 Hey man, so we're starting a new series tonight. We're starting a series called Baptist Basics and the first sermon in this series is covered in quite extensively actually in John chapter 6. So Jesus here in John chapter 6 is going over He's using you know one thing about Jesus that that I love a lot of things I love everything about Jesus But one of the things about his intellect that I really appreciate is that he uses everything as a teachable moment So he can hear at the beginning of John chapter 6. He feeds the five thousand I mean he literally does a miracle where he literally feeds bread to five thousand people and then he launches into this major teachable moment in John chapter 6 about how you know comparing physical actual bread to you know the spiritual bread of believing on him and how one you know if you eat bread you have to keep eating bread and keep eating bread And if you don't eat bread, you know you'll die and even if you do eat bread and eat bread and eat bread You're eventually gonna physically die anyway as he uses that example of the manna in the wilderness But he says me the bread of life He said when you eat of this bread and you know He knows that there's people that don't believe what he's saying and you know He's just in one of those situations where he's just teaching a truth To even people that aren't believing so he says but if you eat of this bread of you know of me He's talking about the bread of and he says these two words over and over again in John chapter 6 of believing on Believing on him if you if you eat of that bread you will never die. You will never die. You will have everlasting Life so this evening. I want to talk to you about this doctrine Which is basically the fundamental of our faith and it is a very separating and you can see even in John chapter 6 How this doctrine this teaching was a separating teaching what did it say? It said after Jesus taught this many of his own disciples didn't follow him anymore It was a very separating doctrine So we're gonna talk this evening about this doctrine of eternal security this evening in John chapter 6 That is exactly what Jesus is teaching. He is saying when you eat of this bread Not you know the physical bread that we just fed the 5,000 you will never hunger you will never die But you will have everlasting life. So the question this evening is this Can you lose your salvation? We're gonna look at this in detail. I hope you have a Bible. We're gonna be flipping through your Bible And just let me say this There's no way we can get to all the Bible on this there is so much Bible on eternal security What I want to do this evening if I had a title for the sermon it would be the logical case for eternal security I want to think through this this evening using some very simple Bible Philosophy and just think through the logical case for eternal security. Can you lose your salvation? This is Protestant isn't today. This is the Protestants today will say, you know, it's faith in Jesus belief in Jesus But you can lose it. You can lose it by doing x y and z or whatever fill in the blank It depends on who you talk to you'll get different answers on what you have to do to lose that salvation Look Protestantism in my opinion is worse than Catholicism in many cases because of the fact that at least Catholics will come up to you and say yes, you're saved by your works It's by works you must do works Protestants are so wrapped around the axle with this faith plus works Theology that it is very it's very tough sometimes to unwrap them from that axle But we're gonna we're gonna start this evening by giving you the logical case for eternal security It's this strange mix of faith versus faith mixed with works that we have trouble with out there Or some people have trouble with the Bible doesn't have any trouble of it But here's the thing the Bible has a lot to say about this doctrine Turn to back to John chapter 6 if you're still there. This is the teachings of Jesus himself Look at John chapter 6 Jesus is using this idea of the bread of life to teach eternal security here Look at John chapter 6 in verse 31 He says our fathers did eat manna in the desert as it is written He gave them bread from heaven to eat then Jesus said unto them verily verily I say unto you Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my father. Give it to you the true bread from heaven He's talking to the Jews here the unbelieving Jews For the bread of God is he that cometh down from heaven and given life under the world This is where they get all offended right like you said he came from heaven Isn't this the carpenter's son right so they get all offended because he's basically claiming to be the Christ Look at verse 35 and Jesus said unto them. I am that bread of life He that cometh to me shall never hunger and you say what does cometh to me mean? Well, then he explains it right here and he that believeth on me shall never thirst But I said unto you that you also have seen me and believe not so these people do not believe on him and the father that giveth me shall come to me and And him that cometh to me. I will in no wise cast out so he says look You know if you believe on me you will never hunger He's like you will I am that bread of life and I will never cast you out So much for this idea that God can give up on you or walk away from you He says here I will never cast you out for I came down from heaven not to do my own will But the will of him that sent me and this is the father's will which him that sent me that he that Sorry that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but I should raise it up again that last day And this is the people that say you have to do the will of God You have to do the will of God to go to heaven well Here's the will of God verse 40 right here