Once Saved, Always Saved? What Scripture Really Teaches – Podcast

Hi, Welcome to Christian Talk. Thank you so much for joining me. My name is Eric Thompson. On this podcast, we are going to be discussing and I’m going to point out to you Biblically true Christians cannot lose their salvation.

Yes, that’s right. We’re going to address the eternal security of the believer. Thank you so much for listening. Please show us with your friends and family, especially those that you might know that are really worried about did I lose my salvation? What if I do this? Will God turn his back on me? Please also check out our other podcast we just launching, it’s Finished the Race, Finish the Race.

You can find that wherever you get your podcasts from, and you can also head over to the website Finish the Race dot com. That is going to be more of a cultural overview podcast from a Christian worldview versus this one which is topical and through the Bible specifically the only authority that we have when we go to answer the question about God, His attributes God’s mind to the degree that he has revealed himself. Because God is not Noah ball fully, but he he is known to us through the Cross. Because before time God the son, according to the counsel of their will, decided to come take on flash and become a man one hundred percent God, one hundred percent man.

He was tempted in all ways, yet did not sin, so he can relate. He understands what we go through. So the God the Spirit inspired forty different authors over fifteen hundred years to write the Bible. The men wrote from their point of views and depending upon where they were in their walks, but the Holy Spirit ensured that no heresy got into the writings.

There are failures of men and women in the scriptures, but those are used for us as the modern church that were now continuing as the Bride of Christ grows, we then have those failures and those moments of victory and faith as our example. So the reader, the writer of Hebrews says concerning the Word of God, that it’s living and active. It’s the only book like this that has ever been or will ever be. The Bible’s closed genesis to reve you cannot add anything to it or take away from it.

There is no such thing as a latter day saint. There’s no such thing as a prophet named Mohammad, who was a continuation of they’ve closed canon of scripture. There’s one God, there’s one savior, Jesus Christ. There’s one Holy Spirit.

So because God the Holy Spirit inspired them and to write, it’s living and active. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Paul to Timothy, the young pastor, right before he was martyred, he said, hey, Timothy, from infancy, you have known the holy scriptures, which you’re able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. All scripture is God breathed.

Is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully equipped for every good work. Ephesians one is one of the chapters we’re going to be using a lot in this podcast, but there’s also other scriptures. So the term Christian we need to start there. A Christian is not a person that believes in the idea or the concept that Jesus came.

It’s not a person that set a prayer and walked down in front of a group of people and filled out the card. That does not make you a Christian. These things can be part of someone’s Christian experience, but that’s not what a Christian is I went to a billy. Graham Crusade went forward and I said a prayer.

Well, God could have saved you in that, but you would know. A Christian is a person who has fully trusted in Jesus Christ as the only savior. That Jesus Christ came according to the scriptures. You believe that he fulfilled prophecies.

He lived a sinless life. He was crucified on the cross. He said to tell us die covering all the sins of those who would believe. He was buried and rose from the dead on the third day.

He appeared over five hundred believers at one time, and then he gave the great commission. He rose up to heaven. The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, and now and even Peter, we can see this. When the Holy Spirit came, and from that point on, when we confess and believe in our heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, the Holy Spirit then enters us.

We then are born from above. This void in us is filled with the Holy Spirit. They asked the Apostles and Acts thirty one, what do we need to do to be saved? And they said, believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household. We know John three sixteen.

Right, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. Well, John ten twenty eight, Jesus said, I give them eternal life to the believers. Remember, nobody comes to the Lord unless you’re called. You can’t come to Jesus unless you’re called by the Holy Spirit.

So when we respond to the call, and we’re given the faith to believe, and Jesus says, when they confess, when they believe, I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. See, salvation is a work of God, not of man. This is important.

We’re not dead in our trespasses and one day go. You know, I need Jesus. No, it is a work of God. So if God is the one that does the saving, the calling, and the saving, then when we believe, like it says in two Corinthians five seventeen, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he’s a new creation.

The old is gone, the new has come. Then we we then embrace Ephesians two eight to nine. That the salvation is by grace through faith, not by anything we can do. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that is not of yourselves.

The saving faith, the saving the being born again is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. If salvation is a gift from God, then it cannot be lost through human efforts. You cannot walk away from God if you are truly born from above. You can have moments where you’re struggling, but then the Bible says that the that people in your life, she’d say, brother, you know how you doing, or pray for you, but you can’t just you can’t walk away.

You cannot resist the call of God. God promises he will complete the work of salvation for those who come to faith and are born again. So when we’re born again, you can’t be unborn again, right you see Ephesians one thirteen through fourteen is pretty straightforward. A Christian when they are born again, is marked by God and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

You were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believe you were marked in Christ with a seal the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession to the praise and of His glory. At the moment of faith, a new Christian is marked and sealed with the Holy Spirit, who is promised to act as a deposit to guarantee the heavenly inheritance. The end result is God’s glory is praise.

