Eternal Security Pt 2
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The Bible teaches that the salvation you received at the moment you repented of your sins and trusted in Christ is irrevocable. How do we know?
Kept by the power of God
Kept by the power of God
Perseverance is the teaching that genuine believers will all persevere until they are with Christ
Perseverance is the teaching that genuine believers will all persevere until they are with Christ
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Preservation is an even stronger argument. It’s focus is not on the Christian, but on God Himself. It is the teaching that God will preserve all who are genuinely saved.
Preservation is an even stronger argument. It’s focus is not on the Christian, but on God Himself. It is the teaching that God will preserve all who are genuinely saved.
5 who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
According to I Peter 1:5, you do not keep your salvation by human effort. Rather you are “protected by the power of God.”
37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: 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.
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
Jude 24 teaches that God is “able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory”
Principle: The question is not whether you could lose your salvation. It is whether God could lose you!
Principle: The question is not whether you could lose your salvation. It is whether God could lose you!
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
Read John 10:27-29. In verse 27, what does Jesus call those who have received him as their Savior?
How do saved people prove that they belong to Him (v. 27)?
Jesus gives 3 promises in v. 28. What are they?
What promise does Jesus make in verse 29?
Is God able to keep you?
Is He willing?
37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
What important promise did Jesus make in John 6:37?
In God’s Love
In God’s Love
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Read Romans 8:35-39. What question does Paul ask in Romans 8:35?
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
What difficulties are mentioned in vv. 35-36?
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
What answer is given in verse 37?
38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
List all of the things in vv. 38-39 that cannot separate us from God’s love.
3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: Therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3 describes God’s love as “everlasting.” What does that mean?
Can you lose your salvation? Only if God stops loving you, and Scripture says that is impossible.
God’s Spirit is in you
God’s Spirit is in you
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Read I Corinthians 6:19-20. What does it call you?
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
Some people believe that the Holy Spirit lives only in obedient Christians, but the Bible teaches that He lives in all Christians. Read I Corinthians 3:1. How does God describe the people in the church of Corinth?
16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Though saved, the Corinthian Christians were disobedient. Yet later in the same chapter (v. 16), God calls them the “temple of God.” Do you lose the Holy Spirit and you salvation when you sin?
13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.
Read Ephesians 1:13-14. Verse 14 says that the Holy Spirit is the “pledge of our inheritance.” When you purchase a home you make a down payment or pledge. What does the pledge signify?
God’s life is in you
God’s life is in you
Throughout Scripture, God promises life to those who have received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Have you repented of your sin and asked Jesus to be your Savior?
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
If so, John 5:24 is one of God’s many promises to you. What does it promise?
36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
According to Scripture, those who trust in Christ have eternal life (John 3:16, 36). Eternal life does not become yours when you die—you have it now if you’ve trusted Christ.