• Session 12 - Eternal Security and Free Will (Saved for Eternity)

  • Jul 13 2024
  • Duración: 23 m
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Session 12 - Eternal Security and Free Will (Saved for Eternity)

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  • License to Sin Another objection to the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints (or eternal security) is that it tends to lead believers to indolence and license to sin. However, this is a perversion of the doctrine, possible only to the unregenerate people since the certainty of success is the most powerful incentive to walk in holiness to the born-again believers. The fact that God ensures true believers they will not lose salvation until the end doesn’t cancel the need for good works and sanctification on the believers’ part. The apostle Paul exhorts believers in Philippians 2:12 “to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.” This doesn’t mean good works represent the means to keep their salvation until the end, but these are the effect and the proof of true conversion. Again, I bring this illustration to your attention, with King Solomon, because it’s a very good one. What did he look for when he decided to kill the living baby and share it between the two women who came to judgment? Did he look for a deed on the part of the women that would deserve or win the baby? Did he want to create a new relationship between the women and the baby that didn’t exist before? Of course not! Instead, he was looking for a deed that would prove what was already true, an action that would show who that baby’s birth mother was. True believers will always be in active striving to live in holiness until the end, and the certainty of success in this journey is the best possible stimulus. Paul says in Romans 6:2: “How can we who died to sin continue to live in it?” Why would you think to do evil when you repented and came on God’s side? Why would you want to sin when you no longer have a sinful nature, and you can live an abundant life of absolute joy, peace, health, and prosperity? Can God do whatever He wants? Yes, of course! Does that give Him license to sin? Never, because His freedom and free will have boundaries; they are informed and determined by His nature. God wants believers to walk in holiness because they want to and love to, not out of fear and constraints. We need to trust the powerful and tangible transformation God does in believers through the Holy Spirit and not try to control people through fear. The Confusion Regarding Human Free Will This objection sounds like this: “If genuine believers cannot lose their salvation and don’t have the actual option of rejecting Christ if they wanted to, after they got saved, then they don’t really have free will anymore.” Such an objection is based on the false assumption that human free will is not influenced by anything, is not bound to neither depends on the inherent nature of the person in any way, which can be either sinful from the first Adam, or righteous from the last Adam, Jesus Christ. God Himself has complete free will. However, He will never choose to embrace evil or Satan’s ways. He will never even want to do such a thing, His free will is completely bound to His righteous nature. That is how genuine believers are after salvation as well. God does such a powerful change in their nature through the Holy Spirit that they will never want to choose with their free will to reject God and lose their salvation. The only reason believers’ free will doesn’t seem bound entirely yet to the new holy nature of their spirit here on earth is that their mind is not yet wholly renewed. The free will of the first Adam was not utterly dependent on his nature before the fall. Why? It’s because even though he had a holy nature inside, he was still capable of committing a sin that could change his nature into darkness: eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even the free will of lost people before salvation is not entirely dependent on their sinful nature. Why? Because under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and at the hearing of the Gospel message, they can make a decision that will completely recreate them spiritually. However, after salvation, born-again believers become one spirit with the Trinity (1 Corinthians 6:17). Their will is still free but now dependent on the holy nature inside them in regard to eternal salvation. I heard some believers saying that the reason we have the Holy Spirit in us now is to help us sanctify ourselves so that we can maintain our salvation to the end, and that we should employ His help using our free will, the same way we used our free will to accept salvation and be born again. While it is true that we need the Holy Spirit’s help for sanctification and that our will is involved in this process, it is not true that maintaining our salvation relies entirely on our choice to use the Holy Spirit’s help. Let’s read Romans 4:1-8, Romans 4:1–8 (NKJV) 1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the ...
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