Once, Always

Hebrews 2:1-4

Belief is Continual

John 5:24

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.

1John 3:19-24

…And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God , and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us , by the Spirit whom he has given us.

Romans 11:22-23

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

Never Saved to Begin With

2Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped and Savior Jesus Christ, the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord they are again entangled knowing it in them and overcome , the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: "The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire."

Hebrews 10:26-27

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice sins, but a fearful expectation of for judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

You Can Fall

1Corinthians 9:25-27

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control , lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1Corinthians 10:12

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Galatians 5:4

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace .

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened , who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit fallen away , and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have , to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled ;

Hebrews 2:1

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Matthew 21:43

Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.

Secure In Christ

John 10:25-30

Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand . My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand . I and the Father are one."

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Only You!!