Hello everybody, it's MinisterTol23 back with another video, and I'm continuing talking
about the 35 reasons why we cannot lose our salvation.
Now if you have not watched the previous videos, I recommend that you go and watch those first
because a lot of the stuff that I will talk about in this video and the following videos
ties in with the things that I've already mentioned.
So it would be preferable if you watch those and listen to those before this one because
Reason number 19, which is the one that I'm starting with today, draws on number 18.
So the last reason, the last point that I talked about of why you cannot lose your salvation
is that when we are born again, we become the children of God.
We are God's sons and therefore He deals with us as with sons.
He chastens us when we do wrong, but because we are His children, He will always love us
as the Bible teaches.
Again, go and watch that, the last video, Part number 3, which I made a few days ago.
So anyway, reason number 19 of why we cannot lose our salvation draws on what we just learned
from reason 18, that we are the sons of God.
Because we are the sons of God, we are promised an inheritance with God.
First of all, I would like to go back to the concept of the earnest, which I also talked
about in the last video.
Remember in Ephesians 1-14, it says that the Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession.
That is, it is a reminder given to us by God that one day we will inherit what He has promised,
just as it is a reminder that we are also the sons of God.
It says in Romans chapter 8 verses 16 to 17, the Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit that we are the children of God, and if children, then heirs.
Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with them, that we
may be also glorified together.
So because Christians have the Holy Ghost living inside of them, they both know that
they are the children of God.
We see that from the Scriptures, but the Spirit that God has given us also testifies of that.
But also, the Bible teaches that we have the earnest, that we will inherit what God has
promised, as we see also in those other Scriptures in Ephesians 1-14.
It is God's promise that we will inherit what God has given to us.
As children and of the household of God, we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
as it says in Romans 8 17.
And by the way, before anybody brings it up, because I know certain people will, the last
phrase of verse 17 where it says, if so be that we suffer with Him, you have to read
in context.
I'm not going to go into too much detail for the sake of time, but read verses 18 to 23.
They concern the fact that everybody in this world goes through suffering, even Christians,
and the suffering will not end until we get raptured.
So every Christian suffers with Him, and that's the point of this Scripture.
Because of this, we again know that we shall reign with Christ and inherit God's promises,
because we are heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ.
We are His brothers.
We are also the children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
The Bible says further in Galatians 3 29, and if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's
seed, and heirs according to the promise.
So those who are Christians are of Abraham's seed, and therefore they are heirs according
to the promise.
Many promises were made to Abraham, and the Scriptures say that we are heir of those things
simply because we belong to Christ, and I'm going to go into more detail about that particularly
in a later point.
But the Scriptures say further in Galatians chapter 4 verses 6 to 7, and because ye are
God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father, wherefore
thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
So these two verses in Galatians are very similar to what we see in Romans chapter 8.
The statement that we are now the children of God, we are now God's sons, and because
we are His sons, we are an heir of God through Christ.
Now since we are always His children, as I've already shown in the previous Scriptures,
and since we always have the Holy Ghost within us, the Bible says the Holy Spirit has sealed
us to the day of redemption.
Jesus said that He will abide with you forever.
Because we have these two things, because we know that we are children forever, and
we have the Holy Ghost that shows us that we are God's sons forever, that means that
no matter what, we are the heirs of God.
We shall inherit what God has promised, again, another reason why we cannot lose our salvation.
Now another further proof that we shall inherit God's kingdom and that we cannot lose our
salvation is reason number 20, that God has predestinated us unto glory.
The Bible has an amazing teaching on predestination and what that is.
It says in Ephesians 1-11, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will.
So here the Scriptures state that we have already obtained an inheritance.
Notice that it's past tense, it says obtained, not will obtain, but obtain.
So even though from our perspective, we do not have it yet.
According to Ephesians 1-11, it has already been obtained.
Why is that?
Because we are predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things
after the counsel of His own will, it says.
Meaning God decided by His own will and He works in this world so that it is our destiny,
if we are saved, to obtain this inheritance that God promises that we shall receive.
So those who are believers were already chosen by God long ago to receive an inheritance.
It is written in Romans 8 verses 29-30, for whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover, whom He did predestinate, then He also called, and whom He called, then He
also justified, and whom He justified, then He also glorified.
