The Warning Passages in Hebrews

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Romans 8:28-30 — Can Christians lose their salvation? This is a much-debated question in Christianity that has immense significance for all believers. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says that while some passages seem to teach that Christians can lose their salvation, this is a misunderstanding. In this sermon on Romans 8:28–30 titled “The Threefold Purpose,” he looks at the warning passages in Hebrews 6 and 10. He argues that these passages do not speak of true Christians falling away but it speaks of those unbelievers who hear the gospel and are in the church, yet reject it. Just as many people in the Bible, such as Judas, are part of the visible church (and even in places of authority), they are shown to not be truly saved. So it is true in all the church. The Bible never speaks of true believers falling away. These are lost men and women who show temporary signs of profession yet fall away. These passages ought to encourage true believers to seek to live a life that testifies to Christ’s power of salvation. Can true Christians fall away from Christ? The Bible’s answer is no since Christ is the perfect Savior who is able to redeem sinners and bring their salvation to completion. As the Savior promised, no one can snatch a child of His from His hand.

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0:00.0	I read once more for our consideration the words that are to be found in Paul's epistle to the Romans in chapter 8, verses 28, 29 and 30.
0:14.0	And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
0:25.5	For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son,
0:33.2	that he might be the first born among many brethren.
0:38.0	Moreover, whom he did predestinate, then he also called,
0:42.0	and whom he called, then he also justified,
0:45.4	and whom he justified, then he also glorified.
0:50.3	We are still continuing our consideration of the great doctrine contained in those verses, namely the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints. And we've reached the stage, most of you will recall, in which we are dealing with the difficulties that people experience with respect to this doctrine.
1:13.7	There are a number of statements in the scripture that on the surface seem to deny it,
1:20.3	and we are trying to deal with those scriptures in order that we've got, indeed, we've got two main reasons.
1:35.2	The first is that we all may enjoy the positive value of this doctrine.
1:37.9	That's certainly my main interest in it.
1:42.4	I'm suggesting that it was the Apostle's interest in it.
1:46.1	It's a pastoral interest, not a mere intellectual interest. Primally, this is a pastoral matter. It is the importance of having assurance of
1:53.4	salvation and of knowing that your salvation is not something which you may suddenly lose
1:59.8	at any moment.
2:07.3	It is implicit and inherent in the whole notion of assurance that it should continue.
2:12.2	You can't be assured of something which may go at any minute.
2:21.1	So it is, I say, very vital to a true enjoyment of the Christian salvation that we should be clear about this great doctrine. I'm not concerned primarily simply to defend the doctrine. I'm interested in the
2:28.6	doctrine because of what it does for us, and we are given it by God in order that as his children we may enjoy the fruits of
2:37.9	his grace and of his dealing with us in our blessed Lord and save.
2:43.7	Well, very well, then, that's my main reason for dealing with it, but I have, of course,
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