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Can a True Christian Lose their Salvation?
Posted : 3 Feb, 2011 12:52 PM
THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS OR THE SECURITY OF THE BELIEVERS.
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The Elect are not only redeemed by Christ and renewed by the Spirit;
they are also KEPT in faith by the almighty power of God. All those
who are spiritually united to Christ through regeneration are
eternally secure in Him. NOTHING can separate them from the eternal
and unchangeable love of God. They have been predestined unto
eternal glory and are therefore assured of heaven.
The doctrine of the perseverance of the saints does not maintain that
all who PROFESS the Christian faith are certain of heaven. It is
SAINTS--those who are set apart by the Spirit--who PERSEVERE to the
end. It is BELIEVERS--those who are given true, living faith in
Christ--who are SECURE and safe in Him. Many who profess to believe
fall away, but they do not fall from grace for they were never in
grace. True believers do fall into temptations, and they do commit
grievous sins, but these sins do not cause them to lose their
salvation or separate them from Christ.
This doctrine does not stand alone but is a necessary part of the
Calvinistic system of theology. The doctrines of Election and
Irrisistable grace logically imply certain salvation of those who
receive these blessings. If God has chosen men absolutely and
unconditionally to eternal life, and if His Spirit effectively
applies to them the benefits of redemption, the inescapable conclusion
is that these persons shall be saved.
The following verses show that God's people are given ETERNAL LIFE
the moment they believe. They are KEPT BY GOD'S POWER through faith
and NOTHING CAN SEPARATE THEM FROM HIS LOVE. They have been SEALED
with the Holy Spirit who has been given as the GUARANTEE of their
salvation, and they are thus assured of an eternal inheritance.
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Isaiah 43:1-3: But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O
Jacob, he formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you:
I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the
waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not
overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the
Holy One of Israel, your Savior
Isaiah 54:10: "For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of
peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you."
Matthew 18:12-14: "What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep,
and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on
the hills and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he
finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the
ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my
Father who is in heaven that ONE of these little ones SHOULD PERISH."
John 3:36: He who believes in the Son HAS ETERNAL LIFE....
John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him SHOULD NOT PERISH but have ETERNAL LIFE.
John 5:24: "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and
believes him who sent me HAS ETERNAL LIFE; he does NOT COME INTO
JUDGMENT, but HAS PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE."
John 6:35-40: Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who
comes to me shall NOT HUNGER, and he who believes in me shall NEVER
THIRST. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not
believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me; and HIM WHO
COMES TO ME I WILL NOT CAST OUT. For I have come down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; and this is
the will of him who sent me, that I should LOSE NOTHING of all that
he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. For this is the
will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him
should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 6:47: Truly, Truly, I say to you, he who believes HAS ETERNAL
LIFE.
John 10:27-30: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me; and I give them ETERNAL LIFE, and THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH,
and NO ONE SHALL SNATCH THEM OUT OF MY HAND. My Father, who has given
them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them
out of the Fathers' hand. I and the Father are one."
See also: John 17:11,12,15
Romans 5:8-10: But God shows his love for us in that while we were
yet sinners Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we are NOW
JUSTIFIED by His blood, MUCH MORE SHALL WE BE SAVED by Him FROM THE
WRATH OF GOD. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God
by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall
we be SAVED BY HIS LIFE.
Romans 8:1: There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION for those who are
in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:29,30: For those he FOREKNEW he also PREDESTINED to be
conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the
first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also
CALLED; and those whom he called he also JUSTIFIED; and those whom he
justified he also GLORIFIED.
Romans 8:35-39: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? AS it is written, "For thy sake we are being killed
all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." NO,
in all these things we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM who oved
us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angles, nor
principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, NOR ANYTHING ELSE IN ALL CREATION, WILL BE
ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.
1 Corinthians 1:7-9: ...so that you are not lacking in any spiritual
gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ; who
will SUSTAIN YOU TO THE END, GUILTLESS in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ. GOD IS FAITHFUL, by whom you were called into the fellowship
of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:13: No temptation has overtaken you that is not
common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted
BEYOND YOUR STRENGTH, but with the temptation will also provide the
way of escape, that you may be ABLE to endure it.
There are so many scriptures to support this!
see also:
2 Corinthians 4:14,17
Ephesians 1:5,13,14
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you
were SEALED for the day of redemption
Colossians 3:3,4
1 Thessalonians 5:23,24
2 Timothy 4:18
Hebrews 9:12,15
Hebrews 10:14: For by a single offering he has PERFECTED FOR ALL
TIME those who are SANCTIFIED.
Hebrews 12:28
1 Peter 1:3-5
1 John 2:19,25
1 John 5:4,11-13,20
Jude 1: To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and
KEPT for Jesus Christ.
At the end of every church service, my pastor comes out from behind
the podium and holds up his hand and says:
(Jude 24,25) Now to him who is able to KEEP YOU FROM FALLING and to
present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with
rejoicing, to the only God, our savior through Jesus Christ our Lord,
be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now
and forever. Amen
I have by no means exhausted the Biblical texts which support
the "five points". but I hope that enough evidence has been
presented to show that these doctrines are drawn directly from
the Holy Scriptures.
Sincerely,
James
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