Tens of thousands of persons who have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are taught to believe in a present salvation, but, should they sin, they may lose it after all. Is this true or false? False, utterly false, the deceitful lie of Satan, the father of lies, in order that Christ may be dishonored, and souls rendered miserable.
Five impossibilities stand in the way of the true believer’s ever being lost:
The Word of God must become a lie.
The work of Christ must be undone.
The blood of Christ must lose its value.
The righteousness of God must have a flaw.
The devil must speak the truth.
Could it be more secure?
“Well, Mrs.—, are you saved?”
“I’ve believed in Jesus these ten years, but I’m tormented with doubts and fears.”
“Would you like to be sure that you are saved forever?”
“Ah! that would make me a happy woman.” “You are sure you believe on the Lord Jesus?”
“O, yes!”
“Where is He?”
“In glory.”
“Then before you are lost Satan must get up to the throne of God, and bring Jesus down to this world, and take Him back more than eighteen hundred years, and make Him undo the finished work of the cross, and that is all totally impossible.”
“I shall never have a doubt as long as I live,” replied Mrs.—, earnestly. “I’ve never seen it like that before.” When visited a year or so afterward, she confessed to have enjoyed perfect peace ever since.
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”