Once Saved, Always Saved

Once a new Christian has been saved and realizes for the first time in his life that he is really going to heaven, and that he is eternally secure in Christ, he can expect Satan to begin his attack on the new believer by trying to plant seeds of doubt, just as Satan did with getting Eve to doubt God’s Word in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:1-4).
In order to prepare you for that attack, it would be wise to memorize as many of the following verses as you can, marking them in your Bible for future reference, when you
will be called upon to PROVE the truth of God’s Word and what you believe!
The attack of the doctrine of ETERNAL SECURITY or “ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED”, can come through booklets that others give you. T.V. Preachers who deny eternal security (which reveals to us that they are not truly saved), false teachers
(2 Peter 2:1-3), and so-called “Christian” religions that teach one can lose their “eternal” salvation. Some of these false teachers, according to the Bible, may even call you their “brother” or “sister”, according to 2 Corinthians 11:26, at the end of the verse (See also
2 Corinthians 11:3 & 4, 13-15).
The doctrine of teaching of ETERNAL SECURITY, which means that once you are saved, you are saved ETERNALLY and forever, and can NEVER lose your salvation either in this lifetime or the next for ANY REASON, is proved by the following verses accepted literally as God has promised them:

1. John 10:28 & 29 - “...and I give ETERNAL LIFE to them, and they shall NEVER PERISH; and no one shall 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.”
(This verse clearly means that NO ONE, not even the believer who may sin after he is saved, can be separated in any way from his Father’s hand. To do so would mean that the believer, or sin (which has been TOTALLY paid for by Christ’s blood) has MORE power than the FATHER, and that simply is NOT true.)

2. Romans 8:38 & 39 - “For I am convinced that neither death nor life...nor any other CREATED THING, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
(This means that Paul was CERTAIN that his eternal security was SURE for believers of their position of being IN CHRIST JESUS. Since God is love (1 John 4:8), Paul is saying that NOTHING, absolutely nothing, can separate us from the love of God, which is GOD IN CHRIST. Paul also says that NO CREATED THING can separate the believer from God. Since that is true, then we, ourselves, whether by disbelief, doubt, worry, fear, sin or backsliding CAN EVER SEPARATE OURSELVES from God. We were never in charge of salvation in the first place, only God was. We were never saved by any good deeds that we would ever do, and we can NEVER lose our salvation by any bad deeds that we would ever do. All that we COULD do was either BELIEVE in God’s salvation, or reject it. AFTER we believed in it, and accepted it, and received it as a free gift, God personally sealed us with His righteousness (Ephesians 1:13), and when that happened, salvation became IRREVOCABLE (Romans 11:29); that is, it could not be changed. Even if we begin to doubt or disbelieve after salvation, God will still be faithful to keep His promise and take us to heaven.)

3. John 6:37 - “All that the Father gives ME shall come to me; and the one who comes to ME I WILL CERTAINLY NOT CAST OUT.”
(This verse says clearly and unconditionally, that once you come to Jesus and become a believer, JESUS HIMSELF will NEVER cast you out. ONCE IN, ALWAYS
IN! If we think “we” can cast ourselves “out”, we are in a state of mental delusion, since
we have no power of ourselves to overrule God. He will still keep us saved for He is FAITHFUL. Isn’t it wonderful to realize that God is stronger than we are? God showed
His love for us, in that while we were still UNSAVED sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). Now as believers, if we sin (1 John 1:9), we still KEEP that salvation BECAUSE of His love for us, but He wants us to confess our sins to remain in FELLOWSHIP with Him. How easy He has made it for us to keep His love and friendship for all eternity!)

4. 1 John 5:13 - “These things I have written to you who BELIEVE in the name of the Son of God, in order THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.”
(The problem in the early church was the same as today: Deceivers were infiltrating its ranks, and denying eternal security. That’s why the Apostle John wrote the above verses... that “you may KNOW that you have eternal life.” Notice what John says in the same epistle in 1 John 2:25 & 26: “And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life. These things I have written to you concerning THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO DECEIVE YOU.” So be alert! Deceivers today will also attack the doctrine of once saved, always saved.)

5. 1 John 5:11 & 12 - “And the witness is this, that God HAS GIVEN US eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.”
(This means that God gives us this life and we have no control over eternal life once we get it. And since the life is IN the Son, and we have been placed eternally IN Christ Who is the Son, and have been sealed by the Holy Spirit, even if we sin after we are saved, we CANNOT lose our eternal life BECAUSE we have no control over it. If eternal life is ETERNAL at all, then it can NEVER be “temporary life” that is lost and then regained only to be lost again, as the DECEIVERS teach! The Apostle John clearly said that we CAN KNOW that we have eternal life, and never said anything, anywhere about losing it.)

