Once Saved, Always Saved?
Grace is the essential
means of salvation (Eph. 2:
8). Is it possible, then, to
“fall from grace”?
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“Unconditional Eternal Security (UES) is the belief
that once an individual has been genuinely saved,
he cannot, under any circumstances, lose his
salvation. That is, he is eternally secure because
all of his sins, both past and future, have been
forgiven. This, in effect, means that once someone
has been saved, he can fall into sin of any sort and
still be saved. UES believers argue that a saved
person will NOT fall into sin, such as drunkenness,
but admit that if in the unlikely event that he does,
then he remains saved but God disciplines him
here on earth.”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
"We take the position that a Christian's sins do not damn
his soul! The way a Christian lives, what he says, his
character, his conduct, or his attitude toward other people
have nothing whatever to do with the salvation of his
soul….All the prayers a man may pray, all the Bibles he
may read, all the churches he may belong to, all the
services he may attend, all the sermons he may practice,
all the debts he may pay, all the ordinances he may
observe, all the laws he may keep, all the benevolent acts
he may perform will not make his soul one whit safer; and
all the sins he may commit from idolatry to murder will not
make his soul in any more danger….The way a man lives
has nothing whatever to do with the salvation of his soul." Sam Morris, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Stamford,
Texas (A Discussion Which Involves A Subject Pertinent To
All Men, pgs. 1,2.)
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“The verses you say relate to ‘Losing your
Salvation’ have nothing to do with losing your
salvation. i.e., ‘Falling from Grace’ doesn't translate
even close to losing your Salvation. Don a
Sovereign God doesn't get angered with us take
away our salvation. What does John 10:28 mean to
you? Are we ourselves not ‘men’ ? You are
certainly entitled to your beliefs, but there are so
many confused young people out here that lose
hope when you say that Salvation can be
lost! They believe it and think they have sinned so
bad that there is no hope!
Once Saved, Always Saved?
…We know in Scripture that there is ONLY ONE
unforgivable sin. A true born again Christian
cannot commit that sin. Just one more thing Don: If
you preach that salvation can be lost then in other
terms you are saying that My Jesus died on that
old rugged cross for nothing and we both know He
paid the ultimate price for our Sin! I do wish you
would consider Not turning people away. If you
really believe what you preach then say that You
believe it. Please don't say that's what the
Scriptures says because it surely does not!”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Is salvation conditional?
Answer: Regarding obtaining salvation:
Acts 16: 30-34, 2: 37-47.
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“37: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in
their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the
apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38:
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost. 39: For the promise is unto you, and to
your children, and to all that are afar off, even as
many as the Lord our God shall call. 40: And with
many other words did he testify and exhort, saying,
Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41:
Then they that gladly received his word were
baptized: and the same day there were added unto
them about three thousand souls” (Acts 2).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“30: And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what
must I do to be saved? 31: And they said, Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,
and thy house. 32: And they spake unto him the
word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
33: And he took them the same hour of the night,
and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and
all his, straightway. 34: And when he had brought
them into his house, he set meat before them, and
rejoiced, believing in God with all his house” (Acts
16).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Is salvation conditional?
Answer: Regarding “maintaining”
salvation: I Cor. 15: 2, Heb. 3: 6, 14.
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“1: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also
ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2: By
which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory
what I preached unto you, unless ye have
believed in vain” (I Cor. 15).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“6: But Christ as a son over his own house;
whose house are we, if we hold fast the
confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm
unto the end…. 14: For we are made partakers
of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
confidence stedfast unto the end” (Heb. 3).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Loss of salvation taught:
2 Peter 3: 17, James 5: 19, 20, I
Corinthians 9: 27 (2 Timothy 4: 7, 8).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“16: As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
these things; in which are some things hard to be
understood, which they that are unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17: Ye
therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things
before, beware lest ye also, being led away with
the error of the wicked, fall from your own
stedfastness” (2 Pet. 3).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“19: Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth,
and one convert him; 20: Let him know, that he
which converteth the sinner from the error of his
way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide
a multitude of sins” (Jas. 5).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“26: I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27: But I
keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:
lest that by any means, when I have preached to
others, I myself should be a castaway” (I Cor. 9,
cp. 2 Tim. 4: 7, 8).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Examples of falling:
I Corinthians 10: 1-12, 2 Peter 2: 20-22.
