When we accept the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior, we are "born of God", with His kind of life, eternal life, and we will never perish (Jn. 3:16; 5:24). When we sin after that it breaks our fellowship with the Lord but does not change our relationship. If my son does something wrong, he is still my son. He may not enjoy being my son when I discipline him, but he is still my son by birth, and nothing can change that. So it is with God and His children. We are children of God by birth, a relationship far more permanent than earthly ties. It is everlasting, for "nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:39 b).If we claim to have been saved a while and then, because of some sin, say we are no longer saved nor have eternal life, then we never were saved to begin with. Christ alone is the Author of "eternal salvation" (Heb. 5:9). But what about that sin committed after we were saved" Christ has already suffered for that sin too, or we would have to suffer for it in hell; nothing else could satisfy God's justice. "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life" (Rom. 6:23).
Usually unbelievers accuse those who believe in eternal security - once saved always saved - of thinking they can be saved and then go out and live like the devil himself and still go to heaven. That is a very foolish and perverted idea of a wonderful truth. A parallel would be to say you can get married and then have the privilege of treating your spouse any way you want; that is, mistreat your spouse, commit adultery, and generally live wildly just because he vowed to be married "until death do us part"! A rather absurd idea, isn't it? No more absurd than the false implications and applications some make of the wonderful truth that, when a person is saved or born again, he will "never perish" (Jn. 10:28)
First, someone who "says" he is saved and then lives like the devil himself is just proving he still is the devil's child. God's Word says, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us" (1 Jn. 2:19). This perverted idea also fails to take into account that when one is born again or saved that "He is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (2 Cor. 5:17). He has a new nature (2 Pet. 1:4) and won't want to live like the devil! Also, he now loves the Lord Jesus and certainly won't want to mistreat the Lord Jesus any more than he would want to mistreat his spouse!
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