Can an Elect Person Fall Away Forever?
1) Direct Answer
No. An elect person cannot fall away forever. The true seed may stumble, but God brings them back. The elect are kept by God and will be presented faultless.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice… I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand… My Father… is greater than all” (John 10:27-30). If they “never perish,” then final falling away is impossible.
- The Scripture says those whom God foreknew He predestinated, called, justified, and glorified (Romans 8:29-30). Notice the chain is unbroken—from foreknowledge to glory. Then it adds that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ (Romans 8:35-39).
- We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world and sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:4,13-14). A seal unto the day of redemption is not a seal for a season.
- “If it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (Matthew 24:24). That shows it is not possible to finally deceive or lose the elect.
- “Being born again… by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever” (1 Peter 1:23). Incorruptible seed does not die out.
- “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him” (1 John 3:9). The life in the soul cannot deny the Word. The outward man may fail; the inner man holds to God.
- God chastens every son He receives (Hebrews 12:5-11). He corrects His own; He does not cast them away.
- The prodigal was a son while away and a son when restored (Luke 15). He was not made a pig; he was a sheep out of place, brought home again.
- Those who depart and never return reveal they were never of us (1 John 2:19).
Revelation shows the Bride standing victorious, not lost: a countless, washed, overcoming people (Revelation 7:9-17) and seated to reign (Revelation 20:4). That is preservation, not perdition.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Eternal life cannot be temporary. If it can be lost forever, it was never eternal.
- If the elect could finally fall, then Christ would lose a part of His Body and a name written from the foundation would be erased. But Jesus said, “they shall never perish.”
- The life of God in the soul believes the Word. The outside may slip, but the Seed inside will call for the Word, and the Father will bring that child back.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice: it’s not a license to sin; it’s a promise that the true seed will be kept holy. The Bride will be there. God finishes what He starts.
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Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 2
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See what He's talking about? He's not talking about Christians falling away and impossible to come back. He's talking about carnal believers who go through the form of reformation. But he said, "To you who was borned again, you who are Christian beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. You don't say those things. You don't live that type of life. You're secured with Christ." What did he say right here? Now let's go to Hebrews 10, where we was at this morning, again. [Break in tape.] Now let's turn over then...
From that time
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Seals 9: Questions and Answers on the Seals
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QUESTION: Will any that are not predestinated accept the Lord? If they do, will they fall away? Not if they're predestinated, no. They couldn't.
Thy loving kindness
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...And let them know, even after You've identified Yourself in our midst, not a dead Christ, not One on a cross, but One in the hearts that's raised from the dead and is alive forever more. Blessed be His holy name. I ask You to heal every person that's in divine presence. And I challenge the devil in Jesus' name. He cannot defy the Word of God, for the Word of God has deceived you Satan, and you are stripped of all the rights that you ever had. When Jesus died at Calvary, He gave us the keys to the kingdom, and you h...
Hearing, recognizing, acting on the Word of God
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...t imagine Noah saying, "You know what? It just must be it might rain someday, so I'll just go out and build me an ark. If it rains, well, I'll get in the ark and move right away. And nothing will bother me, because I'm going to get in the ark and move away." Could you imagine? No, that wasn't it. If that had been it (oh, may the elected hear it now), if that would have been it, the first scoffer come by, as the Bible said there was, scoffed at him, he would have laid his hammer down and walked away. Like men does t...