Now just to be clear, we're not talking about Calvinistic predestination here.
Calvinists said that God elects us before time based on no condition or no foreknowledge
whatsoever to salvation.
That's not the Bible's teaching on predestination.
The Bible teaches that based on God's foreknowledge and based on the condition of faith in Jesus
Christ, He conforms us, He predestinates us to be conformed to the image of His Son, meaning
it is our destiny as already chosen by God and set in place before the foundation of
the world that every Christian will one day be changed like unto Christ, that we should
be changed in a moment at the last trump and the twinkling of an eye and our vile bodies
shall be changed and fashioned like unto His glorious body.
It talks about that in 1 Corinthians 15 and Philippians 3.21, I believe, is the latter
part that I quoted there.
Now verse 30 of Romans 8 states clearly that those He predestinated, He has also called
and justified, and then it says glorified.
Now again, just as in Ephesians 1, it says glorified in past tense, even though it has
not actually happened yet from our perspective, because God has already caused it to be established
and there's nothing we can do to reverse it.
That's why it's past tense.
We've already obtained the inheritance.
We've already been glorified from the perspective of God.
Those who are justified by faith in Christ, the Bible says they are already glorified.
They are already conformed to the image of His Son.
All of us Christians shall one day see glory.
The Bible says furthermore in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 4 to 6, according as He hath chosen
us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
Him in love.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according
to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath
made us accepted and the beloved, again it is stated clearly that God chose us that we
should be holy and without blame before Him in love, before the foundation of the world.
God has set in place that any Christian is going to be holy and without blame.
Now we might mess up in this life.
We might not live a perfect life, but remember what the Scriptures teach, that that which
is born of God does not commit sin.
So our inward man, our spirit, our soul, when it gets to heaven is going to be holy and
without blame.
It's not going to be condemned for sins because it cannot sin.
It is without sin.
God has forgiven all those sins.
Remember those previous points that I talked about.
We know by comparing with Romans 8 that when it says the adoption of children, it's not
talking about us being adopted as children when we believe, but at the later rapture,
as it says in Romans 8.23, that we wait for the adoption to wit the redemption of our
bodies.
Okay, so we know that God, because He has predestinated us, it is already our destiny
that our bodies should be redeemed as well, that we should be part of the rapture, glorified
like unto the Son of God.
It says in 1 John 3, Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall
see Him as He is.
So when Jesus Christ comes back, we are going to be like unto Him.
As it talks about in 1 Corinthians 15, we will have a spiritual body, we will be changed
to be immortal and incorruptible.
Right now, this body of flesh and blood, which cannot inherit the kingdom of God, according
to 1 Corinthians 15.50, this flesh and blood body is still corrupt.
So we're still waiting for the adoption also of our bodies, of the giving of an eternal
spiritual body that can never pass away, unlike the ones that we have now.
We're still waiting for that, but the Bible says that God has predestinated that this
should happen, meaning He has already said it.
It's a destiny, it's something that is fate.
It's not something you can just reverse and say, well, I think that I could just undo
what God already said would happen.
That's foolish and really blasphemous.
The Spirit promises us that this will happen.
He has sealed us unto the day of redemption.
He's given the earnest that this indeed will happen, and there's no denying that God has
established it to be so.
So no, we cannot lose our salvation.
If you think that, you think that your own actions can undo what God has already destined
for us and what He has promised for us and sealed us with, and that is, of course, blasphemous.
Question number 21.
Until that time, until the time when our bodies are redeemed and we are adopted at the rapture,
while we remain upon this earth, while we are waiting for that time, the Scriptures
teach that it is not by our own power, by what we do, that we are kept in the power
of God, or that we are kept in salvation, but rather we are kept by the power of God.
It says in 1 Peter chapter 1, verses 3 to 5, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again into a lively
hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power
of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
Again, when we are begotten again, which would be to be born again, we are begotten according
to verse 4, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away reserved
in heaven for you.
So let's stop for a moment and just look at that because it kind of ties in with some
of the points that I've already made.
We've already seen clear Scriptures that we have been made heirs of God and inheritors
to the promises made unto Abraham.
