How are you doing, Friend?
Whoever has God’s gift of grace, unmerited eternal life, can also
have assurance that they will be in heaven because the Holy Spirit
guides them into all truth. The true believer’s very nature is changed
from being a slave to sin to being a slave to righteousness. Being a
slave to righteousness does not mean that a true believer no longer
sins, only that he is under grace, not the law.
Some people are against accepting the Bible’s teaching of eternal
security because they think it allows (or encourages) genuine believers
to continue in sin, putting their salvation in danger. Is it unsafe to
set up the safety of saints in such strong terms because this will
encourage them to be careless with their lives? If you feel that you are
licensed to sin by the security that God has granted, you have not been
rightly taught.
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