6. John 5:24 - “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears MY word, and believes Him who sent Me, HAS ETERNAL LIFE, and does NOT come into judgement, but HAS PASSED OUT OF DEATH into life.”
(This verse means that once saved, the believer will never be judged at the LAST JUDGMENT or be cast into eternal death of hell. No where does it say that if a believer sins, he would be “passed back” into death or hell. God imputes a righteousness into the believer that “sticks”, and cannot be lost because GOD put it there. The believer is HEAVEN-BOUND without conditions or exceptions, and there are no ifs, ands or buts about the eternalness of eternal righteousness.”)

7. Romans 5:8 - “There is therefore NOW NO CONDEMNATION for those who are
IN Christ Jesus.”
(“Only believers are IN Christ Jesus and were placed there at the moment of salvation. He is NOW our refuge, our HOLY ARK, and our Redeemer. We CANNOT therefore be condemned to hell as unbelievers are, for John also says in John 3:18
that unbelievers are judged for hell and CONDEMNED ALREADY, because they have NOT believed. Believers were “born again”. They can’t be “unborn” again! They are “redeemed”. They cannot be unredeemed. They are saved. They can’t be UNSAVED. Why? Because all true believers are IN CHRIST JESUS ETERNALLY and are not condemned, and therefore CAN’T lose their salvation.)

8. John 3:18 - “He who believes in HIM is NOT judged; he who does NOT believe has been JUDGED ALREADY.”
(This means the believer will NEVER see themselves judged at the LAST JUDGEMENT, the Great White Throne Judgement. It means the unbeliever has a definite court date with God and that he, the unbeliever, will be judged and condemned because he has NO eternal life in him, and has never been in Christ. Sadly, the unbeliever will be sent to the Lake of Fire for all eternity at that Judgment.)

9. John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever BELIEVES in Him should NOT perish, but HAVE eternal life.”
(This verse clearly shows that believers WON’T perish (go to hell). What it doesn’t say is that...”whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life - UNLESS THEY SIN AGAIN, IN WHICH CASE THEY LOSE THEIR SALVATION AND MUST REPENT TO GET IT BACK”...IT DOES NOT SAY THAT, DOES IT? John 3:16 is clearly written with no ifs, ands or buts put into it to snatch one’s salvation away from him. Believing is the key to salvation, not repenting. Repenting does not cause salvation. BELIEVING causes salvation once for all time, and for all eternity. If it were possible for a person to lose their salvation (and they can’t) even by sinning or back-sliding, it would NEVER be by repenting or confessing one’s sins that would gain his salvation back; it would be by BELIEVING. Since a believer who sins after he has been saved STILL BELIEVES ON JESUS CHRIST and is forever IN Jesus Christ, he CAN’T lose his salvation. A believer who sins willfully after being saved loses God’s FRIENDSHIP and FELLOWSHIP until he confesses his sin; but his Father would never damn him to hell, because that is one act that God is incapable of doing to a saved believer.)

10. Romans 6:23; 11:29 - “For the wages of sin is death, but the FREE GIFT of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord...for the gifts and the calling of God are IRREVOCABLE.”
(These verses together clearly show that eternal life is a FREE GIFT of God that places us INTO Christ’s Own Eternal Life, and being God, it is irrevocable; that is, IT CANNOT BE REVERSED, changed by anybody or anything, not even repentance. Once a person BELIEVES the gospel he acquires eternal life which is IRREVOCABLE: in other words, once saved always saved.)

11. Jude 24 - “Now to Him Who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory BLAMELESS with great joy...”
(This verse means that a believer cannot “fall out” of salvation or stumble out of it, but rather that the believer WILL make it through this life and into God’s presence BLAMELESS, because ALL the believer’s sins were PAID FOR, ONCE FOR ALL, at Calvary. Since God is in FULL charge of us making it through this life (even if we sin against Him), we have no power or authority of our own to get ourselves UNSAVED. Jude says God will “make us stand” in His presence. God created salvation, God applied salvation and God will carry out salvation to its end. As believers, there is nothing we can do to affect, change, or reverse our salvation. NO WHERE does the Bible say that God “unsaves” saved believers, nor can we believers “unsave” ourselves. Therefore, we WILL make it to heaven, because it is God’s job to get us there, NOT ours.)

