Is Eternal Security Biblical?
1) Direct Answer
Yes—eternal security is biblical for the truly born-again believer. Those who receive Eternal Life by the new birth are kept by God and cannot be finally lost. But a mere profession, a momentary emotion, or operating gifts without the new birth is not security.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- John 10:27-29: “My sheep hear my voice… I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish… no man is able to pluck them out of my hand.”
- John 5:24: “He that heareth my word, and believeth… hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
- Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30: Believers are “sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise… until the day of redemption.”
- Romans 8:29-39: Whom He foreknew, He justified and glorified; nothing can “separate us from the love of God.”
- 1 Peter 1:5: We are “kept by the power of God through faith.”
- Philippians 1:6: “He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it.”
- Hebrews 10:14: “By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.”
- 1 John 2:19: Those who depart show they “were not of us.”
- 1 John 3:9: The one born of God has His seed remaining and cannot live in sin.
What about warning passages (Hebrews 6:4-6; 10:26)?
- The Bible distinguishes between “tasting” and being “sealed.” Many can taste, be enlightened, feel the power, and even operate gifts (Matthew 7:22-23), yet never be born again. Jesus said to such, “I never knew you”—not “I knew you and then lost you.”
- The warnings expose false confidence and drive us to true repentance and the sealing of the Spirit, not to fear that the new birth can be undone.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Eternal Life is God’s own Life. If you can lose “eternal” life, it wasn’t eternal. What God births, God keeps.
- The Shepherd keeps His sheep; the sheep do not keep the Shepherd. If salvation hangs on our grip, we all fall. The Bible says we are “kept by the power of God.”
- Security is not a license to sin. A son who sins is chastened (Hebrews 12:6-8). If a person can live comfortably in sin, the Scripture says he is not a son.
- Those who permanently fall away reveal they never had the new birth (1 John 2:19). Perseverance is the fruit of true regeneration.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the Bible gives no blanket security to casual believers, but absolute security to the truly born again. If you have His Life, sealed by His Spirit, you will be kept, corrected, and brought safely to the day of redemption.
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God's covenant with Abraham and his seed
56-0223 §17
Now, talking... Bring it right up to the age of eternal security here. I do believe in eternal security in this way: I believe that the church has eternal security, and as long as you are in the church, you are secured with the church. Do you get it? As long as you are in the church, you are secured with the church. Do you get it? Now, then how do we get into the church? By joining? No, by one Spirit we're all baptized into one body. Not Methodist, not Baptist, not Pentecostal, but by one Spirit. I Corinthians 12,...
The Serpent's Seed
58-0928E §30
...treets, and bobbing their hair, and--and smoking, and talking, and little stitch and sew parties, and telling dirty jokes. You call that Christianity? And you think you got eternal security? You're going to hell like that. You wouldn't enjoy yourself in heaven in any manner. Certainly not. That's not eternal security. But when a man is born again of the Holy Ghost... And you Pentecostal, 'cause you jumped up and down, spoke in tongues, and run up-and-down the aisle, that don't mean you got eternal security. Don't y...
Blasphemous Names
62-1104M §62
Then Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed until the day of your redemption." Now, some of you Baptists that wants to go on eternal security, now, if you'll come to that stage, I'll stand with you in eternal security, if you'll come to that place. But just to say, anybody says, "I've joined the Baptist church"; "I'm a Presbyterian"; "I got eternal security"; that's wrong. Your own life proves you haven't got it. Until this is there and God has adopted you and seals you by th...
Demonology, physical realm, part 1
53-0608A §25
I believe this, in security: I believe the church has eternal security. Any reader of the Bible knows that, because God's already said it would appear yonder without blemish. Is that right? Then it's going to be there. Is that right? The church is eternally secured. Now, are you in the church, is the next thing. If you're in the church, all right, you're secured with the church. But you better stay in the church. And how do you get in the church? By shaking hands? No. Putting your name in the book? No, sir. "By one...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 2
57-0908E §13
...ind out if forever doesn't mean "a space of time." Jonah said he was in the belly of the whale forever. And many other Scriptures, forever only means "a space of time." But eternal: that's forever ... that's forever and forever and forever and forever and forever; it's the eternal! And we find out that hell isn't eternal, but it's forever. And the reason... You have to watch those words, now. If you don't, you get mixed up. Now, remember, just those things which had no beginning, has no end. Therefore, Jesus said,...