 Let's remember that whichever side of the hour on That we also treat the person on the other side as though they're still a brother or sister in Christ Hey, man, even if you are now if you're like me, I don't think that there's any way that you can lose salvation if you are indeed a Christian and So there'll be some that disagree. Well, we're not gonna treat them as though they are non-believers We're not gonna treat them like their muslims like their atheists or the demon Okay, we're gonna treat them like their brothers and vice versa. So Doctors of the devil live from the pit of hell that kind of stuff. Let's just not have that. Okay now I'm gonna cover 10 of these they're not necessarily in a Particular order, although I'm probably starting with Probably two of the weakest arguments But I think these two arguments are the stronger arguments and then what I'm going to do is I want to break each one of these down Each one of these will be their own separate video So the be reason number one will be its own video reason number two and then of course you'll have this also where they're all Together, but in case you someone wants to watch and they just want to just go over just one That's fine. They can go over the second one on its at their own pace. Then amen So that being stated even though again, I'm not giving a particular order. I do think that The first two are probably the weakest I Wouldn't say that I'm going in an order of weakest to strongest, but we'll see now am I am I going to cover? many of if any of The verses that people pull up to say that no you can lose your salvation I don't know because I've done that enough. I've covered all those videos now I'm giving you the 10 reasons the 10 verse I mean the 10 Proofs of the 10 greatest reasons why you cannot lose your salvation. So with that being said One big reason To state or to show that you cannot lose your salvation is because of the character of God. I Think it impunes God's character God's nature to state that We would one day be saved and then the next minute not because it's not that we Take away our salvation. It would be him who would do so and So I think it would be impugning on his character in his nature He's a God who doesn't change and so it's not as though that that and somebody will say well, yeah, but what if we change? Well God knows what we are and what we're not going to do and so he's not gonna give us something knowing for well I don't think that we're going to turn around and forfeit it But that being the case I want to go over a couple passages Starting in Revelation 3 Just to kind of indicate that he's not going to do anything opposite of what he says it three five It says he who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments And I will not erase his name from the book of life and I will confess his name before my father and before his name It's not granted it's speaking about this is John speaking of Jesus, but The names that are written in the book were written long ago Before the foundation of the earth and so to come back and say that we would lose our salvation is to say that God would then Forget the fact that he wrote our names in the book in the first place would then turn around and have the names blot it out Or allowed to be blotted out that would be a guy who does change that would be a guy Who is holding something against us and we'll get to this issue about him holding something against us into a second as a Matter of fact, I want to go to Colossians to 14 for another verse that I think bolsters the fact that God is not going to change his mind on us He says by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal standards or legal demands This he set aside nailing it to the cross. Well, what does that have to do with anything? Well, here's why The reason why anyone Anybody be it from the Old Testament or the New Testament or since then the reason why anyone would not be able to be With the father in eternity is because they have something between them and God God has an issue in other words. There's a debt Well, if the debt has been canceled well, then God being a just God a righteous guy Remember God has a lot of attributes and he has some Incommunicable and some communicable attributes when I say in communicable and communicable communicable attributes are those that he shares with us Such as he loving now he doesn't share them perfectly the way he is we love he loves we just don't love like he loves But also he has some in communicable attributes to such as he is omnipotent I'm the present we don't he doesn't share those attributes with us at all, but he is a just God He is a righteous God the reason why we say he's a righteous guy than just God because if there is no no debt that we have Outstanding well, then how then would he charge us? Are you with me? And so That's another reason why also, let's go to Let's go to Romans 8 29 something that he did that God did Romans 8 29 He says for whom he foreknew this is God He also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many Brethren and these whom he predestined he also called and these whom he called He also justified and these whom he justified He also glorified and the Bible says then go and say what then if God has justified us Who who can bring a charge against us against God's elect? And so I think that it would be impugning God's character God's nature to turn around and say well No God even though these things your wrath has been satisfied the debt has been paid You still can find fault against us. No now the fault that he could find is that we're sinful Well, that doesn't change with or without faith or not We are still people who sin that part doesn't change at all And so I think we would not be in keeping with his character this nature now again This is maybe not the strongest of arguments, but I think it still is a strong argument. Amen The second argument I think is that No one else has lost their salvation So if someone is going to say that we can lose our salvation Then you're going to have to come up with an example of someone having lost their salvation There absolutely is not one person in the Bible who has lost their salvation now They're going to be some names that people may throw up For example, they may throw up the name Ananias and Sapphire will first of all two things one We don't know if they were ever saved to begin with to we don't know if they lost their salvation They just simply died Dying does not equate to loss of salvation. Are you with me? There are many Christians today who might do something and that the consequence of what they did might be them dying That means they're gonna lose their salvation Secondly, the Bible doesn't say that Ananias or Sapphire were actually believers So it would be a stretch to say to prove that they have been Especially when we look at other scriptures, which we will later that Demonstrate that God has determined that no one will lose their salvation now a couple others that they'll throw out would be Judas so the question is has has Judas lost was was Judas ever saved you lose a salvation? Well, let's go to the Bible and let's see in fact that Judas was never a believer Judas was never as we say cleanse Jesus says in chapter 13 verse 10 He says the one who has bathed does not need to wash now This is when Jesus was washing their feet and Peter's like no I should wash it Said no matter fact Jesus washed my whole body and Jesus makes a statement. He says the one who has bathed Does not need to wash now he uses the term bathed. He uses what we call the Perfect tense and it's a perfect passive tense Meaning in the Greek the perfect tense is a completed action that has happened in the past And because it's in the passive voice meaning this was done to them So the person who has been bathed in the past has no need to be cleansed again Look what he said has no need to wash except for his feet, but he is completely clean Look he says and you are clean But not every one of you for he knew who was to betray him. That is why he said not all of you are clean So who was he saying that's not clean? He's speaking of Judas Judas had never been clean Judas had never stood before the Lord in right standing And so Judas was never ever a believer. He did not lose his salvation. He never had his salvation to begin with He's always been chosen to be what he was the son of perdition the one that's going to betray him It was prophesied of him before and it was fulfilled in him Another one that they might bring up would be demons demons in Second Timothy chapter 4 Let's pull that up second to me chapter 4. I don't think I'm one of the ones who Does not think that Demis lost his salvation. Here's why Go to go to the verse verse 9. He says do your business Paul on his way to die He says do your best to come to me soon for Demis in love with this present world has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica Crescent has gone to Galatia Titus to Dalmatia Luke alone is with me get mark and bring him with you for he is very useful for To me for this ministry now. Why don't I say that Demis? Lost his salvation or that Demis was because someone say what Demis was was was probably never a believer And that's that's that could be true also. It could be that Demis was never a believer to begin with But I think that's not necessarily what the text is saying because when you look and see who Demis is lumped up with Demis isn't the only one that neglected or left Paul And matter of fact, it's not the first time that someone has left Paul says that Demis I'm sorry Demis now does add the caveat that in love with this present world This has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Then he says creation has gone to Galatia Titus to Dalmatia Well, the question is why do you put Titus and Crescent's in the same? sentence Almost though they're in the same category though you didn't give a reason why they left but they also departed from you You don't do the same for you We don't we don't criticize them or say that they have matter of fact We don't know who Crescent's is but as far as Titus We know for a fact that he he's still a believer as a matter of fact. He is one of Paul's Pastor protégés that he's training so we don't see that Titus is that way, but we see that Demis is that way I think to me personally, I don't see that but truth be told How strong of an argument is that that Demis was was a Christian and never lost it or that that that Demis is losing his faith. You can't make that argument because it didn't say so Nor can you really make the argument that Demis was never a Christian to begin with So going off the text just looking at this at verse 10 You've got three people to whom we both we pretty much believe especially one They are brothers in the Lord and he lumps Demis in with them now The issue is though Paul goes on to talk about people who were with them one person in particular Who was with them who he says this person? Has opposed our message and so that's Alexander and no one is in Alexander was saved So Paul could have easily put Demis in that category So I don't think that Demis was also someone who lost salvation. My point is this though There's not one example of anyone in the Bible who has lost their salvation on the contrary the Bible has always stated that No one will have their name blotted out. No one will lose it He will see us through to the end and so though it might not be as strong as some of the others as the next Seven or eight examples. I think it's still a strong enough example. Amen then By the way, I've added it to that is if someone did lose their salvation That wouldn't that make Jesus incorrect in some of the things that he stated We will we'll get to that in just a second, but I want to go ahead and go to the the third Example and that is Christians losing their salvation that just simply isn't what Christians do The I think this is a Actually a sound argument. I think it's a strong argument again. These arguments aren't in order, but the third example of a real third reason why a person cannot lose their salvation is because That's just not what Christians do. How do I know? Let's go to John chapter 10 and let's see Jesus's description of what a Christian is now. We all know that Jesus calls us sheep