What About Bible Verses That (Seem to) Imply You Can Lose Your Salvation?
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J.D. Greear
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🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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* There are all kinds of warnings in the Bible about how you must continue on in your faith to be saved. And yet, like we talked about last week, the Bible also clearly teaches that once you're saved, you're always saved. So how do these sort of verses square with each other? Do they contradict?
* Well, no, they don’t. But they do teach you something important about the nature of saving faith: Saving faith endures to the end.
* So why are “eternally secure” believers given warnings about enduring in the faith? I believe it's because these warnings are not only to awaken those with false assurance about salvation but also to spur true believers onward in their faith.
* The Bible clearly teaches that believers cannot lose their salvation. Yet these warnings ought also to be taken at face value: If we fall away, we will not be saved in the end. The only way those two statements can both be true is if a failure to heed them demonstrates that we never possessed that saving faith to begin with.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:17.0 | Everybody, welcome to another episode of Ask Me Anything where Pastor J.D. is going |
| 0:21.6 | to give some quick answers to some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:24.3 | And I'm Matt Love, your host. |
| 0:25.9 | And today we have a follow up to last week's episode when we answered a question that many |
| 0:30.1 | of our listeners have had, which is, can you lose your salvation? |
| 0:33.6 | But Pastor J.D., today we want to get a little bit more specific because we know there |
| 0:37.4 | are some verses that seem to imply that you can lose your salvation. |
| 0:41.3 | So how do you navigate that? |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah, we talked a little bit about this the previous episode. |
| 0:45.5 | But yeah, I think it's actually worth pressing in a little bit more. |
| 0:49.5 | And we do get a fair amount of questions on this. |
| 0:51.9 | Let me just start by saying that I did learn eternal |
| 0:54.5 | security. I think wrongly when I was, I grew up in a church that taught it, you know, |
| 0:59.7 | once saved, always saved. And by the way, I still believe that. But the way it was presented to me |
| 1:03.6 | is almost like it's a contract you sign. And the moment your signature goes on that contract, then like there's just no reneging at all. I mean, it's just, |
| 1:12.3 | it's locked, it's loaded. It's like this, you know, now you've got this eternal MX, |
| 1:17.4 | American Express bank account that you can, whatever you do, you know, Jesus is going to pay for it |
| 1:22.4 | because, because he's never going to break his word. And it's just, you know, it's contractual. Once you go through |
| 1:28.6 | the ceremony, there's no going back. And again, I want to be clear, I do believe once saved, |
| 1:32.3 | always saved, but that just is not how the Bible seemed to talk about salvation. Again, just to |
| 1:37.1 | briefly touch on that example, last time of Jesus's parable of the seeds, you've got seeds that go into |
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