Satan's Lies: Once Saved Always Saved
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
Over the last couple of months we have studied...
God’s love for mankind and man’s love in response to God’s love.
Today I want us to turn our attention from “love to lies” as in…Satan’s lies.
Satan loves in a way describe by Merriam Webster as a, “warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion.”
Obviously this isn’t biblical love but it is clearly how Satan views his work.
Satan, from the beginning, has been lying () and is the father of lies ().
He has, unfortunately, deceived more people than can be counted by getting them to “believe his lies.”
Over the next several Sunday morning lessons we are going to be looking at some of these “lies.”
Today, as seen on the screen & in your handout, we are studying the lie of “once saved always saved” also known in the “academic seen as permanence of salvation or eternal security.”
John Calvin would call it, in the P of the TULIP, “preservation of the saints.”
So, what exactly is “once saved always saved?”
Once Saved Always Saved
Once Saved Always Saved
Definition of the doctrine.
Definition of the doctrine.
Westminister Confession of Faith chapter 17 section 1 & 2 reads...
The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes, Volume III: The Evangelical Protestant Creeds, with Translations Chapter XVII: Of the Perseverance of the Saints
They whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace; but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.6
I. Quotquot Deus in dilecto suo acceptavit, vocavit effieaciter ac per Spiritum suum sanctificavit, non possunt illi statu gratiæ aut finaliter excidere aut totaliter; verum in eo ad finem usque certo perseverabunt, ac salutem æternam consequentur.6
II. This perseverance of the saints depends, not upon their own free-will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father;7 upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ;8 the abiding of the Spirit and of the seed of God within them;1 and the nature of the covenant of grace:2 from all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.
In the Baptist Faith & Message we read this in article five.
All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end. Believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, and bring reproach on the cause of Christ and temporal judgments on themselves; yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.
Joe McKeever writes...
Can you unfry an egg? Then, after being saved–genuinely forgiven and accepted and transformed by the Holy Spirit of God into something far different from what you were, more than any hen’s egg ever dreamed possible–you cannot undo it. Once saved, always saved. To say otherwise, and to preach it, might be something akin to insulting the Holy Spirit.
Once saved, always saved.
To say otherwise, and to preach it, might be something akin to insulting the Holy Spirit.
We could go on and on but this is sufficient to understand that “far too many” in the world of “Christendom” are caught up in this.
We must not only understand where it comes from but understand how to teach against it properly and combat Satan’s lies.
Passages used to teach this doctrine.
Passages used to teach this doctrine.
There are several used as “proof text.”
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 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. 30 I and the Father are one.”
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 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. 30 I and the Father are one.”
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 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.
Summery
Summery
There is a comfort that comes with this belief how else could Satan get people to believe this lie perpetuated by him.
Once Saved Always Saved Debunked
Once Saved Always Saved Debunked
The problem.
The problem.
The reality is for anyone to hold to a “false doctrine” they must let go of any sort of desire for logic and reasoning i.e. proper doctrine.
This concept is demonstrated by Joe McKeever, quoted from above, when he wrote, “We are not saved by proper doctrine, but by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Now, faith only comes from understanding proper doctrine () therefore being saved by faith is being saved by proper doctrine.
Far too many want to “wish away” truth by saying things like what was mentioned without regard for logic and reason at all, yet God Himself showed this to be foolish at best.
18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
26 Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
The problem with those that hold to false doctrine is that they simply do not want to believe they could be believing a lie and would rather seek comfort in the lie than the truth of God.
As John would put it in , “…no lie is of the truth.”
The answer.
The answer.
We know that God’s Word cannot contradict itself.
In other words God will never say one thing and then the opposite thing within a single law because God cannot lie.
18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
It’s simply not in His nature and thus impossible.
Just like it’s impossible for a man to be a woman or a woman a man due to their nature.
Now remember what the Southern Baptist many who hold to the “Westminister Confession of faith believe.”
Those that are saved cannot “fall away from the state of grace.”
4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Passages that clearly point to one losing their salvation.
It’s not like there are not tons of passages that clearly contradict the doctrine of “once saved always saved.”
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Heb 10:
Harmonizing the Scriptures.
Harmonizing the Scriptures.
How can Jesus say no “child of God can be snatched out of His hand” and then we read of those in Christ “severed from Chris” and haven “fallen from grace.” How can we harmonize such passages?
It comes down to perspective.
From God’s perspective, Jesus gave His life as a perfect sacrifice and made His blood available to those that choose to cleansed in it and there is nothing that can force us apart from God.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
From man’s perspective, Jesus gave us choice to have our sins washed away by His blood and the choice to stay cleansed by His blood, but it is man choice whether to stay faithful or not.
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 1:
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Harmony with Scripture only comes to those that love God and His word enough to not be satisfied contradictions and lies.
As John would put it in , “no lie is of the truth” and as such we should never settle for a lie rather than seeking the truth ().
Conclusion
Conclusion
The doctrine of “once saved always saved” is false to its core and comes from the “father of lies” not “the Father of truth.”
Let us be a people that seek to help those caught in such destruction and let us direct people to the love of God through truth not lies.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
