regardless of what, if any, actions, inactions, or consequences, that we may or may not have received from governmental, ecclesiastical, parental, or other systems of authority, here on Earth.
Most of us are familiar with the parable of the prodigal son.  After securing what would have been his future inheritance and security, he left home and wasted away a period of his life, as well as all of his inheritance.
Upon coming to his senses, he repented, returned home, broke and hungry, and was welcomed back by his father.  
But what is often overlooked, is that any future inheritance that the prodigal son would have enjoyed was gone for good, as everything that the father now had, would become the inheritance of his elder brother.  
David, the King of Israel, and the author of many of the heart-felt  Psalms, was defined as being a man who, generally speaking, was a man who walked with God.  
But following an affair in which he impregnated another man’s wife, he had the husband killed and married his widow, after other attempts to cover up his sin failed.  
As a result of divine discipline, David was to suffer the loss of the child.  He pleaded with God to save the life of the undeserving child, who had become deathly ill.  His pleas were denied. David had been forgiven, but there was still immediate and long-term consequences that he had to endure.
One sin can lead to others. In David’s case, adultery led to murder. Before it was all over, two undeserving  lives would be lost. 
In the times in which we are living, fornication (sex outside of heterosexual marriage) has become socially accepted, even though Scripture (3) speaks of certain discipline for those who engage in it.
The consequences of one sin can impact, or cut short, our life, here on Earth,
Most of us have heard of stories like the one involving a man who had an overnight sexual encounter with someone he had just met.  He woke up alone, only to find  a message written in lipstick across the mirror of the hotel room that read, “Welcome to the world of AIDS.”   
Our sin can impact the lives of those around us, as well.
A deadly plague, took the lives of 70,000 undeserving individuals that was the result of another sin that David committed (4) 1Chron. 21). Most theologians interpret this sin as being the sin of pride or having independent plans, not from God.  
We are told that David’s actions was inspired by the devil Satan knew first-hand, the consequences that the sins of pride and independence can generate. David’s plan was carried out in spite of some of his subordinates who knew better, and could see the evil involved. 
Both Old Testament and New Testament passages refute the concept that just because one is Heaven-bound, that he or she has a license to sin, and need not be too concerned about doing our own thing, may cost us.
We will not only reap what we have sown, but much more than what we planted, when the seeds become a crop!
The “no condemnation” principle, spoken of in such passages as Romans 8: 1, is referring to the unearned, irrevocable (5) gift of eternal life, that all individuals receive at the moment he or she is born-again, and retains for all of eternity.
But, by no means, does the eternal security of one’s soul relieve the born-again believer of other consequences that can stem from his sin, or from the divine discipline that he or she brings on himself or herself, during the course of his or her post salvation life, here on Earth.
Divine discipline takes place and ends here on Earth. It’s imposed to correct and to motivate the  one being disciplined to make changes for the better, while he or she still has the opportunity to do so. 
Once we depart this world, there is no further opportunity mentioned in Scripture affording anyone any opportunity to change the location or environment that he, she, or others find themselves in, upon departing this Earth. 
Once departed, one’s spiritual destiny is what it is, and will remain so, for all of eternity future! 
The same Gospel Message that assures believers of eternal life and permanent residency in Heaven, assures unbelievers of eternal damnation (6), and permanent residency in the lake of fire.
The Rev. 20: 15 lake of fire is not a place of extermination, but one of ongoing suffering, never-ending torment, with separation from God.  Those who wish to be left alone concerning spiritual issues, and think they can live without God and the things of God,  will in fact get their wish, and suffer for it, throughout all of eternity future.
The departure of those receiving the maximum form of divine discipline (physical death), as in the case of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5, is not for them to make any changes, as they no longer will have that opportunity.  In such cases, the purpose for such discipline is to warn others who see it of what could be their own future.
We are all destined to depart this world and then to face either the day of judgment (7) awaiting ALL unbelievers, or the day of evaluation (8) awaiting ALL believers.
End of Part Two
(1) Heb. 12:6/1Cor, 3: 15 (2) Heb. 12: 6 (3) Heb. 13: 4 (4) 1Chron. 21 (5) Rom. 11: 6 (6) John 3: 16, 18 (7) Rev. 20: 13, 15 (8) 1Cor. 3: 12-15