Is eternal security a "license" to sin?
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Is eternal security a "license" to sin? If we cannot lose our salvation, does that not mean we can sin all we want?
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- Is eternal security a license to sin? We're going to answer that question.
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- The most frequent objection to the doctrine of eternal security is that it supposedly allows people to live any way that they want and still be saved.
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- While this may be technically true, it is not true in reality. A person who has truly been redeemed by Jesus Christ will not live a life characterized by continuous willful sin.
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- We must draw a distinction between how a Christian should live and what a person must do in order to receive salvation.
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- The Bible is clear that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Jesus Christ alone.
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- The moment a person truly believes in Jesus Christ, he or she is saved and secure in that salvation.
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- It is unbiblical to say that salvation is received by faith but then has to be maintained by works.
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- The Apostle Paul addresses this issue in Galatians 3 when he asks, Are you so foolish?
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- After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
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- If we are saved by faith, our salvation is also maintained and secured by faith.
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- We cannot earn our own salvation. Therefore, neither can we earn the maintenance of our salvation.
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- It is God who maintains our salvation. It is God's hand that holds us firmly in His grasp.
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- It is God's love that nothing can separate us from. Any denial of eternal security is, in its essence, a belief that we must maintain our own salvation by our own good works and efforts.
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- This is completely antithetical to salvation by grace. We are saved because of Christ's merits, not our own.
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- To claim that we must obey God's word or live a godly life to maintain our salvation is saying that Jesus' death was not sufficient to pay for the penalty for our sins.
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- Jesus' death was absolutely sufficient to pay for all of our sins, past, present, and future, pre -salvation and post -salvation.
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- Does this mean that a Christian can live any way that he wants to and still be saved?
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- This is essentially a hypothetical question because the Bible makes it clear that a true Christian will not live any way he wants to.
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- Christians are new creations. Christians demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit, not the acts of the flesh.
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- 1 John 3, 6 -9 clearly states that a true Christian will not live in continual sin.
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- In response to the accusation that grace promotes sin, the Apostle Paul declared, What shall we say then?
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- Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means. We died to sin. How can we live in it any longer?
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- Eternal security is not a license to sin. Rather, it is the security of knowing that God's love is guaranteed for those who trust in Christ.
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- Knowing and understanding God's tremendous gift of salvation accomplishes the opposite of giving a license to sin.
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- How could anyone, knowing the price Jesus Christ paid for us, go on to live a life of sin?
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- How could anyone who understands God's unconditional and guaranteed love for those who believe, take that love and throw it back in God's face?
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- Such a person is demonstrating not that eternal security has given him a license to sin, but rather that he or she has not truly experienced salvation through Jesus Christ.
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- No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
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