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Eternal Security
Eternal security of every believer can be stated with this phrase, "Once
A Christian, Always A Christian." This phrase is not found in any of the
books of the Bible.
The Bible states: "Let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest
he fall....
Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted....
Watch and pray, lest you enter temptation....
Many will fall away, most men's love will grow cold....
He who
endures to the end will be saved."
Judas, Ananias, Demas, some who "by rejecting conscience have made
shipwreck of their faith."
The Colossians are promised presentation before God "provided that you
continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting."
The church at Ephesus is warned that Christ may remove its lampstand,
and Christ will vomit the lukewarm Laodiceans from his mouth.
Most fearful were the warnings to Hebrew Christians: "lest they be
judged to have failed," "that no one fail by disobedience."
"For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth,
there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins but a fearful prospect of
judgement....
It is impossible to restore again to repentance those once enlightened,
who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy
Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers
of the age to come, if they commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son
of God on their own account....
Bearing thorns... worthless... near to being cursed... burned."
The Arminian arguments
(1) that election itself was conditional, depending upon God's foresight
of who would respond in faith of their own free will, and
(2) that believers, truly saved, can lose salvation by failing to
maintain their faith, the regenerate can by grieving the Spirit fall
away and perish.
The Bible's view of this subject; 1 John 2:29 If you know that He is
righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of
Him. 1 John 2:3-6
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep His commandments. He
that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and
the truth is not in him.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected:
hereby know we that we are in him.
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as
he walked.
1 John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that
doeth righteousness is born of him.
1 John 3:9.
No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him;
and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
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