We know that the Spirit has given to us the promise that we will receive a new body and
be changed at the rapture.
We know that that will happen.
We are predestinated to it.
And here the Bible again says that it is reserved in heaven for us.
It says it fadeth not away.
So once a Christian believes already in heaven, already in heaven, they have that new body
waiting for them as spoken also by 2 Corinthians 5, verses 1 to 5, which I read in the previous
video.
Okay?
It says that we have a building of God that is eternal in the heavens.
Okay?
The moment that we believe, when we get born again, the Bible says that we already have
an inheritance that fadeth not away and that is reserved in heaven for us.
Yet people say, well, you can lose your salvation.
That's ridiculous because then what happens to that thing that's in heaven?
The Bible says it's reserved for us.
God knows that we're not going to fall away because He is keeping us by His own power,
as it says in the Scripture.
As it says in Ephesians 1-11, we have already obtained the inheritance.
It's already in heaven.
It's reserved for us.
But then in verse 5 here in 1 Peter, it says that until that day we are kept by the power
of God.
So Christians, those who have faith, the Bible says they are kept by God's power.
Our salvation is not dependent on what we do.
It's not dependent on our own power or our own works.
It's dependent on God's power.
So to say that you can lose your salvation is to say that you're more powerful than God,
that you can reverse what God has done.
And you can undo your salvation, undo what God keeps.
You can separate yourself from God.
That's blasphemous.
That's wicked.
That goes against what the Scriptures teach.
Reason number 22, again another promise.
The Bible teaches that God performs a good work in us until the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1 verse 5-6, for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now,
being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform
it until the day of Jesus Christ.
So we are still waiting for that day of Jesus Christ.
And at this present time, the Bible says that we should be confident of this thing
that he talks about here.
That he which hath begun a good work in you will, not might, not probably, not depending
on how you live your life, but will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Again, it's not about us and our own power.
You're not kept by our own power.
Once we get saved, we remain saved not because of what we do, we remain saved because God
is the one that saves us.
God is the one that transforms us.
God is the one that causes us to be born again and justifies us and keeps us by his own power
as it says in 1 Peter.
We're not the ones who are keeping our salvation intact.
It doesn't say he might perform it, but he will.
So if you're a Christian, God keeps us by his own power, the Bible says, and performs
within us until the day of Jesus Christ.
Again in reason number 23, at that day, at the day of Jesus Christ, at the last day that
the Bible talks about, the Bible promises that we shall be raised up.
Remember all the scriptures that we've already seen where the Bible promises that the Holy
Spirit within us shows us that we will be raised up again.
God has predestinated us to that.
It is a guarantee given by God that we will be raised up.
But also, Jesus taught clearly that anybody who believes will surely be raised up.
Just as we've already seen with multiple scriptures.
Jesus said in John chapter 6 verse 39 to 40, And this is the Father's will which hath sent
me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again
at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
So if you think, well, I believe, but I can go to hell, that can still be damned.
I won't take place in the rapture.
Then you are denying the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, because he said clearly, if
you are given to him, he said he will lose none of us, but raise up us again at the last
day, and that we have everlasting life and will be raised up again at the last day.
He said it twice in two different ways.
If you believe, you should know, based on the promises of Jesus Christ our Lord, no
matter what, because of God's own power, because of his promise, you will be raised up at the
last day.
He doesn't say, well, they might, he doesn't say, well, if you believe and then continue
to serve him and be obedient until the end, then you'll be raised up at the last day.
No, he says if you believe on him, believe on the Son, that's all, it's just faith, you
believe, you get justified, you're born again, he says you will be raised up on the last
day.
What's hard to understand about that?
John 11, verses 24 to 25 also say, says, Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise
again in the resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
And in verse 24, Martha talks about the resurrection, referring to Lazarus, her brother, who had
just passed away in the flesh, he'd just died, and she has the faith that he will rise
up again, he will take part of the resurrection at the last day.
But Jesus says, I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live.
Not well he might live, just possible, you know, not he that believeth and continues
to do good works and repent of his sins until the end of his life shall live.
No, but he says he that believeth in me.
If you have faith, if you've been saved, you shall live again at the last day.
