Once Saved Always Saved

Acts 13:39, “And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”

You won't find a better Scripture to support the Eternal Security of the Christian believer, than our text Bible verse from Acts 13:39. The believer is JUSTIFIED FROM ALL THINGS!!! Amen and amen! One saved always saved is 100% Biblical. I like to also express the great doctrine of Eternal Security as: “IF SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED!” I say that simply because most professed “Christians” today are not saved at all. We see this truth evidenced in Bible passages such as Matthew 7:21-23 and Luke 13:23-24. 

 We are living in the “perilous times” foretold in 2nd Timothy 3:1-7. Particularly, we are living in times of woeful doctrinal apostasy, false prophets and heresies creeping into our fundamental Bible-believing churches. Matthew 24:11, “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.” I just watched an excellent video today by Joshua Chavez, who exposes Justin Peters and Doreen Virtue. Heresy is creeping into the churches by the hour!!! It is sad that most churches are succumbing to many demonic deceptions. Some popular heresies in churches today include: Lordship Salvation (which is Calvinism), the “turn from your from sins” heresy to be saved (which is works), Zionism (the fraud of manmade Israel), the Young Earth Creation hoax, hundreds of counterfeit English Bible versions, denying the inspiration of the King James Bible, et cetera. 

The subject of Eternal Security is a controversial subject, but it is 100% Biblical. My friend, if you don't believe in “ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED,” you are not saved. It's that simple. The reason why is because if you're trusting Jesus, then you can't lose it. It you think God's salvation can be lost, then you are relying upon human effort to keep you saved. This is why I expose the Salvation Army as heretics.

Please notice three things from our text Verse in 1st John 5:11...

1. Eternal life is a gift from God.
2. It is “eternal life,” that is, it never ends.
3. Eternal life is obtained only in Jesus Christ!

Amen! The inspired, precious, inerrant, preserved, holy, King James Bible, teaches that once a person is saved, they can NEVER lose it!!! Many Baptists are not saved. It is sad but true. I can tell you unequivocally that if you believe you can ever forfeit your salvation, you don't have it friend. Dr. Hank Lindstrom preaches a wonderful MP3 sermon on the subject titled, “How Permanent Is Your Salvation?”

Once you are saved you have passed from death unto life. John 5:24, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” What a beautiful Scripture teaching eternal security of the believer. There are two types of people in this world: 1) those who believe; 2) those who don't believe. The Bible promises that those who believe have everlasting life. God authored the Gospel of John to convince us that Jesus is the Son of God, the Christ, and that by BELIEVING on His name we will have eternal life. John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”

Eternal Life Cannot Be Given Back to God

I witnessed to a man who is a Seventh-day Adventist. He doesn't believe in eternal security, because Ellen G. White (the founder of SDA) didn't either. He believes that eternal life is a gift that can be given back to God (by lack of faith, apostasy or going back into a life of sin). Such speculation is totally unscriptural. There's not one example in the Holy Bible of anyone ever losing their salvation. In fact, we learn in 1st Corinthians 5:1-5 about a believer in the church at Corinth who was living in sexual immorality. The apostle Paul rebukes the congregation for doing nothing about open sin in the church, and he admonishes them to lovingly confront the man in a Biblical fashion. Paul says if the man doesn't repent, 1st Corinthians 5:5, “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” Carefully notice that the man's “spirit” (who we really are) will “be saved” in the Day of the Lord (i.e., when Christ's returns).

The flesh will be destroyed. Romans 6:23 teaches that the wages of sin is death, and we are all big sinners. Therefore, we all must die eventually. But our spirit will return to God when our flesh dies (Ecclesiastes 12:7). The spirit either goes to Hell forever (aka, the Second Death - Revelation 21:8); or our spirit will go to Heaven to be with the Lord (2nd Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord”). Jesus is precious!!! Just as the physical birth is irreversible, so also is the spiritual birth irreversible. Many theologians misunderstand this truth.

SDA's deceitfully claim to believe the simple Gospel, but they ALSO believe that the life you live must coincide with your profession of faith to be valid. If any SDA tries to deny this, study their false doctrine of Investigative Judgment for solid evidence of what I say. Miss White taught that in the year 1844, Jesus entered into the heavenly Holy Place to begin His work of investigating the saints, to decide who is worthy to have eternal life or not, based upon the life they have lived. Seventh-day Adventism is a satanic religious cult based upon faith plus works (human performance). SDA's are wrong on repentance. There is no new birth in SDA! They do not believe in eternal security in SDA. Ellen G. White was a false prophetess.

Eternal life is a gift, but it is more than a gift, it is a new birth. And a new birth is irreversible. If human works are required to be saved, then salvation becomes a reward, not a free gift. We read in 1st Peter 1:18-19 that we we're redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. Jesus paid our sin debt with His literal blood. Adding even the slightest bit of human effort corrupts the Gospel and negates Christ's sacrifice ion the cross. This is why God killed a man for picking up sticks on the Sabbath Day in the Old Testament, which symbolized adding works to Christ's finished work of redemption. Man has no part in saving himself. Our only part is to “BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED” (Acts 16:31). Once saved, always saved; Or if you prefer: If Saved, always saved!

If you have any other mindset than that your salvation is 100% secure in Christ's sacrifice on the cross for your sins, His burial, and bodily resurrection from the dead three days later, you need to get saved. If you think there's anything that you could ever do to lose your salvation, you need to get saved! Jesus doesn't forgive sins, He has already paid for them with His precious blood! Forgiveness of sins and eternal life are free gifts, which we need only to receive by faith to have them. John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” We are saved by BELIEVING the Gospel.

The Holy Spirit is the Earnest of Our Inheritance, Which is Eternal Life

Every believer is “sealed” with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption:

2nd Corinthians 5:5, “Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.”

And again we read:

Ephesians 1:11-14, “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 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 of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

This “earnest” is evidence that God will do all that He has PROMISED to do. When we get saved, we do not receive all of our inheritance. Our corrupted flesh, with all it's bodily afflictions, does not change. But one day, when we receive all the benefits of salvation, we will get rid of this ole flesh, and receive a brand new glorified body fashioned like unto the Lord's awesome body. Our new body will have SUPERNATURAL POWERS, just like the Lord's resurrected body did:

Philippians 3:20-21, “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

What a glorious day that will be!!! Please notice that the Bible doesn't place any conditions on the believer's eternal security. If you are a born-again Christian, you are SEALED by the Holy Spirit, unto the DAY OF REDEMPTION. The Bible doesn't say that we are sealed until we sin. The Bible doesn't say that we are sealed until we mess up. The Bible doesn't say that we are sealed until we lose out faith. No, the Bible says, we are sealed UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION!!! God sealed us with the Holy Spirit “OF PROMISE” to guarantee our inheritance. 1st Thessalonians 5:24, “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” What a great God!! Those who BELIEVE will never die! Once saved always saved!!! Thank you Lord Jesus!!!

“Being saved is not something that you perform, it is something that He performs.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, a great quote from the awesome sermon, “Raised For Our Justification.”