Eternally Secure, Part 1

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Romans 8:28-30 — What does the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints have to do with identity as the body of Christ? Very much, says Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, in his sermon on Romans 8:28–30 titled “Eternity Secure (1).” One must be careful to remember that Christ did not come to just save isolated individuals but instead came to redeem His people, the church. The spiritual union between the church and Christ is modeled after the essential union between the Father and the Son. So, says Dr. Lloyd-Jones, it is absurd to think Christ’s love for His church can be frustrated somehow as if the Father’s love for the Son could be disrupted. Part of the assurance is based on the glorious truth that Christians are those the Father has given to His Son. It is impossible to imagine separation or falling away if one remembers that Christ died for the church in order to redeem it, perfect it, and present her to God the Father. Moreover, argues Dr. Lloyd-Jones, is the fact that perseverance is guaranteed based upon the teaching of chastisement. God refuses to leave His children alone. He will be faithful to discipline in order to conform His children more and more to the image of His Son. In the end, they are secure in Christ. Praise should erupt to the God who calls, keeps, preserves and will never forsake.

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0:00.0	We read once more the verses 28, 29 and 30 in the 8th chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans.
0:12.0	And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
0:18.0	to them who are the called according to his purpose.
0:22.2	For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
0:29.7	son, that he might be the first born among many brethren.
0:35.2	Moreover, whom he did predestinate, then he also called, and whom he called,
0:39.3	then he also justified, and whom he justified them he also glorified.
0:45.3	Now, we are at the moment looking at this great argument displayed before us here by the
0:52.3	Apostle.
0:53.3	It's a statement, perhaps the greatest of all of them,
0:57.4	concerning the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints, which means that those
1:04.0	who once are born again can never finally fall away from grace or out of that position of relationship to God as his dear children.
1:16.9	We've considered the verses that are generally brought forward in objection to this.
1:22.8	And having done that, we began last Friday night in a general statement again of the doctrine and the inevitability
1:31.5	of this doctrine in the light of scriptural teaching. For instance, I try to show again how
1:38.1	every single term that the apostle uses in this statement carries with it this necessary implication that this doctrine
1:49.1	must be true.
1:50.1	Otherwise, some or another, God has been mistaken.
1:54.3	He should never have called us if he knew that finally we were going to fall away.
1:59.3	And so on with all the other terms.
2:01.6	They involve a contradiction of the doctrine concerning God's omniscience and God's foreknowledge.
2:11.0	Secondly, we saw that what is said everywhere in the scriptures about believers carries also this same necessary implication.
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