Grace Coach Podcast

When Jesus was still alive, he taught the disciples how to pray. He said to them that his kingdom was coming. But today, as a born again Christian, has the kingdom of God already come to you? Listen in as Mike and Kevin read through the Lord's Prayer.

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The doctrine of eternal security is one of the most important doctrines in the Scriptures. Knowing that God will never leave you, no matter what, is the very essence of the New Covenant and of the love of God. Listen in and see why you can never lose your salvation, once you have it.

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Unknown Speaker 0:01 Want to discover your freedom in Christ? Then listen in as Mike Stone and Kevin Smith talk about it today on grace coach.

Unknown Speaker 0:12 What's up, Mike? pillow? Kevin, we're gonna talk about one of our favorite topics. Absolutely eternal security. eternal security is the good news of the gospel. I love to know I'm secure. It is a foundational belief of the Christian faith. JOHN Calvin calls it the perseverance of the saints. Yes, if you just persevere in the Scriptures, as we'll do today, we're going to go through a lot of scriptures that talk about why once we're saved, we can never lose our salvation, aka eternal security. It's a great topic. I wish there were more pastors talking about this. And really, everything in the New Covenant is all about eternal security, and that once Christ comes a live inside of you, he'll never leave you again.

Unknown Speaker 1:17 It is, without a doubt, one of the

Unknown Speaker 1:23 best doctrines that you could live the Christian faith in, if you don't have clarity around this issue, your relationship with God will be topsy turvy, up and down a roller coaster ride. And if we can just encourage people today with the fact that they are eternally secure that their relationship with God is guaranteed by the deposit of the Holy Spirit. And as we're getting to get into some of the Scriptures, we can read them. But that is that is the fact the reason that you have the Holy Spirit is a deposit guaranteeing by God that you are

Unknown Speaker 2:16 say that you are secure. Let's write a fusions Ephesians 113. And 14 says it like this, it says and you were included in Christ, when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, when you believed you are marked in him with a seal, the promise Holy Spirit, who just like you're saying Kevin is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are in guy's possession, to the praise of his glory. Wow, you know what I'm going to read from this systematic theology book that I have a gut from when I was a student at Moody Bible Institute. The Greek word translated in that verse guarantee is our baronne and is a legal and commercial term. That means the first installment deposit downpayment pledge and represents a payment which obligates a contracting party to make further payments.

Unknown Speaker 3:26 All right, the contracting party in that then this agreement that we're talking about here is God and you and God is going to make further payments.

Unknown Speaker 3:38 On this contracting, you no obligation, which is a beautiful thing, and that that further payment is going to be when we see him face to face, and we have glorified bodies and renewed spirits is going to be

Unknown Speaker 3:59 incredible. Yes, it will be I can't wait. You know, with the excitement of eternal security, knowing we could hit that God will never leave us or forsake us ever against once we are born again, comes much controversy. I have met many pastors, and I've been in churches, hearing sermons, that you could lose your salvation, that you are not secure in Christ, that you could walk away from God. Walk away from the faith. Anyway, you say, there are those who say that you could lose Christ, once crisis living inside of you. But for a Christian to lose their salvation, Kevin, God would have to erase the mark on a Christian, withdraw his spirit, cancel the deposit that we just

Unknown Speaker 5:00 Read was guaranteed to break his promise, why revoke the guarantee and the gift. And I love this keep his inheritance.

Unknown Speaker 5:14 That's why this is such an important topic, it's important for Christians to know that they have that one, yes, always saved, and that they can never lose their salvation.

Unknown Speaker 5:28 We Christians need to know that. And that's why we thought this topic is so important today in what you just read, Mike, we've got about 20 scriptures that we've come up with, that are all over the New Testament that basically encapsulate the thoughts that you just said. And it's, it's on, you know, pretty much you can't hardly ever look at, I mean, the parables that Jesus talked about, it's amazing when you just look at some of these things, through the lens of eternal security, that this is what Jesus was talking about, that you know, you are secure, I'm casting these branches out that never were part of the Divine, you know that that parable is part of just this whole thing that we're talking about. And so it's It is amazing that, like you're saying, the controversy that is out there, because ...

In the Bible, the word righteous mean to be right with God. How can we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are right in God's sight? Does it come by works or by faith or a combination of the two? Listen in to find out how this happens.

Many people ask the question "How do I become right with God?" Is it by works or is it by faith? Two Old Testament patriachs, Abraham and David believed God, and their faith was credited to them as righteous. Was it credited to them only? By no means! The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. The Book of Romans Podcast series is a great way to learn not only what the Scriptures says, but what it means to you.

The phrase "How much more" is use many times in the Bible. Luke 12:24 says "Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!" The point here is that Luke is saying that God takes care of the ravens, so he will also take care of you and that people are more valuable to Him than birds.

In the same way, Paul mentions in Romans 5:10 that "we were reconciled to him by the death of his Son, how much more (valuable), having already been reconciled, are we saved by His life"?

Contrary to most Christian teaching, we are not saved by the death of Christ, for the forgiveness of our sins. Rather we are saved by the life of Christ living in us. As Major Ian Thomas says "Jesus cleared the deck for the divine act of giving life to the dead".

Listen in as Mike and Kevin more about these important verses.