Okay, the will of God is what and this is the will of him that sent me that everyone that seeeth his son and believeth on him May have ever lasting life I mean he just breaks it right down right there and I will raise him up at the last day So what I want to do is I kind of want to flip this thing on its head This evening and I just don't want to go through Bible verse after Bible verse on eternal security I want to try to see if we can make some sense out of the arguments against eternal security The things that we see out there soul winning. So here's the first one Here's the first one that we'll hear from a lot of Protestants And this is one actually before I got saved that I actually used to believe and it's this it that maybe it's eternal security after you die So, you know, you have eternal life It's eternal life after you physically die then it's eternal life But you don't really know that you have it and tell just just hang with me here All right, it's eternal life after you die. So look we only have really one ruler criteria here We're Bible believing Baptist. We believe everything in the Bible. So the whole Bible must be true That's the only criteria that you need to have this evening. Okay, the whole Bible must be true the Bible look the Bible cannot contradict itself if you believe something in the Bible and it Contradicts something else that you read in the Bible Eat look it's either one of two things if you're reading a verse here or a Verses here and you say these two things don't match up either you're interpreting it wrong Either you are misunderstanding one of those verses or the Bible has a contradiction in it Look the problem is you I'm just gonna tell tell you right now The problem is you if you are reading something in the Bible that you believe contradicts something else in the Bible You are misunderstanding one of those verses. So that is the only thing because look if one thing look if one thing in the Bible was wrong The whole the whole thing is out the window Because if I tell you that this book has one error in it, but I'm not going to tell you where the error is You can't trust any of it But there is no errors in the Bible. I've not found one yet There is no errors in the Bible So the fact that it's without error is the biggest miracle of the book itself Okay, so look the whole Bible must be true. That's our design criteria for this evening, okay? So let's say somebody could believe on Jesus They could trust in Jesus turn to Ephesians chapter one. What does believe on mean? Let's just define the rules here. What does believe on mean turn to Ephesians chapter one You see this again and again. You see believe on believe on believe on sometimes it's believe in But what does this mean turn to Ephesians chapter one and then keep a finger in Ephesians chapter one We're going to be coming back there later on in the sermon. Look at Ephesians chapter one in verse 12 What does believe on mean when Jesus says this in John chapter 6 John chapter 3 many other places in the Bible What does it mean Ephesians chapter one look at verse 12 that we should be to the praise of his glory Who first trusted in Christ in whom that he also trusted? After that he heard the word of truth. What is the word of truth the gospel of your salvation and whom also after that he believed So here we see the word trusted and believed used interchangeably so to believe means to trust To believe on means to trust and then it says after that look it says after that You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promises other places in the Bible You know it uses believe in in John 3 16 you know but most other places it's believe on okay Ephesians chapter one is showing us that that means to trust in Jesus in the word of truth in The gospel okay, that's what it means. So let's say back to the the sermon. Let's say that someone could trust in Jesus Someone could trust in Jesus and through actions of their own or look Misactions of their own they trust in Jesus at this point in their life And then through misactions or actions or sin or whatever in their life. God would take this away from them He would take this life away from them and you say okay, you know I'm tracking you I could I could trust in Jesus and then do all these bad things You know this sin and this sin and this sin and then God would take that away from me okay, so The question I would immediately have to ask is okay. What are those sins? What are those sins that I could do that could make me lose my salvation? So I can avoid those things like the plague Right, I mean who wants to lose their salvation? I mean raise your hand if you want to lose your salvation anybody we want in the world It's terrible. We got to stay away from this stuff. So let's look for this list of sins First of all, you know, I don't know the only place I could really find anything that even comes close is revelation chapter 21 Go ahead and turn there. Let's give that one a shot It talks about a list of sins that will get people to the second death a list of sins that will get people into hell In revelation 218 look at this list The Bible says but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and the murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters Pretty bad people there Pretty bad list and all liars. Oh We got a problem here. She'll have their part in the lake with burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death So there you are after you believe if You lie You're getting the second death Except go to John chapter 10. Remember our design criteria here that the whole Bible has to make sense So if you're gonna read revelation chapter 21 verse number 8 and say if you do those sins You lose your salvation and you're gonna get the second death You're gonna have a lot of problems with