Do you have eternal life or conditional life?
Ephesians 1:13-14 says "In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory."
Philippians 1:6 says "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;"
The understanding of eternal security really comes from understanding the unique and special love that God has for His children. Romans 8:28-39 tells us that 1) no one can bring a charge against God’s elect; 2) nothing can separate the elect from the love of Christ; 3) God makes everything work together for the good of the elect; and 4)
all whom God saves will be glorified. God loves His children (the
elect) so much that nothing can separate them from Him. Of course this
same truth is seen in many other passages of Scripture as well (these four points came from). In John 10:27-30, Jesus says, “My
sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give
eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will
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. I and the Father are one." Again, in John 6:37-47,
we see Jesus stating that everyone that the Father gives to the Son
will come to Him and He will raise all of them up at the last day. John
5:24 say "“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and
believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life."
Eternal life here is not something you receive in the future but something you
receive at the time you believe. If salvation trough Jesus Christ isn't
eternal then its not eternal life, Jesus promises you eternal life. A
promise of eternal life is not conditional life. |
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If someone is truly saved,
he or she has been made alive by the Holy Spirit and has a new heart with new
desires. There is no way that one that has been “born again” can later
be “unborn.” Because of His unique love for His children, God will keep
all of His children safe from harm, and Jesus has promised that He
would lose none of His sheep.
The doctrine of eternal security or also called "the perseverance of the saints" recognizes that true Christians will always persevered and are eternally secure because God keeps them that way. It is based on the fact that Jesus, the “author and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:2), is able to completely save those whom the Father has given Him (Hebrews 7:25) and to keep them saved through all eternity.
The doctrine of eternal security or also called "the perseverance of the saints" recognizes that true Christians will always persevered and are eternally secure because God keeps them that way. It is based on the fact that Jesus, the “author and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:2), is able to completely save those whom the Father has given Him (Hebrews 7:25) and to keep them saved through all eternity.
Why would God
graciously offer up a free gift of salvation but make it conditional? A
conditional salvation doesn't fit the eternal salvation plan of the
Bible and it wouldn't be a free gift. That would be like me saying "I am
gonna give you a free car as a gift, but you have to work of the price
of the car for me". That wouldn't be a free gift from me, you would have
earned it.
"If one dear saint of God had perished, so might all; if one of the covenant ones be lost, so may all be; and then there is no gospel promise true, but the Bible is a lie, and there is nothing in it worth my acceptance. I will be an infidel at once when I can believe that a saint of God can ever fall finally. If God hath loved me once, then He will love me forever."C.H. Spurgeon
