Once Saved Always Saved?

By GEORGE JOSEPH

Once Saved Always Saved? The issue of  assurance of salvation is mprehensively dealt with in this book with adequate Biblical proof. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: GEORGE JOSEPH
• Release date: Aug 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393975892

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Once Saved Always Saved?

George Joseph K. PhD

GOD JESUS PROOF ACADEMY

Copyright © 2015 George Joseph K. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Contents

Nature Of Belief And Eternal Life

The Nature, Content, And Duration Of The Belief Which Gives Salvation

What Is Assurance Of Salvation And Eternal Security

Obedience Commanded To Retain Salvation

Disobedience Is Proof Of Unbelief

God Assures Eternal Life Only To The Believer Who Perseveres In Faith

The Need To Repent And Confess Continuously

Limits Of Grace And The Defect Of The Theory Of Once Saved Always Saved

Things Which Man Has Freedom To Do

Unbelief, Backsliding And Apostasy

Examples Of Falling From Grace (Gal 5:4)

God Warns Believers Not To Give Up Faith, And Advises To Hold Fast To Faith

God Warns The Disobedient

God Warns Apostasy With Most Serious Punishment

Beware, Not Only The Love Of God Is Infinite, But Also His Sovereignty And Wrath

A Critique Of Once Saved Always Saved Theory

Exhortation To Constant Obedience Is Biblical, Debate On Losing Or Not Losing Salvation Is Unbiblical

Confused Or Not, Take The Safer Position

About The Author

Chapter 1

Nature of Belief and Eternal Life

The believer is not offered an unconditional existence with Christ forever. To have eternal life he must maintain his life in Christ in accordance with the Scripture. "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit...I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned...Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples...If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love (Jn 15:1-10). The branches (believers) that are cut off are actually part of the vine. Hence even though no man can pluck any one from the Father’s hands, the Father Himself can cut off the fruitless branches who have proved their faithlessness through fruitlessness. Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shall be cut off" (Rom 11:20-22).

The true life needs to be sustained by eating the meat which is doing the will of God: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work (Jn 4:34). Jesus Christ gives the meat which gives everlasting life: Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed (Jn 6:27). "Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life...This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man may eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world...Verily, verily I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me...It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I