ETERNAL SECURITY – Part 2

SIN I. What Is The Gospel? Jesus Christ Man God 1Pt3:18 Hear Believe All Sinned Ro 3:23 Wages Sin Death Ro 6:23 After Death Judgment Hb 9:27 All Good Not Good Enough Is 64:6 John 5:24 Has Everlasting Life Shall Not Come To Judgment Has Passed From Death To Life By grace through faith E 2:8,9

II. How Do You Become A Christian? What Is Your Part? You must be born again, John 3:3-5 You look by faith to God, Isaiah 45:22 You confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord … Romans 10:9,10 You believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved …Acts 16:31 3 Elements of faith, belief 1. knowledge 2. acceptance as true 3. trust

III. What ‘Birthmarks’ Does Being Born Again Produce? Mind transformed Ro 12:2 Change from old to new 2Co5:17 Heart has a desire for salvation of others Ro10:1 Keep the commandments of God 1J2:3 Practice righteousness 1J2:29 Love the brethren 1J3:14 Presence of the Holy Spirit in your life 1J4:13 Perseverance J8:31,32 Suffer persecution 2 Ti 3:12

IV. Is Everyone Who Professes To Be Christian Truly Christian? Wolves among sheep Mt 7:15 I never knew you Mt 7:21-23 Seed among thorns and rocks Mt 13:1ff Tares among wheat Mt 13:24ff False brethren 2 Co11:13-15, 26d Those who left 1J 2:19 => NO

V. Can A True Christian Have Eternal Security? The ‘NO’ View Christians who do not believe in eternal security believe saved people can lose their salvation. Weak part of argument is … Scripture cited in support … Mt 24:13 J15:1-6 Hb6:4-6 Hb10:26-31 Conclusion 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”[a] says the Lord.[b] And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”[c] 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;[a] and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away,[a] to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. 13+ But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

VI. Can A True Christian Have Eternal Security? The ‘YES’ View Christians who believe in eternal security believe once you are saved you are saved for all time. A weak argument is… Scriptural support J 6:37-39 J 10:27-29 Ro 8:30-39 Eph 1:13,14 Heb 8:12 1J 5:11-13 Conclusion 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 …….35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 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. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who[a] is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life,[a] and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds[a] I will remember no more.”[b]