12. Hebrews 10:17, 18, 23 - “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. Now where there is FORGIVENESS of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. Let us hold fast the confession of our HOPE without wavering, for He Who PROMISED is FAITHFUL.”
(God forgets ALL our sins once we become believers. He does not hold them against us. And once we have been forgiven by God, it is an ETERNAL FORGIVENESS. If one could lose his salvation (and of course, he CAN’T), what OFFERING for sin could the believer give to cover his sin better than what Jesus already paid? God says, “there is NO LONGER any OFFERING for sin.” So IF a person could lose his salvation, as some religious groups teach, there would be no offering that could be made to PAY for the new sins. He would be eternally lost. No amount of prayer or repentance could ever equal Christ’s one and only crucifixion payment. But, thank God, we know that if we sin after salvation, that we won’t lose our salvation. We are not to DOUBT our eternal security...not because we might lose it...but because we are insulting God’s truth by doubting His Word. HE HAS promised us eternal life and He will faithfully deliver it! Doubting is a sin that also gives Satan a chance to tempt us to worse sin. We are to hold fast to the belief that Once Saved, Always Saved. That is our hope, a true hope, not a “hope-so” hope, but a true hope - not in ourselves, nor our works, but in our God Who will FAITHFULLY deliver us AS PROMISED.)

13. Hebrews 7:25 - “Hence, also, He is able to save FOREVER those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make INTERCESSION for them.”
(If the Bible says God is able to SAVE FOREVER the believer, then I certainly won’t waste my time listening to people who say that God can’t save people forever. I’d rather believe what the BIBLE says, than what man says. This verse means that the salvation process is an ETERNAL process and goes on forever with Jesus as our INTERCESSOR to protect us - not condemn us if we sin in our weakness. NOWHERE does it say in the Bible that salvation is an “in again/out again” experience. Cults believe that; false teachers believe that; some unsaved people believe that; but we true Christians DON’T believe that.)

14. Psalm 37:28 - “For the Lord loves JUSTICE, and DOES NOT FORSAKE HIS GODLY ONES; they are preserved FOREVER.”
(In the Old Testament, the believer also believed in “eternal security” with such verses as Psalm 37:28. God is just. Christ paid for our WHOLE sin penalty. Our sins were nailed to the cross (1 Peter 2:24; Colossians 2:14). Every one of them; and even those sins we do AFTER we are saved. The cross satisfied God’s justice. Therefore, NO WAY can we lose our salvation. The verse clearly says God does NOT FORSAKE His godly ones. They are PRESERVED FOREVER. It was Christ Who was FORSAKEN in OUR place at the cross when He said: “Why has Thou forsaken Me?” Our FORSAKENNESS was transferred into Christ’s body at the cross. We saved Christians CAN’T be forsaken any more because CHRIST removed and remitted all of our personal FORSAKENNESS from us the moment we believed! He absorbed it all!!! And He has absorbed ALL OUR FORSAKENNESS from us who believe. So we are NOT forsaken if we, as believers, sin after we are saved; Christ took that forsakenness we rightfully deserve when we DO sin, and He suffered even that “forsakenness for us”! Praise God! What a Savior, Who thinks of EVERYTHING we could have tried to do to separate ourselves from Him, and has “covered all the bases” to insure that He will not lose us at all! That’s what Psalm 37:28 is saying. What grace! What mercy! What love! What forgiveness! And all that took place at the moment when we believed and accepted and received Christ as our own Personal Savior! Hallelujah!)

15. Psalm 34:22 - “The Lord redeems the souls of His servants; and NONE of those that take refuge in Him WILL BE CONDEMNED.”
(This means that once we are redeemed (saved) and have taken “refuge” (eternal security) in Him (Christ), we will NOT be condemned (sent to hell). Condemnation, when used in salvation passages, always means hell. God’s promise to us is that WE WILL NOT BE CONDEMNED! Therefore we can conclude that “once saved, always saved”.)

16. John 6:47 - “Truly, truly I say to you, he who BELIEVES has ETERNAL LIFE.”
(This means that “believing” is the only way to eternal life, NOT repenting, good works, offerings, sufferings, confession or any such thing. BELIEVING is the way to receive eternal life. Jesus says twice; “TRULY, TRULY”, we can have eternal life. BELIEVING is the only thing that conveys eternal life to us and places us IN CHRIST for all eternity and how do we KNOW that? Because Jesus said so!)

