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Can a Saved Person Ever Be Lost?
By: Dr. Max D. Younce
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Question
Could you give me the Scripture I need to show someone that we are
once saved, always saved?
Answer
Christ tells us in John 6:37 there is no way God
is going to take away our eternal life. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me: and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out".
Some will say, "All right. God won't cast me out, but I
could get out of my own will and choice!" Go to John 6:39, "And this
is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given
me I should LOSE NOTHING, but should raise it up again at the last day."
This verse tells us it is God's will that NO saved person would ever
become lost. He says He will "lose nothing", and you are at least
something! Actually, we are so important to God that He sent His
only Son from Heaven to earth to die in payment for our sin!
I Peter 1:4,5 lets us know that it is God who keeps us.
God, himself, by His mighty power, is reserving a place in Heaven for
us. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively
(living) hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead". "To an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not way,
RESERVED in heaven for you".
If a saved person could go to Hell, the Holy Spirit
would have to go to Hell, too. He indwells every believer from the
moment he trusts Christ forevermore. 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." (Ephesians 1:13,14). (Also see I Corinthians 6:19; and John
14:16,17).
John 10:28 "nails it down"! Christ gives eternal life,
and they who receive this eternal life "shall never perish".
"Never" in the original Greek is a double negative, meaning, "not at
all, by no means, in no case, NEVER"! "And I give unto them eternal
life; and they shall NEVER perish, neither shall ANY MAN (not even
yourself) pluck them out of my hand."
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