Matthew Stuckey here and I want to make a quick video just kind of explaining to
you some tips and some ideas and kind of techniques I use in order to explain
internal security, in order to explain once saved always saved, in order to
explain how you cannot lose your salvation when I'm actually preaching
the gospel. And so hopefully these can be a blessing to you and I want to just
give you kind of some ideas to do it because when we go in soul winning one
of the things that people really struggle with comprehending and
understanding is that salvation is forever and it can't be lost. And so
oftentimes during the conversation and you know I do the same thing I'm showing
them early on about how it's just by believing. Once I've shown them they're
guilty I show that it's just by believing and it's faith alone and I
want you to realize something though that if somebody thinks they can lose
their salvation they're not understanding that it's by faith alone
yet. So you might get them to agree it's by faith alone but if they still think
they can lose their salvation they don't really think it's by faith alone.
So I want you to realize that when it comes to preaching the gospel when you
look at the most famous verses on soul winning that we use in the Bible John
3 16 John 3 36 Acts chapter 16 Romans chapter 6 verse 23 those verses really
just kind of highlight everything you know kind of in a small form just hit
every single thing that is necessary really for them to end up getting saved.
For example they'll say it's just by faith that it's everlasting life or
eternal life and they'll explain how it is only in Jesus Christ all just in a
nutshell in those verses. So it's kind of giving you an overview of kind of all
the things that are packed in. So when I'm preaching the gospel after I show
somebody that they are guilty and they need a Savior and that Jesus rose again
when I'm explaining because I'll go to Acts chapter 16 and after that I'll go
to John chapter 3 verse 16 then John 3 36 and then Romans 6 23 and if
necessary I mix in a few verses along the way as well but I'll explain in
depth all of those verses. Here's the thing with each of those four different
ones I explained that it's only in Jesus Christ that it is by faith alone and
that you can never lose your salvation. I don't look at eternal security as a
thing that I tack on at the very end after I've explained everything else and
you know I want to get them get them to believe this last thing. I do have
questions at the end to make sure they understand eternal security but I've
already been explaining eternal security throughout the entire conversation and
so I want to quickly go over exactly how I do that and maybe it can be a help to
you maybe it can be a blessing to you but I want to go back to Revelation 21
8 real quickly and I want you to realize that it is worth spending the time to
make sure they understand that they are guilty and they need a Savior not to
just quickly go over the first couple minutes you can get to the good news
it's like they need to understand that they're guilty. Revelation 21 verse 8
highlights where it says all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone. You know what it is important for them to understand that
just one sin one lie is enough to condemn them to hell because if they
understand that just one sin is enough to condemn them to hell it's gonna make
it a lot easier for them to understand that they cannot lose their salvation
because it only takes one sin to condemn you to hell so if you could lose your
salvation you'd lose it every single day because the thought of foolishness is
sin so it's it's important and look I don't talk about eternal security when
I'm talking about Revelation 21 8 but what I do is I make sure that they
understand that we deserve help for just one sin and you know what that's gonna
make them understand eternal security a little bit more easily later on during
conversation with Acts chapter 16 where it says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved what I tell people is this what I explain is I'm
going through the whole thing once they realize that it says just believe not
live a good life not repent of your sins not get baptized not go to church but
just believe and I'll say so what does it take to be saved according the Bible
and they'll say believe so how do you get saved by believing so when do you
get saved at the end of their life or the moment they believe and then they'll
usually say well the moment you believe and so I'll say which of your sins are
forgiven when you believe when you get saved is it just the past sins or the
future as well and they'll usually say well the future as well so I say well
how many times do you need to get saved then and they'll say well one time and
so basically I'm just kind of going through all these different things just
kind of logically so they understand salvation is by believing and of course
I've already spent a couple minutes explaining that it's not just believing
Jesus exists but when you're putting your full trust on him so when you put
your full trust on him you're saved so when do you get saved and it's good for
them to understand it's not the end of their life but the moment they believe
and then it's good for them to understand that it's not just their
past sins that are forgiven it's not just the small sins but also the future
sins as well and it makes it very easy for them to understand well you know you
only get saved one time now when I explained that in act 16 sometimes I can
kind of see in their eyes and seeing their look that they're kind of
understanding how this is different now because before that time oftentimes
they're kind of thinking yeah I've heard this before but that really helps click
with people that salvation is only a one-time thing and you know what I've
already taught them once saved always saved but I'm going to explain it on the
next several verses as well so with John 3 16 the same thing you get everlasting
life by believing and I'll explain how it's your spiritual birthday and you're
born in a moment and when you're born it's not you that does the work it's
your mom and it's the same thing spiritually we don't do the work to be
born again Jesus Christ did the work for us but we receive everlasting life at
the end of our life or the moment we believe well the moment we believe