He's a shepherd. We are sheep and he's going to give a description of a sheep And if he gives a description of a sheep when someone gives a different or alternative Description of what a sheep is and it's not the description that Jesus gives well Then don't say that that person with this faulty or an antithetical description of a sheep Is a person who's lost their salvation are you with me because a person says their Christian does not mean that they are We find out what a Christian what a sheep is and so let's listen to what Jesus says and let let let let that be the standard He says let's start in verse 2 but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep That's Jesus. He says to him the gatekeeper opens the sheep hear his voice And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out when he has brought out all his own He goes before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice a Stranger they will not follow what they will flee from him for they do not know the voice of the stranger So let's look and see what Jesus just said He gave a pretty good description of what she do and then he also gave a description of what sheep don't do Let's go back to verse 4. He says when he has brought out all his own Well, that's an indication right there all the sheep belong to him his own sheep Now you can go and look at different examples on YouTube or whatever and you'll see that sometimes you might see a collection of sheep From this shepherd and from that shepherd may be kind of intermingling And you'll see the shepherd go this way and another go that way and each sheep each shepherd sheep will follow their own or You can go and look and see examples of the shepherd letting people come up and call the sheep and the sheep just continue about their business and When the shepherd finally decides to go ahead and call use an exact same call that the people the tourists in this case are Doing the shepherd the sheep look up and they come running just like what Jesus said So he says first of all they are his own second He says he says he goes before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice He gives us two other things to go off of his sheep follow him. So what do sheep do? Sheep follow the shepherd sheep follow Jesus Secondly, he says that they know his voice the sheep know the shepherd's voice We as Christians know his voice now There's another voice or other voices we may hear but he gives us a description of what or tells us what sheep won't do We may hear the stranger's voice. He says verse 5 a stranger They will not follow but they will flee from him for they do not know the voice of the stranger So us as Christians will not follow someone else's voice I don't care what the voice is disguised as if it's disguised as Hinduism if the voice is disguised as Buddhism if the voice is disguised as New age or New Worldism. What have you want to call it atheism? Whatever Sheep who are belonging to Christ will not follow that other strange voice as a matter of fact The Bible says Jesus says not only will we not follow We will run away look at verse 5 again. He says for they will flee from him Will not follow for they will flee from him because we don't know his voice And so we have a clear description of What sheep are Even if someone were to say Even if someone were to say that he's speaking about Jewish sheep now He speaks about sheep of another flock. Let's go down to verse 16 and he says and I have other sheep that are not of this fold Meaning it's Gentiles. He says I must bring them. Also. I must bring them It's necessary for me to bring them also and look what he says about us Gentiles sheep He says something just as comforting. He says and they will listen to my voice Akkusen, I'm sorry, Akkusen, which is they will follow. I mean we'll listen to my voice And so there will be one flock and one shepherd that is Jews and Gentiles who are following their Jesus their shepherd their Messiah We will be one flock together and we will all hear his voice We will only listen to his voice follow him no other voice. And so when we get down to verse 27 People bring this up. He says my sheep hear my voice all he's doing guys is he's Reiterating what he stated that sheep do that Christians do Christians hear his voice and so go ahead and supplant the word sheep for just a time being take out the word sheep and Implant Christians as a matter of fact take out put in Christian slash your name you if you are a Christian You hear his voice. He says and I know that person. I know them I know Christians the Christians and Christians follow me. So all he did was reiterate again Let's stop coming back and saying that Christians will stop following because Jesus said they will follow Let's compare who said what you say that Christians will stop following Jesus says that Christians will keep following. So he says they follow me and verse 28 he says I give them eternal life They will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand my father who has given them Given the sheep given the Christians to me is greater than all and the greater than all does not necessarily mean all of every Person out there, but all of everything Any and everything the father is greater than all anything that you can think of which is why he says and Paul says in Romans That there is nothing that can separate us no height no depth No, no any other creative thing nothing in the past present or future nothing to come can separate us from the love of Christ Jesus and so he says my father was given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the father's hand Now why does he say no one is able to snatch the sheep out of the father's hand? Well, the only way that the sheep will be out of his hand since the sheep won't walk away since the sheep won't leave We know they won't leave because Jesus just said the sheep won't leave He said in this in this sense my sheep will follow me. They will not follow after anyone else They'll follow me so the only other way the only other possibility for a sheep to be missing is for someone to snatch them But he just says no one can snatch them out of my hand and then if you go back to verse 28 We would all agree that the Bible does not contradict itself And so in verse 28 we have three what are called independent clauses that make up this verse Clause a says I give them internal life that can stand on its own as its own sentence And then clause B says and they will never perish that can stand as on its own They will never perish and then clause C says no one will snatch them out of my hand The issue is if someone were to lose their salvation with them, we're gonna have a contradiction here if Clause a can't contradict clause B clause B can't contradict clause C if someone were to say yes Cory But you could walk away whether you could walk away then clause a and B are both Negated because clause a says I give them eternal life eternal life is simply Zoane I only on which is life into the ages And so if someone were to walk away then they don't have life into the ages But the other one the more important one is clause B says they will never perish So if the sheep were snatched out of his hand magically Jesus didn't know about some stronger power Or if the person walked away Then clause B would be incorrect when it says they will never perish and we don't have a contradiction We don't have Jesus not knowing what he's speaking of so therefore Since we know sheep don't walk away We have a clear description By the shepherd none other than shepherd himself who tells us what his sheep are like He's not describing sheep of any other fold He's speaking of his own sheep and who better to tell us what his sheep or his Christian will be like They will never listen anyone else. They won't follow anyone else But they will listen to him they hear his voice and they will follow him why because they are his own Amen So now the next one The fourth reason why Now I'm sorry. I was getting the text the fourth reason why we cannot lose our salvation Let's put this up on the screen. Listen. I Want to make sure I have this I've got I could not write all of the passages down. I Just don't have enough space to to write them and then keep keep up with them So I'm gonna have to copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste but I'm gonna stick in two books To cover this let's put it on screen real quick Okay, the fourth reason why a Christian cannot lose his salvation is because of the atonement The atonement simply put and we won't go over the entirety of the atonement But if you just to go and look at Leviticus 16 But even before then you'll see that God has a term in that Man has an outstanding debt The atonement is something whereby there are three elements to achieve the third. There is a covering There's a cancelling that brings about a reconciliation man sin has put a block a barrier before him and God and so we can't we we cannot be reconciled because we have this sin issue before him God has determined that the payment for sin will be blood We didn't determine the payment God determined the payment and if God determined this goes back to how him being a righteous judge has determined what the payment is Then once the payment satisfied then there is no longer an outstanding debt We'll get to that in a second But he has determined that the payment for sin That what we call the expiation or the propitiation the price tag is going to be blood It is the blood that will atone for sin And so what he's decided that one there's going to be this covering this covering of sin This cancellation of the debt and then thereby bringing about a reconciliation. How is the sin covered? well The scapegoat has all the sins on the people placed on his head Spoken of and then led away into the wilderness Then the cancellation of the debt the payment of the debt that that's owed the blood There's another animal that sheds his blood and it's from the altar God receives it all of this is mediated or done so by the high priest All of this is offered to the Lord God accepts this and in accepting this if we also who are there Would have afflicted ourselves and fasted and then believe that God did indeed accept the payment Then we stand before him in right standing I don't think anyone is going to disagree with that portion of the atonement that that's how the atonement work Well, interestingly enough God has determined that there would be a better atonement a better high priest a better scapegoat And a better sacrifice as a matter of fact He has decided in this case to take part in it himself How do I know because in Leviticus 1711 he says for the life of the flesh is in the blood Which we already covered he says I have given it to you only also to make atonement for your souls For it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement. So he's saying it's the blood By reason remember there is none of us who are living that can do so without blood The life of the flesh is in the blood and so for that reason He has determined that that is going to be the payment But he says that I am going to I myself God says I myself am going to supply it So if you've heard me say this before that when we look at the Hebrew But it says that I am going to supply the blood He says that I have given and so if we look here on the on the right-hand side We have two words here The wahani and the Natatine Natatine in the in the Hebrew is how you say I have given and so truth be told Natatine is all you need to state in the Hebrew that I have given But then before that you have the Hebrew word I need so why would there be an I I have given Well, you typically would say that to indicate that I am doing it myself I myself what it's strange to say so if it's God who's saying so and it is God who's saying so because God Where is your blood? Well, that's where we go to the New Testament and we see what Jesus is going to have to say about it This is where Jesus said remember we believe that Jesus is God God has taken on flesh and has come down to pay a ransom For mankind that we could not pay in keeping with the dictates of the atonement And so before we get to what Jesus did or said let's go to Hebrews chapter 8 verse 13 Going to a little bit of reading here says that when he said a new covenant He