Once saved, the question of where one will spend all of eternity has been forever settled between you and the Lord, but how you will experience your post-salvation life on earth and how you will experience Heaven remains to be  determined. 

Post-salvation sin results in divine discipline here on earth and loss of certain reward(s) in the eternal state (Heb. 12: 6/1Cor. 3: 15).  It is the fellowship with God, not salvation, that is lost as a result of post-salvation sin. 

As long as we have an unconfessed, known sin, we are out of fellowship with God and incapable (John 15: 5) of producing ANY divine good for which heavenly rewards are given.  If we do not forsake (John 8: 11) the sin(s) we confess, we only return to the same status of being out of fellowship again and can spend much of our post-salvation spiritual life in a revolving doorway, going nowhere in the plan of God. The Biblical solution for post salvation sin is confessing it to God (1John 1: 9). This is for the purpose of regaining fellowship and continuing on with HIs plan.

Divine discipline can range from everything from physical illness, financial disaster, political disaster, family tragedy, up to and including and physical death, but never the loss of salvation. 

We must not always assume that any or all of these are necessarily the result of discipline, as many believers, like Job, will under go such things as a part of the plan that God has for them and not as a result of divine discipline.  Loss of rewards is the result of failing to produce divine good under the filling of the God the Holy Spirit that the believer could have otherwise produced.

Just as the majority of each generation of Man has rejected the call to salvation, the majority of those who are born again will choose not to enter into or remain in true discipleship (Matt. 7: 13/Luke 8:14/Luke 14: 26). They remain saved, are often relatively moral and religious, but fail to become all that God had planned for them in the spiritual realm.

The Greek word in original manuscripts for disciples is mathetes. To be a mathetes requires the daily (2Cor.4: 16) intake and application of the Word of God to the events of daily life that God engineers.  Discipleship is the purpose and the objective of the post-salvation spiriutal life.  This is what gives life here on earth, meaning, purpose , and definition, wherever we are or whatever we are doing.  It is a process that begins the day we are born again and continues on into eternity.

The hundreds of articles posted on this website teach all of these principles in greater detail and cite the relevant passages of Scripture as well making application to the time in which we live.

We do not serve God in order to be rewarded, but Scripture is clear that there are temporal and eternal blessings to be received or forfeited as a result of how we choose to spend our post-salvation spiritual life.