Once Saved Always Saved Grace is the essential

Once Saved, Always Saved? Grace is the essential means of salvation (Eph. 2: 8). Is it possible, then, to “fall from grace”?

Once Saved, Always Saved? “Unconditional Eternal Security (UES) is the belief that once an individual has been genuinely saved, he cannot, under any circumstances, lose his salvation. That is, he is eternally secure because all of his sins, both past and future, have been forgiven. This, in effect, means that once someone has been saved, he can fall into sin of any sort and still be saved. UES believers argue that a saved person will NOT fall into sin, such as drunkenness, but admit that if in the unlikely event that he does, then he remains saved but God disciplines him here on earth. ”

Once Saved, Always Saved? "We take the position that a Christian's sins do not damn his soul! The way a Christian lives, what he says, his character, his conduct, or his attitude toward other people have nothing whatever to do with the salvation of his soul…. All the prayers a man may pray, all the Bibles he may read, all the churches he may belong to, all the services he may attend, all the sermons he may practice, all the debts he may pay, all the ordinances he may observe, all the laws he may keep, all the benevolent acts he may perform will not make his soul one whit safer; and all the sins he may commit from idolatry to murder will not make his soul in any more danger…. The way a man lives has nothing whatever to do with the salvation of his soul. " Sam Morris, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Stamford, Texas (A Discussion Which Involves A Subject Pertinent To All Men, pgs. 1, 2. )

Once Saved, Always Saved? “The verses you say relate to ‘Losing your Salvation’ have nothing to do with losing your salvation. i. e. , ‘Falling from Grace’ doesn't translate even close to losing your Salvation. Don a Sovereign God doesn't get angered with us take away our salvation. What does John 10: 28 mean to you? Are we ourselves not ‘men’ ? You are certainly entitled to your beliefs, but there are so many confused young people out here that lose hope when you say that Salvation can be lost! They believe it and think they have sinned so bad that there is no hope!

Once Saved, Always Saved? …We know in Scripture that there is ONLY ONE unforgivable sin. A true born again Christian cannot commit that sin. Just one more thing Don: If you preach that salvation can be lost then in other terms you are saying that My Jesus died on that old rugged cross for nothing and we both know He paid the ultimate price for our Sin! I do wish you would consider Not turning people away. If you really believe what you preach then say that You believe it. Please don't say that's what the Scriptures says because it surely does not!”

Once Saved, Always Saved? Is salvation conditional? Answer: Regarding obtaining salvation: Acts 16: 30 -34, 2: 37 -47.

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 37: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40: And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41: Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls” (Acts 2).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 30: And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31: And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 32: And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. 33: And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. 34: And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house” (Acts 16).

Once Saved, Always Saved? Is salvation conditional? Answer: Regarding “maintaining” salvation: I Cor. 15: 2, Heb. 3: 6, 14.

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 1: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain” (I Cor. 15).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 6: But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end…. 14: For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end” (Heb. 3).

Once Saved, Always Saved? Loss of salvation taught: 2 Peter 3: 17, James 5: 19, 20, I Corinthians 9: 27 (2 Timothy 4: 7, 8).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 16: As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17: Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness” (2 Pet. 3).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 19: Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20: Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins” (Jas. 5).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 26: I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” (I Cor. 9, cp. 2 Tim. 4: 7, 8).

Once Saved, Always Saved? Examples of falling: I Corinthians 10: 1 -12, 2 Peter 2: 20 -22.

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 1: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2: And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3: And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4: And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5: But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6: Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted…. ”

Once Saved, Always Saved? “… 8: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9: Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 10: Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 11: Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall” (I Cor. 10).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 20: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21: For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22: But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that washed to her wallowing in the mire” (2 Pet. 2).

Once Saved, Always Saved? Warnings not to fall: Hebrews 10: 24 -31, 2 Peter 3: 17, 18.

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 24: And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26: For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27: But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28: He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses…”

Once Saved, Always Saved? “… 29: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? . . . 30: For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God….

Once Saved, Always Saved? “… 35: Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36: For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37: For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38: Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39: But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” (Heb. 10).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 17: Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 18: But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen” (2 Pet. 3).

Once Saved, Always Saved? Consequences of falling: Hebrews 6: 6 -8, 2 Peter 2: 20 -22.

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 4: For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5: And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6: If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame…. ”

Once Saved, Always Saved? “… 7: For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 9: But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak” (Heb. 6).

Once Saved, Always Saved? “ 21: For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22: But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that washed to her wallowing in the mire” (2 Pet. 2, cp. Luke 12: 45 -48).

Once Saved, Always Saved? How to prevent falling from grace: First consider: “ 4: Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace” (Gal. 5, see v. 1).

Once Saved, Always Saved? How to prevent falling from grace: “ 5: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8: For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ…. ”.

Once Saved, Always Saved? “… 9: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2 Pet. 1).

Once Saved, Always Saved? Charges made by once saved, always saved advocates: v “You believe in salvation by merit. ” v “God is unreliable. ” v “God unable to keep saved. ”

Once Saved, Always Saved? Charges made by once saved, always saved advocates: v “You do not believe John 3: 16. ” v “You do not believe John 10: 27 -29. ” v“You deny Jude 24” (see v. 21).

Once Saved, Always Saved? Two relevant questions this past week: v “If all future sin is already forgiven, how are we to understand I John 1: 7 -9? ” v “If one cannot fall from God’s favor, how about Matthew 6: 14, 15? ”

Once Saved, Always Saved? “The verses you say relate to ‘Losing your Salvation’ have nothing to do with losing your salvation. i. e. , ‘Falling from Grace’ doesn't translate even close to losing your Salvation. Don a Sovereign God doesn't get angered with us take away our salvation. What does John 10: 28 mean to you? Are we ourselves not ‘men’ ? You are certainly entitled to your beliefs, but there are so many confused young people out here that lose hope when you say that Salvation can be lost! They believe it and think they have sinned so bad that there is no hope!

Once Saved, Always Saved? …We know in Scripture that there is ONLY ONE unforgivable sin. A true born again Christian cannot commit that sin. Just one more thing Don: If you preach that salvation can be lost then in other terms you are saying that My Jesus died on that old rugged cross for nothing and we both know He paid the ultimate price for our Sin! I do wish you would consider Not turning people away. If you really believe what you preach then say that You believe it. Please don't say that's what the Scriptures says because it surely does not!”

Once Saved, Always Saved? Conclusion: “ 1: And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: 2: And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you” (2 Chroni. 15).