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Under the guise of hnoring the finished work of Christ on the cross, some teachers lead many to believe that once a person is in grace, he will always be in grace, regardless of how much he sins thereafter. Such teachings masquerade under various names, and are believed by a great many people because they seem plausable; and furthermore they are sometimes championed by Bible scholars of national or world-wide reputation. Regrettably, for too many people the teaching of eternal security becomes eternal insecurity for they lapse into a sinning-saint religion which will truly bring them disappointments on Judgment Day. Some on the subject, while there are no doubt others who, being wilfully blind, praise it because they want an excuse to sin. That there is a true sense in which every believer can have "everlasting life," and be "eternally secure cannot be denied--for they are possible whenever God's conditions are met. See the following points:

1. THE BIBLE DOES TEACH CONDITONAL ETERNAL SECURITY, which is the the only kind of security a sane man can expect and a just God can tolerate and promise. But to teach an unconditional eternal security and maintain thisposition in theface of overwhelming Scriptural authority to the contrary is to make God the most unjust tyrant of the universe. To do so, one must manufacture and maintain many other false doctrines to support the sinking-sand foundation of the main false doctrine. One must twist, contort, misinterpret, misapply, take from, and add to many Scriptures to support such teaching.

Every Bible doctrine should be measured by plain facts of Scripture and by plain principles and true examples of life; not by erroneously interpreting a few texts in total disregard of other Scriptures on the same subject. It is vital for one to get God's thought on the subject as a whole as expressed in all Scripture. The devil has always used Scripture to cloak his teachings, and he can wrest it ant twist it until whatever he teachers appears to be quite scriptural. Just because a theory has a few passages that seem to sustain it is no proof that it is scriptural. An;y doctrine that is opposed to the true principles of life, or to one plain Scripture, rightly divided, is bound to be wrong.

Teachers of unconditional security, like teachers of other false doctrines, do away with all Scriptures that are no in harmony with their pet theory. Their usual procedure is to explain all Scriptures that plainly contradict such teaching as referring only to Jews and not to Christians, or as referring to some past age and not to the one in which we live, and to quickly divert attention from other Scriptures written to Christians as of no importance on the question. On the other hand, Scriptures written to both Jews and Gentiles that can be twisted to harmonize with this theory are emphasized beyond all true meaning under the guise of acccepting just what the Bible says.

God has so constructed the Bible that no one passage contains all the truth on any one subject and no passage contradicts another, whether it is on the same subject or not (Isaiah 28:9-13). All Scriptures on a subject must be gathered and harmonized with themselves and with all Scriptures on other subjects, before the wholetruth can be fully understood. No "Scripture is of any private interpretation"; that is, no Scripture should be isolated from all others and understood by itself as being the whole truth on a subject in total disregard to all other passages on the same subject (2 Peter 1:19). Two or three plain passages are required to establish any single truth, and if there are more than this number on a subject all must bear testimony to the same thing and none of them must contradict themselves or any other passages on any other subject (Num.35:30; Deut. 17:6; 19:15; Matt. 18:16; 2 Cor. 13:1).

We are told to "rightly divide the Word of Truth" ( 2Tim.2:13). When this is done to the very few passages that are used to teach unconditonal security they will be found to be in perfect harmony with many other hundreds of passages cannot possibly be harmonized with the wrong interpretationsof the few that are used to teaching unconditonal security. To teach unconditional securit;y; is to leave an irreparable breach between two sets of Scriptues, but to teach conditonal security is to have perfect harmony between all Scriptures. If all Christians would be willing to believer all Scriptures on the subject and be just as zealous to defend all truth then there would be no division over the question of true Bible security.

2. CAN ETERNAL LIFE BE LOST? Unconditional securityites say, " A believer can never be lost. If anyone is lost he was never saved....Eternal life would not be eternal if it could be lost. Would salvan be salvation if it could be lost? If a single saved man is ever lost, Had has failed...Christ is insufficiant to keep them saved and God is unfaithful to them...Once in grace always in grace and once a son always a son is perfectly Scriptural." These statements from prominent men in religious circles in America are some of the most unwise and unscriptural ones of any that we have ever read. They are the basis of a theory that violates laws of God, nature, and logic. As a mental proposition such theory assumes and unsound positon and is a disgrace to the art of human reasoning. Just because a man is once saved from sin and Hell is no sign that he cannot go back into sin and be lost again and finally go the Hell. No Scripture has yet been found that says he cannot lose eternal and no one will ever be able to produce a Scripture that says such a thing, so it will take more than statements of men to prove this claim.

3. ETERNAL LIFE CAN BE LOST AS PROVED BY THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURES: "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen. 2:17). Adam surely died: he fell from God's grace or favor; and he lost the eternal life he possessed and could have kept forever if he had not sinned. (Rom 5:12-21)

OLD TESTAMENT

Moses said, "If thou wilt forgive their sin--;and if not, blot me I pray thee out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book" (Ex. 32:32-33; Deut. 9:7-29; 11:13-25).

"Defile not yourselves in ANY OF THESE THINGS (that I cast out the nations for)...ye shall not commit any of these abomination...whosoever shall commit any of these abominations...whosoever shall commit any of these things shall be cut off" (Lev. 18:24-30).

