Eternal Salvation - God's Grace
Eternal Assurance - God's Promise
Eternal Security - God's Power
There is a whole book in the Bible about how to know your saved, the question is - am I one of His own, God keeps his own by His power
It is easy to throw around buzz phrases isn't it?
Just name it and claim it and then plug the ears to the truth, or I should say, suppress your thought process and rest in a comfortable delusion.
Your first claim..
Eternal Salvation - God's Grace
What does the Bible say? Well...
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
So this grace of God that brings salvation appears to all men teaching us to do the right thing. This grace teaches us to abstain from evil. That is the grace that brings salvation.
Can this grace be received in vain or to no working effect? Yes indeed it can.
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2Co 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
So we are to be "workers together with God" otherwise we receive the grace of God to no working effect. If we don't work together with God then we are never made the righteousness of God in Him.
Modern theology ignores that passage. They see "being made the righteousness of God in Him" as name it and claim it where they have to do nothing, its the bedrock of their legal exchange cloak for ongoing sin, 2Cor 5:21 being the chief abused proof text for that lie. Yet right there in 2Cor 6:1 is the clear context that being made the righteousness of God IN Him comes through cooperating with God. In other words we are to yield to God and through the dynamic of yielding to what grace teaches we are made righteous, the righteousness that manifests from abiding in Jesus Christ. That is EXACTLY what Jesus taught in John 15.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
There is no room for rebellion in that and thus if one believes in the inability doctrine of Original Sin one must reject this very clear Bible teaching.
Instead of teaching what the Bible teaches it is easier to cry out...
Eternal Salvation - God's Grace
Paul wrote...
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The righteousness of the law fulfilled in us when we walk after the Spirit and there is no condemnation for such people. The law couldn't fulfill this righteousness in us, rather Jesus fulfilled this righteousness as a human being and it is through abiding in the same Spirit of life in Jesus that we fulfill it to. Wow, it is the same thing as 2Cor 5:21 - 6:1.
There is no room for rebellion in that. There is room for rebellion in the inability "I trust in Jesus but keep sinning and if I could do otherwise I would be saving myself and be self righteous" message. Let's not be so foolish to believe such nonsense.
Eternal Assurance - God's Promise
Another buzz phrase. Well it is true that we have eternal assurance IF we abide in His will. It's conditional. Noah had assurance so long as he remained in the ark. He could have CHOSEN to jump into the flood waters and he would have perished. We are not to tempt God, especially with sin. yet people tempt God everyday with the excuse of "I can't help it because it is all God and nothing of me, I am not responsible." Satan loves that notion because people who buy into it rationalise their ongoing sin as being permissible.
Eternal Security - God's Power
Another buzz phrase to shout from the hilltops whilst declaring how one is not responsible for their sin. Again we are secure if we abide in Him, not if we forsake Him.
What did Paul teach about eternal life? Well he wrote this...
Rom 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Rom 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Rom 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Rom 2:7
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Rom 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Patient continuance in doing well. That simply means patiently continuing to DO THE RIGHT THING by faith. There is no room for rebellion in that. If one is choosing to do evil then they are not patiently continuing to do well.
It is those who do not obey the truth, who hold the truth in contempt, who instead yield themselves to doing evil who will be found wanting and perish. Don't be one of them.
We have a choice and because we have a choice God is just in condemning the sinners who CHOSE evil over good.