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The subject of eternal security has had several huge debates. Both proponents and opponents of eternal security use Judas Iscariot to defend their claims. Do you remember Judas Iscariot? I remembered there was even an argument that some assume he was supposed to be saved. When I was still a newbie Christian - I thought Judas Iscariot himself couldn't be saved even if salvation was by grace. Why would a true follower of Christ betray his Master? Then I thought it was possible to do so. I was left in the sea of confusion concerning Judas Iscariot. Then I simply assumed that he was a fake believer to start with. I couldn't even buy the idea that you can get saved and sin all you want because the Bible shows that those saved by grace have changed lives. The conditional security crowd would like to use Judas Iscariot as their example. For example, Dan Corner of Evangelical Outreach uses Judas Iscariot to justify the former's defense of conditional security. Pentecostals tend t...

I remembered when I was newly saved and I still had some issues with forgiveness to others. Now there was one warning where I was told that if I don't forgive then God will restore everything that I owe Him and throw me to Hell. Now there's a problem with the scenario as it presents the dilemma of having to forgive in order to be forgiven. Do I have to forgive in order to be forgiven or is it that I forgive because I'm forgiven? That's what heretical preachers who preach conditional security would like to suggest while they ironically (and somewhat consistently) display an unforgiving attitude towards people who offended them! What's the meaning of the parable of the unforgiving servant found in Matthew 18:22-35? Jesus is using an exaggeration to show the seriousness of sin. I decided to some consultation with older brothers in the faith. A talent is worth 16 years of salary. To owe someone 10,000 talents is to owe someone a really huge unpayable amount! Someti...

There's always the misconception regarding Once Saved, Always Saved. People can go ahead and say, "Well a person is saved regardless of what happens." That's true but where is the proof? Do so many people often ignore the warnings like Matthew 23:13 and 1 John 2:19? Matthew 23:13 says that only those who endure to the end will be saved. It does sound like works are required to stay saved but it isn't. Instead, the whole idea of enduring to the end is the fruit, not the root of salvation and as 1 John 2:19 addresses that those who didn't stand through the end were false converts. It's no doubt Christians have periods of falling away but they don't fall away completely. Judas Iscariot fell away completely but Peter didn't. Christians can make stupid choices but the Holy Spirit drives them to inevitable repentance. David expressed his sorrow in Psalm 51 and Solomon when he wrote Ecclesiastes. Nobody can say that a person is still saved just becaus...

While salvation from the penalty of sin is a one time event but this salvation continues into sanctification.  The "Easy Christianity" crowd is bound to say, "I am saved now I can do what I want." or "It is possible to be saved and never change at all."  Those are heresies that deny the real grace of God.  When a person is saved then there is the grace of God that makes the unteachable to be teachable, the sinner to be saved from their sin and there is really salvation is not just from the penalty of sin (past) but presently all born again Christians are into the process of sanctification. The whole problem of "Easy Christianity" is the rejection of inevitable sanctification in their lives.  They would slander good men of the Gospel as "works salvationists" and "Pharisees" as if they do not read the Bible that when you are saved, there ought to be change.  Did they not read in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 that salvation changes th...

James 1:26-27 warns, "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Is your religion really changing your heart, pervading your manners and transforming you into a new creature or has it made you worse?  The problem with manmade religion and its focus on ritualism is that it is nothing more than a change of rituals, not a real change of character.  I have observed how people convert from one religion to another but there is really no real transformation.  One may go ahead and learn a different ritual like the Rosary or claim to "speak in tongues" but if there is really no change of heart, no pervading of manners and no transformation into new creatures then there is really no true and real conversion. The Chri...

It is utterly ridiculous to handle the doctrine of godliness without the fear of God.  It is stupid to say, "Being a Christian is not important - godliness is what is important."  There is no godliness without a loving, personal relationship with God.  There is only godlessness without God.  Proverbs 1:7 says that the fear of the L ORD is the beginning of wisdom and with it comes knowledge and understanding.  To understand what the verse means, this fear is reverential fear not fear in trembling, this is the fear that drives out worldly fear and the only way to learn godliness is through humility and submissiveness not through rebelliousness and arrogance. The doctrine of godliness is so severely mishandled because those who mishandle it do not have any fear of God whatsoever.  Romans 3:18 warns of people who have no fear of God before their eyes.  If they do not fear God, I do not expect them to handle godliness correctly.  Either they make ...

I remembered some members of the "Easy Christianity" crowd say that Arthur W. Pink is in Hell for teaching works salvation without considering the full context of what he taught.  If Pink taught salvation by works, he would have not written that wonderful classic "Eternal Security".  I am afraid that so many people today prefer to have salvation without any sanctification, they want to believe that it's possible for a person to be saved but not be transformed and when I ask them how is that possible, they quote a few verses and get defensive.  When God saves a person, that is the beginning and not the end and remember, God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called.  When God saves the person, He does not merely save them but they are saved from their sins (Matthew 1:21).  When one teaches that it's possible to get saved but have no change and still live like a devil is contrary to what the Bible teaches.  While salvation is by grace throug...

