Eternally SecureEternally Secure

Once saved, Once saved, Always savedAlways saved

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God’s ViewpointGod’s ViewpointThere are two kinds of There are two kinds of

people in the worldpeople in the world

Lost peopleLost people

Saved peopleSaved people

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Two PrinciplesTwo Principles

If you do not have a true understanding If you do not have a true understanding of salvation, you will not be able to of salvation, you will not be able to understand eternal security.understand eternal security.

If you do not have a true understanding If you do not have a true understanding of eternal security, you do not have a of eternal security, you do not have a true understanding of salvation.true understanding of salvation.

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a major misconception a major misconception

Most Christians today think that God Most Christians today think that God relates to man through His love. relates to man through His love.

The truthThe truth God relates to man through His God relates to man through His

INTEGRITYINTEGRITY, of which His love is only a , of which His love is only a part part

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immutableimmutableGod never changes the way in God never changes the way in

which He deals with us.which He deals with us.

God does not love us when we are good,God does not love us when we are good,

and then stop loving us when we are bad.and then stop loving us when we are bad.

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GOD’S GOD’S INTEGRITYINTEGRITY

JusticeJustice

RighteousnessRighteousness

LoveLove

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GOD’S GOD’S INTEGRITYINTEGRITY

Three Principles: Three Principles:

righteousness demands righteousness.righteousness demands righteousness.

justice demands justice.justice demands justice.

What the righteousness of God demands, What the righteousness of God demands, the justice of God executes.the justice of God executes.

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CURSE

BLES

S

RighteousnessRighteousness JusticeJustice

Righteousness Unrighteousness

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God’s WordGod’s Word• Romans 3:10 as it is written, "There

is none righteous, not even one;

• Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

• Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, .

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Romans 6:23 Romans 6:23 • Death means “separation from God.”

• Separation from God is called “spiritual death.”

• Sin is “singular” not “plural” (sins)

• Adam’s Original Sin (AOS)

• Born “physically” alive, but “spiritually” dead

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What does this mean?

Every single human being , from the moment of physical birth, stands condemned, deserving only cursing from God.

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God’s WordGod’s Word• Romans 6:23 . . . . but the free gift of God is

eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Acts 16:31 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, . . . .

• John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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God did God did NOTNOT say say“whoever believes in Him, and joins a church, should not perish,“whoever believes in Him, and gets baptized, should not perish,“whoever believes in Him, and sings in the choir, should not perish,“whoever believes in Him, and stops sinning, should not perish,“whoever believes in Him, and stops drinking alcohol, should not

perish,“whoever believes in Him, and stops smoking, should not perish,“whoever believes in Him, and tithes, should not perish,“whoever believes in Him, and becomes like Christ, should not

perish,“whoever believes in Him, and reads the Bible every day, should not

perish,

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God’s WordGod’s Word• John 3:16

“whoever believes,”“whosoever believeth,”“anyone who believes,”

“everyone who believes,” “pas ho pisteuoon”,

“ang tanan nga mosalig,” “ang tanan nga motoo,”

“ang tagsatagsa nga nagatuo.”

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God’s WordGod’s Word

Belief plus nothing!

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God’s WordGod’s WordEphesians 2:8-9

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, {it is} the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

1 John 2:1-2 My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for {those of} the whole world.

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God’s WordGod’s WordPhilippians 2:5-8

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, {and} being made in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (NAS)

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God’s WordGod’s WordMark 15:25

And it was the third hour when they crucified Him.

Luke 23:34 But Jesus was saying, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.

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God’s WordGod’s WordMatthew 27:45-46

Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying," Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? "that is," My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?“

2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin {to be} sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us-- for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"

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God’s WordGod’s WordJohn 19:30

When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!”

Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into Thy hands I commit My spirit." And having said this, He breathed His last.

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Questions How many sins were paid for by Christ

on the cross?

What sins were not paid for by Christ on the cross?

What sin could you possibly commit today or tomorrow or next month or next year that Christ did not pay for on the cross?

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BELIEVE

CONFESS

YIELD

Sin

Out of Fellowship

Carnal

Rebound

(1 John 1:9)

The Door of Death

Unionwith

Christ

InFellowship

AbsoluteSpirituality

Relative Spirituality

POSITION

CONDITION

GROWTH

(1 Cor. 1:18)

(2 Cor. 5:17)

(Acts 16:31)

MATURITY(Heb. 6:1)

(1 Cor. 15:22)

(Gal. 5:17)

(2 Pet. 3:18)

(Rom. 6:13; 12:1)

(1 Jn 1:7)

(1 Cor. 2:15)

(1 Jn. 1:9)

(1 Jn. 1:7)

(1 Cor. 3:1, 3)

(Phil. 1:21)

1 Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, {he is} a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

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The Spiritual Life The Spiritual Life God’s Divine ViewpointGod’s Divine Viewpoint

Lost peopleLost peopleSaved peopleSaved people

Among The SavedAmong The SavedSpiritual believersSpiritual believers

Carnal believersCarnal believers

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God’s WordGod’s Word

The “self-life” – the “old man”The “self-life” – the “old man”

Empowered by the “sin nature”Empowered by the “sin nature”

The “new life” – the “new man”The “new life” – the “new man”

Empowered by the Holy Spirit Empowered by the Holy Spirit

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God’s WordGod’s WordRomans 7:15-23Romans 7:15-23

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I {would} like to {do} but I am doing the practicing what I {would} like to {do} but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want {to very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want {to do} I agree with the Law, {confessing} that the Law is do} I agree with the Law, {confessing} that the Law is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good {is} not. For the good that I want, I do doing of the good {is} not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

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BodyBody

BodyBody

TRICHOTOMOUS – Spiritually AliveTRICHOTOMOUS – Spiritually Alive

SoulSoul

SoulSoul

Human Human SpiritSpirit

DICHOTOMOUS – Spiritually DeadDICHOTOMOUS – Spiritually Dead

Gen. 2:16-17Gen. 2:16-17

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The Curse of the Human NatureThe Curse of the Human Nature

BodyBody

BodyBody

SoulSoul

SoulSoul

Human Spirit

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BodyBody

BodyBody

SoulSoul

SoulSoul

Human Spirit

Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit

Baptism of the Holy SpiritBaptism of the Holy Spirit

Matthew 3:11Matthew 3:11

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God’s WordGod’s WordMatthew 3:11Matthew 3:11

"As for me, I baptize you with water for "As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. (NAS)with the Holy Spirit and fire. (NAS)

1 Corinthians 3:161 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you are a temple of Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and {that} the Spirit of God dwells God, and {that} the Spirit of God dwells in you? (NAS)in you? (NAS)

GALATIANS 5:17GALATIANS 5:17

AgainstDesires Flesh

DesiresAgainst Spirit

Desires of the SpiritDesires of the FleshGalatians 5:19-21ImmoralityImpuritySensualityIdolatrySorceryEnmitiesStrifeJealousyAngerDisputesDissensionsFactionsEnvyingDrunkennessCarousingThings like these

Galatians 5:22-23Love

JoyPeace

PatienceKindness

GoodnessFaithfulness

GentlenessSelf-control

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Rom 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined {to become} conformed to the image of His Son,

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God’s WordGod’s WordOperation K.R.Y.Operation K.R.Y.

Romans 6:6 Romans 6:6 KnowingKnowing this, that our old man is crucified this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. (KJV)henceforth we should not serve sin. (KJV)

Romans 6:11 Likewise Romans 6:11 Likewise reckonreckon ye also yourselves to be ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (KJV)Christ our Lord. (KJV)

Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yieldyield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. (KJV)righteousness unto God. (KJV)

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““To which nature are you going to YIELD?”To which nature are you going to YIELD?” ““Which nature is influencing what you are Which nature is influencing what you are

thinking, saying and doing?” thinking, saying and doing?”

The ResultThe ResultIf you are yielded to your OSN, you If you are yielded to your OSN, you

are are CARNAL.CARNAL.

If you are yielded to the indwelling Holy If you are yielded to the indwelling Holy Spirit, you are Spirit, you are SPIRITUALSPIRITUAL

The Spiritual Life The Spiritual Life

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The Spiritual Life The Spiritual Life Yielding, Carnality, Yielding, Carnality, Spirituality are all Spirituality are all

ATTITUDESATTITUDES

They are NOT They are NOT

something you something you

DODO or or DON’T DODON’T DO

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The Spiritual Life The Spiritual Life

Carnality, SpiritualityCarnality, Spirituality

These terms apply to These terms apply to BELIEVERS ONLY BELIEVERS ONLY

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The Spiritual Life The Spiritual Life

Whether you got to Whether you got to HEAVEN or HELL HEAVEN or HELL

when you die when you die depends totally, depends totally,

100%100%, on , on what you what you think of Christ!think of Christ!

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SPIRITUAL CARNAL

Attends church every Sunday Bribes clerks and government officials to keep from standing in lineGives 20% of his income to the church

Sings in the choir Tells a few lies once in a whilc

WorriesTeaches Sunday School

Drinks a beer each evening with dinner

Smokes cigarettes

Gossips

Gambles the family money away at the Matina Galleria

Studies the bible two hours every day Has sex with someone to whom they are not married

Maligns other people

Murders someone

Has bible study every week in their home

Goes dancing at the local discotheque

Pastors a church

Is a graduate of a seminary

Has sex with his daughter

Is NOT a member of a local church

Cheats when he files his income tax

Harbors bitterness towards someone

Abuses drugs

HUMAN GOOD HUMAN BAD

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GOD’S GOD’S INTEGRITYINTEGRITY

Three Principles: Three Principles:

1.1. God’s righteousness demands righteousness.God’s righteousness demands righteousness.

2.2. God’s justice demands justice.God’s justice demands justice.

3.3. What the righteousness of God demands, the What the righteousness of God demands, the justice of God executes.justice of God executes.