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“1: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the
cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2: And were
all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3: And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4: And did
all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of
that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock
was Christ. 5: But with many of them God was not
well pleased: for they were overthrown in the
wilderness. 6: Now these things were our examples,
to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as
they also lusted….”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“…8: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of
them committed, and fell in one day three and
twenty thousand. 9: Neither let us tempt Christ, as
some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of
serpents. 10: Neither murmur ye, as some of them
also murmured, and were destroyed of the
destroyer. 11: Now all these things happened unto
them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are
come. 12: Wherefore let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall” (I Cor. 10).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“20: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with
them than the beginning. 21: For it had been better
for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from
the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22: But
it is happened unto them according to the true
proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again;
and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the
mire” (2 Pet. 2).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Warnings not to fall:
Hebrews 10: 24-31, 2 Peter 3: 17, 18.
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“24: And let us consider one another to provoke unto
love and to good works: 25: Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the
more, as ye see the day approaching. 26: For if we
sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice
for sins, 27: But a certain fearful looking for of
judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour
the adversaries. 28: He that despised Moses' law
died without mercy under two or three witnesses…”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“…29: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye,
shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under
foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy
thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of
grace?...30: For we know him that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense,
saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his
people. 31: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
the living God….
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“…35: Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompence of reward. 36: For ye
have need of patience, that, after ye have done the
will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37: For
yet a little while, and he that shall come will come,
and will not tarry. 38: Now the just shall live by
faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have
no pleasure in him. 39: But we are not of them who
draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe
to the saving of the soul” (Heb. 10).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“17: Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these
things before, beware lest ye also, being led away
with the error of the wicked, fall from your own
stedfastness. 18: But grow in grace, and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen” (2
Pet. 3).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Consequences of falling:
Hebrews 6: 6-8, 2 Peter 2: 20-22.
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“4: For it is impossible for those who were once
enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5: And
have tasted the good word of God, and the powers
of the world to come, 6: If they shall fall away, to
renew them again unto repentance; seeing they
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and
put him to an open shame….”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“…7: For the earth which drinketh in the rain that
cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet
for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing
from God: 8: But that which beareth thorns and
briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose
end is to be burned. 9: But, beloved, we are
persuaded better things of you, and things that
accompany salvation, though we thus speak”
(Heb. 6).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“21: For it had been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than, after they
have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22: But it is happened
unto them according to the true proverb, The dog
is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that
was washed to her wallowing in the mire” (2 Pet.
2, cp. Luke 12: 45-48).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
How to prevent falling from grace:
First consider:
“4: Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are
fallen from grace” (Gal. 5, see v. 1).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
How to prevent falling from grace:
“5: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to
your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6: And
to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness; 7: And to
godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity. 8: For if these things be in you,
and abound, they make you that ye shall neither
be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ….”.
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“…9: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and
cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he
was purged from his old sins. 10: Wherefore the
rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye do these things,
ye shall never fall: 11: For so an entrance shall be
ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ” (2 Pet. 1).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Charges made by once saved, always
saved advocates:
 “You believe in salvation by merit.”
 “God is unreliable.”
 “God unable to keep saved.”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Charges made by once saved, always
saved advocates:
 “You do not believe John 3: 16.”
 “You do not believe John 10: 27-29.”
“You deny Jude 24” (see v. 21).
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Two relevant questions this past week:
 “If all future sin is already forgiven, how
are we to understand I John 1: 7-9?”
 “If one cannot fall from God’s favor, how
about Matthew 6: 14, 15?”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
“The verses you say relate to ‘Losing your
Salvation’ have nothing to do with losing your
salvation. i.e., ‘Falling from Grace’ doesn't translate
even close to losing your Salvation. Don a
Sovereign God doesn't get angered with us take
away our salvation. What does John 10:28 mean to
you? Are we ourselves not ‘men’ ? You are
certainly entitled to your beliefs, but there are so
many confused young people out here that lose
hope when you say that Salvation can be
lost! They believe it and think they have sinned so
bad that there is no hope!
Once Saved, Always Saved?
…We know in Scripture that there is ONLY ONE
unforgivable sin. A true born again Christian
cannot commit that sin. Just one more thing Don: If
you preach that salvation can be lost then in other
terms you are saying that My Jesus died on that
old rugged cross for nothing and we both know He
paid the ultimate price for our Sin! I do wish you
would consider Not turning people away. If you
really believe what you preach then say that You
believe it. Please don't say that's what the
Scriptures says because it surely does not!”
Once Saved, Always Saved?
Conclusion:
“1: And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the
son of Oded: 2: And he went out to meet Asa,
and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all
Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you,
while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will
be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will
forsake you” (2 Chroni. 15).