has made the first obsolete, but whatever is becoming obsolete is growing old And is ready to disappear meaning this the old law Required that there be an atonement year after year after year after year However, Jesus fulfills the law Paul says in Romans 10 that he is the end of the law So he ends the law with that sacrifice and his shedding blood also not only ends the old But also ushers in especially for these Jews this new covenant For us this new dispensation of grace whereby we also take part in salvation and look what he says Let's continue verse 9. I'm sorry chapter 9 verse 1 He says now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship And earthly sack and the earthly sanctuary for there was a tabernacle prepared the outer one In which were lampstand and the table and the sacred bread. This is called the holy place now This is where god the presence of lord would come in and accept the sacrifice now. I want to drop down to Drop down when dropping to verse 24 of chapter 9 Go down to verse 24 I'll let you guys go back and read this on your own But in verse 24, let's start in verse 23 Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifice than these look what he says For christ did not enter a holy place made with hands a mere copy of the true one But into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of god for us The point he's making is there was a mediator a high priest Who would go and basically atone for our sins would mediate between us and god Well, in this case instead of a man going to mediate into the copies It is jesus himself who was going into heaven itself. Are you with me? And so therefore we already see one we have a high priest a better high priest Going into a better more holy place than what he went into. Are you with me continuing? He says nor was it verse 25 uh that he would Often offer himself often as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own in other words He says that this high priest would enter year after year after year And notice what he says and this goes back to leviticus 1711. He says he would enter with blood Not his own but 1711 says I myself Have given the blood and then verse 26 says otherwise He would have needed to offer or to suffer often Since the foundation of the world but now Once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin By the sacrifice of himself in other words, there is no yearly continual sacrifice Only one was required and since one was required all you needed to have One time and it did the job for how long not requiring a yearly Because there was a yearly debt needed to be paid one time and the debt was paid Which is also what we read before in colostians 2 14 where it says that this debt Was nailed to the cross. It was canceled and nailed to the cross But let's continue verse 27 in as much as it is pointed for men to die once and after that comes or after this comes a judgment So christ also having been offered once To bear the sins of many will appear a second time for salvation Without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him now Here's where we're going to make this part of Leviticus 17 11 come alive He says for the law since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things can never Look what it says can never by the same sacrifices which they continually offer Year by year make perfect those who draw near. So here's the point Under the old covenant system of atonement These yearly sacrifices would take place But they would never make them perfect the issue the implication is that Jesus is going to make them perfect Whereas in the old it was done year after year and it never made anyone perfect. Are you with me? He says otherwise verse 2 would they not have ceased to be offered because the worshipers having once been cleansed Would no longer have had conscious of sin notice what he says In the past the worshipers would never cleanse of sins. He says now having once been cleansed He's kind of comparing the two In this way we have been cleansed from sin once Not a repeated repeated repeated Having to be cleansed every year or you begin to see the difference And so under the old system of atonement the old way of atonement you were clean Justified for one year and then God would demand that it would have to be done year after year after year But here you're you are cleansed. You are cleansed after One Sacrifice he says but in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year for it is impossible For the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins Therefore he has come into the world. He says Sacrifices and offerings you have to not desire but a body you have prepared for me So two things one the blood of bulls and goats could never could not impossible Take away sin. What did john say when he saw jesus in john chapter one? Look the lamb of god who comes to take away the sins of the world That's what jesus he takes away the sin in other words It's like what this is the definition of an atonement The definition of atonement is that once payment is made once the sins are taken away They're taken away until the person who demands Payment requires it again. The question is will the owner will the person the person who we are indebted to Will he come back and say there's another sacrifice needed for payment? No, he will not So therefore there is no longer another sacrifice required another shedding of blood or sacrifice or offerings needed We'll come to that in just a second, but then he speaks on what we said in leviticus 17 11 He says I myself Wahani not 13. I myself. I have given Well, how can you give blood since you don't have blood? Enter jesus. He says sacrifice and offerings you have not desired But a body you have prepared for me in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure So jesus so he's saying that the reason why jesus come because there's this body prepared for him to go and shed his blood We also read about that in philippians 2. This is his point of coming. Are you with me? Let's continue reading. Let's drop down to verse 8 after saying above Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offers and sacrifices for sin You have not desired nor have you taken pleasure in them which are offered according to the law Then he said behold I have come to do your will He takes away the first in order to establish a second by this Will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of jesus christ once for all Did you already say it? He said by this We have been let's put it back on the screen by this We have been and the word estimate we have been Sanctified through the offering of the body of christ When once for all One time and it was done. So we've been we've been sanctified By the offering of christ once and for all if I say that you have been saved once and for all Then someone might say that I've been I'm blaspheming that it's a as someone might say that it's alive from the pit of hell It's not it's in keeping with what the word just says If I say that I am saved once and for all it's the same as saying I've been Sanctified once and for all that's literally what he just said in verse 10 Now let's keep reading verse 11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices which can never take away sin So even under the old system of atonement They would offer the sacrifices and you could be in right standing But it can never especially fully take away sin Until something or better yet someone comes who can take away sin Once and for all let's continue verse 12, but having offered One sacrifice for sin So how many times did you offer a sacrifice one sacrifice for sin for all time? So wait a minute. Are you telling me that his sacrifice paid for our sins? Past present and future that's literally what he just said for all time his sacrifice paid the debt of our sin for All time and then what did he do? He sat down at the right hand of god Then look let's go to verse 14 for by one offering. He has perfected For all time those who are sanctified Let me read that again for by one offering that is what he did on the cross He has perfected on the right hand side. We have this Greek word To tell it to tell a okan, which is the perfect tense meaning it was a past action Completed so he perfected us way back in the past, but it has ongoing ramifications. He perfected for all time forever He has perfected us for all time forever those who are sanctified Well, those who are sanctified were sanctified once and for all Therefore the atonement that we have now is far superior than what we had then And this atonement causes us to be in right standing with the lord Look what he says Therefore brother since we have confidence to enter by the holy place by the blood of jesus By a new living way which he inaugurated for us through the veil that is his flesh And since we have a great high priest over the house of god, let us draw near With a sincere heart and full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled clean From an evil conscience and our bodies wash with pure water. So I think it's clear if we disregard the atonement Well, then fine. You have an argument But since there is an atonement even under the old covenant system of atonement They stood justified until God required another atonement in this case year after year after year every year But in this case there is no more requirement because once the debt is paid Once sin has been atoned for there Now remains no more sacrifice of sin Amen Now the fifth one And again guys, I'm gonna go back and we're gonna make each one of these their own separate videos And so if someone want to see these or you want to send someone or go over these with someone Individually that that will be helpful as well. I think The fifth reason Why we cannot lose our salvation Is because god said it I think that that that holds up. I think that's a very important thing to say the reason why we cannot lose our salvation Is because god said we cannot lose our salvation Let's go to ezekiel chapter 36. Let's start there first Ezekiel 36 and let's go to what he said he's going to do with israel first Ezekiel 36 25 says then I will sprinkle Uh clean water on you and you will be clean I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you And I remove the heart of stone from your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh Now I want you to pay attention what he said he's going to do once this Once this goes in you what once this takes place once he puts his spirit in you I want you to see someone's gonna say wait a second Well, what if you desire to walk away? Well, we've already talked about the fact that sheep don't walk away But here's why sheep will not walk away. Here's why I believe her will never walk away First 20 70 says I will put my spirit within you and look what he says. I will cause you To walk in my statutes and you will be careful to observe my ordinances And so he's stating clearly that I will cause you You will walk in my statutes You will keep them and so if someone's saying hey or what if we start sending What if we start living in sin? Well, what did Jesus just say or what did God just say? The Holy Spirit is going to do in us the spirit that he's going to put that he Is going to put in us God says is going to cause us to not walk away He's going to cause us to walk in his teachings in his statutes. Are you with me now? Let's go to Jeremiah Uh called a very type of 32 Verse let's start in Well, let's start in 32 look what he says Because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke me danger Anger wait a second. I'm sorry. I have the wrong one. I'm sorry guys. I'm sorry Uh Jeremiah 29 29 32 There it is No, I'm sorry. I'm in the wrong one again. No, it is 32. It is 32 Uh Jeremiah 32 I'm sorry guys That's why I've got to written down backwards. I'm sorry verse 38 They shall be my people and I will be their God I will give them one heart and one way and they may fear me always for their own For their own good and for the good of their children after them Look what he says I will make an everlasting covenant with them That I will not turn away from them to do them good And I will put the fear of me in their hearts So that they will not turn away from me And so God is telling what he's going to do and what he's going to do