Eternal Security of the Believer.pptx

1. Eternal Security of the Believer

2. How can I know if I have eternal life?
• Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ
alone. It is not because we are good that we are saved, but
because God is good, and He made a way for us to be saved.
(Ephesians 2:1-9)
• However, the Bible warns us that not everyone who assumes
they are saved will actually experience eternal life.
• Matthew 7:21 says that not everyone at the final judgment
who says to Him “Lord, Lord” is truly saved. Can we know
for sure?

3. WE CAN KNOW!
Read 1 John 5:11–13
(11) And this is the record, that God hath given to us
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (12) He that hath
the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life. (13)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.

4. God has given eternal life to all those who
believe in his Son. It is possible to know
because these were written so that we will
know that we have eternal life. A person
can be sure of eternal life based on God’s
promise.

5. John 10:11-14; 27-30
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are
not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf
catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he
is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and
know my sheep, and am known of mine.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I
give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any
man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is
greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one.

6. What if someone who claims to have believed in
Jesus stopped believing in Him. Is that person
still saved?
1 John 2:19
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been
of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out,
that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Colossians 1:23
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved
away from the hope of the gospel…