IS ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED BIBLICAL?
Is Once Saved. Always Saved a Bible Truth? you asked. Let's see if the Bible supports that.
2nd Timothy 1:[12] For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Jesus is our savior but he is also our shepherd. John 18:9 Of them which thou gave me have I lost none. Matthew 18:12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goes into the mountains, and seeks that which is gone astray?
13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Romans 8:30 declares, "And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified." /// Paul asks two crucial questions in [33] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
[34] Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Romans 8:[38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,[39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Both Jesus and Paul preached 'once saved always saved' Jesus proclaimed in John5[24] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life
Ephesians 1:13 when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him, when you also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
When you are saved you are sealed with the Holy Spirit it is a seal that cannot be broken. Paul says in Ephesians 4:30 that the believers have been “sealed for the day of redemption”, which suggests that this seal is incapable of being broken and makes certain the redemption of the saints.
In ancient times a seal or signet was an instrument, often metal or stone, with an engraved pattern or design on it. It would be pressed into a softer material, usually wax or clay leaving an imprint like a stamp. A seal affixed to a document (usually on a scroll) would have to be broken in order to unroll the document and read it. |
