Eternal Security

Kevin and I show how these verses teach Eternal Security. Stay tuned for another video that looks at this verse and the double negative in v28.

Who are you trusting for your salvation? The work that God does? Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform (complete) until (in) the day of Jesus Christ:

God has you already seated in the heavenlies in Christ, body, soul and spirit. And He will complete the work He has begun to make you His. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 KJV And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful He that calleth you, who also will do.

What does God accomplish when He saves you? He baptises you in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit indwells you and seals you eternally. He is given as a downpayment by God to guarantee that He will finish the job of saving you.

What does it mean to HAVE eternal life? I argue from logic that it must mean that you live eternally and cannot lose your salvation.

Look at the promises in this verse. John 5:24 KJV Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

When God saves you, He starts a process that will not end until you make it to heaven. It is guaranteed. Romans 8:31-39 KJV What shall we then say to these things? If God for us, who against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? God justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? Christ died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 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.

In this verse, we see the guarantee of Eternal Security provided by the statement that our life is hidden with Christ in God.

As Paul teaches what God accomplishes in salvation, he points out how MUCH MORE God does in saving us. Romans 5:8-21 KJV But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

We return to John 10:28 and dig deeper into the Greek and why the word "never" appears. What does it mean? The Greek for "never perish" is actually "ου μη απολωνται εις τον αιωνα" and can be literally translated as "no not perish unto the forever". The "ου μη" double negative is a very strong negative in Greek and the strongest negative in Greek is when it is connected with an aorist subjunctive (the "απολωνται" in this case), and it becomes NEVER because the emphatic negation is followed by "unto the forever". If you are His sheep, it is impossible for you to perish. So how do you become a sheep of Jesus Christ? The gospel of John told us in the first chapter. John 1:12 KJV But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become the sons of God, to them that believe on his name: