So, there is nothing new. Even thousands of years ago in Jeremiah's day, there were preachers doing the same thing as we have today— telling the people of God that they will have peace and that no calamity could come upon them, even though they walked in the stubbornness of their own hearts. Obviously, these preachers had not stood in the council of the Lord that they should see and hear His Word. And if today's modern preachers had heard from God, they would have turned the American “Christians” away from their sins, rather than giving them a license to sin. Remember, as it says in Psalm 81, those who despise the Lord are the ones who pretend obedience to Him while they refuse to obey God and con­tinue in sin. So, it is the same in the American church today.

Last Week I covered Part 2 of the myth of unconditional eternal security. I pointed out that a believer does have eternal security in his salvation, but that his security is conditional. As long as the believer meets those conditions, he is secure in his salvation. Last week, I also discussed several more of the biblical exceptions to the doctrine of once saved, always saved. Today I am going to continue to discuss even more of those exceptions with part 3. If you missed last week or the week before and want to hear it, go to the Wilkins Radio Network website, click on programs, scroll down to Christian Myths and open it up and you will see all of my broadcasts and you can listen to them there.

A common doctrine concerning salvation today is called “once saved, always saved.” The belief is that once someone has been saved, nothing can be done, either by an outside force or by the person himself, to cause him to lose his salvation. Some Scriptures, taken alone, seem to support this belief, while many other Scriptures seem to completely contradict this belief. So, it seems today that many, many preachers and Bible teach­ers are focusing on a few Scriptures which seem favorable to this doctrine, since it is popular, while completely ignoring the many, many other Scriptures that contradict the belief of “once saved, always saved.” Any time someone picks out a few Scriptures to support their own view, they have opened themselves up for deception and error. This practice is the recipe for heresy and all false doctrines. This is the very reason we have so many denominations and different doctrines being preached today. In this message, I will use many more than a just few scriptures to prove that there are clear Biblical exceptions to the idea of unconditional eternal security. I hope you will listen with an open mind to the Word and really examine the Scriptures carefully as if the life of your soul depends on it, since it really does. Check it out for yourself to see if what I am saying is true. What can it hurt for you to do that?