Greatest Hits: Can You Lose Your Salvation?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This summer we are looking at some of the most popular Ask the Pastor episodes over the years. This week, Pastor J.D. answers the question of whether or not you can lose your salvation.

Show Notes:

* At first glance, Hebrews 6 seems to say that not only can you lose your salvation, but once you do, you can never get it back! So what does it mean?
* This is important: I believe the writer of Hebrews is giving a general, pastoral warning to his congregation rather than attempting to delineate how the processes of regeneration, justification and eternal security work together.
* So, the warning here is a statement to believers and unbelievers alike about the importance of the gospel. Hopefully, it will rouse unbelievers out of their slumber. To the believer, we know that God will use it to keep his believers tethered closely to the gospel. Warnings like this one are one of God’s means of keeping believers awake to the gospel.
* If you persevere to the end, that proves you had the salvation you could never lose. If you don’t, it proves you never had that faith to begin with.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, my name is Matt Love, and I am the host of Ask the Pastor.
0:11.8	And as I've mentioned the last couple of weeks, we're taking a little break for the summer from new episodes.
0:17.3	And we are counting down the top 10 most listened to episodes in the history of
0:24.2	Ask the Pastor, formerly asked me anything, and we have made it to number seven.
0:29.3	And this is one of the questions that's been talked about for, I mean, as long as Christianity
0:33.5	has existed, and I know is one of the questions that JD gets asked the most.
0:37.2	And it's clearly one of the ones that JD gets asked the most, and it's
0:37.5	clearly one of the ones that you guys have been most interested in hearing the answer for,
0:41.9	and so this is number seven, can you lose your salvation?
0:53.7	Andy wrote to us and said, very can you lose your salvation. Hebrews 6, 4 through 8 is
1:00.3	throwing me for loop. So, J.D., what do you think? Andy, you asked a question that is close to my heart
1:04.8	and one that I wrestled with for many, many years. In fact, I wrote a book on it. I don't use this
1:09.9	podcast to try to promote books
1:11.9	that I've written, but this is one that was so personal to me. How do I know that I'm saved?
1:16.6	How do I know that you can't lose your salvation? Let me just lay out a little bit of things for you
1:21.8	and then maybe point you to some places that you could even go deeper. The Bible is clear that
1:26.2	salvation is a gift given irrevocably.
1:28.8	That means once and for all. But we prove that we have it by renewing ourselves and repentance and
1:33.7	faith continually and by never ceasing to persevere onwards until we get to glory. There's a lot of
1:40.7	warnings like the one you referenced in Hebrew 6 that almost are like, hey, hey, pay attention.
1:45.5	If you don't continue on in the faith and if you don't continue on in the grace of God, you're going to fall away.
1:50.8	Those warnings are one of the means by which God keeps us persevering of the faith.
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