Above is a quote by Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke about faith and good works. If you are truly saved and you have faith, it's certain to produce good works. James 2:14-26 warns that faith without works is dead. Just to clarify what it means, James does not mean that salvation is by faith and by works. Instead, if one has true faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, when one has authentic faith then it's bound to produce good works as evidence of salvation. A sham faith is devoid works while a true faith is not devoid of works. Many people today just want to be saved from the consequences of their sins rather than from sin themselves. If you are truly saved then there ought to be a growing difference from sin to the Savior. I cannot imagine anybody getting saved and still staying the way they are, that is not biblical (1 Corinthians 6:11). The idea that God's grace is a license to sin is so contrary to Scriptural teaching that God's grace gives strength against sin and teaches r...

If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted." (1 John 2:19) ~ Paul Washer I remembered the accusations that fly that Paul Washer teaches works salvation. I just believed it before because I have not taken things into context but the more I studied my beliefs, the more I realized I agreed with the perseverance of the saints. There are many people today who profess faith in Christ but there is really no progress in godliness and consistently falls away. It does not mean that salvation has been lost but rather the person was never truly converted to start with. Anybody who goes against the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints really needs to check the Bible. It is really impossible to be a saved person and never to make any progress in godliness. A Christian may not be sinless but they sin less. There is no way that a true Christia...

Many people today have a very wrong view of eternal security and both sides, the Arminians and the Antinomians hold a very wrong view of eternal security. To the Arminian, the founder of the viewpoint Jacobus Arminius taught you lose your salvation every time you sin and that the doctrine of eternal security was made by Satan to mislead the saved back to him. To the Antinomian (many today might best be called the post-modern churches or "easy Christianity" who tend to be Antinomian by their actions with their can't live the way you want means works salvation doctrine) they believe that being saved mans, "Woohoo! I can sin all I want because I'm saved!" and believe that a Christian can remain carnal indefinite and still go to Heaven but with no reward. Arthur W. Pink shows that both sides of the coin are erroneous and not to mention, stupid. As I read through the chapters of Pink's book, he shows how eternal security actually leads to holiness than...

The easy believist crowd shows a very watered down Gospel without really seeing the Scripture in its full context. Now let us analyze two examples IN CONTEXT so we can see what they really mean. I. The thief on the cross (Luke 23:32-43) Here the easy believist may easy take this out of context. However let us really examine the whole passage as it should be examined. Remember the other thief was once joining his companion in mocking Jesus had turned a leaf of repentance. Now let's see the passage and see it in its full context. Looking at verses 40-41 - we don't see a repentless salvation. While repentance of sin is necessary for salvation but as said, don't expect a perfect repentance. But this is repentance of sin and unbelief in action. Again, repenting of your sins is not works salvation. Look at the words that were spoken. First, the thief recognizes the holiness of God after a few moments ago, he was derailing Jesus. Perhaps now, he saw Jesus for who He was. H...

The teaching of eternal security has been watered down granting false assurance to false converts.  A checklist to think of the basics of salvation is in following: Salvation is by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone You cannot save yourself from your sin Salvation is by faith, not by works What was listed above indeed is true.  However the problem is that eternal security suffers so much from the idea of just being once saved, always saved.  The demonic idea that has invaded OSAS is this, "You can get saved and live the way you want.  Not being able to live the way you want equals work salvation."  Sad to say but half of the point, Arminians are true when they say that teaching OSAS can lead to a life of sin and unbelief but the whole truth of the matter is, a wrong idea of OSAS is just as dangerous as believing you must contribute your good works to stay saved rather than because you are saved. Whether these true converts are Calvinis...

Dr. Harry Allen Ironside a great sin-hating, Bible-loving, old-fashioned revival Protestant preacher, though he is NOT a Baptist like I am but he certainly got the fundamentals for BIBLICAL Protestantism rather correct and not just mere diet Roman Catholicism.  Here Dr. H.A. Ironside had preached of the eternal security of the believer and so has Arthur Pink who some have accused of teaching salvation by works. John F. Macarthur had quoted some of the great works of Dr. H.A. Ironside on repentance and eternal security.  Now for some quotes on that wonderful sermon of what eternal security is all about and NOT according to the angle of easy-believism: On eternal security: When we speak of the eternal security of the believer, what do we mean? We mean that once a poor sinner has been regenerated by the Word and the Spirit of God, once he has received a new life and a new nature and has been made partaker of the divine nature, once he has been justified from every...

