Eternal Security

Promise of eternal life

John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”

This verse has three independent clauses

“I say to you”

“whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life”

“he does not come into judgment”

Gods word can never contradict its self when we correctly understand it. So the second independent clause has to agree with the thrird and the third with the first.

Jesus says that whoever believes does not come into judgment. This is the person who believes. So if we becomes saved and we decide to walk away from the faith. Wouldn’t we be going back into judgment? Which Jesus just promised to any who believed that this would not happen.

So if this were to happen and we were to lose or give up our salvation wouldn’t we be voiding God’s promise to us?

1 John 2:19 “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.”

1 John 5:9–14 “If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.”

John 11:25–26 “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”” “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,”

Again we see who ever believes shall live and shall never die.

The minute i believe this promise now applies to me that I will never die. So if i can walk away from my salvation sometime in my life then I have entered back into a condition of death under the penalty of sin

again voiding Gods promise. making his promise not true

John 6:33–40 “For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”” “For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.””

John 10:27–35 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—”

Nature of Jesus Sacrifice

Jesus’s Sacrifice was to good for the possibility of losing our salvation

Hebrews 10:9–16 “then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,””

The author of Hebrews is contrasting the old convenient sacrifice system with this new sacrifice that jesus has done for us

So if we walk away from our salvation doesn’t that mean I wasn’t perfected for all time?

Hebrews 7:23–25 “The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.”

This is so encouraging and reassuring because lives forever and thus he serves in his priestly role for us forever, his salvation continues forever.

Jesus saves us to the uttermost, to the fullest extent, to the high degree. The nature of Jesus’s sacrifice and his priesthood is beautiful. Once we are in Christ we are now attached to what doesn’t end.

Hebrews 9:11–14 “But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”

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