Eternal Security

Moving onto Maturity

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will…

Being Persuaded

For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

2 Timothy 1:12

The confidence we have in God is not based in ourselves, rather we are persuaded by His Word, by the life…

James on Saving Faith

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 1:21

Because James wrote of faith without works being dead, some have imagined that he wrote…

The Proof of Faith

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:4

The proof of living in Christ is that we keep His commandments.

The Sealing of the Spirit

Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:13

Another reason we can be confident in the security of our salvation is our sealing by the Spirit. Later on in the letter to the Ephesians…

God’s Selection

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:44

One of the reasons we can be confident in our salvation, and we can believe our salvation in Christ is secure, is God’s choosing of us…

Reasons for Security

…that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

John 17:26

Our security in our salvation is not grounded in our own achievement, but in the achievements of grace, in what Christ has done and continues to do in our…

Eternal Security

…that the love with which you have loved me may be in them…

John 17:26

Is the salvation that God provides for us through Christ something that we can lose?

His Keeping Power

And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

John 17:11

The Doctrine of Eternal Security

And you too trusted him, when you heard the message of truth, the Gospel of your salvation. And after you gave your confidence to him you were, so to speak, stamped with the promised Holy Spirit as a guarantee of purchase, until the day when God completes the redemption…