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.
Why some people can't keep the victory
57-0324 §17
...ple could see that. That's one thing you're short in. That's what brings fear and trouble to you. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, I'm afraid you'll go off on the deep end of eternal security, and all this." Oh, no, you don't have to worry about that; if you keep your heart in the Bible, it won't. That's right. It's the Word of God. And a man say, "Well, I'm saved. I just do what..." I always do what I want to do. And if I know my motives is wrong, then I better go back to the altar. Because if God's in me, I only wa...
Hebrews, Chapter 1
57-0821 §21
...for them. The only thing he could teach them... When they'd come in, one had a tongue, one had a psalm, one had a sensation, one had a feeling. He couldn't speak to them, "Eternal security." He couldn't speak to them, "predestination." He couldn't talk to them; they were babies. They all had to feel something, or see something, or have funny feelings, or something around them, some evidences.
Jehovah-Jireh
57-0309E §17
Now, if a man says, "Well, I just... I will just ... (Presbyterian idea), I just walk up and shake hands and say, 'I got it. That's all right. I got eternal security.'" Brother, you're off the track. My wife, I love her. I made a covenant with her to be her husband. And if I was away from home, and some woman would come to me and say, "I love you," and I wanted ... felt like that I would make love to the woman, and Meda would forgive me for it when I went home, I still wouldn't do it. Though I know she'd forgive me...
Questions and Answers
61-0112 §128
...going down, he always had trouble with the Corinthian church. You never found him that way in... He never said nothing about it to the Ephesian church. He could teach them eternal security. There's nothing about eternal security in the Corinthian church. They were always babies, trying, "One's got a tongue, one's got a psalm." Isn't that right? See? And if you let your congregation get started on that... Like Martin Luther. He got so filled with the Spirit till he spoke in tongues. He said... in his diary, he said...
Lifting Him up out of history
58-1001 §13
...d many great men down through the ages has longed to see this hour that we're now approaching. And as we live in this glorious setting of mortal sun and the breaking of the eternal light, I do feel that we're living in one of the grandest ages that ever man has been permitted to live: because it's the closing out of time and the blending in of eternity. History only tells us what we have read---what has been. And what's in the future lays in the hand of God. And we find out today, that there's not too much history...