That's what Jesus said.
It again says in Romans 8, verse 11, but if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from
the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you.
Now how long does the spirit dwell within us?
Forever, as we've already seen with John 14 and Ephesians 1, where it says we're sealed
by his spirit until the day of redemption.
Well, that's actually Ephesians 4.30, but it says something similar in Ephesians 1.
And it is itself God's promise that the spirit is God's promise of the redemption of our
bodies.
Okay, we know that already.
Therefore, we know, because of the eternal spirit given to us at a regeneration, that
we shall also be quickened again, meaning our bodies also shall be redeemed, as is promised
through Romans 8, and also given everlasting life.
We shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, and the Bible
says in 1 Corinthians 15, this mortal body will put on immortality, okay, before our
bodies pass away.
It can still die, but at the rapture after that point, we will be given a body that is
immortal and incorruptible.
So if God's spirit is in you, according to Romans 8 and 11, and there's plenty of scriptures
that teach that anybody who believes has the spirit, like Ephesians 1, 13 to 14, and
John 7, 38 to 39, that anybody who believes has the spirit, okay, if you have the spirit,
you are saved.
Because it says in Romans 8, 9, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none
of his.
Meaning you don't belong to Christ in the first place if you don't have the spirit.
And he says if you do have the spirit, that is the promise that he will quicken your mortal
bodies at the last day, okay?
No matter what, okay, again, we are kept by God's power and when Jesus returns, you will
be raised up and your body will be made immortal.
That is a guarantee.
The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 14 to 16, for if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so then also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Now verse 14 says if we believe Jesus died and rose again, even so then which sleep in
Jesus will God bring with him.
So what is the requirement for being raised up at the resurrection, at the rapture?
Faith that's it.
It says if we believe.
Not well you have to turn from your sins and change your life and just live a good life
to the end of your life, otherwise you'll go to hell and face the wrath of God.
That's nonsense.
It says if you believe you shall be raised up like all these other verses.
That's a guarantee.
And an important reason why we know this also is because of reason number 24, that the Bible
teaches us that we have been quickened, meaning made alive, particularly with everlasting
life.
That's the most important thing and probably the main reason why we know that we'll never
go to hell.
And this is probably the clearest thing that I'm just baffled that so many so-called Christians
don't understand.
Well not really because if you don't have the spirit, if somebody isn't saved they can't
really understand the Bible in the first place.
But the Bible is so clear about this that those who believe have everlasting life.
And to say that we could die in our sins, to say that we can face the second death even
though the Bible says we have everlasting life is just nonsense.
It doesn't make any sense.
Ephesians 2, 1 says, And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins.
See before we got saved, our soul had already died.
As the scriptures say, the soul that sinneth it shall die.
We are already dead in our trespasses and sins and if our bodies were to die, that dead
soul would go to hell, the place of the dead.
However, Christians are quickened, which means to make alive.
It says a few verses later in Ephesians 2, 5, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ, by grace are ye saved.
And then Colossians 2, 13, And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
See this ties in with the point I made earlier, I think it was reason number 7 or 8 or something
like that, that we have died with Christ already and raised up with him if we are saved.
That's what the Bible teaches in Romans 6.
Through our sins being imputed unto Christ on the cross, we have already died to sin
and then we are raised up with him when we are quickened, when we are regenerated.
Just as Christ was made alive and risen from the dead, God has already quickened or made
us alive alongside him when he forgave us of our trespasses according to Colossians
2, 13.
So salvation is not just about justification, it's not just about forgiving sins, but also
about making our dead souls alive.
Because our sins could be forgiven, but if our soul remains dead, it's still going to
go to hell.
So when you get saved, there's more than just one thing that takes place, you're not just
justified, you're also quickened.
However it's not enough to just point out that we have been made alive, but also that
this life with which we have been made alive is eternal life, the Bible says.
John 3, 16, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
So those who believe on Jesus Christ and thus are saved, have everlasting life.
Whosoever means anybody, whoever does this, whoever, anybody who trusts Christ as their
savior is given everlasting life.
Now the word everlasting is pretty simple, it means it lasts forever, I mean I think
everybody understands that everlasting, eternal, lasts forever, it never ends, it's forever.
