Antinomians and Apostates Have NO Eternal Security!
One of the biggest problems today to why churches are having apostasy is not only a watered down presentation of Christ's Gospel but also a terribly wrong teaching of eternal security. The term eternal security was used in place of the perseverance of the saints. So what does the Antinomian teach of eternal security? If Antinomians can be wrong about repentance just saying, "It's just a change of mind, not a change of mind about sin." never mind Luke 24:27 preaches the need for repentance and remission of sins, then they can be definitely wrong about eternal security.
The Antinomian view of eternal security is very wrong. For them, it is, "That's it, I'm saved, hotdog I can sin all I want and still go to Heaven." Today many Evangelical and Baptist churches are guilty of easy prayerism and easy decisionism. It goes like just pray this prayer, no preaching the Gospel. Just sign your name, you are a Christian never mind they don't know Christ. They preach a gospel that's seeker sensitive and appealing to the flesh. One person said, "Well I can pray the sinner's prayer, kill a school full of kids and the kill myself and still go to Heaven." That is utterly messed up. If the person does that, he is certainly headed for Hell because his repentance was a sham. Did he lose his salvation? He never had it.
The apostate was never a Christian to start with. To believe the heresy of ex-believerism makes Judas Iscariot a Christian. Some even dare argue with me that "Anybody who 'accepts Christ' is a Christian right?" which has had them embracing Catholics, Mormons, Pentecostals and the like just because they affirmed a few basic doctrines of Christianity. They may say, "Well Catholics just ask for Mary's intercession." and embrace Catholics as brothers and sisters. They have done the same to Mormons never mind their secret doctrines. To them, Judas Iscariot will be in Heaven never mind the reality of the Bible calling Judas a Devil (John 6:70) and John 17:12, Jesus calls him the son of perdition. 1 John 2:19 says that true believers remain, the false believers walk out and show by their lives how unsaved they really are.
The Scriptural view and context of eternal security on the other hand teaches a radically different view. The Bible does not each a sin all you want view. The beginning of the great salvation plan was to save people not in their sins but from their sins (Matthew 1:21). 1 John 1:7 declares the Blood of Jesus washes us from all sins. While it's true that salvation is by faith alone and grace alone but that is not the only point of Scripture.
Faith in Scripture is differentiated from dead faith. James 2: 13-23 is ten verses talking about what real faith is. True salvation is by faith alone but it is not a faith that is alone. The doctrine of faith is a faith that results to works. What does it mean by dead faith? It's a faith that's a sham, a false faith. James makes it clear that though salvation is by faith alone, but it is not a faith that is alone. True faith will produce good works. Hebrews 11 shows what faith can do. Abel's faith made him offer a better sacrifice than Cain, Noah's faith made him follow God's instructions, Moses' faith allowed him to free the Israelites from Egypt, Caleb's and Joshua's faith made them enter the promised land, Rahab's faith made her turn from prostitution to serve the living God... in short true faith is life changing. Romans 3:21 says that the Law is not made void by faith but rather Christians establish the Law by faith.
Salvation is by grace but a grace that does not produce works is lasciviousness and false grace. Jude 1:4 warns about turning God's grace into lasciviousness. Many try to quote Ephesians 2:8-9 to justify their indifference to works but fails to read verse 10 which calls that Christians are equipped with every good work. Titus 2:11-14 shows that the grace of God appears unto all men to teach them to reject evil, to be zealous of good works as a peculiar people redeemed by God. Although no works involves in getting salvation, but the Christian life by God's grace will bloom into good works. 1 Corinthians 9:11 calls the Christians as "such were some of you" which is while verses 9-10 shows the unrighteous cannot inherit God's Kingdom, the saved person is sanctified and redeemed from a life of sin to a life of service. If one was a homosexual, thief, whoremonger, etc. before, if he or she becomes a Christian, then he would by God's grace, leave his former lifestyle.
Jesus had also warned of the branches. John 15:1-8 shows a great distinction between the fruitless branch and the fruitful branch. The Father grooms the Christians, He prunes them daily to bear more fruit. Why are fruitless branches thrown out? Was it because they were lost of their salvation? They never had it. The fruitless branches are worthless. Christ said abide in Him, He abides in the believer. The true believer clings to the vine. The false believer pretends to be a Christian then falls away like Judas Iscariot did. The false believer is cast into Hell because he is not saved. Matthew 7:21-23 also warns of doers of iniquity. Never Christ never knew them and their lives showed it. Matthew 7:11-14 also shows that a good tree cannot bear good fruit and vice versa.
Proof of God's salvation is also in chastising the Christians when they stumble. Christians do not yet possess sinless perfection because they are on this sinful world. Christians can sin, sometimes even horribly but they have a different attitude towards sin sin. Romans 7 talks about Paul's struggles with sin. He mentions that how often he wants to do good but fails to do so but is only able to do good because of God's grace in his life. Hebrews 12:5-6 the Apostle Paul writes that God chastises those He loves. A concerned parent will definitely spank their child when the child does wrong. Likewise when one becomes a child of God by faith (John 1:10-12) as not everybody is a child of God, He takes special care of them. When they sin, He chastises them because they are His. He leaves the unsaved to their demise but never the Christian. Believers cannot sin all they please because God chastises them one way or another. Anybody claiming to be a Christian but sins without remorse is not a Christian but an apostate and an Antinomian.