The sin of unbelief in eternal security

Those who do not believe the promise of eternal life and yet claim to be Christians, then by necessity believe that they are saved both by their “faith” plus their works. They obviously need their own works to keep them “saved.” This is a heresy and the very thing that Paul condemned the Galatians for.

These people are showing that they have never experienced the salvation of God at all, for if they had, they would understand or possess spiritual discernment which only God can give in salvation, and believe the promise that when God places believers “in Christ” He offers them everlasting life. To deny this fact is to call God a liar. Here are a few of a multitude of verses these unbelievers cannot understand, the first of which Christ Himself promised believers.

“And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.”

(John 10:28-30)

And John stated the same thing.

“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:13)

Paul also.

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36)

How many more verses do we need? One should be enough to believe this promise of God. Unbelief in what God promises does not change God’s plan for true believers, but it does place those who refuse to accept God’s plan of salvation, which means salvation from sin as well as salvation from the penalty of sin, in very perilous positions.

Without faith it is impossible to please God, we read. The promise of eternal life is something very basic concerning salvation. These rejecters do not understand what the salvation of God means. They cannot rightly divide the Word of Truth either because they use OT verses to support a NT doctrine.

Those who refuse to believe in this truth of everlasting life claim that it gives Christians a license to sin. They clearly do not understand the cross and what Christ has accomplished in those who genuinely repent and believe the gospel. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐧.

This is inaccurate, because anyone who has been truly saved by grace through faith, which is a repentant faith, is made a new creature, and placed in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). They have known the reality of the conviction of sin by the Holy Spirit (John 14:26; 1 Thessalonians 4:8), and they have turned from sin to Christ, and they now wish to live for Christ.

This is because their masters have changed, and they possess the Spirit of God which is the Spirit of truth, who changes their desires, their feelings and their attitude towards sin and God. We could never do this ourselves without the new birth (John 3:3), while still “in the flesh” or ruled by the carnal nature (Romans 7).

For the genuine Christian, they know and experience this reality as Paul wrote to the church at Philippi.

“For it is God which worketh in you 𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇 to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Phil. 2:13)

Someone who continues to willingly and blatantly live in sin, or tries to obey God and genuinely tries not to sin but continually fails, have not truly repented of their sins and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord (1 John 2:19; 1 John 3:6; James 1:26). While this false heretical belief may be held by some who have clearly never experienced the new spiritual birth, it is not a part of the teachings of any genuine Christian church.

A person who feels their deep and dire need of a Saviour, because they know they have fallen short of the glory of God, and humbly repent of their sins and look by faith away to Calvary, they will be saved (Acts 16:31; John 6:37; John 14:6). That salvation is once and for all, eternal, and secure. Those who trust in Christ are saved once, and always saved. They cannot be unborn, once they are born again.

Do not believe the unbelievers who reject God’s many promises of “everlasting life” to true believers. They are heretics and must be rejected after “one or two admonitions” as God commands. This is because they do not have “ears to hear” and they are not interested in the truth.

How clear is this verse? Surely nothing could be clearer? That is unless there is spiritually blindness.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬) should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

Every single passage of Scripture they copy and paste in order to try to disprove God’s promise of eternal life, they misuse, or wrest. They do not have a clue what they mean. God does not contradict Himself. The misunderstanding is with them. Then they attack, verbally abuse and vilify those who try to help them see the truth. The spirit in them is very clear to see. They are “false accusers of the brethren.” But as Paul said concerning the coppersmith who did him much harm, “The Lord reward him.”

Peter warns of these unbelievers who do not have the necessary discernment to understand aright the Scriptures, so they copy and paste other heretics’ human philosophy and human intellect and they wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction. They actually turn God’s Holy Word into lies, but they cannot see it as their spiritual understanding has never been opened up through circumcision of the ears and heart, by the Holy Spirit, tragically.

“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.” (2 Peter 3:16)

So what is the promise of God regarding salvation from sin and sins penalty?

“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” (1 John 5:11)

Eternal life dwells in every genuine believer right from the very moment of exercising true saving faith in Jesus Christ and His atoning and sacrificial death on their behalf on the cross of Calvary.

Are you “in Christ” or out of Christ, without a Saviour? There is no promise of eternal life for those out of Christ. Those who are saved know of a surety that eternal life is the gift of God and it is their present possession.

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Rom. 6:23)

This next section of Scripture really cannot be separated. Notice that there are no full stops, only commas, colons and semicolons?

Eph. 1:15-23;

15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

In whom 𝐘𝐄 also 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃, 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 that 𝐘𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐃, ye were 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃 with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐓 (down payment) of our 𝐈𝐍𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 the redemption of the 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍, unto the praise of his glory. (Eph. 1:13-14)

Just these two verses wipe out two abominable and false teachings: One, that true salvation can be lost, and two, the belief that we have no choice but to believe as the Calvinistic heresies tell us.

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𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐒𝐀𝐒 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 “𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠” 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥. 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲. (((𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬))). 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐄𝐖 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝗙𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁. (𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲)…. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤. 𝐈 𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 🢃🢃🢃