17. Ephesians 2:8 & 9 - “For by GRACE you have been saved through faith (believing); and that NOT of yourselves, it is the GIFT of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.”
(If we have been saved by GRACE, and salvation, was ALL of God’s work, not of ourselves, then we have no control over the salvation process. All we can do is to exercise “faith” and believe the “process”. Since the “process” comes from God, when we “believe” the Gospel, God automatically registers us saved in the book of “life” in heaven, and our eternal life is immediately put INTO us while we are still alive on earth, so that if we die, our eternal life CONTINUES ON after death. Thus, since God calls us to salvation, and we answer Him by believing in His salvation, then God imputes us with eternal life instantly! Therefore, since the actual process of salvation comes from God and He controls it, we CAN’T lose our salvation. Except for our own “believing” in the gospel, salvation is ALL of God, and beyond our control, intervention, or human power to negate God’s power. We choose to BELIEVE to get saved, but the regeneration, sealing, and preserving process is ALL God’s doing and NONE of ours. There is no human WORK or act (not even a sinful act or work) that can lose our salvation for us. Repentance then, CANNOT “re”-save us, or bring us back to salvation (if we imagine that we have lost our salvation) because, repentance is a human “act” or deed, and human deeds can’t “save”. We can only be saved ONCE according to the Scriptures, and ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED.)

18. Romans 8:19 & 35 - “For whom He foreknew, He also PRE-DESTINED to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom He PRE-DESTINED, these He also CALLED; and whom He called, these He also JUSTIFIED: and whom He justified these He has also GLORIFIED.”
What then shall we say to these things? IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? WHO will bring a CHARGE against God’s ELECT? God is the One who justifies; Jesus Christ...also INTERCEDES for us. “Who shall SEPARATE us from the love of Christ?”
(These amazing verses reveal clearly the security of our salvation. God KNOWS who will be believers, BEFORE they ever become believers. Then He also has PREDESTINED them to become conformed to the image of HIS Son. Predestination is the doctrine or biblical teaching that GUARANTEES all believers that they will get to heaven unconditionally. Then He also CALLED the believers. Now re-read #10 again in this booklet.
It says... ”for the gifts and the calling of God are IRREVOCABLE”, that is: the calling cannot be reversed, changed, canceled or undone. ONCE CALLED, ALWAYS CALLED is what Romans 11:29 teaches.)
Getting back to Romans 8:30, it says, “whom He called, these He also JUSTIFIED thus we Christians have been irreversibly JUSTIFIED”...we can’t lose our salvation! If God is FOR us, NOBODY can be against us. That is, NOBODY can take away our eternal security. They won’t have the power, and NEITHER do we! WHO will bring a charge against God’s elect? NO ONE. No one can say to the believer he will lose his salvation. If someone tries to do that, THEY ARE BRINGING A CHARGE OR ACCUSATION against God’s elect, and are false teachers. There is simply no one who can take our salvation away from us. Jesus Christ, Himself, INTERCEDES for us as our ADVOCATE or attorney if we do sin and so KEEPS us saved. Paul finally says who shall separate us from the love of Christ? The answer is NO ONE. And so ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED.)

19. 1 John 2:1 - “My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an ADVOCATE (an attorney) with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.”
(Every believer knows that he ought NOT to sin. The fact is he does. (1 John 1:10) The question then arises, IF a believer sins or backslides, does he lose his salvation? This verse in 1 John 2:1 gives the answer: “If ANYONE sins, we have an ADVOCATE...”. Someone who will defend us and protect our righteousness and He only can defend us
to keep us saved. These verses DO NOT SAY: if anyone sins, we will go to hell. IT DOES NOT SAY THAT! It says IF we sin someone WILL protect, preserve, intercede and faithfully KEEP our eternal life intact and continuous.)

