How You Can Be Sure You are Eternally Secure | Part 2

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Welcome to Love Worth Finding. Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers said when a Christian knows that his future is secure, he can concentrate on the present. This is why John chapter 10 is fundamental to the eternal security of every believer. In part one of today's message, we learn that God promised us eternal security in Scripture and that he who first began a good work in us will complete what he has begun. He has predetermined our destiny and perfects us through sanctification. If you have your Bible, turn to John chapter 10 and we'll begin in verse 27 as Adrian Rogers reveals the final reasons why and how you can be sure you are eternally secure.

Now, I want to talk to you today about this subject, how you can know that you are eternally secure. Listen to the Scripture, God's Word. John chapter 10, verse 27. Jesus said, 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. Now, we're not talking about something that is incidental. We're talking about something that is fundamental when we're talking about the eternal security of the believer, how you can know that you are eternally secure. It is necessary for your spiritual health. I'll tell you another reason why it is so important that you understand this. It's important if you're going to be a productive, fruit-bearing Christian.

When you know that your future is secure, then you can concentrate on the present. Now, I'll tell you another reason why what I'm talking about today is very, very important, not only for your spiritual health and your spiritual productivity, but to help you in evangelism and in soul winning. Do you know why a good number of people never get saved?

Very frankly, they're afraid they'll not be able to hold out. Oh, if we could only teach people what the Bible has to say about the fact that the God who saves you is the God who secures you. He is the God that keeps you.

He has saved me and kept me, and I can tell you truly that the God who saved me is the God who will save you, and the God who has kept me is the God that will keep you. Now, turn to the book of Hebrews, chapter 10, and look with me in verse 14. What a wonderful verse this is.

I love this one. It may be my favorite of all of these verses. Hebrews 10, verse 14, For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Notice this. By one offering he hath perfected forever. I want to give you a challenge. Find anywhere in the Bible where anybody was ever saved twice.

You can't do it. You know why? Because it's impossible to be saved twice. Nowhere in the Bible will you ever find where anybody is ever saved twice. These people who believe you can get saved and lose your salvation, they believe that you must be born again and again and again and again. They believe that you keep on getting saved, but no. By one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Did you know in order for you to be saved twice, Jesus would have to die twice?

I mean, when you got saved, you got a ticket marked good for one salvation only. You are perfected forever. Jesus is never going back to that cross.

He's never going to die again for by one offering. We are perfected forever, and so perfection. Well, you say, but wait a minute. You're not perfect, Adrian. I know I'm not perfect. Oh, that is true.

That is true. In our flesh we are not perfect. What are we talking about here? Somebody says, what if you get saved? What if you get saved and then you sin again? Did I hear you say, what if?

What if? No, you see, we can disobey God, and if we do, he carries us to the woodshed. In whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and we'll talk more about that in another message. But let me give you some scripture here that talks about that perfection. Now, I want you to watch this very carefully, and it's found in Romans chapter 4, and it's very important that you look at this.

Romans chapter 4, and let's begin in verse 5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. You're not saved by doing good works. People who believe you can lose your salvation believe, many of them, that you lose it because your good works are not enough. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness, even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.

Isn't that wonderful? Do you know what the word impute means? It means to put that on your account.

When you go to the store and you want to charge something, if you want to have a little fun with the clerk, don't say charge it. Just say impute it. It means the same thing. God imputes or puts righteousness on your account without works. Not one scintilliv and iota of good things did you do in order to get saved. Now, so that's a blessing. Yes, verse 6. But now look in verse 7. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven. That's a blessing. Hallelujah. Every stain, every blemish, every blot, every blur is washed cleaner, whiter than snow. It is forgiven and whose sins are covered.

What does that mean? Not only does he forgive it, he won't bring it up again. It is gone, buried in the grave of God's forgetfulness because we uncovered it, God covered it. Because we confessed it, God forgave it. All right, now you say, could it get any better than that?

Yes, it does get better than that. Look in verse 8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Oh, hallelujah. Glory to God. Yes, blessed is the man to whom God imputes righteousness. Yes, blessed is the man forgiven. Yes, blessed is the man whose sin is covered.

Hallelujah. But blessed is the man to whom God will not impute sin. You see, one half of one sin would send me to hell forever.

I mean, I wouldn't trust, you've heard me say this many times, the best 15 minutes I ever lived to get me to heaven. But blessed is the man to whom God will not impute sin. Why?

Why? For by one offering, he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Just put down perfection.

All right, now let me give you the next P, and it is position, position. You are already positioned in the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17. 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 17.

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