other parts of the Bible I'll just give you one example. Just look at the front of your bulletin John chapter 10. Look at verse 28 This is the words of Jesus. If you have a red letter Bible these words are read John chapter 10 verse 28 and I give unto them eternal life first of all, what does he give you? It's eternal life How long is eternal last and Tell you lie. I give unto them eternal life and they shall perish when they shall never perish Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Well, that's interesting. I Give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand He basically said the same thing three times there you get that he says I give unto them eternal life He could have stopped right there. He's like you have eternal life. That's it But then he says again and they shall never perish. What's kind of the same thing is having eternal life If you have eternal life, you're never gonna get the second death If you have eternal life, you're never gonna die And then he says it again almost like we're dense Almost like we're thick-headed Neither shall any man. Maybe they'll think maybe they'll think someone or even themselves could do something That could make them lose this eternal life. No, no man No man Can take this away from you and he says my father which gave them me is greater than all Why why can no man take it away because because my father God the father's more powerful than any of you people Including yourselves No matter how great you think you are my father which gave them me is greater than all and no man. He says it again He says it again is able to pluck them out of my father's hand. God holds your salvation He's saying says he gives you this eternal life. He gives you this salvation and God holds it You don't hold it turn back to Ephesians chapter 2 Ephesians chapter 2 Ephesians chapter 2, I'm gonna give you I mean you probably read this verse as a soul winner Maybe a million times I'm gonna give you something else to think about here Ephesians chapter 2 you say I already know this Well, you know, I just want to give you maybe some better Thoughts some different thoughts on how you can explain this to people look at Ephesians 2 8 9 for by grace Are you saved through faith and not of yourselves? It is the gift of God Not of works lest any man should boast look at verse number 9. Don't forget verse number 9 The reason for salvation being not of works in Ephesians chapter 2 Verses 8 and 9 and in verse number 9. He gives the reason for it is what? What is the reason? The reason for it not being of works here It's by grace through faith is so you can't brag about it It is so you can't say I did this myself If you get one thing I look if you read the Bible again and again and again You know what you're gonna realize you're gonna kind of you're gonna kind of see the nature of God You're gonna kind of learn God's personality And you're gonna realize how stupid it is when people say oh that's Old Testament God versus New Testament God because when you read The Bible again and again and again you realize same personality here Same personality if you know one thing about God it's this he wants the credit He want me he sent his son to die for you What in the world he wants to credit for it? He doesn't want you boasting about it. That's why it's by grace through faith and not of yourselves Look, it's not of you not even a little bit You can't take any credit now if you were responsible for keeping your own salvation if You get saved when you're 32 years old and Then from the time that you're 32 years old to the time that you're 90 you live a godly Christian life and you hang on to that thing We're gonna see how stupid that is to and it is a few minutes, but let's say you do that You live a godly Christian life and you hang on to your salvation. What could you if that's the case? What could you say when you stood before Jesus? At the judgment seat of Christ. What could you say? You know what you could say? Look at that wonderful works that I've done You could say Lord Lord Look at all the things that I did in your name From the time I was 32 years old to the time that I was 90 look at my wonderful works. I hung on to it You could take credit could you not To the time of your physical death you could take look that would be quite an accomplishment that you could talk to Jesus about Think about it Kind of sounds like these people turn to Matthew chapter 7 Well, you say wow well well the Bible covers these people The Bible leaves no stone unturned Look we people haven't changed. It's all the same thing folks Look at Matthew chapter 7 Look at Matthew chapter 7 and verse 21 Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 not everyone that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven These people are calling Jesus Lord folks But he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven. What's the will of my father which is in heaven? Let me read for you John 640 and this is the will of him that sent me that everyone that see at the son and believe on him May have everlasting life Many will say to me in that day back to Matthew chapter 7 many will say to me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in thy name in that I name cast out devils in thy name done many wonderful works and Then I will profess unto them. I never knew you Depart from me ye that work iniquity these people are going to hell These people are going to hell and Jesus didn't say I knew you and then I forgot you and then you did that sin And I forgot you know he never knew them. They knew him But that doesn't matter. He's got to know you He's got to know you and they were trusting in themselves They never believed on Jesus they never trusted in Jesus salvation is not it look salvation is not of Works you want to treat us on that you come on Wednesday nights We are going to tear that thing down to the last blade of grass It's not of works not even a little bit Because you're trusting look if you're trusting your works even to keep your salvation you're trusting yourself But here's something turn to Revelation chapter 20. Here's something that is of works Here's something that is of works. You know what's of works? Damn nation is of works Damn nation is of works look at Revelation chapter 20 and verse number 11 These are the people that did not believe on Jesus These are the people that are standing at the great white throne judgment And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and heaven fled away And there was no and there was found no place for them And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was open Which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books those books were the law Those books were the law the commandments the Bible according to their works They were judged look folks if you're judged by your works turn to Isaiah chapter 6 if you're judged by your works You're toast if you're judged. I don't care how good of a person you think you are if you're judged by your works You're done and you're gonna go to hell Turn to Isaiah chapter 6 Isaiah chapter 61. I'm sorry The Bible says in verse 10 I will great really rejoice in the Lord my soul shall be joyful in my God for he had clothed me With the garments of salvation Don't forget that he had covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments as a bride adorneth herself With her jewels look folks being saved doesn't mean you suddenly become a great person Being saved means someone else puts a nice garment on you They quote look your clothes with somebody else's righteousness when you're saved We wear his righteousness It's not suddenly our own We wear his it's a garment that we put on it's like it's like the bride and her jewels The bride is made beautiful by the jewels I'm saved so I'm this this great person now, and I'm gonna keep my salvation. No folks It's not only not biblical, but it's not logical The Bible does not contradict itself in words or in philosophy It's not logical either. Let me explain this to you turn to 1st John chapter 5 turn to 1st John chapter 5 this idea that you could get saved That you could you could believe in Jesus you could trust in Jesus But then at that point you got to be good or not do these sins or you'll lose that Go to 1st John chapter 5 and look at verse 13 The whole Bible is true. The whole Bible is true The whole Bible is true Every word every verse look at 1st John chapter 5 and verse 13 these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God there it is again Who is he saying he's talking to people that are saved here? He's saying people that have believed on the name of the Son of God that you may what? That you may be pretty sure that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God that you may Think that you may know that you may know That you may know look if you could believe in Jesus and trust in Jesus But then you had to keep yourself from certain sins you had to turn from certain sins all your sins whatever Until you died physically look you could never know and Don't tell me you could because you're a liar if you say that because you could never know You know why because there's no specific list of sins in the Bible It's not there you would actually and look you would actually look I'm an engineer you would actually need more than just a list you would need I mean You would need like charts graphs I Think about like performance analysis. I mean I need I mean if you're gonna tell me that there's certain sins They can take away my salvation. I need some charts. I need some performance curves I need you know horsepower versus flow. I need head versus flow I mean we got to figure out the efficiency of this thing. So I make sure that I'm in the in the in the green I mean, I don't want to drive this thing into the red. I mean that's risky territory. I Mean you would need a time frame. You would need seriousness of sins in there I mean you would basically need a chart that shows seriousness of sins on the y-axis and then like time on The x-axis to be the simplest you could do it. I've thought this through But there's no charts in the Bible. There's no lists of these things look Here's maybe one the teenagers will understand probably not the teenagers in this church. It's like a video game Probably not the teenagers in this church. Thank God If you like a video game where you have like salvation, that's like your life and Every sin like takes away some life And then like some sins take away more life than the other sins But then every time you go to church you get more life And then every time you get baptized get more life Every time you give money to church more life depends on how much money more life But I mean you would have to have like you see how confused I mean look Some sins take I mean we know all sins aren't equal We've already done that so some sins would definitely take away your salvation faster than other sins And you know, here's the thing everybody's understanding of what sins are bad and what sins take away their salvation is different You know why it's different because it's not in the Bible I met a Pentecostal lady one time. She told me she's like, yeah, I'm saved. I believed in Jesus and I'm saved Could you ever lose that? Yeah, as long as I don't commit 12 sins a day like what in the world? You know, I mean, but here's the thing. It's not in the Bible. So where are they getting these things? They're getting it from their preacher They're getting it from some false prophet that tells them what sins that they can't commit or they'll lose their salvation I mean, I don't know. It's a pretty good idea if you want to control people Well, you guys aren't doing what I'm saying you're doing, you know, look, you're not vacuuming the carpet or whatever good enough It's like listen Vacuum harder or you're gonna go to hell. I Mean, I know that's a simple example, but that's really what's happening here You know, you you can't control your wife or you don't like the way that you're you know You're just telling them that they're gonna go to hell if they backslide or whatever You know, I mean, it's it's a control mechanism The Catholic Church has been doing it with infant baptism since you know the 300 AD You got it. You want to come you want you want your kids to go to heaven. You better bring them here It's like why didn't people see this coming people did they were called Baptist and they got burned They got tortured and they got killed for it Look, you say this is all silly to even think about this video game life Versus taking away your life and getting more and I just not getting past the point where you die because you know Then you got to be born again again, which isn't in the Bible either I Mean you say it sounds dumb, but look folks. This is the Reformation. I Mean this is Protestants today So let's go back to the logic part So we know look we're told we can know we have eternal life right first John 5 13 that you may know It's very clear. I mean that's not a complicated statement That you may know that you have eternal life people that you know And people believe it operates by this weird game these rules are not in the Bible and these people where they're getting them They're getting them from some false prophet that's teaching things that are not in the Bible It's that simple Your pastor or whoever is telling them what will send them to hell There you know how much they must come to church and do all these things whatever so look Here's another one on how you can keep your salvation that you'll hear many times a lot of times from Protestants I believe this myself or half my life and it's this you can keep your salvation by confessing your sins You can keep your salvation by confessing your sins by you know asking for forgiveness You'll hear this at the door many times What if you sin we just have to ask for forgiveness Now here's what the actual reality of these people is I've run into these people so many times Most people that believe this let's think this one through Let's think this one through most people that believe this ultimately believe that everyone is going to go to heaven Okay, the more people and you just you say I'm not sure it was trust me People that believe that all you have to do is ask for forgiveness And then you'll be able to go to heaven or you'll be able to keep your salvation or whatever first of all Asking for forgiveness is a work that you do It's a work. It's you doing something. Okay. Look, it's a good thing to do. Don't get me wrong Nothing to do with your salvation. So you have to ask for forgiveness But people that believe this Think everyone's going to heaven because I'll always say at the door. I'll always say so whenever somebody gives me a Work-based answer. I'll always say to people. What if I don't do those things? So when they say we just have to ask for forgiveness and then I'll just say what if I just never asked for forgiveness What if I'm just a horrible human being and I never asked for forgiveness and those people will almost always say well I just think God's going to forgive you anyway. I mean, so the question is the question is Are most people going to heaven? Turn to Luke chapter 13. I mean look, I mean, that's a good question I mean if you don't know the answer to that question, let's answer it for you right now Let's just take a rabbit trail and find out are most people going to heaven. I mean, it's a nice thought I wish most people were going to heaven. I mean, I would like most people to go to heaven Would you not? I mean, who wants people to go to hell? I mean, who would want people to go to hell? Look at Luke 13 and verse 23 The Bible says then one then said one unto him Lord I mean, it's a pretty direct question right here. Are there few that be saved and He said unto them Strive to enter in at the straight gate straight meaning not straight as an arrow straight meaning narrow Like a canal like the one that the ship got caught in that's a straight gate Okay, the ship got caught in the narrow gate for many Look many ships could not go through that that canal One ship blocked it up So many could not go through it. It was just one at a time So I say to you many will seek to enter in it She'll not be able he answers it in more detail in Matthew 7 13 where he says enter in at the straight gate For why does the gate the opposite of this and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and Many be there with that go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth until life and Few be that find it few there be that find it look most people are not going to be saved folks. I Hate to break it to you But most people and if you become a soul winner, you will understand that most people are not saved Most people are not saved you say you say that's terrible Well, I agree. That's terrible. Will you help us do something about it? Will you help us preach the gospel to people? Will you help us get out there and get the truth to people so people can get saved? I mean, that's why we're doing what we do here. Those are the first works right there Turn to 1st John chapter 1 Let's get back to this idea of confessing your sins to keep yourself saved To keep your own salvation Look at 1st John chapter 1 The Bible says in 1st John chapter 1 in verse number 9 the Bible says if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness aha I've got it There it is. If you don't confess your sins. You're going to hell Not what it says Let's look back a couple verses and let's look forward a couple verses The Bible says in verse 6 if we say that we have fellowship with him. Oh, there it is This is about having a relationship with your Heavenly Father 1st John chapter 1. It is that simple But look they will say see you have to confess your sins or you lose your salvation But look 1st John chapter 1 I just showed you from the Bible was about having fellowship with your Heavenly Father But let's just walk the logic of this one through. This is a great one Just just just look up here and just just think through this with me Okay, let's say if you don't I have to operate this way. I must confess my sins. I Must which confess means to be truly sorry and to ask for forgiveness Okay, that's what confession means now turn to Proverbs 24. I Need to operate this way or I will lose my salvation. I must confess my sins or I'm done You'll meet people that believe this but they really believe everyone's going to heaven So they make no sense in what they believe themselves. Well look at Proverbs 24 Let me just walk the logic of this one through the Bible says in Proverbs 20 more 24 9 The thought of foolishness is sin. Oh man The world the thought I mean having a foolish thought is a sin So here I mean I got a couple questions. These are things that I used to think about as I was a confessional Lutheran Until I was in my 30s Meaning you had to confess your sins to wipe that slate clean, but here's the thing I would always think about this What if I miss one? What if I miss one and here's a really big one because you can put some claws in there It says oh god forgive me for all the stuff that I forgot about Then that gets rid of all that you know, what if I miss one, but look here's another one What if you're disingenuous about one? What if there's a sin that you know you're not going to stop? What if there's a sin that you know you're actively in and you're confessing it on Sunday morning? You think God is an idiot? You think you're fooling God? You think he's just going to be like you know Whatever, you know, but here's the thing. What if I just do this thing? We're okay Let's just say that is what God believes that as long as I confess a Vayne repetition Are you following me? But let's just let's give it the benefit of the doubt we confess a chant every Sunday morning It's like a salvation extender think of an extra sketch Right, you guys even know what that is you younger people an extra sketch you shake it and it's all clean You can draw on it again, right? So you go there Sunday morning you shake the extra sketch clean So good, right? How long are you good for? If a foolish thought is a sin and Confessing your sin shakes the edge of sketch. I don't know you're good for like a few minutes. I don't know You know what if I have a foolish thought and then get hit by a car sometime between Sunday and Sunday Look, nobody's going to heaven on these rules. I Mean you certainly can't know I Mean do you think I mean how long do you think that your salvation slate stays clean? After you successfully reset it Think this through people it makes no logical sense. Basically people would be so you know They have their salvation reset for a few minutes, and then they'd be in danger of damnation again You see how stupid this is You see how stupid it is when we try to make a logical sense out of the alternatives Of this so look the only doctrine where the Bible makes total sense and does not contradict itself at all Is the doctrine of eternal security? Once saved always saved it matches everywhere. I remember this I remember this when I got this and then I started reading the Bible and the Bible was not confusing to me anymore I was like man. It all makes sense now It all makes sense because everything matches together perfectly. Look. Here's a simple Here's three main tenets of this that I like to think about look as far as the timeline of your salvation Go back to Ephesians chapter one go back to Ephesians chapter one Here's three tenets of eternal salvation that I like to think about the first one is this you're sealed You're sealed think about that word. You're sealed Think of the timeline this timeline of I got saved at this moment And then I have this whole life to live and tell my physical death, but the Bible says that you're sealed Go back to Ephesians chapter one look at verse 13. The Bible says in whom you also trusted after That you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after look, there's a time There's a sequence of events happening here After that you believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. So look you heard you heard and Then you believed and Then you were sealed Now what were you sealed with superglue? We're a two ton epoxy love this stuff. We got this porcelain chicken It's been broken like 17 times it never breaks in the same place because I use two ton epoxy all the time It's great glue, but it's not going to keep your salvation Okay, look here's the thing you're sealed with what? The Holy Spirit you're sealed with the Holy Spirit of what of promise Verse 14 it gets even better, but wait, there's more Which is I mean look with this stuff with eternal security Jesus is just slamming this stuff home. The Bible is just slamming this stuff home. Look you're sealed with the Holy Spirit That's enough for me. I don't need another verse, but here it is Which is the earnest of our inheritance? Until there's that time again the redemption of the purchase possession until the praise of his glory if even if you say Even if you say that eternal doesn't begin until physical death You're sealed all the way up to that time by the Holy Spirit, which is the earnest You know what an earnest is it's a down payment or a