stays that they will not walk away They will not turn away from me. I will cause them to walk into my statues Now someone is saying and people ask hey, well, are we does that make us robots? Is that does that take away free will you could argue if it makes you robots You can say hey god that makes us robots that takes away free will it doesn't matter because his will is preeminent over ours He just said not mean god said that I God will cause those that are in him those us christians He will cause us to walk in his teachings. That's not debatable That's not something that we gotta sit in nitpick about you don't like it No one might not someone might not like it, but I didn't write it You didn't write it. He said someone said the text is off screen. Let's put the back on the screen He says that that um that I will cause you to walk in my statues That that pretty much sells it doesn't it now. I want to go to something else. We'll come back to matter of fact Let's go there to it right now Let's go to philippians One and see what god says in terms of us and our salvation the passage philippians won Verse six and he said for I am confident of this very thing That he who's the he god who began a good work in you Will perfect it or complete it until the day of christ and the word for complete um is Epitle let's say which is Bring it to completion perform it to perfect it. So he who starts this work in us That's god Paul says he is going to complete it in other words god is unlike us We might start something and then may not finish it god is going to start it according to paul He who began the good work in us indicating Who began this salvific work in us? Was it us? Was it our desire to do so or was it his desire? Because we're told that none of us seek not one person seeks after him, but We are um sought by him. He begins this work in us He starts his office up in us and he completes it So there is never a need to wonder because guess what? There's questions as to whether we're faithful There are we you can question our faithfulness You can't question his and so when the bible is cleared and that you've got another way to interpret that If you've got another way to interpret those three passages that I just read That one he is going to pour his spirit into our heart And in doing so is going to he's going to cause us might bother you But as I as I say in the old way Chew it and swallow it He is going to cause us. He is going to cause us. He is going to cause me He's going to cause his sheep to walk in his Statute then he says that they will never turn away from him according to Jeremiah 30 back on the screen 32 40 he says I will rejoice. I'm sorry verse 40. He says I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them I won't turn away from them To do them good and I will put the fear in their hearts so that they will not turn away from me Well, now here's my question I've got a dilemma that needs to be satisfied from anyone that states that we can lose our salvation On one hand we say or we see that God will not turn away from us I don't know if you saw that but it said God will put it back on the screen a second But God will not turn away from us Then in the exact same verse he says that we will not turn away from him. Well, that's also what Jesus says Well, so now help me out somebody if God won't turn away from us And we won't turn away from him. Then where is the loss of salvation possible there? There is none Stop listening to someone telling you that you don't measure up in your actions in your works And therefore you lost your salvation or the enemy causing you to feel guilty Because you did not do the right things now if you are living in sin If you have no desire for the Lord, but you know that Jesus died on the cross The simple answer is you're not a christian However, if if you have this godly sorrowful Then simply place your faith in Christ Once you are a believer the holy spirit is in you and the Jesus said or God says that he will cause you to walk in His statutes are with me and if that's the case God says Paul says through God or God says through paul That he god who began this very good awesome wonderful work in us He is faithful. He is going to see us through He's going to complete the very work that he started and so for that reason God has said so that we cannot lose our salvation Amen Number six We're making good time. We have six seven eight nine six seven eight nine ten five more to go I don't know why I'm not taking that label off that cup, but it's there for good The next reason Let's put a matter of fact, let's put on the screen first Okay, the sixth reason the sixth reason why you cannot lose your salvation It's like the fifth reason the sixth reason that you cannot lose your salvation because Jesus said so I think it's important when we hear from god the father And and in this case we hear from god the son who also Validates what the father says that we cannot lose our salvation So let's go to it in john and we're going to spin a couple a little bit in john john chapter five Let's start in verse 24. He says truly truly I say to you Whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed From death to life now. I want to spend a little bit of time and just kind of break this down Just a little bit really quickly, but I think it's important for you to see this He says whoever hears my voice now the word for here is aku own which is a participle Meaning this person is hearing So whoever is hearing and where do we discover that uh that the christians do christians hear So if you're hearing, what are you you're his sheep? So whoever hears my word and believes and the word here is pistu own which means they are Believing they have entered into a state of one Continual hearing and believing one time. That's why I use the the participle So here the person is believing On him who has sent me look what he says that person has And he says aka at present. He has life forever right now if you are believing And hearing Then guess what you have you have life going on forever that part can't be changed And then look what he says he does not come into judgment He did but what does it say? He has past tense. He has metta bacon metta bacon. He has passed From death to life. He has already passed. He has already avoided death The checkpoint where you can turn off to and go to hell you've passed that he has passed from death And has gone into life That's what he says previously that you have life into the ages And so jesus says here in john chapter 5 That there is no loss of salvation as a matter of fact, let's go to john Excuse me john chapter 6 and let's start in verse 35 and see what jesus has to say Further on the matter john 6 35 jesus says i am the bread of life Whoever comes to me and the one who the whoever is the one that's coming Eric amenas the one who's coming to me shall not hunger and the one believing it is also that word Pistuan And you're going to find that we'll speak about this in one of the other examples of why you can't lose salvation But he keeps using the the present active participle to describe who we are We are in this continual state of in this case believing that person shall never thirst Never ever ever ever thirst who may dipsus say which means is impossible for that person to thirst Look what he says, but i said to you that you have seen me and yet not believe Now he's speaking of the jews Not of his actual sheep But he says but i said to you that you have seen me and not yet believed all that the father however All of the father gives to me will come and whoever comes i will not cast out He makes two important statements all of the one each and every one of those that were given by the father the word pond meaning the whole lot Encompassing the entirety of it Every single one that the father has given to me the son They will come Not all that the father has given to me Most of them are going to show up Some are going to come some got to go back and get no all of them will come and then look what he says Not only will they all come he said i will not or i will never ever ever cast them out He also used the emphatic negation in terms of casting out who may ekbalo meaning it is impossible For them to be cast out let's continue verse 38 for i have come down from heaven not to do my own will But the will of him who sent me now by the way, what is his will we we read about it in hebrus He's going to emphasize it even more here verse 39 And this is the will of him who sent me the will of the father who sent the son jesus That i should lose none None of them All that he has given me but raised him up in the last day Jesus says i'm not going to lose i won't lose none not one none Uh, can someone help me out? What number would we equate to none or nothing? I think it'd be zero and so he says i won't lose not a one not a zilch Pick a language find the the corresponding word for zero or none Put that there it applies he won't lose none But even to be more emphatic he says all that he has given me I will raise him in the last day For this is the will of my father that everyone who looks on the sun And here's that word again pistuan is believing in him should have eternal life I will raise him up on the last day. Let's keep reading So the jews grumbled about him because he said i am the bread that came down from heaven They said it's not this jesus the son of jesus whose father and mother we know How does he now say i have come down from heaven? Obviously, we all understand this point. They don't get it But he says verse 43 just said do not grumble among yourselves No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him And I will raise him up on the last day. So again, he reiterates all the ones that come to him They're drawn And what is he going to do raise all of them up now? I'm almost finished in chapter 6 I want to I want to make this point clear as well verse 40 45 it is written in the prophets and they will all be taught by God Everyone who has heard and learned from the father comes to me All the ones who have heard and learned are coming to me and he uses again in this case also for learning My thong which is where we get the word disciples They are learning from the father. They come to me Not that anyone has seen the father except he who is from God. He has seen the father. Look what he says Truly truly. I say to you whoever believes in here's that word hop pistol on the believing ones has eternal life He says aka Zona zoe anion meaning right now at present if you believe or you believe in the past What have you you have at this present moment life into the ages you have eternal life You have it when are you going to get it? You got to wait you got to work You have the last to get it. He says you have it right now So therefore when someone says no, you got to wait you got to keep striving To the end to get it. Well, first of all, you will we'll come to that point in just a little bit But he says you have life at this moment and then john I mean revelation 3 5 john says this he says the one who conquers now It is nikon, which means these are the conquering ones We are the conquering ones. We are and we've we've covered this before whereby we've discovered that all of us that are believing We are overcomers. We are conquering ones So if you believe you have been made according to first john you have been made an an overcomer You've been made a conquering one. And so those conquering ones those very same conquering ones. He says Will be not might be but will be clothed thus in white garments and look what he says I will never ever he says who may Exalipso, I will never ever ever impossible to blot your name out of the book of life I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. So when jesus says I will never ever ever ever ever blot your name out. Why then do some people come back and say There's a chance though. Are you telling me there's a chance? No, he's not even telling you there's a chance He does not say that you might be blotted out. He says you will never ever ever be blotted out You are the overcoming ones You are the nikon. You are the Overcoming the conquering one and he says you shall never ever be blotted out If jesus says that you will not lose your salvation Then don't let anyone else tell you or yourself by way of the enemy tell you that you can lose your salvation Take joy in that Amen Number seven the seventh reason why you cannot lose your salvation Matter of fact before I even before I even go there. Let me just let me make sure I put it on the screen Make sure I have it all queued up That way I can I can save a little bit. Let's see Yeah, let's do this and then this one There it is. Okay, so and the first passage Okay, got it the main or I'm sorry What number is this? This is the seventh reason so the seventh reason why you cannot lose your salvation I think is just as powerful just as strong as the others We said before how god said so in another And then another example another reason that was given is that jesus said so But what does the holy spirit have to say about it? The seventh reason why you cannot lose your salvation is because of the holy spirit. Let's go to abetions chapter one And let's skip the part that I think some of you all may want to go to let's drop down to verse 13 He says in him You also when you heard the word of truth The gospel of your salvation and believed in him when that happened He said you were sealed with the promise of the holy spirit Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory now I want to cover some of the words that are used there That make this point even more so he says first of all when you believe you were sealed When we talk about this sealing this is um a protection We talk about the 140 which we will at some point in time the 144 000 they were sealed Which means there's there's a protection over there meaning you're not going to touch them Now they might go through some ups and some downs and so forth But you are sealed according to this word And what who were you sealed with the holy spirit with the promise holy spirit And who and what is the holy spirit for what is the holy spirit used as he says who is the guarantee The our bone the our bone is what we would determine what we use as kind of like a down payment A money down payment a deposit Same thing when you go to someplace and you secure something by putting a deposit down Now someone's going to come back and say yes, but people can forfeit their deposit Yes, but we're talking about god god is not for fitting in Think about what he would be for fitting if he would be for fitting the other deposit He would be for fitting the holy spirit the holy spirit is given as a deposit And how long and for what reason what duration is the holy spirit given he said he's given until We acquire possession of it until we acquire possession of our salvation We spoke of earlier to the praise of his glory So if you're going to say that we can lose our salvation within what on earth was the holy spirit given for Paul just said he was given as a deposit as a down payment until we reach possession the full possession Of heaven and so that would be kind of hard be kind of difficult to go and say No, it's different as a matter of fact. Let's go. Let's go to first john first john one four If the issue is going to be our um salvation being lost it's only lost because of sin Because we're going in a different direction That's because there are these forces these demonic forces for some people The world the enemy that is out there always after us Peter said that the devil is like a lion going around seeking whom he may devour that's his job He's the enemy and so what he wants to do the bible says he cannot do first john chapter 4 verse 4 he says You are uh, you are from god little children who have overcome. There's that word nikon or nik uh The word we get the word for overcoming. He says you are you have overcome them greater is he Who is in you than he was in the world? Who's the he that is in you? The he that is in the that that's in you is the holy spirit Paul tells us In romans not i'm sorry that roman's first corinthians chapter 12 that all of us had been baptized into the holy spirit As a matter of fact, john reiterates this four times that even though he baptizes us in water Jesus is going to baptize us into the holy spirit So therefore if you are christian if you are a believer you have the holy spirit and so in you what's in you Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world now We covered this before i think it's probably worth mentioning again That what is the holy spirit in us going to do since we want to say that greater is he that's in us Excuse me greater's he that's in us than he that's in the world. Well, we covered before. Let's let's let's cover it one more time Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 27 when god says i will put my spirit There's a holy spirit I will put my spirit in you and this holy spirit will cause you to walk in my statutes So we have seen that the holy spirit is going to cause you to walk In his teachings now Is there anything that wants to thwart that to stop that to cause you to stumble sure? But he we just read john tells us greater is he that is in us Than he that is in the world now i've got a question I want to raise something that jude says about the lord He says now unto him or now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you Blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy. My question is this If he can Keep you from stumbling if he's able to keep you and he's able to present you But he doesn't why would you even tell us that? You mean tell me he's able to keep us from stumbling, but he won't He's able to keep us. He's able to he's able to present us blameless But he won't that is not what the holy spirit is going to do again I am convinced that he who began a good work in you in me and us He is going to complete it how so through the holy spirit and so The seventh reason as to why We cannot lose our our uh Our salvation The reason why we cannot lose our salvation seventh reason is because of the holy spirit If the holy spirit Is in us and can't keep us can't protect us can't guide us What in the world is a holy spirit doing? I don't know about you, but the holy spirit that I have Is more than able to keep me and he has amen Verse I mean number eight Now by the way, I'm probably going to set aside if I get through so I've got one two I've got four to do no three. No three to do. I'm sorry three to do Uh, if I've got a little bit of time, I may take some questions on this But I want you to when you get the questions. I want the questions to be on what we cover We can't we just for a second time if I answer all your questions, which I have in the past There's not a verse that you're going to give me that we haven't answered and covered before but Pick apart if you disagree pick apart the verses that I've given That being stated the eighth reason Why we cannot lose our salvation is because In the bible we have these words that say so or at least for some people seem to say so The issue is though and the main point is that words have meaning Words have meaning and so we must yield to and listen to the words. Let me give some examples I'm going to copy and paste some of this so I don't have to keep going back. I've got a I've got a few I may not cover all of these but we'll see There's a word that's given That talks about our salvation or another term for it is our redemption Verse 24 of romans chapter 3 says being justified as a gift by the way if we are justified There's another word being justified the word for justified Means to be declared right and treated as such and so if we have been justified Who then gets to come back and tell us that you're no longer justified if god Paul says it's god who justifies if god justifies us who then can come back and bring a charge against us Are you with me? So He's the one who justifies and so if words have meaning well then we need to let that work have its meaning It meant the same thing in the old testament when a person was justified Though god said they were justified for one year, but now we are eternally justified God has justified us and he's never said he's going to justify us again And so he says being justified as a gift by his grace. Look what he says through the Redemption and I want to focus on this word. This word here is from the greek word apollotrosis apollotrosis Is leutrosis means to be redeemed Apollotrosis is kind of a supersize effect on it meaning that it is to be it is to be purchased from enslavement Never to be lost or enslaved again That's what it means if that's what it means then guess what you cannot have you cannot ever be brought back into Servitude under sin again You'll never have that problem with sin again because of that word apollotrosis as a matter of fact Let's look at Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 in him. We have there's that word again apollotrosin in him. We have redemption Through his blood the forgiveness of our sins trespasses according to the riches of his of his grace so We have this apollotros. So if if words have meaning you cannot you cannot you cannot I love someone try But you cannot get around that word either. How about the word believing? We've covered this before We've covered matter of fact. Let's go to John 1 12 Let's pull this up John 1 12 says but as many as received him He gave the right to be children of God even to those who believe in his name now. This word for believe is what we could this one is Pistoshan Pistoshan Which is a present active participle. Remember I said that you often see in the bible believers Sometimes the english doesn't quite say it as clearly as it could It might say believes or believe But when we look at the greek it is a present active participle meaning that it is a state of continual believing The bible knows of no christian no believer who is not believing The bible does not does not state otherwise. There is not somebody who once believed Now there are those folks that have this surface belief Well, yeah, I know head-wise that there that's something happened I know that jesus died on the cross for people's sin. I know but that's not the belief that we're talking about We're talking about the believing Those who are the high pistuons that we see in john 3 16 And so when you look at john 3 16 he says for god, uh, this is how god shows his love by giving his son the only one of his kind In order that the believing high pistol wine the believing ones shall never perish Words have meaning and so why would he use the believing ones shall never perish And notice he didn't put a condition to now someone who disagrees is going to put a condition. Well, you you'll never perish if Or as long as you keep believing But we've already covered matter of fact we're covering that now And we've covered in the past. What do sheep do sheep believe sheep keep believing What is jesus saying here? These are the believing ones We're not talking about someone who stops believing These are folks who continue believing remember john tells us that we know that they were never one of us because they Stop believing they left they came out from among us and it was made manifest when they left Now not everyone who's not a believer is going to leave before us who's not going to depart in front of us but the fact of the matter is That's not us us believers The actual sheep we keep believing. That's what the bible describes us again words have meaning now. I want to focus on this one I don't think we give this enough attention But this word this term for being born again If a person is born again They are as the bible tells us born from above in john three He says truly truly. I say to you that unless one is born again and the word this shoes is the word ganete anothin Ganete anothin it literally means to be born from above born of the spirit as a matter of fact john one tells us that these people are not born of the will of man nor of flesh Or blood but they were born of the will of god And so he even tells us this that the way this happened it he used the example of the wind We don't know where it comes from or where it's going But so it is of everyone that's born from above that's born of the spirit Are with me We also have this brought up in other places some places you might you might recognize such as titus 3 5 let's go to titus 3 5 And you have heard this term now before and you'll see why we say Titus 3 5 is also like john 3 5 even though the english terms are slightly different john 3 5 Says born again titus 3 5 says Regeneration he says he saved us not on the basis of deeds or on the basis of our works Which we have done in righteousness, but the reason why he saved us according to his mercy By washing of regeneration and renewing by the holy spirit well remember We noticed how in another passage another another part of a video We talked about how god is going to put his spirit in us give us a brand new spirit Which is what jesus is alluding to in john 3 5 about being born again being born of water and spirit Well in the zika 36 He's talking about being born of water and spirit those same two elements And in that is the holy spirit coming in us being born having a new heart Born from the spirit and why do we equate that to what's being said in Titus 3 5 this regeneration will look at the word for regeneration the word for regeneration is made up of two words It's made of the word palin and genomai born and again Palin means again Genomai means born and so the two words are customarily known as regeneration So this is literally also saying the same thing as someone being born again Now there's two other passages that I want you all to look at that also brings up being born again And we don't often bring it up often that that much, but I want you to go to first peter chapter 1 verse 3 First peter 1 3 says blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who according to his great mercy Look what he says has caused us to be born again He has caused us to be born again now Notice that and for some reason we don't hear a lot of folks bringing up being born again in first peter 1 There's another passage about being born again in first peter. We'll look at that again But notice he says that god has caused us He has caused us to be born again Let's put it back on the screen and the word that's used there is this word. It's made up of a couple words Anna and genomai it is ana Ganesa gnaesis. I'm sorry ana gnaesis, which is ana which is up or from above And then it is gnaesis, which is to be born and it is the heiress active participle and so this was in the past Excuse me it's in the past And so this was done Not recent not not today, but in the past and he has caused us to for that to happen He is the one that has done that to us. We did not do it ourselves But he has done so are you with me and so It'd be kind of interesting for us to say anything otherwise Are we going to speak against what the scripture the scripture just said he is the one that caused us? Let's go to verse 20 things verse 23 as well verse 23 make sure Yeah first peter 1 23 uh-oh Yeah, there it is uh for you have been born again not of Seed which is perishable, but of but imperishable that is through the living And enduring word of god now this word here Is the same word that we saw in verse three This word is the word ana gaganina. I can in a name on I got getting a name oink I I get It's a tongue twister. I got gaganina. I got gaganina moin nah anyway ana Gaganina gaganina main one gaganina. I'm sitting there missing this word because it's a it's a tongue twister Because you have to the two the two noons together. It's a gaga. So anyway, but let's go back to the screen while I'm butchering this word Notice what this word is this word is a perfect middle Part of simple meaning it's an ongoing thing It's perfect meaning it happened in the past And it was cost to happen to us, which is why it is a middle It's in the middle voice the middle voice mean it was done to us for the benefit of in this case for god For his benefit for his purpose. Are you with me? And so this ana gaganina main gaganina moin Nay I could say I could just say it slow couldn't I could just say the word slow But this was done to us God was the one who did this to us We were the ones that were born again cause to be born again now so far Every time we see the word speaking of us being born again Or the lord putting his spirit in us It's always him doing it to us causing us to be born again Now the question is don't these words also have meaning Because if they have meaning then let the plain meaning the plain understanding of it stand Whether you want to look at it the tense the mood the voice it's clear God is the one that is doing as my sensei slowly even if I say it slowly I push that word Ana gaganina main noi that's how you say it now if I try to say it faster I can't Someone asked me court. Can you can you speak can you speak greek and I can't speak it at all? Nope, can't speak it I can read it and I I don't really pronounce it often I just simply as I'm reading the books. Okay, this is what this means But there are some words that are far more difficult to pronounce than this one But anyway, the point is if words have meaning then words have meaning by the way Every time not every time but about eight times as often about 42 times compared to four times Uh in the new testament We see the word believe and it's almost always in the present active or present active participle Meaning that we are in this state of continual believing And again, if when we look at john 316 if we look at romans 824 when we see the word believe and it's in the present active participle Mean that we are entered into this state continually Believing then let that be what it means again. That's what a christian is a person who is continually believing And so for that reason Number eight the reason why you cannot lose your salvation the eighth reasons because the word states so and these words have meaning Amen The ninth reason Matter of fact, let's make sure I have those up there as well. Uh, number one Some of you all will like the ninth reason. I'm pretty sure Let's see. Let's make sure I got those up there And I want to in this I want to cover something that comes out um often Uh, let's put it over here I want to cover in this, um, there's an actual objection that's built in To what I'm going to say And it didn't really matter which way you take this No matter which way a person takes this Uh, they can't they can't win on this argument. It's one is it's really an argument If they're going to make that kind of blocks them in so to speak I'll share with you that that the second once I get this last verse put in. Okay The ninth reason why it is impossible why you cannot lose your salvation Is a dirty word to many people, but it is literally in the bible It's a biblical word Some folks get bothered when we say certain words that Aren't in the bible, but at least their concept is there like the word trinity Well, this word we treat it like that word is not in the bible But not only is the concept of this word in the bible But the actual word is in the bible the ninth reason why you cannot lose your salvation is because of election You were chosen if you are saved you have been chosen before the foundation of the world How do I know the bible speaks of speaks of such in Ephesians 1 Let's go there in Ephesians 1 verse let's start verse 3 blessed be the god and father of our lord Jesus christ who has blessed us in christ With every spiritual blessings in the heavenlies Look what he says even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy And blames before him and look what he says in love He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through jesus christ Not according to the purpose of his will to the praise of his I'm sorry according to the purpose of his will to the praise of his glory grace Which he has blessed us in the beloved now someone's going to say well, why? He's just going to choose people for no reason. Well, he just said so according to his will Now has he called us up and shared with us his purpose his will. No, he has not We know some of what he's determined, but not always why All we know is that he chose us It's almost kind of like how some of us our parents might have might have answered the question Why mama why dad and he said because I said so okay, we don't we don't question whether they said so We just don't that they did we don't know why but we know that they did But look what he says in case someone wants to go and pick pick this apart And they want to try to give a different reason for this In verse four, he says even as he chose us. Let's break this down capos x lexata Which is even as he chose us the word he chose us Is in the heiress middle indicative meaning that it was a past tense He chose in the past no one has a problem with that being in the past, but the middle he chose us For himself. That's what the middle voice is. The question is what did he choose? Some are going to say no, he didn't choose us He chose Jesus and Jesus is the vehicle by which he chose for salvation meaning this that he chose Jesus as the mechanism whereby we place our faith in To be saved but that's not what that says not in the english nor does it say so in the greek He chose us We are the direct objects jesus or in christ is the indirect object And so it is grammatically incorrect and impossible to state that he chose jesus Before the foundation of the world. No, he chose us to be in jesus before the foundation of the world There is just no greek um that is going to get past that so he says Uh capos x lexic top. Hey mys ain't out too. So he chose us in him Procacobalase before the foundation of the world And what do you do in that that we should be holy and blameless before him Meaning that we will be before him blameless and holy set apart and without blame does that mean without sin? No sinless and blameless are two different things So he but he chose us to be before him without blame before the before him Since the foundation of the world and why did he do that because we are justified He's not going to hold any debts against us because the debt has been paid. Are you with me? Let's go to romans 8 29 Another passage that gets debated it doesn't need to be it says what it says He says for those whom he foreknew Now this is where the argument comes up in this issue of foreknew Does it mean that he foreknew what we were going to do ahead of time or that it's him? preordaining us Let's set that word to the side for just a second I think that those whom he preordains Is what the word means But let's just say he just knew of us It's not that he knew that we were going to do something And then he predestined us. That's not what that means. How do I know so? This could also be part of the previous reason because words have meaning this word predestined He also Predestined the word pro-recent means that he previously selected us He predetermined he determined or decided for us beforehand So that automatically that necessarily precludes him choosing us beforehand If we did something did we do something beforehand? Then he chose us Well, then it couldn't be that he chose beforehand He chose before what before there was a thought or an action on our part That is literally what this word means You cannot now all of a sudden come up with a new definition for this word predestined Because you do not like the implication which by the way I don't understand why anyone would not like the implication that God loved me so much that he chose me. Well, they'll say well, wait a minute. What about the other folks that aren't chosen? Well, for them, they're not going to have the ability to say well, that's not fair You didn't choose me because I believe I believe now Calvinists believe that we are incapable of choosing I believe we do have the ability to choose We just won't of all the eight billion people on the planet today and the five six seven billion that I've ever lived Not one of us not one of us will ever choose to do so. We have seen people Choose God for the moment. We don't have the ability to choose and stay choosing We've seen the jew the children of Israel do it. We've seen in like the parable of the sewers We see someone to believe for a moment, but it was not that actual continual state of belief like a christian does I believe that a person could head wise say, yeah, you know what? I ought to do so But they just won't and so God looks and sees that nobody is going to do so So now whomever he choose we're blessed whomever he doesn't choose has no right to complain because you had the chance he does not He doesn't do what they call this double predestination, which