If for a Christian loo salvation, God would have to erase the mark, would draw the spirit, cancel the deposit, break his promise, revoke the guarantee, keep the inheritance, forego the praise, and lessen His glory not happening. According to rome Is eight thirty, glorification comes with justification. All those whom God justifies or promised to eventually be glorified. The justification takes place when we believe and we started we are going through our sanctification where we’re slowly working things out with the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and then we we at that time are justified before God.

So then we are if we die, it’s just as though we hadn’t sinned, because in Christ our sins have been taken care of. But when we die, we go, we go to glorification. We become glorified, our bodies become like the angels. Jesus said, this promise will be fulfilled when Christians receive their perfect resurrection bodies in heaven, because a Christian can.

If a Christian could lose their salvation, then Romans eight thirty would be an error. Here’s Ephesians one, starting a verse three. Blessed be to God, the father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be wholly and blameless before Him in love, he predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, to himself, according to the kind and tention of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved in Christ, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace which he lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight, he may known to us the mystery of His will, according to his kind intention, which he purposed in him, with the view to the administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is the summing up of all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth.

In Christ also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose, who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we, who are the first to hope in Christ, would be to the praise of His glory in Him. You also, after listening to the message of truth, the Gospel of your salvation, having also believed you were sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit. In this that verse we just went over who was given as an pledged of our inheritance with a view to the redemption of God’s own purpose, to the praise of His glory. God chose us before the foundation of the world.

We are predestined. We can’t on destin ourselves because we don’t want to, because we are loved by God and He called us, so why would we leave? We wouldn’t. But the reality is Philippians one six. Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in it, you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

If God is the one who begins in complete salvation is not depend on human ability to retain it. Eternal life means eternal, not temporary. John ten, twenty seven through twenty nine. My sheep listened to my voice.

I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. The phrase never perish is a definitive promise of security.

The sealing of the Holy Spirit we just went over right. The Holy Spirit is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance. Though you know, those who were predestined called sealed, true believers can will continue in faith now at this point. So we got that right.

We got the fact that before anything was when God in court in accordance to the counsel of their own will, the God had one God, three distinct personalities. They predestined. They chose who they would save, who would be saved through the finished work of Jesus Christ. Who would get that call from God, not the general rebel where everyone is guilty because they can see that God’s handiwork.

They can see God’s handiwork and that God is First John two nineteen. Is this concerning people who you might know, or maybe you think you walked away and you’re just want to if someone gave you this podcast? First John two nineteen. They were. The question was the people who walked away left abandon changed their mind? First John two nineteen.

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. Those who abandon the faith in Jesus Christ never truly belong to Christ Matthew seven twenty one through twenty three. Many on judgment Day will say, Lord Lord, I cast out demons in your name. We prophesied in your name? What what what’s going on here? You know we did works? And Jesus says, I’ll look at them plainly.

I’ll say it very straightforward. I don’t know who you are away from me, you doers of iniquity to the place that’s set aside for judgment. So true a someone someone who refuses to do the will of God but claims to be a Christian is not saved. Jesus said, why do you call me Lord Lord? But then you don’t keep my commandments or why do you call me friend? Well, why do you confess this belief in me? But you don’t do what I say? James is very tough on it.

He calls them hypocrites. You hypocrites. Do you not know that your love of the world makes you an enemy of God? So, since God is the one who does the saving, God is the one that does the calling. God’s grace is what saves people, not want works.

And if God is going to complete what he has started until the day of Christ Jesus, then it is God is who is solely the one who begins in complete salvation, and it’s not dependent on human ability to retain it. Now, well, another way you can tell if you’re a real child of God is God disciplines his own his children Hebrews twelve six. The Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone who accepts he accepts as his son. Now in John it’s very clear those who believe are given the right to become a child to God from birth.

There is no universal We’re all children of God. Yes, God wonderfully knits people together in the womb. But for those who will believe, it will be under salvation. For those not called, who will never believe, then their natural state of being born into Adam and at the point that they can in their minds reject the work of Jesus Christ when they tell God, no, we don’t know what age that is.

The age of accountability. Could be a ten year old, twelve year old, fourteen, We don’t The Bible doesn’t give a age. But the un pardonable sin, the thing that will steal your fate, is to blasphem the Holy Spirit, to say no, I say no to the call toward Christ, or I say no to the concept of Christ. Because if God’s not calling you, that’s not going to be a real You’re not going to have to make a definitive no.

You’re just gonna have to say, Okay, I’ve heard your gospel. I know what you’re trying to say, but I don’t want it. So but for those that God loves and believe, then he will chasten. He will you will not disown, because Jesus said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.

So if you if you believe or have believed in the past, and obviously you still believe, if you felt the call of God to lay your life down and to exalt Jesus Christ is Lord sovereign over your life. And then upon understanding the Gospel, you say, I believe Jesus, I accept your finished work on the cross, and as the douloi, as now your slave, because you’re a good master. Holy Spirit take residence in me and guide and direct my steps all my days. So I do not turn to the right or the left.

Then the Holy Spirit takes residence. Than we have been purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. Our body is not our own. And then we have the Holy Spirit in us, even praying things we don’t even know what to say sometimes, but we’ve been sealed.