That's what the word everlasting in the synonym eternal means.
So eternal life is life that lasts forever, life that never ends, it's pretty simple.
And honestly this is probably, like I said before, the simplest reason to state why we
cannot lose our salvation.
The fact that our life is everlasting means that it is life that lasts forever, and therefore
if somebody says a Christian can go to hell, they're denying what the Bible says.
We know it lasts forever because as pointed out earlier, once somebody believes, they
have the promise that they shall be redeemed in the rapture, John 6.40, and this is the
will of him that sent me, that everyone, let me say that again, everyone which seeth the
son and believeth on him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last
day.
So not only do we get everlasting life, but this means that we will be raised up at the
last day.
And it says everyone, not just a few people, it just depends on, you know, it's only the
ones that are really good Christians, that really serve God with their life, that don't
backslide, the ones that continue to go to church and do these good things, and it doesn't
say that, it just says everyone that seeth the son and believeth on him.
The Bible presents eternal life as a gift, Romans 6.23, for the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now again, as a point that I made earlier, a gift is not something that we earn, but
it's free and given to us without payment by grace.
So by God's grace, because we're saved by grace according to the Bible, when we believe
God quickens our dead souls which were on the way to hell and makes it live eternally,
that means that we shall never die.
Here's further proof of this, John 10.28, and I give unto them eternal life and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 11.25-26, Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection of the life, he that believeth
on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die, believeth thou this.
Now the heretic says that once a Christian believes, they can still go to hell, yet the
Bible says they shall never perish, and it says they shall never die.
If anybody, and I mean anybody, tells you that a believer can die in their sins or face
the second death or go to death in hell, they are flat out rejecting what the word of God
says.
The fact that it is everlasting means it never ends.
That should be clear enough.
Now if we could lose our life, if we could lose our salvation and go to hell, which is
called death in the Bible in Revelation 20, or we could go to the lake of fire which is
called the second death, Revelation 21.8, then it would not be eternal.
That life would be temporary.
If it ever ended, it would not be eternal, it would not be everlasting.
But in case the word everlasting or eternal is not enough, Jesus made it even more clear
by saying in these two verses that I just read, that believers shall never perish and
he said they shall never die.
So if you say, well, I can die in my sins if I don't live right, then you're not trusting
Jesus.
You don't believe you have eternal life.
John 11.26 is particularly my favorite verse to quote when talking to these people who
say you can lose your salvation because Jesus ends it with a question, Believest thou this?
And so I present that to these people who say that you can lose your salvation and they
never can answer the question because if they say yes, they're lying because they don't
believe that.
They think that a believer can still go to hell, they can die spiritually.
And if they say no, if they say they don't believe it, then they're condemning themselves
and admitting that they're not a Christian by saying that they don't believe Jesus, which
is exactly right.
They don't believe Jesus.
So every single time that I bring up this verse, I never get a response or they just
dodge the question or they just lie.
It's funny because these people, they pretend like, oh yeah, we're sticking to the Bible
and all these Christians out there who say you can lose your, who have eternal security.
And by the way, I'm going off on a rabbit trail right now, but they present it as if
every Christian believes in eternal security, which is just ridiculous.
The majority of Christianity does not believe this doctrine.
The Roman Catholic Church, the Lutherans, the Orthodox, the Methodists, or I guess the
Presbyterians do in a way, but the Anglicans, the Churches of Christ, the Jehovah's Witnesses,
the Mormons, the Seventh-day Adventists, a lot of non-denominational churches.
There's a whole bunch of churches out there that teach you can lose your salvation.
The majority of Christians do.
So they pretend like, well, it's just like everybody's like this and we're the rebels.
We're the one who are the remnant who are teaching this, but no, they're not.
They're just going with the flow of the Roman Catholics teaching works salvation like every
other religion in the world.
But anyway, you ask this question, John 11 26, whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die, believeth thou this.
And they don't answer the question.
They always dodge the question because they can't answer it.
It's really funny because you're exposing them and showing them that they don't actually
believe the Bible no matter how much they claim to stand up for the Scriptures.
I mean, how many Scriptures are we showing right here that says we have everlasting life?
