There are far too many posts now lying against the eternal security doctrine that God gave us in His Word. these false posts are denying a whole lot of scripture that prove when Christ saves us it is eternally.
It is not a license to sin, just the opposite, it is grace to be saved and power of the Holy Spirit to help us live without sinning but if we do we are disciplined by our Father to return to obedience.
All born-again believers remain in Christ. Christ is the One Who changes people into a new creation, they do not do it by their own means. Whatever God does no one can undo.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
Ephesians 2:10
"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
If someone walks away after claiming to be a Christian they were never born again by the Spirit of Christ.
Christ comes to live in those who have trusted in Him. He doesn't hop in and out of people over sin. He rather disciplines those who belong to Him.
Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
Ephesians 1:13-14
"13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also [c]believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, 14 who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."
No one who has trusted Christ, He moves into them, and are sealed with His Holy Spirit will ever lose what He made us into. He does not undo what He did.
Hebrews 13:5 "Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you,”
No one is saved by their own good deeds or right lifestyle and they do not keep salvation by their own good deeds or lifestyle.
1 John 3:8-10 "…8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother."
If someone loves their sin and claims to be a Christian they are only pretenders. If they are disciplined by the church and refuse to repent they have never been born again.
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