So if you’re feeling nervous, you need to kind of give it up. You need to maybe say sorry God for my arrogance, that I have something to do with you keeping me. See, we don’t sin, we don’t stay in sin unrepentant as believers. John said in First John that if you say you love God, but you stay in sin unrepentant, you’re a liar and the truth is not in you.

So the traits of a believer is you start to turn your back on worldly things. You hate, the things you used to do. You now embrace things that you didn’t do. And then through prayer and understanding, you’re in a spiritual battle.

Because Ephesian six is very clear, we have to put on the armor. You have to be in prayer, in the Word, in fellowship with strong believers, and in a Bible teaching church, and keep your armor on so you can stand against the devil’s schemes. Because our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. So God disciplines us.

He doesn’t disown us. God does not condemn us. He corrects us. If you’re a child of God.

For those who are not children of God, who are not being born from above, they have a void in them. They’ve got their body and their soul, but they haven’t been filled with the Holy Spirit. So the demons, with God’s sovereign permission, just like we saw with Job and we see it throughout the Bible, the demons will oppress and even possess those who are lost. Christians cannot be possessed, because we already have a full house with the Holy Spirit.

We don’t have that opening. So true believers will continue in faith. God disciplines his own his own. He does not disown them, but he does discipline his children.

So let’s wrap this up in Hebrews six four through six. Some people ask questions about this. Hebrews nine clarifies concerning Hebrews six four and six about to those exposed to the gospel. But we’re never truly saved.

It clarifies the author speaking of those who only appear to be believers. See you if it’s those who have been enlightened. If they fall away, cannot be brought back a second time. It’s like the parable of the sower the seeds, right if if somebody believes, but it’s on the rocky soil or on the pavement, and the little bit of heat comes from the world and reality hits and the oppression from demons, and all of a sudden, they’re like, forget it, and they go back to the world.

You can’t say they were believers. They they understood the concept of needing Jesus, but they never accepted his work on the cross and never exalted him. The Lord. So when the world came, that little bit of faith dried up.

Now what about the free will? Can someone reject salvation? Well, Romans eight is an awesome chapter. Nothing eight Romans eight thirty eight through thirty nine. Nothing can separate a believer from the word of God. Nothing.

So conclusion Romans eight thirty those he predestined, he also called, those he called, he also justified, those he justified, he also glorified. We need to trust in Christ, because if salvation is truly from God, believers can rest in God’s character his faithfulness. So I’m gonna read Ephesians one again. Hopefully this you can listen to the podcast again.

But if Christ, like it’s said in Romans, if all of that the predestined, called, and justified and glorified, God does that in sequence, and nothing can separate us from the love of God Romans eight thirty eight and thirty nine. And even if you look back in Luke Right fifteen five through six, God guarantees eternal life and maintains salvation he has given us In that God the good shepherd searches for the lost sheep, and when he finds it, he puts it on his shoulder and goes home. Jude one twenty four through twenty five further emphasizes the goodness and faithfulness of our Savior, to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and great joy. To the only God, our Savior, be glory, majesty, power, and authority through Jesus Christ, our life, or before all ages, now and forever more.

Amen. All right, back to Ephesians one, and we’re going to close Paul to the saints or Ephesus who are faithful in Jesus Christ. Grace and peace you from God, our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed it be to God and Father of a Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing and heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.

In love, He predestined us to adoption as sons to Jesus Christ, to himself, according to the kind intention of his will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which he freely bestowed on us, and the beloved in Christ. We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight. He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his kind intention, which he purposed him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in heaven, things on earth.

In Him. We have also obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose, who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who are the first to hope in Christ, would be to the praise of His glory. If you have been born again, born from above, you’re guaranteed salvation. You are going to heaven for God’s glory and for his sake, because those who have been sealed we are the bride of Christ.

And though the enemies what may try all their days to convince you otherwise, if you’re being chastened by God, loved on by God, guided by God, if you are submitted to God’s word, like Paul said and two Timothy, that all scripture as God breathed, and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training righteousness. And you’re in fellowship with believers and Jesus is Lord by confession of your own mouth, not because you’re doing really good things. Just understand, a Christian cannot lose their salvation, but a fake believer, a non believer, those who are deceived never had their salvation in the first place. So give God all the glory for this.

I hope this helps you to understand that it is God doing the saving, God doing the keeping, Jesus going out and finding us if we start to go a little bit astray and bringing us back because the good work He started in us, he will complete it. And anyone that tells you different, including in your mind, that you have to take your thoughts captive, they are deceived, they are wrong. And if it’s demonic, it’s just pure evil. Because Romans eight.

So if you want to if you want to summarize with somebody, listen to the podcast again. But if you go to Ephesians one in Romans eight, and if you go back and look at what Jesus said, I give them eternal life. They shall never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

Amen. Amen, all right, thanks again for listening. Please share us with your friends and family if you If you’rs other podcast that’s you’re that you’re missed, you can always go ahead and get those and I’ll talk to you later. Take care,.