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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
God's covenant with Abraham and his seed
56-0223 §61
...ipture. Notice, and it's the same Holy Spirit. He said, "Brother Branham, we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe." I said, "No, no. unh-uh. No, no." I said, "You receive eternal life when you believe, but not the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, 'He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me has everlasting life, but the Holy Spirit baptizes us into the body of the believers.'" I said, "You Baptists get that in your mind, and I'll go with you on eternal security." That's right. He said, "Well, when we belie...
Daniel 9: Gabriel's instructions to Daniel
61-0730M §32
...is gone. So He is now showing in the fifth chapter how He did it, what taken place, how He sealed the church off. The revelation of His name, water baptism using His name, eternal life, no eternal hell, serpent's seed, eternal security, all the great doctrines, predestination of the church, that was revealed to the church. He's showing how He done it.
It is I, be not afraid
59-0811 §10
So many times getting into meetings, coming to meetings, letters come to me, "What's your doctrine, Brother Branham? You was a Baptist; do you still believe in eternal security? Are you Jesus only? Have you... Do you baptize at all? Do you sprinkle?" I will say this: I have one doctrine, the great fundamental evangelical doctrine of the Bible. I've never left a meeting to my knowing with any confusion. I've always tried to leave the meeting with sweetness of the Holy Spirit. Never tried to make ... proselyte, I nev...
Revelation, Chapter 5, part 2
61-0618 §75
...lse sound somewhere. The devil's got you all puffed up. But if you examine your life by the Word of God ---it shows you're living right down that Bible pages---then you got eternal security, and there's nothing to be fearing about. What God promised, God will do it. I challenge any person to take that. You just take that and walk with that Word, and watch what happens to you. Brother, it'll bring to pass everything. God said so. Everything that God promised, it'll happen.
Questions and Answers
59-0628E §58
...p back there," the church says so; and the Scripture says, "Whosoever will." I can't make that hit the target. I can't make Calvinism---just believe on the Lord and you got eternal security---and Arminianism, "That if I just touch not, handle not, taste not, I'd like to do it, but I can't do it!"... Arminianism is too far away from Calvinism, and they both are wrong. I've got to see where... They both got scriptures, but it's got to hit the target. Now, if God said one thing in this Bible, it's got to hit the targe...