TITLE:
Once Saved, Always Saved?
TEXT: Ezekiel 18:24-26
PROPOSITION: The possibility of apostasy is taught in both OT and NT.
QUESTION: Where?
KEY WORD: Passages
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- A common teaching is that, once a person is saved and
becomes a Christian, they are forever saved. Nothing they do can cause them to
be lost.
- This doctrine has several names Once Saved, Always
Saved; Eternal Security; Perseverance of the Saints
- This lesson will show that this doctrine is denied in
both the OT and NT.
Old Testament Passages
- 1 Chronicles 28:9
- 2 Chronicles 15:2
- Ezekiel 3:20
- Ezekiel 18:24-25
- Ezekiel 18:21-23
New Testament Passages
- Matthew 25:14-30 1 talent man
- Mark 4:14-20 Parable of Soils choked by thorns
- Luke 8:13 in time of temptation temptation fall away
- John 8:31 if you continue in my word
- Acts 1:25 Judas fell
- Acts 8:20-22 Simon saved sinned in lost
condition
- Romans 8:12-13 Christian who lives in the flesh dies
- Galatians 5:2-4 Serve Law of Moses fall from grace
- Galatians 6:9 Reap if we faint not
- Ephesians 5:3-5 Saints who sin not inherit the
kingdom of God
Conclusion:
- Do I need to go on?
- There is a real and present danger we can leave, fall
away, abandon
- There is a way back repent and pray for forgiveness