we see people bring up Um, I bring up first Peter three nine three nine where he says that he's not slow concerning his promises But it says the word that's used there. He is not willing that any should perish He says the word that's used there is volumenos, which means that he has not determined or placed anyone to perish So if you perish if you go to hell, you are there on your own But here this word destined predestined is to if he destines you That means he's determined that it's going to happen for you He predetermined that it's going to happen to you And what do you do predestined us to be conformed? So why would he predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son? If he saw we were already going to be conformed to the image of his son that makes absolutely no sense It's just a way of someone saying God didn't do it It's just a way of someone who wants to hold on to this idea of their view of free will find you got free will Your free will is going to take you to hell God's free will if if he works in you He's going to bring you to heaven His free will is more powerful than yours if you do not believe that God will exercise his will Over yours then go back and tell someone About ferrule ask ferrule what happened or ask nebuchadnezzar what happened? You think nebuchadnezzar wanted to be out in that field acting like he was a cow? No, but God did that and that's why he says it is we are born not of Our will or a blood or flesh but of his will and so he predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son So that he that is Jesus will be the first born among many brothers. Look what he says These whom he predestined notice this Whom he predestined he called whom he called he justified and whom he justified He also glorified again words have meaning the person that is predestined Ultimately is justified Justified is to be declared right and treated as such So if God is going to declare you right and treat you as such to treat you as right It's because he predestined you to be so so yet another reason why yet another reason why we cannot lose our salvation Then also let's go to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 13 He says but we should always give thanks to God for you breath and beloved by the Lord because God has what? God has chosen you from the beginning From the beginning for salvation God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the spirit and faith in the truth God has chosen you When from the beginning God has chosen you from i'll keep saying it. God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation Who chose you? God did when did he choose you from the beginning? What did he choose you for salvation? How so through sanctification? We already read previously that we have been sanctified We've been perfected and sanctified through his work on the cross. We read that in Hebrews We won't go back to that go to one of the other examples that we covered in why you should not why you won't lose your salvation The example of atonement and it will cover that in in that as well. And so yet another reason why then let's go to John 15 John 15 people keep saying that that proves that you can lose your salvation as a matter of fact That was a big hang up for me. I used to believe That john 15 is clear That a christian can walk away that a christian can stop remaining stop abiding stop following stop hearing stop trusting That a christian could do so. I used to believe that until My former pastor dr. Bolden Who by the way, he was a professor at at dallas theological seminary He just said something simple wasn't you know what he said? It wasn't something that was so profound It wasn't something that was theologically deep. He just said keep reading I've been reading no not keep reading over time. No keep reading the passage because what we'll do is we'll read John chapter 15 and it'll say that I am the vine and and so matter of fact, let's pull up Let's put that on the screen. I want to read that and give you a taste of what he gave me He said I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away in every branch that does not bear fruit. He prunes that it may bear more fruit He says now look what he says already you are clean Because of the word that I have spoken to you now look what he says abiding me And I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine So the question is what if you don't abide? Now i'm going to bring up a a common objection to using this passage in a second But it destroys them if they want to it's almost like i'm going to beat you at door one But if you go to door two, you're going to hurt yourself even more so But let's go back to what he said first five I am the vine you are the branches whoever bides in me and I and him He is it is he that bears much fruit for apart from me. You can do nothing for If anyone does not abide in me. He is thrown away like a branch and withers And the branches are gathered and thrown to the fire So Cory this seems to say that if you do not abide you don't bear fruit Don't abide don't abide you're not gonna bear fruit if you do neither you will be cut off With it up gathered and thrown into the fire That's true. I agree with that wholeheartedly Now I used to use this passage say see that proves that if you don't abide you don't bear fruit Then you'll be cut off and and go to hell and that's true But he said just keep reading Keep reading and you will see because it doesn't end in those verses chapter 15 continues. Let's go down to verse Let's go starting verse 12 He says this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you Greater love has no one than this that someone laid down his life for his friends indicating Well, like God has done something Jesus laid down his life. Why just because no think about it Jesus did not get on the cross to die just because Just because we got to keep our salvation fabricates That was the exact same dispensation that they had under the old covenant you could Jesus we could have kept the law and you not had to get on the cross and die But he lays down his life in showing his love. He says you are my friends if you do what I command Okay, I gotta do what you command. Look what he says. Look what he says No longer do I call you servants for a servant does not know what his master is doing But I have called you friends for all that I have heard from my father I've made on you. Look what he says you did not choose me, but I chose you and I did what I Effecate I appointed you I place it so that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide So that whatever you ask in the father in my name he may give to you now That's why he said keep reading because in this passage if we're going to say that if you don't abide And bear fruit Jesus if we continue reading he says, yeah, if you don't abide you'll be cut off But guess what you're going to do? I have placed it so I have appointed it so that you will Abide and you will bear fruit. That's what Jesus says now someone's going to say well, wait a second, Cory He's he's he's not talking about us. He's talking about the apostles. Okay two things One if he's talking about the apostles, why do you keep bringing that passage up? Why do you keep saying the only passage that people go to to say that you can lose your salvation? If you don't remain that you have to abide is this passage you keep going to this passage saying that we have to abide But if he's talking about to the apostles, well, then why do you keep using it? Because you want to use it the first few passages to make your point But if we keep reading we see wait a second. No It makes our point Secondly, if he is only talking to the apostles, why is he telling the apostles that they have to remain? Why does he have to tell a positive they have to abide? Why is he telling the apostles that they are these disciples that they have to bear fruit? Isn't he going to give them power to bear fruit? So it makes no sense to say that they won't that there was ever in mind that they will not he's stating If a person is not bearing fruit guess what they're not they're not his If you're not abiding they're not he is Christians. We talked about it before from john 10 Christians abide Christians do bear fruit Christians listen Christians follow if you're not listening if you're not following You are not a Christian plain and simple Stop equating everyone who calls themselves a Christian with true authentic Christians We don't call everyone who wants to be a woman who was born a man a woman the world might we don't I don't care if you don't have an xx chromosome make up You're not a woman if you don't have an xy chromosome make up you are not a man Irrespective of what the world says if you do not have the holy spirit in you If you are not abiding if you are not following if you're not hearing you're not a Christian that simple and so we are told clearly that In this he says that I chose you So if we're going to say that this this is in regards to the apostles fine. He chose them But if it's in regard to all of us he chose all of us I don't care who uses for if you use this for just the disciples or if you use this for all of us What you can't do is say this portion is for them and the other portions for all of us No, this is a one continuous thought and so he chose either us or them There is this electing this choosing that god has done why? For his own glory for his own purpose. That's why now But so we need to make sure that we see that god Yes, we've got the ability to have some will volition the ability to choose But it does not trump god and god saying that we are going to choose sin all the time There are none that choose me. There none that seek after me You didn't love me, but I loved you first That's god in his salvific Electing powers him choosing to do so And so for that reason the ninth reason as to why you cannot lose your salvation is because of election Now this last one, let me go ahead and put these passages on last one By the way, what we're going to do guys Because we're not going to have to be able to take question answers But if you want to do so if you if you vehemently object Which you will some will I'm going to offer something to you I've stated this before so if fortunately for me No one has has proven Me incorrect and it's not me because I didn't come with this But fortunately for me it hadn't happened. And so because of that I'm grateful, but I want to make this offer again What what passage is it while I'm typing these these passages in? I'm going to make the offer again That is I'm going to use some greek Usually Lisa's putting up a little greek warning. I'm going to use some greek Guys chest champ. I don't think I've I haven't said this in some time. I don't think I've covered my greek challenge in some time But I'm going to do it now So The tenth reason And I say probably the most emphatic reason Why you cannot lose your salvation? is It states you cannot It's impossible to do so in the greek Why am I saying in the greek? Well because the new testament was given to us in the greek Someone might say well bachori. I don't read greek. I don't speak greek. I speak english to which I would respond. So God did not determine to give us his word based on your proclivities Based upon where you were born. He sovereignly gave us the scriptures through people who at that time spoke greek red greek Someone's going to say no they spoke in red air make all you've got to do to disprove that is go and find any Early manuscripts that are in air make or Hebrew. We don't have any the earliest come three centuries in the third or fourth century Later, so we don't have that what we do have is a plethora of greek manuscripts They didn't they didn't read it in Hebrew or say in Hebrew then turn around and translate it We know so because when jesus was crucified on the cross We saw three languages that pilot put above him Jesus king of jews and latin Hebrew and greek why well latin because it's rome Hebrew because to appease and really to bother the Pharisees and greek because that's the language the lingua franca Language people spoke and so we're going to look at what jesus said what john wrote in the greek jewish people Spoke a certain language just like us as americans we speak english But we're not