promise When you put an earnest payment down on a house that you're thinking about buying it means I'm gonna buy this You know what if you back out from the deal, you know what happens? You lose that money turn to John chapter 3 From this moment of trust let's go back to the moment of trust From this moment of trust you are sealed turn to John chapter 3 and verse 36 one of my favorite verses in the entire Bible John chapter 3 verse 36 one of the most simple to understand verses in the entire Bible The Bible says he that believeth on the Sun half everlasting life Just stop there Look he that believeth on the Sun look who's the son? It's Jesus. We all know this half everlasting life It means you have it. It's an older word for have are you currently possess it? It says when you believe on Jesus you have it you have what you have everlasting life And at that moment you're sealed At that moment God put a down payment on you And you know what he put that down payment inside you And that down payment is look to believe God would take away his salvation Take away your salvation is to believe that God would walk away from his down payment And the down payment is him he would have to abandon himself the Holy Spirit Look, it's the only Thing look you decide not to buy that house you lose that money God walks away from the God's not walking away from the Holy Spirit You say he might be really mad at me. Yeah, but you know he's gonna keep you around because he's got the Holy Spirit holding you Put a down payment on you with the Holy Spirit. I mean forget you God's not walking away from the Holy Spirit Turn to Roman 623. So that's the first one you're sealed from that moment. You believe you are sealed With the Holy Spirit The second one is this and I mean it's it's so simple. It's just beautiful that salvation is a gift Roman 623 for the wages of sin is death But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. You see that word gift You don't earn a gift. You don't work for a gift. You don't pay for a gift Look, it's a it's the very nature of this simple term that makes salvation and the gospel itself so beautiful If I mean every even of the smallest child understands what a gift is Even the smallest child Understands that a gift once it's given to you you didn't pay for it the person that gave it to you in this case It's through Jesus Christ. It's provided by Jesus Christ and that it's yours at that moment and Then it can't stop being yours even the smallest child understands that somebody who would give someone a gift and then take it away Is you know, you know, it's they're a liar and then on top of all that so it's a gift It's super simple. That's the simplicity of the gospel folks and It makes perfect sense because what if God made the gospel so complicated that it was this twisted Version I mean, there's a million different doctrines out there twisting work since and faith But now you have to figure out which one's right What if the gospel was so complicated only the most studied scholar in the Bible could figure it out? Is that I mean Now it makes sense that it would be simple It makes simple it makes sense that it would be, you know It's almost like God said that he he he preferred the meek Over the proud, you know who have a heart You know who has a hard time with the gospel being a gift and being eternal and having nothing to do with themselves It's nothing to do with you to get it. It's nothing to do with you to keep it You know has a really hard time with that proud people That's why the you know the more money people says and you know have and the more successful people have in general The more resistant they are gonna be to this simple gospel. Oh It being a gift and here's an here's the next the last one Not only is the gift yours Not only is it a gift and it's yours, but it's eternal It's literally eternal. God cannot lie Titus As a matter of fact that you know when you logically look at this thing as we did here The only thing you know, here's the thing the only thing that you could know If you believed that it wasn't eternal and that you could lose your salvation the only thing that you would know if you thought you could lose it to sin or Not doing something or whatever the only thing that you are not confessing your sins The only thing that you would know is that you don't have it. I Mean if you are honest with yourself and you believe that you could lose it through these things that we talked about this evening The only thing that you would know for sure is that you don't have it folks It's the only way look this Believing that you're saved by believing on Jesus is the only way the Bible makes sense It's the only way the logic of it makes sense. It stays simple Eternal life is eternal It happens in a moment and you're sealed in that moment God puts a down payment on you With his Holy Spirit and then all these things all these things look your works Confession Following the commandments all these things that the Bible does talk about They're all good things turn to John chapter 1. They're all good things to do as God's children They're all good things to do as God's children You're saying I can get saved and I can go do whatever I want In my life. Well, yeah, you know and you're not going to go to hell I mean everything else is you know your family may go to hell You know, I mean you ruin your life You're gonna be chastised and beaten by God again and again and again doesn't sound like a free ticket to me But yeah, you're not gonna go to hell He's never gonna take away your salvation You're see you're still sealed even though you're a bad guy and you never go to church And you're just gonna live a life the way you want to live this worldly life But look, you're not gonna go to hell But look at first John or look at John chapter 