20. Romans 8:14-16 - “For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you HAVE NOT received a spirit of slavery LEADING TO FEAR AGAIN, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are CHILDREN OF GOD.”
(When I was born, I became a son of a human father. NO ONE has ever been able to reverse the fact that I was the son of that earthly father. Then I became a “son of God”. These verses say so; and NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, not even God, Himself, can reverse the fact that I have become a son of God. What person can UN-son me from my heavenly Father? Who is the false teacher who says that God would DISOWN His OWN adopted children, if they would sin? Where does it say THAT in the Bible? I don’t mean some fabulous verse that is twisted to make it seen like that. Where does it ACTUALLY say that God disowns His own children and takes their eternal life away from them? It DOESN’T SAY THAT ANYWHERE? The fact is, my Father is an ETERNAL Father, and I have become His eternal son, and Jesus has become my eternal Brother (See Romans 8:29). But woe to the person who tries to tell God how He should raise or handle HIS family. Yet, certain religions actually do this; they teach that an ALL-loving God deserts His own born again children if they sin or backslide. Such misinterpretations of God’s ETERNAL love should be rejected. These verses also say that we are NOT TO FEAR AGAIN, and that we have the assurance of our salvation also from the witness of the Holy Spirit Who lives inside of us, Who witnesses to our spirit that we ARE the children of God. But people who teach that a believer can lose his salvation live in a constant state of fear, because they don’t know for sure themselves if they are going to heaven, and what they try to do is to make you live in fear, along with them. People who live in fear about going to heaven, according to these verses, are probably not even saved themselves, since they don’t seem to have the Holy Spirit WITNESSING to their spirit that they are God’s children,
and that they are truly eternally secure. You see, FEAR is found in those who do not KNOW eternal security. But My Holy Spirit witnesses to me that I AM a son of God, that I AM saved, and that I AM going to heaven unconditionally. What does YOUR spirit say to you?)

21. Isaiah 32:17 - “And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the service of righteousness, quietness and CONFIDENCE FOREVER.”
(These verses from the Old Testament on eternal security and its FRUIT, were used by the Old Testament saints to prove THEIR once-saved-always-saved position. Once we become saved, God imputes us with HIS righteousness. Then THAT righteousness has spin-off effects in our life. If you KNOW for sure you are going to heaven, three things result: PEACE, QUIETNESS and CONFIDENCE FOREVER! Only a once-saved, always-saved believer HAS peace, quietness and confidence FOREVER! Do those who think they can LOSE their salvation ever have “peace”, “quietness” and “confi- dence” FOREVER? How can they? They CAN’T! Because they DON’T KNOW FOR SURE for they will never get to heaven for sure; they do not have “FOREVER” confidence. Only believers who KNOW that once-saved-always-saved is the true message of the Scriptures, can they truly have “FOREVER CONFIDENCE”.

22. 2 Timothy 4:18 - “The Lord WILL DELIVER ME FROM EVERY EVIL DEED, and will bring me SAFELY to His HEAVENLY KINGDOM.”
(These words of St. Paul clearly show that he believed that he trusted in God to get him to heaven WITHOUT ANY FEAR of losing his salvation. Paul thus settles the question of eternal security once for all by HIS OWN assertion: “(the Lord) will bring me SAFELY to His Heavenly Kingdom,” which means that Paul KNEW he was going to heaven. All true believers in Christ should KNOW and TESTIFY that they ARE going to heaven, unconditionally, just as Paul, in these words, has TESTIFIED.)

23. 1 Peter 1:5 - “...(you) who are PROTECTED by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

(This verse by Peter (the great denier of the faith) clearly reveals we are PROTECTED in our salvation by the power of God through faith. Those who claim salvation by “good works” DO NOT have such protection, and in fact, are on their way to hell because of their unbelief. Those who claim a person could lose their salvation and regain it again by “confession”, or repentance, likewise do NOT HAVE the POWER of God, because they refuse to believe FULLY in God’s power (2 Peter 2:1). Peter simply says that our salvation IS PROTECTED by our confession of our own to keep it. We have it, and it will be revealed to us in the last time.

24. Ephesians 4:30; 1:13 & 14 - “and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by Whom you were SEALED for the day of redemption.” “In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation - having also believed, you were SEALED in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, Who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s OWN POSSESSION, to the praise of His glory.”
(When a believer becomes a Christian, he is SEALED by the Holy Spirit, Who, according to 2 Corinthians 1:22, is the seal, and God’s pledge of eternal security. The above verse says NOT to “grieve” the Holy Spirit, Who INDWELLS all believers. But all believers SIN at some time and “grieve” the Holy Spirit. Since the Holy Spirit is “sealed” into us for all ETERNITY, He can’t leave us, even if we sin. That is why He gets grieved, for since the Holy Spirit is God also, we have sinned against HIM! A seal in the Scriptures signifies: SECURITY, SAFETY, OWNERSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND RESPONSIBILITY. Even today, many formal documents have “seals” on them, particularly GUARANTEES
can never be destroyed or withdrawn. It is an everlasting seal. We can never be UN-sealed. These verses above tell us that we are SEALED for the DAY of REDEMPTION, with the Holy Spirit, Himself as our PLEDGE, living within us, that God WILL keep His promise. Thus we discover in these verses that we are God’s OWN POSSESSION, GUARANTEED by His Own Seal, the Holy Spirit, that we WILL make it to heaven and be fully redeemed out of this earthly life into God’s heavenly life. Our eternal security is thus GUARANTEED by the Holy Spirit’s indwelling in us.)

