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DETAILED STUDY OF THE ETERNAL SECURITY OF THE BELIEVER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) CHRIST IS THE ONLY FOUNDATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S SALVATION THUS MAKING IT ETERNALLY SECURE
2) TOTAL AND EXCLUSIVE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD IN AN INDIVIDUAL'S SALVATION SECURES THAT SALVATION
WHAT GOD HAS DONE ALONE IN SAVING THE BELIEVER CANNOT BE UNDONE BY THE BELIEVER. ETERNAL SECURITY, THEREFORE, IS BASED UPON THE FACT THAT SALVATION DEPENDS ON WHO AND WHAT GOD IS AND DOES, NEVER ON WHAT MAN IS OR DOES.
3) SALVATION IS A FREE GRACE GIFT WHICH MAKES IT ETERNALLY SECURE
4) THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF MAN NECESSITATES THE ETERNAL SECURITY OF THE BELIEVER
5) THE BELIEVER IS IMMEDIATELY POSITIONED IN HEAVEN AT THE POINT OF SALVATION, THUS SECURING HIS ETERNAL DESTINY
6) SALVATION IS THE SURE HOPE OF THE BELIEVER BECAUSE IT IS BY A MOMENT OF FAITH ALONE
7) SALVATION, BEING BY GRACE, GUARANTEES THE ETERNAL DESTINY OF THE BELIEVER
8) THE FAITH WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL EXERCISES TOWARD CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IMPLIES NO ACTION, NO CONTRIBUTION ON THE PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL, THUS SECURING IT SINCE GOD IS THE SOLE CONTRIBUTOR
SALVATION IS DEPENDANT UPON THE OBJECT OF ONES FAITH NOT UPON SUPPOSED DIFFERENCES IN THE QUALITY OF THAT FAITH
9) ASSURANCE OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S SALVATION IS A RESULT OF THE ETERNAL SECURITY OF THE BELIEVER
10) UPON BELIEVING IN CHRIST AS SAVIOR THE INDIVIDUAL IMMEDIATELY BEGINS HAVING ETERNAL LIFE IN HIS MORTAL BODY - NEVER TO LOSE IT, SINCE IT IS ETERNAL
11) A BELIEVER HAS BEEN SAVED COMPLETELY IN THE PAST WITH ONGOING PRESENT RESULTS FOREVER
12) SALVATION IS A GIFT WHICH BY DEFINITION IS UNCONDITIONAL AND THEREFORE IS ETERNALLY SECURE
13) ETERNAL LIFE IS SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AS NOT OF ONESELF, NOT OF WORKS WHICH MAKES GOD THE SOLE AGENT IN ITS PROVISION - SECURING IT FOREVER
14) SALVATION IS DEFINED AS IRREVOCABLE
15) GOD PERMANENTLY INDWELLS AND SEALS THE NEWBORN BELIEVER AS A GUARANTEE OF ETERNAL LIFE
16) BELIEVERS ARE NOW DESCRIBED AS GOD'S POSSESSION IMPLYING ETERNAL SECURITY
17) BELIEVERS BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD, JOINING THE ETERNAL FAMILY OF GOD, IMPLYING ETERNAL SECURITY
18) THOSE WHO BECOME BELIEVERS, I.E. ARE ELECT, WERE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S PERMANENT AND FINAL BOOK OF LIFE AND ARE BY DEFINITION ETERNALLY SECURE
FURTHER DETAILS ON THE VARIOUS BOOKS OF LIFE IN THE BIBLE
(TO COUNTER OBJECTIONS)
19) JUST AS PHYSICAL BIRTH IS IRREVERSIBLE, SO SPIRITUAL BIRTH IS IRREVERSIBLE
20) JESUS GAVE THE BELIEVER ETERNAL LIFE AND STATED THAT THAT INDIVIDUAL WILL NEVER PERISH
21) AT THE POINT OF SALVATION THE BELIEVER IS DECLARED ABSOLUTELY RIGHTEOUS THUS SECURING ETERNAL LIFE
22) MOST PASSAGES WHICH OBJECTORS USE TO PROVE THAT SALVATION CAN BE LOST OR IS DEPENDANT UPON WHAT A MAN DOES ACTUALLY DEAL WITH WHAT A BELIEVER DOES TO DEMONSTRATE THAT HE HAS ALREADY BEEN SAVED, TO PRESERVE THE LENGTH OF HIS PHYSICAL LIFE OR THE VALUE OF HIS LIFE UNTO REWARDS IN HEAVEN OR THE PASSAGE IS JUST GROSSLY MISINTERPRETED
BELOW ARE LISTED SOME OF THOSE PASSAGES. CONTACT ME FOR AN EXEGESIS OF THOSE WHICH ARE NOT LISTED
"Faith without works is dead.... If a man has no works can that faith save him?"
"He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him"
"Those who have fallen away it is impossible to renew them again to repentance"
"For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sin"
"No one who is born of God practices sin"
"No one who is born of God sins"
"If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch... cast them into the fire"
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven"
"Keep the commandments and go to heaven"
"To those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life"
"I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
"But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
23) NOTHING CAN SEPARATE THE BELIEVER FROM THE LOVE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS
24) THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVEN NOW AS THE BELIEVER'S ADVOCATE ASSURES HIS ETERNAL DESTINY
25) JESUS CHRIST IS NOW IN HEAVEN INTERCEDING IN THE BELIEVER'S BEHALF TO PRESERVE HIM IN SALVATION
26) THERE IS ONLY ONE BAPTISM OF THE BELIEVER BY THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO CHRIST WHICH IS NOT TAUGHT IN SCRIPTURE AS A TEMPORARY ACT WHICH COULD BE UNDONE AND THEN REPEATED IF SALVATION WAS LOST AND THEN REGAINED
27) GOD CANNOT DENY HIMSELF - NOR HIS PROMISE - WHO INDWELLS THE BELIEVER UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
28) THE CHRISTIAN IS PRESERVED FOR ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN BY THE POWER OF GOD
29) MARRIAGE OF THE BELIEVER TO JESUS CHRIST AS HIS BRIDE AND SEPARATION BY DEATH ONLY PRINCIPLE INDICATES THE UNION IN THE SALVATION CANNOT BE TERMINATED
30) CHRIST OFFERED HIMSELF ONE TIME FOR ALL TIME FOR SINS. BY ONE SACRIFICE HE HAS MADE ALL BELIEVERS PERFECT. SO ONCE SAVED THERE IS NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS TO BE OFFERED NOR NEEDED TO BE OFFERED IMPLYING ETERNAL SECURITY
31) THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION POSSIBLE IN THE INDIVIDUAL WHO BECOMES A BELIEVER
32) THE BELIEVER IS VIEWED BY GOD AS SANCTIFIED, I.E., SET APART, UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
34) THE BELIEVER IS PERMANENTLY ROOTED IN CHRIST THUS SECURING HIS SALVATION FOREVER
35) EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN THE SON TO SAVE HIM WILL NOT BE LOST
