Still Thinking about Eternal Security

 As I've been studying for an upcoming Sunday School lesson, the subject of eternal security has been on my mind.

Previously, I had blogged about this subject, so these are some follow-up thoughts as I have delved into a few more Scripture passages.

I appreciate the words of our Lord Jesus in John 10:27-30 ...

"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."

In the grammar of the Greek text behind the English translation, we find a statement of absolute impossibility.  This statement has been translated "they shall never perish."  This statement is doubly strong in the Greek text.  We find there two negatives back to back, so that we might understand it to be emphatic.  It might go something like this "...never, not ever, under any circumstance."

God the Son and God the Father are One.  As a believer, I am in the hand of God.  No one, not even me, can remove me from this place of security.  Losing this security is an absolute impossibility.

In another Scripture, we find ...

"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified."  (Hebrews 10:14)

The context is speaking of Christ's sacrifice of Himself.  You can sense the strength of the statement ...he hath perfected forever.  The tense of the Greek verb which has been translated perfected is very strong.  It is the strongest of all the 6 tenses.  The tense renders the idea of that which has been completed, is currently working, and will have lasting effect.  To make the statement stronger, the Holy Spirit added the prepositional phrase for ever, or perhaps we could say into the perpetuity.  

Friends, if you have been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, then you have been sanctified and made perfect or complete in Him.  This state of being is not temporal, nor is it subject to revocation should you fail God in any way.  Our state of perfection in Christ has been completed positionally, and this completion is having a positive impact on my life, and the impact of my completion in Christ will be felt into eternity.