25. 1 Corinthians 1:8 - “(Jesus Christ) Who shall also CONFIRM you to THE END, BLAMELESS in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
(Here Paul reaffirms the doctrine of eternal security in that Christ will CONFIRM us to the end of our lives, and we will be blameless on the day of the resurrection.”

26. 2 Timothy 1:9 & 10 - “(God), Who has SAVED us, and CALLED us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His Own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus FROM ALL ETERNITY, but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, Who ABOLISHED DEATH, and brought LIFE and IMMORTALITY to light THROUGH THE GOSPEL.”
(Notice it says we ARE SAVED - past tense - and CALLED (re-read section #10), and we know that God’s calling is irrevocable; and notice in the verses it says BOTH our salvation and calling were NOT according to our works, but was decided BEFORE WE WERE EVER CREATED...from ALL ETERNITY. Thus, if we could lose our salvation (and we can’t), we would have to DO SOME KIND OF WORK: confess, pray, offerings, repent, fasting, etc...and NONE of those things could ever get back our salvation, because they are HUMAN WORKS! The verses also reveal CHRIST abolished death, eternal death, in other words, for believers. Believers cannot go to hell! It has been abolished that possibility for them. Now we know He did not abolish earthly death since Christians still die! So it must mean He abolished ETERNAL death for believers, since UN-believers WILL DIE the eternal death. But now even more astounding in verse 10, is the biblical fact that the GOSPEL brings LIFE (eternal life) and IMMORTALITY to those that believe it. Think of that: IMMORTALITY!! And so ALL believers are guaranteed IMMORTALITY after they believe the immortal gospel. And that’s why believers will NEVER, NEVER lose their salvation; because they are NOW, in this life IMMORTAL beings in their souls and spirits, waiting for the revelation of that immortality at the rapture of the church when they finally receive their IMMORTAL bodies to replace their present mortal ones. God was so eager to see all men saved that He immediately provides immortal life to the believers’ souls and spirits, thus guaranteeing our eternal life. But He will not do the same to our present earthly bodies because of the Genesis 3:19 curse of death that our present bodies must go through (unless raptured). Yes, believers can die the PHYSICAL death of the earthly body. But without a body until the day of the resurrection, when God is able to complete the glorification process by providing the believer with an IMMORTAL BODY, made to last all eternity.)

27. 2 Corinthians 1:10 - “(God) Who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on Whom we have set our hope. And, HE WILL YET DELIVER US.”
(Here Paul uses an interesting play on words. First, he says that believers were delivered from a peril of death, and says God WILL deliver us. Finally, he repeats the idea again that we will YET be delivered. The play on words is that he shifts from an earthly happening, to one YET FUTURE...our deliverance at our redemption. Every statement is CONFIDENT in that verse, and no where does he add “conditions” of delivery, or any ifs, ands, or buts. Our DELIVERANCE is CERTAIN.)

28. Jude 1 - “Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are the CALLED, BELOVED in God the Father and KEPT for Jesus Christ.”
(In this short verse, notice Jude refers to THREE aspects of eternal security. First, that believers are CALLED. Second that believers are BELOVED by the Father, and third, believers are KEPT (Greek word: tereo). To be kept or “preserved” in the Greek language means to be “guarded from LOSS or INJURY”. Thus, what Jude is saying here is that all believers are CALLED, which is an IRREVOCABLE quality, BELOVED in the Father’s hand (see section #1) from which NO ONE escapes or can snatch the BELOVED away from God. Finally, they are KEPT from LOSS of their salvation.)

29. Psalm 94:14 - “For the Lord will NOT ABANDON His people, nor will He FORSAKE His inheritance.”

30. Psalm 119:141 & 142 - “I am small and despised, yet I do not forget Thy precepts. THY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, and Thy Law is truth.”

31. Isaiah 51:6 - “...But MY SALVATION SHALL BE FOREVER, AND MY RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL NOT WANE.”
Isaiah 51:7 - “...But MY RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE FOREVER, and My salvation to all generations.”