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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59-0628E §72
Now, the church itself has eternal security. If you're in the church, you're secured with the church. But when you go out of the church, you're not secured, see. Now, you stay in the church. How do you get in the church? Joining hands, writing your name on a book? By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body; that's the church. How? Through Holy Ghost baptism we are sealed in the body of Christ. How long? Until the day of your redemption. Ephesians 4:30, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed u...
The Serpent's Seed
58-0928E §31
But I want to ask you something. Is there an eternal security? The Bible says so. The Bible said that our names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the world ever begin. As I said this morning, I say it again: The man who wrote the song, "There Was a New Name Written Down In Glory Tonight and It's Mine," his idea was all right, but he was wrong Scripturally. Your name wasn't put on the night you got saved. Your name, according to the Bible, according to Revelations 13, 17, and so forth, was put on there befo...
The Resurrection
53-1205 §11
...long as Calvinist stays in the Bible, see. If it gets out of the Bible I don't believe it. I believe this; I believe every believer believes it with me, that the church has eternal security. God has promised and said He'd be there without a blemish, spot, or wrinkle. Is that right? God's done said so, so that... Now, if you're in the church, you're secured with the church. Is that right? That don't mean Methodist, or Baptist now, or Pentecostal. That means Holy Spirit born again church, that one we're born into. Th...
The Evening Messenger
63-0116 §101
...ger. God, send him! Do you think we will receive him? No, sir! He'll be a crank and a fanatic, sure enough, but God will prove him. The real believer, them predestinated to eternal life, Jesus said, "All the Father has given Me will come, and no man can come unless my Father draws him. And all the Father hath" (past time) " given Me, they'll come." That's right, they were... I don't believe in this here Baptist teaching of eternal security. I believe it in a way, but I believe you're secure as long as you're in the...
Revelation, Chapter 5, part 2
61-0618 §89
...Then surely if the Bible said so, you'll believe it. But they could not see nothing but "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" until this time. They could not see that there was no eternal hell until this time. They could not see there was an eternal security---I mean for the real believer. Of course there's been a mock of it all the way around, an uncertain sound they give. That's the reason the people, they say, "Why, look at them Presbyterians and so forth. Smoke, drink, and everything else, and say they got eternal sec...