Eternal Security
Isaiah 49:16
I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands.
1 Corinthians 1:7-8
God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful...He will keep you strong to the end.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22
It is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Jude 24
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy...
Courtesy of Pastor Brad Small Secure In Christ - YouTube
Your Relationship With God Your Fellowship With God
Began when you received Christ Began when you received Christ
John 1:12-13 Ephesians 1:13, Colossians 2:6-7, 1 Peter 1:23
Is Everlasting and Unchanging Can be hindered
Ephesians 1:4, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, 1 Peter 1:3-4 Psalm 32:1-5, Psalm 66:18
Is established totally by God Is maintained in part by you (with the Spirit's help)
John 10:27-29, Ephesians 1:13-14, 2 Timothy 1:9 1 John 1:7-10
C.H. Spurgeon
If our religion be of our own getting or making, it will perish; and the sooner it goes, the better; but if our religion is a matter of God's giving, we know that He shall never take back what He gives, and that, if He has commenced to work in us by His grace, He will never leave it unfinished.
Thomas Watson The Lord's Prayer
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder. A child of God cannot fall away while he is held fast in the two arms of God - his love, and his faithfulness.
Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow
It is grossly contrary to the truth of the Scriptures to imagine that they who are thus renewed, can be unborn again.
J.C. Ryle Old Paths "Perseverance"
http://www.preachtheword.com/bookstore/old-paths-ryle.pdf
The Bible teaches that true believers, real genuine Christians, shall persevere in their religion to the end of their lives. They shall never perish. They shall never be lost. They shall never be cast away. Once in Christ, they shall always be in Christ. Once made children of God by adoption and grace, they shall never cease to be His children and become children of the devil. Once endued with the grace of the Spirit, that grace shall never be taken from them. Once pardoned and forgiven, they shall never be deprived of their pardon. Once joined to Christ by living faith, their union shall never be broken off. Once called by God into the narrow way that leads to life, they shall never be allowed to fall into hell. In a word, every man, woman, and child on earth that receives saving grace, shall sooner or later receive eternal glory. Every soul that is once justified and washed in Christ’s blood, shall at length be found safe at Christ’s right hand in the day of judgment.
To tell us that there are plenty of gracious promises to encourage us, if we will only persevere, is but mockery. It is like telling the sick man that if he will only get well he will be strong. The poor patient feels no confidence that he will get well, and the poor weak believer feels nothing in him like power to persevere. Today he may be in Canaan, and tomorrow he may be in Egypt again, and in bondage. This week he may be in the narrow way; but, for anything he knows, next week he may be back in the broad road. This month he may be a justified, pardoned, and forgiven man; but next month his pardon may be all revoked, and he himself in a state of condemnation. This year he may have faith, and be a child of God; next year he may be a child of the devil, and have no part or lot in Christ. Where is the good news in all this? What becomes of the glad tidings?
F.B. Meyer
We are secure in the position which His grace has given us. It is secured not only by the promise of God, but sealed by the Blood of the Cross. That is the meaning of the words: “The Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant.” (Hebrews 13:20) Note that word eternal, which carries us back to the timeless past, when this compact was made. We may therefore humbly believe that our names are written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8; 21:27).
J. I. Packer
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
Augustus Toplady, J.C. Ryle, C.H. Spurgeon, William Gurnall
http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/archive/pdf-english/aapefg.pdf
Isaac Watts “Firm As The Earth Thy Gospel Stands”
Firm as the earth thy gospel stands,
My Lord, my hope, my trust;
If I am found in Jesus’ hands,
My soul can ne’er be lost.
His honour is engaged to save
The weakest of his sheep;
All that his heav’nly Father gave
His hands securely keep. (John 10:29)
Nor death nor hell shall e’er remove
His favourites from his breast;
In the dear bosom of his love
They must forever rest.
Augustus M. Toplady, “How Good Is the God We Adore”
My name from the palms of his hands
Eternity will not erase;
Impressed on his heart it remains
In marks of indelible grace;
Yes, I to the end shall endure
As sure as the earnest is given;
More happy, but not more secure,
The glorified spirits in heaven.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s Ultimate Purpose: An Exposition of Ephesians One
Why do I believe this gospel? Why am I not today as are so many millions in the world? Why am I interested in the Bible? Why do I believe it?
There is but one answer. It is the grace of God, who worketh in me mightily. He began the work. He will continue with it. He will finish it; and I shall stand before Him perfect, complete, and cast my crown before Him “lost in wonder, love and praise.”
Charles Wesley, “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” (4th Stanza)
Finish then, Thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be;
let us see Thy great salvation
perfectly restored in Thee.
Changed from glory into glory,
till in heav'n we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before Thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.