Here are some quotes from Matthew Henry and Vernon McGee, both Presbyterian Christians who stood by once a Christian, always a Christian: Part of Matthew Henry's commentary in Hebrews 6 writes, "This therefore is no proof of the final apostasy of the true saints.  These (true believers) indeed may fall frequently and foully but yet they will not totally nor finally from God; the purpose and the power of God, the purchase and the prayer of Christ and the promise of the Gospel the everlasting covenant that God has made with them, ordered in all things and sure, the indwelling of the Spirit and the immortal seed of the Word these are their security.  But the tree that has not these roots will not stand." which can be found in Page 2389 of the Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible. Dr. J. Vernon McGee another Protestant preacher wrote on the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32, "Somebody is immediately going to say, 'Well this is the fellow who is...

What I blame for apostasy in the churches today is not the teaching of once saved, always saved but rather a watered down salvation message.  In fact, how do you expect a true conversion of there is no repentance about themselves being sinners?  Pretty much, one must realize either they are saved or not saved.  The problem with conditional security lies in the sin of pride.  In fact, one of the biggest questions towards conditional security is if they can answer this question on why Jesus said He NEVER knew them?  In Matthew 7:21-23 and Matthew 25:12 are the phrase "I never knew you." and "I know you not."  So why is that?  Let's take a little bit of context.  While they have used this verse to justify salvation by works or maintained by it, do they understand the real meaning of the word "never" here? In Matthew 7:21-23 we read, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doeth the will of...

One of the biggest most sinister accusations of those hypocritical conditional security proponents is that by teaching an if saved, always saved doctrine known as eternal security or what John Calvin would call it as "the perseverance of the saints" which preachers like Charles Haddon Spurgeon had spoken through Biblical historic, is that such people cannot teach holy living.  Therefore, according to the arrogant believers of conditional security, the doctrine of eternal security or the PERSEVERANCE of the saints is nothing more than an excuse and a road to Antinomianism and a teaching of Satan.   However what saith Scripture?  If you are saved, then there is going to be plenty of changes because of these truths: Every Christian has the listening ear as the mark of a true believer.  They never perish.  Now please stop using John 10 to justify conditional security! (John 10:26-30) Every Christian saved by grace and not by works is prepared unto the work...

There is the common accusation of by the proponents of conditional security regardless who they are that I am teaching a license to sin whenever I stress the eternal security of the believer along with preachers like John Calvin, John Bunyan, George Whitfield, Arthur Pink, Charles Spurgeon, John Macarthur, Paul Washer, Robert Charles Sproul, D. James Kennedy and Ray Comfort.  However they are nothing more than people who want to take credit for their own works in keeping them saved, rather than giving God the credit for any good works that the Christian may perform. Here is one truth- eternal security is a Biblical reality and it does not mean staying saved regardless how one lives rather it is inseparable from the truths of daily sanctification and the perseverance of the saints.  As said, it's all God's work and God's work makes the believer do good works.  John Macarthur also stated in "The Gospel According to Jesus" page 211: "... In other wo...

In contrast to this modern age's "easy believism" gospel, however I have decided to really show the difference between superficial belief vs. to that of authentic faith.  In contrast to what some may think that Paul and James are contradictory to each other, they are not.  Now here's a little bit of quotation from the book "The Jesus You Can't Ignore" by Pastor John Macarthur taken from page 54: Here is a practical lesson from this account: a positive response to Jesus should never be taken as proof of authentic trust in Him.  There is a shallow, fickle brand of "belief" that is not saving faith at all.  From the first public miracle He performed until this very day there have been always people who "accept Christ" without truly loving Him, without submitting to His authority and without abandoning their self confidence and trust in their own good works .  That is precisely what John describes at the end of John 2, and that ...

This is year one of my new blog.  Well as usual, many of the unsaved do hate me but I love them enough to tell them the truth. There is one incredibly weak argument by the works salvation crowd who teach that salvation has either to be earned or maintained by good works that by teaching faith alone in Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation being against good works.  There are in fact MANY clowns out there who are exposing themselves whenever they uphold such heresy.  So are proponents of salvation by faith alone Antinomian?  Let's try and see with a few preachers here as they "lend a hand" to show that eternal security is NOT a license to sin: "What it is, is a sad admission to the amount of confidence we have in the power of our message and in the keeping power of God. If God has saved them, God will keep them. If they’re born of God, they’ll never die. If He’s begun a good work in them, He’ll complete it to that Day. If He is the author of their faith, He’...

There is the real issue that people are actually replacing true evangelism with easy prayerism hence the article, " The Sinner's Prayer Controversy ".  The reality is so true that people today are actually having some false conversions because they claim that some "crusade" they made a decision for Christ.  Here's a little bit of the truths beneath those "crusades" where people make "decisions for Christ": Many of them teach WORKS SALVATION .  Sad but true. The charismatics say, "Hey who wants to receive Jesus Christ into their hearts?"  Many times, these perverted crusades stress out DAMNABLE heresies that defend salvation by works.  Try attending one charismatic crusade and you'll hear a lot of garbage of adding works to faith in Jesus Christ.  Paul Washer keeps pounding the methods of charismatic meetings and washing away dirt for such a means of salvation.  Many who say they did pray the sinner's prayer during those...