These verses are only a small portion of the evidence needed to prove that Christ did it all on the cross, that we could have not possibly added any help to our salvation, His sacrifice covered it all. The confusion happens because people appear to walk away from Christ or they claim to be Christian but do not obey Him.
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand."
John 6:37
"All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out."
John 10:28
"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand."
John 5:24
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment but has passed from death to life."
Romans 11:29
"For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
Ephesians 2:8
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,"
Ephesians 4:30
"And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
1 John 5:10-13
"Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life."
John 6:40
"For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Ephesians 1:13-14
"In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory."
God never breaks a promise and we cannot break His promise.
2 Timothy 2:12-13 "…12 if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; 13if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. "
The evidence that we were born again is that we do endure. Those who don't endure were pretenders, they were never born again.
Matthew 7:21-23
"21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
If anyone can find me the passages in the scriptures that tell us how many sins we must break, or how big they are, or which ones specifically, that would cause us to lose our salvation, then I will take a look at them. However, you will find no scriptures telling us how big, how many and which specific sins will cause God to take His Holy Spirit from us.
In fact, there is no example in the dispensation of grace, the new testament, in which God removed His Holy Spirit from someone.
We see God sending His Holy Spirit and leaving someone in the Old Testament before Christ died. After Christ died and sent His Holy Spirit to live in every born again believer, there was never an account of the Holy Spirit leaving the born again believer.
Christ said clearly that He disciplines those He loves, this means believers do sin at times, or there would be no need for discipline.
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 everyone He receives as a son.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
When God's children disobey and sin, they will be chastised and receive consequences, sometimes life long consequences. And, if they do not confess to be cleansed they will suffer a loss of rewards in heaven, but they remain saved.
1 Corinthians 3:14-16 "…14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. 16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?…"
Sometimes it's hard to discern who is saved and who is not these days because believers can be influenced by the world even though they are born again. Then we also have the pretenders who were never born again defending their sin and rejecting the Word of God and yet they still attend church gatherings.
Matthew 13:24-30
Tares among Wheat
24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
25 But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.
26 But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.
27 The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
28 And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’ The slaves *said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he *said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them.
30 Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Matthew 13:3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;
4 and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.
5 Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up because they had no depth of soil.
6 But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.
8 And others fell on the good soil and *yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.
9 He who has ears, let him hear.”
So you see, the wheat can look like tares and the tares can appear to be wheat until they begin to whither, growing weary of the pretense and walking away. This is why we have so much confusion about eternal security, people are looking at circumstances rather than what the bible actually says.
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