Once we are justified, we have eternal life.
It says in Titus 3 7, that being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life.
First John 2 25, and this is the promise that He has promised us, even eternal life.
It is God's promise, and yet people say, nope, I think I can go to hell.
I think I can lose my life.
I think I could die spiritually.
They may give lip service to eternal life.
I mean, every Christian out there might talk about it, but guess what?
If you don't believe it's eternal, you don't believe in eternal life.
Just like the first point that I made, there's a lot of people who say that they believe
that Christ died for their sins, but they don't know what that means.
They're just repeating what they hear from other people, but they don't actually believe
it.
Okay?
Because if you actually know what the Bible says about Christ dying for your sins, then
you wouldn't believe that it's through your own works, okay, or through repenting of your
sins or things like that, because dying for your sins means that Jesus Christ took your
sins away, that you could be justified.
That all of our sins were placed upon him on the cross, he died for our sins, and went
to hell and rose again the third day.
That's what it means.
And yet, most Christians will just say that phrase and not understand what it means.
Like they'll just say the word eternal life, they'll say, yeah, I believe in eternal life,
but then they believe that you can lose your salvation.
So they don't believe in eternal life, they believe you can still die, which is not eternal.
This should be common sense, but there's no common sense with heretics.
They don't believe God's promises, they're calling him a liar, they're not saved, they're
trusting in themselves and not God's word.
Now some might erroneously say, well, we don't have everlasting life yet.
It's a future thing.
We'll get it once we die and once we get to heaven.
But right now, the way we live determines whether we'll get that everlasting life later,
which by the way, doesn't, it still contradicts the Bible because it still says whosoever
believeth may have everlasting life in several different places.
So we still know that we're going to, even if it was true that we get everlasting life
later, Jesus still says whosoever believeth, meaning anybody that does that.
So if you mess up and you don't live your life right later, that still shouldn't determine
whether you have everlasting life.
Now
reason number 25, okay, is that we presently right now have eternal life.
So not just the Bible promises that we will get everlasting life, but that everlasting
life is already given right now, okay?
Reason number 25.
The Word of God says in 1 John 5 verses 10 to 13, He that believeth on the Son of God
hath the witness in himself.
He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record
that God gave of his Son.
And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son.
He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that
ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son
of God.
Now I want to make sure this is very clear.
According to verse 10, and I already talked about this in part, the first part of this
series, if you do not believe the record that God gave of his Son, according to verse 10,
you do not believe God, you make him a liar.
Now we know from the Scriptures that faith is what saves us, and therefore verse 10 is
talking about somebody who is not saved, somebody who has rejected what God has promised, somebody
who does not have the faith in God but rejects what he has said.
Now if you do not believe God's record, you are not saved, you do not have saving faith.
It's plain and simple.
So all who believe in conditional security, take heed to verse 11, because the record
is defined as, God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Now that's past tense.
See we as Christians know that we presently have eternal life.
If you are actually saved, you know that God has already given it to us, because that's
what God has promised if we believe in him.
The moment I trusted Christ and was born again, the Bible says I was quickened, and same thing
with every other Christian.
Remember Ephesians 2-1, it says you hath quickened, it's past tense.
We are made alive the moment we believe, and this life we are given is everlasting, according
to the passages I just read.
Therefore since we have eternal life right now, as it says also in 1 John 5-13, that
ye may know that ye have eternal life, not will get, but have right now.
If you believe you can die in your sins and go to hell, then you don't believe God's record,
you're not saved.
It's plain and simple.
God hath given it to us.
Every believer already has everlasting life.
The Bible says further in John 3-36, he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life,
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on
him.
He does not say he that believeth on the Son will get everlasting life.
No, we have it right now.
So if you are a believer, if you have believed on the Son, you have trusted in Jesus Christ,
believed that he died for your sins and rose again, and you are relying on him and him
alone to get you to heaven, you have everlasting life.
It's not a future gift.
If you deny that you have it right now, if you do not believe God has already saved your
soul but you think your actions and your works can reverse it, you do not believe God.
You're calling him a liar.
Again Jesus said in John 6-47, verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath
everlasting life.
That's what Jesus said, verily, verily, meaning truly, truly.