1 verse 12 The Bible says but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God lowercase s Even to them so who are the sons of God to them that believe on his name If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you're a child of God You're a son of God. You're a daughter of God now turn to 1st John chapter 2 and God is a good father and he will chastise his children The Bible talks about we're not going to go into death on that but God will chastise his children So it is true to say that once somebody gets saved and they continue in sin that their life will change Because God is gonna beat them down Because now you're a son of God Now you're under different rules I've had people say that that to me when they got saved and they believed on Jesus and they said oh, man I think you might have just wrecked my life. I said on this earth you maybe But not eternally on this earth Maybe because you continue doing the things that you're doing and God you're not getting away with anything anymore Simply put look at 1st John 2 and verse 3 and hereby we do We do know that we know him if we keep his commandments does that say he knows you No, it says we know him if we keep his commandments In Matthew chapter 7 he says I never knew you In Daniel chapter 11 that I read you this morning. What do we say? Who are they gonna do who are they that are gonna do those exploits? They that what they that know their God It doesn't say everybody that saved it says they that know their God You keep God's commandments you walk in the Bible you keep this Christian life, and you you do you're showing your love for God Why would you not do that after he saved you? It's like here's the best gift anyone could possibly ever give you and you're just like Thanks. See you later But that's what everybody does That's what everybody does it's a character thing We do know him if we keep his commandments Verse number six as he that he that say if he abideth in him ought himself also to walk Even as he walked it's like you should do these things Romans teaches the same thing you should do these things you are no longer a slave You are no longer a servant to sin you should walk this way. It doesn't say you will You still have the flesh in you You still have this desire to sin. You are still going to sin, but you ought not to There's nothing to do with salvation. It is everything to do With the relationship that you have with your heavenly father, and here's the real kicker The guy at the door that says you're telling me I can believe on Jesus, and it's a free ticket to heaven That's exactly what I'm telling you You trust in Jesus you let go of your own works, and and you believe on his name And you're saved and that's it in a moment But here's the thing you go out and you live the life of a drunk and you live a wicked life You think your kids are gonna get saved You think when you open the Bible to your kids look if you could give me the choice That if somebody gave me the choice that either you're gonna go to hell Jared or your child is gonna go to hell. I would choose me every time you don't get to make that choice Whether or not your children get saved and grow up in the Lord and grow up Learning the Bible and learning the Word of God and knowing the Lord and eventually believing on Jesus themselves That's up to you Because they're watching you They're watching your look you're a witness to them Your works matter Your works matter James chapter 2 talks about how your works matter to profit everyone around you You could take that salvation and you could run with it and just forget everybody else around you a lot of people do it a Lot of people do it in this life But some man you are Some father you are And just and forget about that you're just throwing it in the face of God Who gave his only begotten son for you and For every stupid wicked thing you'll ever do in your life He gave up his only son to die and take the punishment for you and you're gonna be like thanks. See you later You could do that Because he promises that he seals you look God keeps his promise God keeps his promise These people that believe that you can lose your salvation unless I do something. They're all gonna go to hell And if they look I hope we can get the truth to as many as possible But ultimately if they go to the grave thinking that I have to do these things they deserve to go to hell Because God did it all He paid it all He did it all and then he wrote it all down and it's the simplest thing ever The choice look the choice is up to you on what you believe But look he will never let you go You There is no way to make biblical or logical sense if you think about these things of The doctrine of losing your salvation It's eternal Thank God that it's eternal. I Thank God for that all the time and you know what I'll tell you this if I could lose it I Would lose it You're saying but you're but you lead this church if I could lose it if it was possible I will lose it I Had another Some kind of person I was given the gospel to in church one time a few years ago and he said he believed that he wasn't a sinner anymore First of all, he's a liar the Bible says And he looked at me and he said you're telling me that that pastor up there is a sinner That's exactly what I'm telling you If I could lose my salvation I'm gonna be a sinner until the day that this body dies If I could lose it, I'd lose it and so would you You need to thank God for the fact that you're sealed You need to thank God for this promise that he gave you not only did he die for you Not only did he take the punishment for you But he promised to keep you if you just trusted that that's it It's the only thing that makes any sense and I'm so thankful for this promise eternal security Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer