17-When do we become sons of God according to John 1:12?

18-Is God the Father of all mankind? ______________

19-According to John 6:35, how do we "come to Christ"?

20-What does "no wise" mean in John 6:37?

21-What keeps us saved according to I Peter 1:5?

22-Who is responsible to keep us saved once we trust Christ?

23-How does a person frustrate God’s grace?

24-Can you know that you are going to heaven? ____

25-According to Romans 4:5, if a person trusts Christ but does no works, does he still have the righteousness it takes to get to heaven? __________

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In the present we have (Hath-present tense) eternal life right now. Plus, it is everlasting, so we don’t ever have to worry about it coming to an end. It is obvious that this verse is saying that we will have eternal life forever. The only condition is that we believe that God loved us and sent His Son to save us. In other words we trust what God has done through Jesus Christ.

The second result of trusting Jesus is future. We may not know much about the future, but we can know, according to God’s Word, that one thing we can know for sure about the future is we shall not perish. There is nothing that we can do that will outdo or undo what God has already done for us.

It is also evident that God gives everlasting life to us through what Jesus did for us. It is a gift. Romans 6:23 says: "The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Ephesians 2:8 points out that salvation is a gift, also.

So what must we do to get a gift? Romans 4:4 points out that, if you work for something, then what you receive is not a gift. It is wages. In other words it is owed to you; therefore, it cannot be a gift. So, we cannot get the gift of God by working but by receiving it. How do we receive it?

John 1:12 tells us we receive Jesus by believing on His name. His name from the Hebrew is "Jehovah Yasha." To believe on His name would mean to believe that Jesus is Jehovah, and to believe that He is "Yasha." 

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Security

1-What are the three parts of John 3:16?

1. __________________________________________
2. __________________________________________
3. __________________________________________

2-Who did the action in John 3:16? _______________

3-What is the condition? ________________________

4-What are the two-fold results of trusting Christ according to John 3:16?

1. ________________________________________

2. ________________________________________

5-What is the "present tense" result? _____________

6-What is the "future" result? ____________________

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7-What is the gift of God in Romans 6:23?

"Wouldn’t it be unfair for Jesus, who never sinned, to die in the place of the guilty sinner?"

Yes, that would be unfair. So God removed our sin and the guilt that goes with it and placed it upon Jesus. Therefore, the guilty person pays the penalty of death. This is a process that the Bible calls imputation. Then He paid completely for all of our sin by dying on the cross. That’s propitiation. Propitiation means "satisfactory payment." God was completely satisfied with the payment that Jesus made on the cross. Consequently, there is nothing left for us to pay. When Jesus died on the cross, He said, "It is finished." That phrase is translated from one Greek word that means "Paid in full."

Since sin is completely paid for, God imputes His own righteousness to us. Impute means "To place to one’s account." Just as all of our sins were placed to Jesus’ account, so He could pay for them by death; so His righteousness is placed to our account, so we can have life forever in heaven.

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A believer can fall away from service and fellowship with God, but it is impossible to get saved again, because Jesus’ death on the cross is good enough to keep him through all of his rebellion so that he cannot lose his salvation in the first place.

So we can know that we are going to heaven. In I John 5:13 we read, "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."

This verse tells us that we can know that we are going to heaven. It says that we "KNOW" it. We don’t have hope, or guess, or maybe, or wish. We can know it. We can be certain or sure. It also confirms that we have eternal life, right now. We don’t have to wait until we die to get it. And it is eternal, so we can never lose it. So we can know that we are going to heaven, if we do what the verse says. What does the verse say that we must do? We must "believe on the name of the Son of God. We must simply believe that Jesus is God the Father in the flesh, and we must trust His death payment on the cross to save us and keep us saved.

So a believer may sin so badly that God will take him home to heaven.

"That’s terrible!" you might think.

Think more deeply. Hebrews 12:11 tells us, "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous." Being punished because of our disobedience is not fun, nor does God enjoy doing it. However, if we continue to ignore His instructions, He’s not going to just keep on beating and beating us. Eventually, He will stop punishing us, and take us home. That’s for our own benefit. Love, joy, and peace of mind are results of obedience to God. A disobedient child of God is miserable, and he will remain miserable until he either begins to obey God, or goes to heaven.

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God’s grace wants to save us. That’s its purpose. When we try to save ourselves, then God’s grace can’t, because grace is "not of yourselves." Grace’s purpose is thwarted. It is frustrated. A believer cannot frustrate God’s grace, because he is trusting God’s grace to do what it was meant to do, and that is to save us.

"But can’t you fall away?"

Regrettably, a Christian can fall away, but he can never fall away from salvation. He can fall away from fellowship, service, fruit bearing, or any number of things, but he can never fall away from salvation. Hebrews 6:4-6 says, "For it is impossible for those…(Believers)…if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame."

Why can’t a person change his mind (repent) and get saved again when he falls away? Because that would mean that Christ’s death on the cross wasn’t good enough to keep him saved. When a person who claims he has been saved tries to get saved again, it reflects on the death of Christ. The reason you can’t get saved a second time, is because you can’t lose it the first time.

Hebrews 10:10, 14 and 18 shows us that Christ died once for all. He died once for all sin. That would include the sins we haven’t committed yet.

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We see again in this verse, as we did in John 3:16, that the condition for receiving eternal life is simply to believe on Jesus. We also see that the result of believing in Christ as our Savior is that we have eternal life right now. It is everlasting, therefore it must last forever regardless of how we live or do not live in the future. You cannot lose it or it wasn’t eternal life to begin with. It was only life until you lose it, or sin too bad, or stop doing good works.

John 5:24 says, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."

The tenses are more emphatic in this verse. It is obvious, here, that eternal life is given to us the moment we believe. This is evident by the words "Hath everlasting life." This verse goes on to show us something else that we can know about the future. We "Shall not come into condemnation." We never ever have to worry about being cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death, because we "have passed from death unto life." God would never cast an uncondemned person into the lake of fire.

John 10:28 says, "I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand."

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Galatians 5:4 says, "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace."

Have you ever heard the term, "Fall from grace?" This is the only verse that talks about falling from grace, and it tells you exactly how a person can fall from grace. The person who falls from grace is the person that is trying to keep the law or do good works to get to heaven.

Galatians 1:6 points out that the test of the gospel is "grace." Ephesians 2:8 points out that the test of grace is that "It is not of yourselves." So as soon as we add something of ourselves to salvation, we have fallen from grace.

The definition of grace is found in Romans 11:6 where it says, "If by grace… (And Ephesians 2:8 tells us that we are saved by grace) …then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace…" The opposite of grace is works. So if a person is depending on himself or his own works, then he is cannot be saved by the grace of God.

Romans 9:30-10:3 explains by saying, "The Gentiles, which followed not after the law of righteousness, HAVE attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith."

He said, "God so love the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) "God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8 "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (I John 4:10)

Ephesians 1:13-14 says, "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the Word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Hold Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession."

Verse thirteen of this passage speaks of the Holy Spirit being our seal. That indicates several things.

First of all, a seal show security. A seal was what was used to seal a letter. In Bible days it was usually melted wax that had the impression of a signet impressed in it. After the letter was finished, they would melt wax on the edge of the letter and take the signet ring and roll it in the liquid wax so that when it cooled and hardened, you could see the impression of the writer’s signet or signature.

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In I Peter 1:5 God says, "Who are kept by the

power of God through faith unto salvation."

We are kept by God’s power. What is that power? In I Corinthians 1:23-24 it says, "We preach Christ crucified… the power of God." So the power of God is His crucifixion and resurrection. (Romans 1:4)

Since we are kept by the power of God, then if we can become lost after we have become saved, then whatever caused us to become lost would have to be more powerful than God. There is nothing more powerful than God. We cannot become lost by sinning, because God is more powerful than our sin. He proved this when He died with all of our sin placed upon Him, and came back from the dead.

We cannot become lost even if we decide of our own free will that we want to go to hell. That’s because our will is not more powerful than God’s will.

II Timothy 1:12 says, "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him." HE is doing the keeping.

Notice in Jude 24. He says, "Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory…" He is able. We are not.

Paul said in Romans 7:18, "I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing." At that time Paul had been saved and serving the Lord for twenty-five years. He said in I Timothy 1:15, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners: of whom I am chief." He did not say, "I was before I got saved," but here in this passage twenty-five years after he’d begun serving the Lord the Lord God still considered Paul the chief of sinners. Remember, this verse was not inspired by Paul, but by the Holy Spirit.

This brings us back to John chapter six. In verse thirty-eight it says that Jesus came to do the Father’s will. What was that? God’s will for Jesus was that He die to pay for all of our sin, and that His death would save us and keep us saved. Remember, Jesus always accomplishes God’s will.

Does everybody go to heaven? Everyone certainly can, but there is a condition. That condition is brought out in verse forty where God says, "This is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day."

We see here that His will for us concerning salvation is two-fold.

First, we must see the Son. How can we do that? Sometimes, when you understand something, you might say, "Oh, I see." That’s what it means. You must understand that Jesus’ death on the cross is enough to save you and keep you saved.

Second, you must believe it. Understand that His death on the cross saves us and keeps us saved, then trust His death to do that. When we do that, we see the results in this verse. Again we see that they are two-fold.

First we have everlasting life now. It is present tense. You don’t have to wait until you die to get it. This is a theme that we have seen, and will see repeatedly throughout God’s Word.

Second, we see the future result. Jesus will raise us up.

Acts 13:39 says, "And by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."

The most significant thing about this verse is the all inclusiveness of it.

First, all believers are included, not just the obedient ones. That would include backslidden ones, rebellious ones, unfaithful ones, and carnal ones.

Second, we are justified from all sins. Justified means, "declared righteous." We have been declared righteous of all sins. That would include sins of adultery, lying, homosexuality, drunkenness, and even murder. Beyond that, this verse would include past sins, present sins, and future sins. (Actually, all of our sins were in the future when Christ died, so if He only paid for past sins, then none of our sins were paid for.) Romans 8:38-39 is very clear about this. It says, "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come…shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

"That doesn’t say that you can’t become lost after you’re saved." You might say.

True enough. But look at the next verse. Verse thirty-eight points out God’s will for Jesus Christ. It tells us that God’s will for Jesus is that He lose nothing, and we are at least something.

"But it says ‘should’ not ‘would,’" you might say.

Let me remind you that only the work of Christ is in view so far, and Jesus always does what He should. (John 8:29) Our response does not come into view until the next verse.

God’s will for Jesus is brought out in I John 3:17 where God says, "God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved."

Luke 19:10 says, "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."

When speaking to Pilate in John 19:37, Jesus said that the very reason that He had come into the world was to die.

So Jesus came to die so that He could save the lost. However, we see in John 6:39 that His death not only saves us, but it keeps us saved.

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The Holy Spirit is strong enough to keep anyone from breaking it because "Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." (I John 4:4)

Second, a seal shows a finished transaction. It would be silly to seal a letter before it is finished.

"It is finished." Jesus said from the cross. The payment for our salvation has been made.

How long are we sealed according to this verse? We are sealed until we receive our redemption bodies. While sin has already been paid for, the receipt of our redemption bodies (our perfect bodies) won’t be until after this sinful body dies.

In verse fourteen of this passage we see that the Holy spirit is our "earnest." The moment we trust Christ as Savior we receive the Holy Spirit as our earnest payment.

When a person is shopping for a house, and he finds the one he wants; he may put an earnest payment on the house to keep the owner from selling the house before he can secure his loan. If, after paying the earnest, he has a change of heart and decides that he doesn’t want the house after all, he doesn’t get the earnest payment back.

It’s the same thing with the Holy Spirit. If God backs out on allowing us into heaven after we have believed, He doesn’t get the Holy Spirit back. So we can be as sure that we will not go to the Lake of Fire as we are that the Holy Spirit will not go to the Lake of Fire.

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Notice first of all that eternal life is "given." We see here again that eternal life is a gift. He also repeats the fact that it is given now: not sometime after we die. We can see that in the words, "I give." In the present we have eternal life, ad in the future we shall never perish. Sounds a lot like John 3:16, doesn’t it? We don’t know how much we will sin in the future. We don’t know how much we will work in the future, but we do know that in the future we will never be cast into the lake of fire.

John 6:35-40

V35- "Jesus said unto them, ‘I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst.

V36- "But I said unto you, That ye also have seen Me and believe not.

V37- "All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.

V38- "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me.

V39- "And this is the Father’s will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

V40- "And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one that seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him at the last day."

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"But what if a person does no works at all?" you might ask. "Can he still have the righteousness to get to heaven by faith alone?"

Romans 4:5 answers this question when it says, "But to him that worketh NOT, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith IS counted for righteousness."

So a believer cannot fall from grace. The person who has fallen from grace is the person who is trusting his own good works to get him to heaven.

"But can’t we frustrate the grace of God?" some may ask. You might be able to, but I can’t.

Galatians 2:21 is the only verse that mentions frustrating God’s grace. It also tells us how a person can frustrate God’s grace. "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness is come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."

Who frustrates the grace of God? It is the person who is trying to be righteous by keeping the law. How does that frustrate the grace of God? What does it mean to be frustrated? It means that your purpose has been thwarted. You are inhibited from doing what you set out to do. What is the purpose of grace?

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The disobedient child is better off in heaven. The church that has been discredited by the ungodly life of the unbeliever is better off. The other believers that have been ridiculed because of hypocrisy of the disobedient believer is better off, and the lost are better off, because their eyes that have been blinded by the life of the disobedient believer will no longer have the excuse that the ungodly believer provides. The only one that is hurt by the death of a believer that refuses to stop the sin that is destroying the reputation of the church and other believers is the devil.

An example of this is found in I Corinthians 5:1-5. Here a believer has been committing fornication with his father’s wife. God said, "Deliver such an one unto satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."

I Corinthians 3:14-15 points out that if our works are not honoring to the Lord, then they will be burned at the judgment, but we still are saved. "If any man’s work be burned…he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved."

John 3:36 says, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

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"For by ONE offering He hath perfected FOREVER them that are sanctified. Now where remission of these is there is there is no more offering for sin."

"But if we sin willfully after we are saved, what then?"

Hebrews 10:26 says, "If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins." That’s because Christ died once for all. When we sin, Jesus doesn’t have to die again, but if we sin willfully, our loved ones remain adversaries of God, and they will ultimately be devoured. There have been many times when we have seen believers who have not lived for the Lord. They have some ungodly habit or are unfaithful to church, and have had their children fall into some heresy or a life of sin, because they have seen the hypocrisy of their parent. There children have become turned off to true Christianity, because of the inconsistent life of the believer. What a fearful thing it would be to have your own children cast into the lake of fire because of your own lifestyle.

We, of course, are no longer adversaries. We have been reconciled according to Romans 5:9-10.

So what is Christ’s attitude toward those who do not think that Christ’s payment on the cross is good enough to get them to heaven? Hebrews 10:29-31 tells us, "Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God,"

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John 1:12 says, "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:"

And Galatians 3:26 says, "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."

The moment we trust Christ as our Savior, we become children of God according to John 1:12. By contrast, John 8:44 points out that those that do not believe are NOT children of God. Only those born into God’s family by trusting Christ as their Savior are God’s children.

Since we are children of God by faith in Jesus Christ, then that means that God is our Father. What kind of father would God be if, when we were disobedient, He kicked us out of His family? That certainly would not a perfect Father, and very few would consider that a good father at all. Can you imagine growing up in a family wondering if your father were going to kick you out of his family if you disobeyed him? Oh, I used to fear disobeying my father, but it never occurred to me that he might kick me out of our family. I knew He loved me too much to give up on me, but I also knew that he loved me enough to punish me when I did wrong.

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Why not trust Him, now. Trust Him. He’s trustworthy. You see, the doctrine of salvation is really not a separate doctrine from security.

Pastor Jerry

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Jehovah is God the Father’s name, so to believe on His name, you must believe that Jesus is God the Father in the flesh. In other words you must believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. Yasha means "Savior and keeper." So to believe on His name you must believe that Jesus has done what it takes to save you and keep you saved.

Now, I wouldn’t blame you at all if you said to yourself, "That’s your interpretation."

I believe what I wrote is completely true, but let’s look at what the Scripture says about His name.

In Isaiah 9:6 God says, "Unto us a child is born. Unto us a Son is given…" (That’s Jesus.) "…and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

The name of the child that was born is the "Wonderful Counselor." What is a counselor? It is a lawyer. What would make a wonderful lawyer? It would be a lawyer that never lost a case. Consider Jesus’ record as our lawyer or advocate. "I John 2:1-2 says, "If any man sin, he has an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world."

Jesus is our advocate or lawyer.

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8-What is the gift of God according to Ephesians 2:8?

9-What must you do to get a gift? ________________

10-According to John 1:12, how do we receive eternal life?

11-What is Jesus’ name in the Hebrew?

12-Must you believe that Jesus is God the Father in order to get to heaven?

13-What is a counselor? ________________________

14-What is another name for a counselor or lawyer?

15-What is a propitiation? _______________________

16-Who is propitiated in salvation? _______________

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"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

John 3:16

This verse is possibly the best known verse in the Bible, and the security of the believer is clearly taught in this verse.

This verse falls naturally into three parts: (1) The action (2) The condition, and (3) The results. The result is security, but let’s looks at the three parts in order.

First of all, let’s look at the action. God loved, and God gave. It is important to note that God did all of the work. God did all of the giving. The work is God’s part. We don’t want to take God’s part away from Him, nor do we want to belittle God’s part. God did all of the work in this verse, and for us to try to add to that or take away from that would be an insult to God. However, He has left a condition for us to fulfill in order that we might receive the results.

So, let’s look at the second part, which is the condition. The second part is to believe (trust) His work. We must believe that His loving us and giving us His Son is what will bring about the results, which is everlasting life.

Let’s look at the results. The results are two-fold. One is present and one is future.

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