It is true that those who are believers have everlasting life, life that will never end,
and therefore it makes perfect sense when Jesus said, whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die, believeth thou this.
So if we believe on Christ, he says we will never die.
Now what's so difficult to understand about that?
Nothing.
It's these heretics out there who try to make salvation confusing and try to make it complicated
while the Bible just teaches if you believe, you have everlasting life.
You're not going to go to hell.
You'll never die.
That's what it says.
Reason number 26 is that Jesus said that we will never hunger and never thirst.
It is written, John 4 verses 13 to 14, Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever drinketh
of this water shall thirst again, and whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him
shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water speeding
up into everlasting life.
Then later again, Jesus said in John 6 35, and Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of
life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
So he promises that those who believe will never thirst, and those who come to him shall
never hunger.
Now just as never means never in the rest of the Bible because that's what God had said,
like when Jesus says we shall never perish or never die, so too does right here mean
never.
God promises that a Christian will never hunger.
Now how can that be fulfilled if we can lose our salvation and be separated from God?
The story of the rich man in Luke 16 shows, for example, that the rich man did not have
any water.
There's no food or water in hell, but Jesus promises that we will never thirst nor hunger.
This is clearly fulfilled at the rapture.
The scripture speaks of the great multitude in heaven in Revelation 7 as it is written
in Revelation 7 verses 14 to 16, And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest.
And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple.
And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat.
So it is written that these who have come out of the great tribulation, that is those
who have been raptured up into heaven, who have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb,
these people who have been raised up and are before the throne of God in heaven, it says
they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, according to this passage.
So Herod is alluding back to what Jesus had promised of those that come to him and believe
on him.
In other words, as already proven from several passages earlier, once somebody believes,
they already have the guarantee that they will be raised up at the rapture, because
that's what it's talking about in the scripture.
They have come out of great tribulation.
They are standing before the throne of God, all of God's saints, and it says they shall
never hunger.
Why shall they never hunger?
Because according to John 6.35, as Jesus said, they have believed on him.
That's all they needed to do.
It's not because they lived a good life until the end.
It's because of that one time when they trusted Jesus as their savior.
So these saints in heaven have their promise fulfilled, just because, or just as all the
other promises that God has given.
He will fulfill them.
If you say he can't or he won't, then you're a heretic.
You're going against what God has promised.
You don't believe his word.
Jesus says they shall never hunger nor thirst, and so the angels say about the saints in
heaven.
Reason number 27 of how we know that we cannot lose our salvation is that the Bible tells
us that we shall not be condemned.
John 3.18, he that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Here Jesus presents two types of people, those that believe and those that believe not.
Now it's pretty simple, since salvation is by faith alone.
If somebody believes, Jesus says he is not condemned.
So if you're a Christian, if you have trusted Jesus as your savior, if you have been born
again, you are not condemned.
That's what Jesus said.
But if you do not believe, Jesus says you are condemned already.
Why is that?
Because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Now nowhere does Jesus say that those who are condemned already are those who believed
but stopped serving God, or stopped believing, or turned away from God, or anything.
No.
The only reason why people are condemned for their sins is because they have not believed.
He says they have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
That means they've never believed.
It's never happened.
We have people who believe and people who have not believed.
Those are the only two people there are.
People who believe, once they trust Jesus Christ, he says they're not condemned.
Those who never believe, those who were never saved to begin with, they're the ones who
are condemned.
Not the ones who believe and then stop serving God.
You never see that in the scriptures.
And we know this furthermore because the Bible says not just that we are not condemned right
now, but that we shall not come into condemnation.
It says in John 5.24, verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth
on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is
past from death unto life.
Right within this verse itself is explained why it is that we shall not come into condemnation
and the reason why, as I've already presented, is because we have everlasting life.
Notice again that this verse is present tense like some of the verses from earlier like
John 6.47 and John 3.36.
So the moment that somebody believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, they are given everlasting
life, meaning that they shall not come into condemnation.
If you believe, you can lose your salvation.
Once again, you are denying Jesus' words by saying that a believer is able to be condemned
for his sins, even though there's a million ways to prove that he cannot be condemned
for his sins.
We've passed from death unto life.