english men people in mexico speak spanish, but they're not spanish are you with me? That's just the name of the language that they speak so now that being stated I'll go to my to my favorite in just a little bit. I'll go to the to the weakest one Uh first did I say is john 647? Let's go to john 647 And let's put on the screen He says truly truly. I say to you whoever believes has it's been a life He says whoever believes the word whoever is not there in the greek instead It's the the greek word for ha pistuan the ones that are believing The believing ones he says ecke Zoey and anion Meaning they currently at this very moment at this present moment. They have life right now There is no greek way to get around that there's no way On earth this to say otherwise at this present moment. They have something that never ends At this present moment. They have something that will never ever end in this case life now There are thousands I would say thousands but there are plenty of other greek passages But I wanted to start off with that just to kind of Get our feet wet as we jump into the greek Because now I want to go over these two passages Hebrews 13 5 no, you know what? I'm sorry. Let's go to john 10 10 28 someone says core you're always covering john 10 28. No not always but I am today John 10 28 says I give them eternal life. This is jesus and they will never perish And no one will ever snatch them out of my hand No one will ever snatch them out of my hand now Why am I bringing this up? I give eternal life cause a cause b. They will never perish cause c No one will ever snatch them out of my hand. I want to focus on cause b They will never perish in greek The way you say no or not or never is by the word ou or the word may When you put the both of them together it adds a little extra power What we call a double negation ou may in english. That's just bad english But in greek, it's good greek it adds emphasis to what you're saying And so we'll have a double negation And the most emphatic way to say something cannot happen The most emphatic way or the way that you say that something is impossible That it will not happen under any circumstances whatsoever Is if you put a double negation in front of one of two things either in front of a subjunctive Or in front of a future indicative meaning that is impossible for it to happen in the future Or it's impossible for it to possibly happen A subjunctive is a word that conveys potential or possibility or with me So if I doubly negate the possibility of it that means it's impossible What we have in chapter 10 verse 28 is a double negation in front of a subjunctive Here it is and they will never perish over to the right. We see this word ou may ou look at the bottom left No or not may same thing not less So it means never ever ever ever ever ever and then this word to the right Is the word apollon ty Apollon ty means may perish So by itself it could say that they may not perish or they may perish if you had one Negation in front of it like may apollon ty It would mean that they may not perish But then the possibility of perishing is still there But if you add the double negation the rules of greek grammar State this if you put that there if you say it that way what you're literally saying it is impossible The possibility of perishing is negated. It is impossible Now jesus used the same this and it's not just only used when it comes to salvation Jesus used this when he says that Heaven and earth will pass away before my words come back. He says it's impossible For my words to come back to me void Is there a possibility of his words coming back? No, he says it's impossible There is no possibility of it happening and so here jesus also says the possibility The possibility now i've stated this before look at it again ou may apollon ty Now i've stated this before And i have said it i've said it boldly I said that if you disagree with my greek exegesis if my understanding of this passage is incorrect Of clause b of john 1028 if i am applying this ruling correctly, which i'm not But if you think so if you think my understanding of this rule is incorrect Then i will shut this channel down if you can disprove it If you can go and find a greek scholar If you can find a grammarian that will say no Uh his interpretation of that greek passage is incorrect Then i'll shut it down you won't You won't because i now i didn't make up the rule. It's not my rule to interpret I understand the rule and when you go and ask the various scholars, they'll say the exact same thing. Yeah, that's what it means Which is why a large majority of greek scholars hold to Once saved always safe and you'll say well, I don't care about these greek scholars. That's just man-made. Okay. Ho ho ho on contraire You don't have your english bible your king james version bible is not giving you without a greek scholar your esv Your in asb. I don't care what version you watch or what you listen to You don't have it without a greek scholar without a greek grammarian Someone to translate it from greek or hebrew or the few parts of air make into english You don't have it without them And so we're not going to for the sake of you disagreeing with the outcome Say that greek or the understanding of greek is wrong. We're not going to do that That would be that would not be very mature That would just say, you know, I don't like what it says. And so i'm taking my ball and going home Well, first of all, it's not your ball too. You can't go home three. We're going to be adults about this And so the rule states and in fact negation A double negation before a Subjunctive means it is literally impossible for it to happen. So jesus is literally saying it is impossible for them to perish Now there's another passage that i want to point to That i also like this is in Hebrews chapter 13 5. He says make sure Your character is free from the love of money. So make sure you're not loving money Being content with what you have he says here's the reason why for he himself has said I will never desert you nor will I ever forsake you now. This is doubly emphatic. Here it is. Look what he says He says you may say I know meaning I will never ever ever. It is Impossible for me to desert you now. He didn't just say it just there He says it twice using two different words. He says it is literally impossible for me To and by the way, this is an era subjunctive preceded by a double negation So it is impossible for me to desert you. I will never ever ever desert you now someone can say Yeah, but if you do this no jesus says i'm never no matter what you do the possibility and by the way the rule necessarily indicates That it also includes or takes into account any future activity on the part of the of the thing that's being negative So whatever happens in the future It will never ever happen that you will ever perish and it will never ever ever happen That you will be deserted and then look what he also goes on to say he says nor will I never ever ever who may and then here's the word egg Catalipo, which is I will never Go against placing you or leave you behind. That's what the word means. I will never leave you behind So I will never ever ever forsake. It's impossible for me to forsake you And it's impossible for me to leave you behind The word is telling us it is an impossibility Why someone would not want to rejoice on that? I have no idea except for maybe there's some pride Because you would have to admit that you're wrong In your previous theological stance now me I used to believe that you could lose your salvation I held to all the things that everyone else brings up Galatians 5 and and Colossians 1 which we've covered all those before All these other pastors John 8 things 31 32 All these other pastors by the way, we've covered those and answered those No one has ever answered these questions. They don't they don't do that and so I I had a problem listening or yielding to that because My pride wouldn't let me to some degree I was I was invested in being right even if being right about it meant being wrong um, biblically so If you can prove That my greek exegesis of these passages are incorrect first of all If they're not incorrect If what I stated is the correct rendering and the correct understanding And you still say that you can lose your salvation Well, and you say that there are other passages that say so then we have a contradiction. We got a bigger problem now We have a bible and a religion worth not following But we don't have a contradiction. We don't have a contradiction. There is no other passages that state So now someone will say wait a second court. There are these warning passages That says if you you don't continue Providing you continue warning passages So my question is If you think That because the bible gives a warning passage That means it's possible. Why would he warn about something that's impossible? Here's why the bible or why god would warn about the possible. This is why i'm not the possible This is why god would warn about someone not being safe if it's impossible to be safe and lose it Because there are people who go to church Who think they're safe? There are people who might be listening right now who think they're safe There are people who you come in contact with who will tell you that i am a christian ask oprah Ask steve harby ask some of these people. They'll tell you that they are christian Well, how would you tell them? To beware How would you warn them that maybe you're not a christian? Well, you have to warn them like paul did he says Examine yourself Make sure that you do have christ Jesus puts another way he says not everyone who says to me lord lord and notice what jesus says. He says i never knew you Not i used to know you know i never knew you Again, we don't have any example of anyone who formerly knew jesus and then didn't know him later We don't have an example of someone who was formerly safe and then stopped being safe We don't have that All we have are these promises and so I think that's comforting. I think that's reassuring. There gonna be some folks who just you know what that's fine But I can tell you this it's like being on an all expense paid trip But still paying for all the expenses yourself All of the amenities have been paid for But you're thinking that you've got to cover it yourself That is going to be Not maybe not a miserable trip, but it won't be as enjoyable Same thing for you people who think that you can lose your salvation and you're doing something to hold on to it It's going to be a miserable trip because now you're you're going to always have to keep fighting And wondering did I do enough to lose my salvation? And it's not to say that people who believe that you cannot lose your salvation That they are that it's a license of sin because everybody sins the people who Sin who don't believe that you can lose yourself. I'm who believe that you can lose your salvation For you folks who believe you can lose your salvation. What's your reason then? Do you have a license to sin because you believe that you can? No, same thing for people who don't people are going to sin because that's our nature People who are going to live and sin do so because they're not christian Even though they call themselves christians, but I am thankful That the lord has made it that I do not have to worry about that All I have to do is confidently walk in what he's given me And be happy That's all I've got to do the debt is paid. I don't owe a bill I have no more bill to pay to heaven. It's been paid on my behalf and because of that I can rejoice And so guys, I want to thank you For giving me your time your ear. I've been wanting to do this really all year the 10 reasons and again I'll take these I'll break these down and make them their own separate videos own 10 separate videos And amen. See if it says I hate sinning You should the reason why you hate sinning because you're christian christians hate sinning Our mind is just different that way So and I see there are some folks in the in the chats that disagree tomorrow. We'll have a q&a And we'll cover this again if you want to but Bring your scriptures. I'm going to ask you to respond to mine first Before I go to yours. So guys want to thank you for your time. I look forward to seeing you all again. Bye. Bye