Eternal Security

By:  Chuck Keener

There are 4 R's that you should remember:
Receive - Salvation
Relationship
Rest - Confidence, maturity, boldness, security
Reward - Service, works

Difficult Passages
Many of the verses that deal with insecurity have to do with who is a real believer.  Some of the passages  deal with rewards rather than salvation.

Losing your reward
1 Corinthians 3:14-15
    If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward.  If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

Losing Fellowship
1 John 1:6-7
    If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

Unfruitfulness
John 15:2
    He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

Chastizement
1 Corinthians 11:29
    For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.

1 John 5:16
    If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life.  I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death.  There is a sin that leads to death.  I am not saying that he should pray about that.

Salvation is a gift from God.
John 3:16
    For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Galatians 3:1
    You foolish Galatians!  Who has bewitched you?  Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

John 5:24
    I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

John 6:37
    All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

Romans 8:29-30
    For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.