It's a one-way trip.
He can't go the opposite direction.
We were dead in trespasses and sins.
We're made alive with everlasting life, our sins are forgiven.
We're no longer going to hell.
We're now on our way to heaven and it says we shall not come to condemnation.
Not, well, you might.
You'll be condemned if you continue to not live right.
No, if you believe, you go from death unto life.
You have everlasting life.
That's what the Bible says.
Romans 8.34.
Who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died.
Yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
That question of who is he that condemneth is a rhetorical question in the midst of others
in this chapter, such as who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect, it is God that
justifieth, and a couple of verses earlier.
Because our salvation is dependent upon God, because it is Christ who makes intercession
for us, who is our advocate, whether we stay saved or not is not about what we do.
Remember 1 Peter 1.5, it says we are kept by the power of God.
So nobody can condemn us because Christ makes intercession for us, as it says in the scripture.
At this point, we, if we have everlasting life, shall not be condemned.
That's what the Bible says.
Reason number 28 is that we are kept in God's hands.
It says in John 10, 28-29, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out
of my Father's hand.
Earlier I touched on the eternal life part of this scripture, but Jesus continues by
saying, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
That's not just a statement of the impossibility, but it's also a prophecy and a promise that
it shall not happen.
The fact that we have eternal life should be good enough to understand this, but Jesus
reinforces this truth by promising that nobody will pluck us out of his hand.
Then he says we are also in the hands of the Father, in verse 29, and he says no man is
able, meaning it's impossible for anybody to pluck us out of God's hands.
Why?
Because, as he says, my Father is greater than all.
Now some blasphemers will say, well, you can separate yourself from God.
You can let go.
You can walk away from salvation.
Other people can't take it away from you, but you can do it.
You can decide to walk away.
Now first of all, that's ridiculous because such a statement would make you stronger than
God.
Jesus made it clear that the reason why you cannot be plucked out of God's hands is because
he is greater than all.
That includes you, okay?
And yet you think you're stronger than God and are able to walk away from him, even though
the Bible says you're kept by his power, even though God says you have already been predestinated
to glory, even though the Bible says you've already been predestinated to be conformed
to the image of the Son, even though the Bible says you have everlasting life.
That's wicked.
Second of all, it never says God is in our hands.
It says we are in his hands.
Now if you just read the scripture, that's easy to understand.
You can say, well, I'll let go of God, but the Bible says he will never let go of you
and nobody, that includes yourself since it says no man, is able to take the sheep out
of God's hand.
It's not that you're holding on to him and you can just let go whenever you want.
He's holding on to you.
You're in his hand.
You can't escape from him when it says that the Father is greater than all.
And thirdly, the heretic's twisting of this verse makes no sense because Jesus still says
that no man will pluck us out of his hand.
He isn't saying just that you can't do it, but he says that it won't happen.
He says it won't happen, okay?
If you belong to God, you're safeguarded by his own power, his power which is greater
than all.
Nobody can take us away from him, not even ourselves, and therefore nobody will.
There's no additional stipulations here.
It doesn't say, well, as long as you continue to be faithful, you'll be in his hand.
No, we have everlasting life.
There's nothing we can do to reverse that.
Okay, so I think I'm going to stop here.
I only have a few more reasons left.
So reason number 29 to 35 in the following video, which will probably be a bit shorter,
I think this is a good place to stop.
So thank you, buddy, for watching.
Remember to pay attention to these videos, okay?
They're very important, okay?
I don't want to, I don't want people to be confused because there's some people who might
try to argue and say, well, that's not right, I don't believe that, or whatever, and here's
a verse that says you can lose your salvation.
I'm going to talk about that after I'm done with the 35 reasons, okay?
It's not just the 35 reasons, but there's probably, I don't even know how many, like
15 to 20 verses that they'll use, that they'll twist, take out of context, things like that,
and I'll show you that those verses do not say that we can lose our salvation, okay?
Plus there's all these scriptures here that's totally proof beyond a shadow of a doubt.
We're not even done yet.
There's some other scriptures that are really great that show us that no matter what, if
you believe, you can never go to hell.
Thank you, buddy, for watching.
God bless you, and goodbye.