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CURSE

BLES

S

RighteousnessRighteousness JusticeJustice

Righteousness Unrighteousness

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God’s WordGod’s WordHebrews 12:4-7Hebrews 12:4-7

You have not yet resisted to the point of You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "My son, do not addressed to you as sons, "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him; For those faint when you are reproved by Him; For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.“ It is scourges every son whom He receives.“ It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom you as with sons; for what son is there whom {his} father does not discipline? (NAS){his} father does not discipline? (NAS)

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we never stop being “sons”we never stop being “sons”

Eternally secure!Eternally secure!

A A spiritualspiritual son will be blessed son will be blessed

A A carnalcarnal son will be disciplined son will be disciplined

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God’s WordGod’s Word2 Corinthians 5:102 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all appear before the For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. he has done, whether good or bad. (NAS)(NAS)

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God’s WordGod’s Word1 CORINTHIANS 3:10-151 CORINTHIANS 3:10-15

ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN TO ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN TO ME, LIKE A WISE MASTER BUILDER I LAID A FOUNDATION, ME, LIKE A WISE MASTER BUILDER I LAID A FOUNDATION, AND ANOTHER IS BUILDING ON IT. BUT EACH MAN MUST BE AND ANOTHER IS BUILDING ON IT. BUT EACH MAN MUST BE CAREFUL HOW HE BUILDS ON IT. FOR NO MAN CAN LAY A CAREFUL HOW HE BUILDS ON IT. FOR NO MAN CAN LAY A FOUNDATION OTHER THAN THE ONE WHICH IS LAID, WHICH FOUNDATION OTHER THAN THE ONE WHICH IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST. NOW IF ANY MAN BUILDS ON THE IS JESUS CHRIST. NOW IF ANY MAN BUILDS ON THE FOUNDATION WITH GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, FOUNDATION WITH GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, WOOD, HAY, STRAW, EACH MAN'S WORK WILL BECOME WOOD, HAY, STRAW, EACH MAN'S WORK WILL BECOME EVIDENT; FOR THE DAY WILL SHOW IT BECAUSE IT IS {TO EVIDENT; FOR THE DAY WILL SHOW IT BECAUSE IT IS {TO BE} REVEALED WITH FIRE, AND THE FIRE ITSELF WILL TEST BE} REVEALED WITH FIRE, AND THE FIRE ITSELF WILL TEST THE QUALITY OF EACH MAN'S WORK. IF ANY MAN'S WORK THE QUALITY OF EACH MAN'S WORK. IF ANY MAN'S WORK WHICH HE HAS BUILT ON IT REMAINS, HE WILL RECEIVE A WHICH HE HAS BUILT ON IT REMAINS, HE WILL RECEIVE A REWARD. IF ANY MAN'S WORK IS BURNED UP, HE WILL REWARD. IF ANY MAN'S WORK IS BURNED UP, HE WILL SUFFER LOSS; BUT HE HIMSELF WILL BE SAVED, YET SO AS SUFFER LOSS; BUT HE HIMSELF WILL BE SAVED, YET SO AS THROUGH FIRE. (NAS)THROUGH FIRE. (NAS)

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The Spiritual LifeThe Spiritual Life

How do I insure that I am a How do I insure that I am a spiritualspiritual believer and not a believer and not a carnalcarnal believer? believer?

You must be clean before the Lord. You must be clean before the Lord. You must choose to live a life of You must choose to live a life of

obedience.obedience. You must be walking by means of You must be walking by means of

the Holy Spirit. the Holy Spirit.

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The Spiritual LifeThe Spiritual Life1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and

righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (NAS)from all unrighteousness. (NAS)

1 Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit; 1 Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit; (NAS) (NAS)

Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (NAS)redemption. (NAS)

Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. (NAS)(NAS)

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The Spiritual LifeThe Spiritual LifeRomans 6:13 and do not go on presenting Romans 6:13 and do not go on presenting

the members of your body to sin {as} the members of your body to sin {as} instruments of unrighteousness; but instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members {as} from the dead, and your members {as} instruments of righteousness to God. instruments of righteousness to God. (NAS)(NAS)

Ephesians 5:18 And do not get drunk with Ephesians 5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with [with [ by means of by means of ] the Spirit, (NAS) ] the Spirit, (NAS)

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The Spiritual LifeThe Spiritual Life the only greatness worth pursuing in the only greatness worth pursuing in

life was the greatness of grace, life was the greatness of grace, the only race worth running was the the only race worth running was the

race of faith, race of faith, the only fight worth fighting was the the only fight worth fighting was the

good fight, good fight, the only words worth hearing were the only words worth hearing were

the words of approval from the Lord the words of approval from the Lord Jesus Christ,Jesus Christ,"W

ell done, g

ood and faith

ful servant!"

"Well d

one, good and fa

ithful s

ervant!"