because that's how we receive it and so you receive everlasting life so God has
already promised you that you're gonna live forever are you gonna live
physically forever or is he referring to spiritual and they'll say while he's
referring to spiritual and so well how many times do you need to be born and
it's just like well just one time so I've already kind of explained you know
everlasting life sometimes I'll say does it say everlasting life as long as I
don't do something bad or does this say it's everlasting life they'll say well
it says it's everlasting life and so look I've already explained eternal
security during the conversation a couple times while I've also showed them
in those verses it's Jesus alone and it's just by faith alone and you can
never lose that so in John chapter 3 verse 36 the same thing I'll explain how
there's two types of people those that you know do not believe but they might
be nice they might not be and if they don't believe even if they're nice where
do they go well they're gonna go to hell well what if they believe they put their
full trust in Jesus but let's say they commit a lot of sins let's say they're a
bad husband let's say that they're a bad father let's say they're a bad wife
are they gonna go to heaven or hell and they'll say heaven because it's just by
believing and once again it's everlasting life the moment you believe
it says he that believeth on the Sun hath everlasting life so you say brother
Stuckey you know isn't that just kind of overboard just explaining over and over
again that it's the moment you believe the moment you believe the moment you
believe look sometimes us as believers that have been saved for a long time we
forget how confused we were before we were saved I was confused about all
these things before I was saved and so people need the repetition to really
make sure they get it so I explained once saved always saved in Acts 16 I
explained you know everlasting life how it's forever in John 3 16 John 3 36 and
then Romans 6 23 where I explained about how if you give somebody a gift is this
can it be taken back and they'll say well no you know if it's taken back it's
not really a gift what is that gift well it's eternal life how long is
eternal it's forever so how many times you need to receive it once and so
here's the thing I've explained eternal security many times during the
conversation then I'll ask kind of the ending questions to make sure that they
got it but it's not that I haven't covered it at all and now I'm gonna ask
those questions and then if they don't get it then I'll explain to turn security
no no I've already explained eternal security in acts 16 John 3 16 John 3 36
Romans 6 23 why cuz that is something that's really hard for people to grasp
so then I'll ask them that question about murder if they were saved and they
committed a big sin like murder would they lose their salvation and the other
thing I do is this which I forgot to mention when I'm explaining John 3 3 3
16 about how you're born into God's family I talk about the physical birth
and how when you act up your parents will discipline you on this life and if
you act up more the punishment is more if you act up a little bit then the
punishment is just a little so the punishment meets the crime but here's
the thing do your parents ever cast you out of the family do they ever put you
in a burning oven well no because they're gonna love you forever but they
will discipline you and I'll say what's the same thing with God he loves us
we're his child once we believe but he will discipline us it in this life and
the more bad we are you know the the worst we are the bigger the punishment
and so I explained that in John 3 16 to explain eternal security and so after
I've done Romans 6 23 I'll ask them specifically on that question of murder
and most of the time they get it right because I've already explained eternal
security it's not something that I'm just bringing up at the very end I've
been explaining it a little bit during the whole conversation and then I'll ask
them about suicide and they'll usually get that as well and the reason why is
because I've explained how it's spiritual life that lasts forever not
physical life that lasts forever now those follow-up questions on murder and
suicide are very important and whatever specific questions you would ask at the
end to make sure they get it because of the fact some people can be answering
correctly but it doesn't necessarily tell you what's inside of their heart
you want to make sure that they get it and you want to make sure that they're
not confused and you will run into people even if you've explained eternal
security very clearly throughout the conversation you will run into people
that are still confused they're still not sure about it they're kind of
hesitant so it's important to still have those follow-up questions but my purpose
in this video and what I'm trying to tell you is it's good to kind of lay the
groundwork for those final questions during the conversation you kind of just
mentioned how it's once saved always saved how it's everlasting life and
you've already been explaining eternal security it's not just something where
you've been talking for 15 minutes and then you try to explain it to own
security in 30 seconds at the very end they're not likely to get it if you do
that it's better to try to explain it during the conversation because the main
soul-winning verses that we use they explain everything and I think that's
the way that Jesus preached the gospel they explain house by faith alone but
that it lasts forever and it's only in Jesus Christ the gift of God so it's a
free gift it's not works is eternal life meaning it lasts forever through Jesus
Christ our Lord right believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved
so it's Jesus alone it's by faith alone and being saved actually indicates once
saved always saved because if you could lose it you were never really saved to
begin with but it's good to explain that to people because they don't always
understand it so what I'm trying to say is this when you're explaining eternal
security you know what that's something you want to kind of explain during the
conversation and don't get this idea that people are already aware of all
this stuff the reality is unsafe people are confused about a lot of things that
maybe we've heard preach for years and we kind of take for granted
anyways thank you and God bless