THE SIN OF UNBELIEF IN ETERNAL SECURITY

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 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 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 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 in 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)