Eternal Security - Ten Biblical Proofs

By Noah Zielke

• This book offers ten concise, powerful arguments for the doctrine of Eternal Security, while also addressing some common objections.
• It is designed for believers looking for arguments for Eternal Security, as well as those who lack assurance of Salvation.

Chapters

1. A Child of God, Eternally
2. Sealed with the Holy Spirit
3. Justification Without the Law
4. Eternal Life as a Present Possession
5. Saved by Grace Through Faith, to the Exclusion of Works
6. Eternal Life as the Gift of God
7. The Only Payment for Sin
8. God's Metaphors for Salvation
9. The "Problem Verses" Aren't Problems
10. The Many Glorious Things God Declares About Believers
11. Conclusion

• Appendix I - Tackling Persistent Doubt
• Appendix II - What about the Mark of the Beast?
• Appendix III - What about blasphemy against the Holy Ghost?
• Appendix IV - What about those who tamper with the Bible?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noah Zielke
• Release date: Mar 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215302019

Book preview

Chapter 1 - A Child of God, Eternally

Eternal Security is a theological term that refers to the doctrine that no believer in Christ will ever later be lost, and ultimately wind up in Hell when they die. Stated positively, it’s the doctrine that every believer will go to Heaven when they die, irrespective of what takes place in the time between when they believe and when they die.

The first proof for the fact that any believer in Jesus Christ is eternally secure is the doctrine of the new birth.

Jesus Christ said in John 3, that Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). As a result, Ye must be born again (John 3:7).

According to Scripture, the new birth takes place when a person believes in Jesus:

1 John 5:1

1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

Galatians 3:26

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

John 1:12-13

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Prior to the new birth, a person is not a child of God, but instead a child of Adam (1 Corinthians 15:21-22, 15:45-49), which the Lord also calls a child of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2, 5:6, Colossians 3:6), a child of wrath (Ephesians 2:3), and in some cases, a child of the Devil (Acts 13:10, John 8:44, 1 John 3:10, Matthew 13:38), or child of Hell (Matthew 23:15).

All of this changes when someone puts their faith in Christ as their Savior, which regenerates their spirit, and places them into the family of God. Every believer, therefore, has been begotten again (1 Peter 1:3), that is, born again.

This new birth is born of incorruptible seed, and cannot sin:

1 Peter 1:23

23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

1 John 3:9

9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 5:18

18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

2 Corinthians 5:17

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Therefore, the new nature that is born again upon faith in Christ is as perfect as Jesus Christ Himself. It is utterly incapable of doing anything displeasing to God. When we die, this is all that will remain, which is why we will never have to worry about sinning in Heaven.

However, while you remain on earth, you still have the corrupt body of flesh that is a remnant of your first birth. These two natures fight for dominance within every believer:

Galatians 5:16-17

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Your flesh has not been redeemed yet - the redemption of our body (Romans 8:23) is something that will take place in the future. Until you die, you will still have the same brain of flesh, the same arms, legs, and so on, that you had prior to Salvation, which is still born after the sin nature. That means that any Christian is capable of doing any sin that an unsaved person can commit, as you have the same corrupt flesh that they have, born after Adam.

This constant conflict between the two natures requires a daily struggle, which explains the repeated exhortations in Scripture to walk in the new nature, for example:

Ephesians 4:22-24

22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Romans 6:6, 6:11

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The fact that we have to be commanded to walk in the new man proves that it is not automatic, or guaranteed. If it were, these commandments, which together constitute hundreds of passages in the New Testament, would be unnecessary.

It takes effort - a lot of effort - to walk in the new man. If the Holy Spirit alone ever made us do so, He would do so all the time, and we would all be perfect. He would not play a game with our mental health by forcing us to walk in the new man sometimes, and then other times, leave us to sin. The limiting factor in a Christian’s behavior, then, is the individual Christian’s own submission to walking in the new man. As such, it’s a faulty basis for assurance of having the new birth.

This struggle is difficult, lifelong, and because we are the limiting factor, fraught with failure. Even the best among us fail continuously to walk in the new man, with the greatest Christian to ever live, the Apostle Paul, describing his own constant failures in Romans 7:14 - Romans 8:16. This, in part, reads:

Romans 7:14-24

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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