"If ye shall not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments...ye break my covenant: I also will do this to you...ye shall perish" (Lev. 26:13-39). Many times God said Israel would perish if she sinned. (Deut. 8:19-20; 11:26-28; 15:4-6;; 28:21-22; 30:15-20)

NEW TESTAMENT

"Not every one that saith, Lord, Lord shall enter the kigdom of heaven; but he that DOETH the will of My Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 7:21). If one ceases to do the will of God he ceases to do the will of God he loses eteranl and will not enter the kingdom of God unless he comes back to repentence and godliness again.

"He that endureth to the end shall be saved" (Matt. 10:22). It is possible not to endure to the end, or this Scripture is meaningless.

"Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (Matt. 24:12). When love waxes cold one has lost Christ and eternal life and will be spued out. (spue = vomit) Rev. 2:2-4; 3:15-16) One who has lost love has lost God, and if one has lost God he has lost grace as stated in 1 John 4:8, 12, 16, 21; Gal. 1:6-8; 5:4; Heb. 12:15.

"When ye (disciples) stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought againstany...But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses" (Mark 11:25-26; Matt. 18:21-35). Even this then, will cut off eternal life.

"If any man defile the temple of God (the body), him shall God destroy" (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19-20; Heb. 12:15) Regarding things that defile we read: "Out of the heart of men, proceedevil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, deceit, lasciciousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and defile the man (Mark 7:21-23)

"They hear, recive the word with joy...which for a while believe and in the time of temptation fall away." (Luke 8:13)

"From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him" (John 6:66)

"If ye continue in My Word, then are ye my disciples indeed" (John 8:31). If you do not contine, the opposite is true: you are not His disciple and do not have eternal life.

"If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death" (John 8:31; 14:15, 21-24; 15:9-14). If one does not keep His saying, the result of course, will be death.

"My sheep know My voice, and I know them, and they FOLLOW ME: And I give unto them (that follow me) eternal life; and they (that follow me) shall never perish,neithershall any man pluck them out of my hands.

"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin UNTO DEATH, or of obedience UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS...the end of those things (committing sins) IS DEATH...for the wages of sin IS DEATH" (Romans 6:16-23)

Lucifer who started out being perfect in his ways sinned and took a third of the angels with him. That they sinned and are doomed to Hell is clear by their own admission. (Matt. 8:29)

The antediluvians -- human beings who lived betweenthetimeof Adam's creation and Noah's flood. "When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God" They did not want to retain God in their knowledge, so they sinned, changing the glory of god into images: and God gave them up (Rom. 1:21-32).

The post diluvians--persons living in thetime between Noah and Abraham, a period of 427 years. The Bible says that "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord" (Gen. 6:8); there fore the whole race (Noah and his household) was again in grace and favor. They had a new contract of righteousness with God (Gen 9:1-18)

Many disciples of Jesus went back into sin and were lost for they follwed Him "no more" (John 6:66). To argue that these people were not saved does not disprove the plain fact that they were"disciples" and had eternal life up to the time they went back (Heb. 10: 26-39)

Ananias and Sapphira were both killed by the power of God because of covetousness and lying to the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:1-14).That they were once saved is clear from Acts 4:32-5:1), for Ananias and his wife were classed with "the multitude of them that believed: and were "of one heart and soul...as many as were possessors of land or houses wols them and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles feet...But a certain man (of those who believed and were of one heart and one soul) named Ananias with Sapphira his wife sold a possession."

Many other men who were formerly saved have gone back into sin and have been lost. This fact is clear from such statements as: "some having put away concerning the faith have MADE SHIPWRECK... he hath DENIED THE FAITH. ..when they begin to wax wanton against Christ they will marry; HAVING DAMNATION, BECAUSE they have THEY HAVE CAST OFF THEIR FIRST FAITH... and TURNED ASIDE AFTER SATAN...but they that will be rich fall into lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition...they HAVE ERRED FROM THE FAITH...AND OVERTHROWN THE FAITH OF SOME...IF GOD WILL PERADVENTURE GIVE THEM REPENTENCE...THAT THEY MAY RECOVER THEMSELVES OUT OF THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL." (1 Tim. 1:19, 20; 5:8; 5:11-15,20; 6:1, 10, 21; 2 Tim. 2:16-18)

Many in the seven churches in Rev. 2-3 who were fallen from grace were required to repent and do their first works or else be cut off in sin and be lost..

Prayer for Salvation: Jesus Christ is the Son of God. If we have invited Jesus to come and live within us and be the Lord of our lives then our inheritance in the future kingdom is assured.

God's word says in John 14:6, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

In order to invite Jesus to be your Savior and Lord, you must believe in you heart that He is the Son of God, believe that He died upon the cross of Calvary as an atonement for your wrong doings, and believe that He arose from death and the grave. We must confess and repent of our sins and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. If you have never done this then stop right now and pray this prayer.

Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus repenting and asking forgiveness of all my sins. Your Word says, "whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved" (Acts 2:21). I am calling on You. I pray and ask Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life according to Romans 10:9-10. "If thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised Him from the dead thou shalt be saved" I do that now. I confess that Jesus is Lord, and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I am a Christian ..a child of Almighty God! I am saved!

You are now an heir to the Kingdom of God! Your future is assured. I want to encourage you to find a church in your local area to attend. Tell someone that you have just received Jesus as your Lord. Than start digging into God's Word.

"I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day" (2 Timothy 1:12