The Enduring Security of Eternal Life
How secure is your salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ?
Can you lose your salvation?
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How Secure is Your Salvation?
There is a lot of teaching that salvation once gained can be lost. Most of this teaching is well argued and draws on specific verses of Scripture such as Hebrews 4:6 and 2 Peter 2:20 to make its case as well as on references in the Gospels where the Lord says, “I never knew you ….”. We will look at these later, but first let us examine a large cross section of those scriptures which promise salvation and eternal life.
John 3:14-18 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
from 165; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well):—eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).
Let us apply a little logic here. If the life we receive when we first believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is perpetual, eternal, forever, everlasting – how can it ever be taken away? If it can be removed then it is only conditionally everlasting and conditionally eternal. Such a proposal implies that its permanency is somehow dependent upon us, the saved, rather than on the finished work of Christ. But this is not what the scripture says at all, and it does this nowhere else either.
John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.
from 575 and the base of 3639; to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively:—destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
By the same logic as above we see here that we who are saved shall never be destroyed, literally or figuratively. We shall never die, lose our salvation, have it marred in any way, nor shall we perish.
