ARE BELIEVERS ETERNALLY SECURE IN CHRIST?

1. Is it possible to fall from grace? In other words, can a believer backslide, fall away, and be cut off from Christ?
2. Are believers unconditionally and eternally secure in Christ? That is, once we are saved, are we always saved without any chance of being lost?

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DANGERS OF THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL SECURITY

1. It removes the fear of God from the believer’s life.
2. It destroys the desire to fast and pray.
3. It promotes worldliness and sin among believers.
4. It stops faithfulness to church services and activities.
5. It retards strong consecration and dedication to God.
6. It discourages paying of tithes, offerings, and helping the needy.
7. It denies the possibility of Satan overcoming us. (See I Thessalonians 3:5; I Peter 5:8.)
8. It breeds separation in marriage, divorce, and immoral living.
9. It renders church ordinances, standards of conduct, rules and regulations, and the twenty-one Epistles useless and unworthy of our attention and adherence.
10. It creates a false sense of spiritual security, causing laxity in every aspect of our service to God, though the Scriptures warn us to be prayerful and watchful.

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CONCLUSIVE TRUTHS

1. Predestination of the church is a Bible truth. Yet there is no validity to the idea that individuals are predestined of God to be either saved or lost. God has foreknowledge of this but has not decreed or predestined such.
2. No believer is unconditionally eternally secure; all believers are subject to failure and must diligently walk by faith to inherit eternal life in the end.
3. God’s Word does not teach the bondage of the human will but that humans are free moral agents with the ability to accept or to reject salvation, and even to reject Christ after once accepting Him.
4. Although we are saved by grace, kept by grace, and presented faultless before the throne of His presence by grace, yet in this life we can fall from the grace of God.
5. The Bible does not teach that we can reach flawless perfection (as we normally understand the meaning of perfection) in this life. Believers who are overcome by sin through lust and temptation can repent and be restored to favor with God through the advocacy of Jesus Christ. (See I John 2:1-2).
6. Believers who continue in sin without repentance and do not live by faith will fall from grace and will be lost. (See John 15:1-11; Revelation 2:5; 3:14-22.)
7. Christ’s atonement was unlimited, that is, He died for the sins of the whole world, not just for the predestined few.
8. God gives sufficient grace to every saint to maintain victory over sin and Satan, but it is absolutely essential for Christians to persevere through faith.
9. An individual can resist God’s call to salvation and His grace. God does not make certain people respond to His call. We are free moral agents who can choose either to serve God or to refuse to serve Him. (See Joshua 24:14-25.)
10. Jesus Christ died for all. He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness (II Peter 1:3). We can live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world (Titus 2:11-12). It is not His will that any perish, but that all should come to repentance (II Peter 3:9). No one has a greater love than this!

Jude 24–25 “24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, 25 To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.”

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