REVELATION
22/1
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

22/2
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

22/3
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

22/4
And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

ETERNAL SECURITY:
(everlasting)

Now this is a very-very controversial subject: so much so that a great many Pastors and Teachers refrain from teaching or preaching on this subject. With no doctrine to uphold or defend,I will bring the teachings of the Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible to light.setting all other teachings,such as,believes and theories aside: just what the bible has to say

I will use the King James version only throughtout this article. The King James version is the one I was raised with and the one I love and trust.

Being a New Testament Christian I will use the New Testament most of the time,However I always use at least one or more verses from the Old Testament,Just to prove that it teaches the same as the New Testament.

There are many-many places in the Old Testament that I could use,However permit me to use just a Small part of David's life,This verse is without question in context.

As we all know David had committed manny-many sins, murder,adultery and a lot more.So let us use Psalm 51/9 thru 12 (however it would be good if we would read the complete Psalm.I will list the three verses listed above.

Psalm
51/9
Hide thy face from my sins,and blot out all mine iniquities.

51/10
Create in me a clean heart,O God;and a renew a right spirit within me

51/11
Cast me not away from thy presence;and take not thy Holy Spirit from Me.

51/12
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit,

I suppose that most christians know that the 51st. Psalm is part of David's prayer for the remission of all those sins of his past.I also think it would be good to remember that David was a redeemed child of God before he committed all those sins.

Now suppose we take a quick look at what David really said in the above verses. Psalm 51/9a, Hide Thy face from my sins;here he admittes to his sins.9b Here he knows that he himself can do nothing within himself,so he ask God to blot them out. 11a.Cast me not away from thy presences:

In 11a David ask not to be cast out of God's presence in other words we find that David was still in God's presence.

11b.And take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. According to 11b.He still had the Holy Spirt.It had not been taken away from him.

12a.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation: I am sure that we all know why David did not pray for the return of salvation,why? because he had not lost his salvation;just the joy of his salvation.

There are many-many more such verses in the Old Testament,But I think the above verses prove that it is taught in the Old Testament as we will find in the New Testament.

Now that we are turning to the New Testament,there is something that I think would be good for us to do.with each verse used,read the complete chapter, however I will bring forth said verses, In the three following verses,Two being the very words of Jesus Himself.

These verses all use the word everlasting. In order to fully understand the full meaning of these three verses,we must know the meaning of everlasting. In order to fully understand the full meaning of these three verses,we must know the meaning of everlasting. When there is questions about a word I use the following dictionaries:

Webster's New World Dictionary Of The American Language Second College Edition And Davis Dictionary of the Bible.

The above Dictionaries will be used when a Dictionary is need throuughout these notes;

EVERLASTING
1.Never coming to an end.
2.Lasting forever.
3.Eternal

With these meeanings in mind suppose we look at the following verses:

John
3/36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life :and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life;but the wrath of God abideth on him;K

John
5/24
Verily,verily,I say unto you,He that heareth My word,and believeth on Him that sent Me,hath everlasting life,and shall not come into condemnation;but is passed from death unto life.

John
6/47
Verily,verily,I say unto you,he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

Please take note that there is no:ands.ifs,nor buts in neither of the three above verses.

There is still another word that we should look at in John 5/24.We find the words,hath everlasting,life not something to hope for,but already hath,or have.Jesus also said:But'is'passed from death unto life.Here again we find Jesus speaking of the present,or now.

Suppose we now look at three verses all useing the word never,and all three being the very words of Jesus Himself.

Just so we can really understand fully the word never let use the same dictionaries as before.

NEVER:
1.Not ever at anytime 2.not at all by no chance 3.In no case 4.Under no condition John
6/35
And Jesus said unto them,I am the bread of life:He that cometh to Me shall never hunger;and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

John
10/28
And I give unto them eternal life;and they shall never perish,neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.

John
11/26
And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die, believeth thou this.

The three above verses are the very words of Jesus Himself.So let us see just what He says in these verses.

In John 6/35 Jesus said:He that believeth on Me shall never hunger nor thirst.

In John 10/28 Jesus said:I give unto them eternal life,and they shall never perish. Then in John 11/26 Jesus says: whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.

I think it would be good if we all noticed that Jesus spoke of the present.These things are true now,not something to hope for but that we have NOW.

In the above six verses I only used three verses that used the word everlasting,and three verses that used the word never.However there are a great number of such verses,and they are very easy to find,and in none of them that I know,Not one of them say they are true if we do this,that or the other.Nor if we don't do this that or the other.

I have used a good number of Biblical verses and there is many-many more that could be used,and they would all be in context,the same as the ones already used.

My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Suppose we read the following three verses,Ask for the leadership of the holy spirit,And then see what we believe.

1 Corinthians
3/13 thru 15
Every man's work shall be made manifest:for the day shall declare it,because it shall be revealed by fire;and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

3/14.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon,he shall receive a reward.

3/15.
If any man's works shall be burned,he shall suffer loss,but he him self shall be saved;yet so as by fire.

We must in this case remember that Paul was writting to the Church at Corinth which is to say that he was writting to the redeemed,and the above verses apply only the redeemed.

I would like to use two more verses:or promises.

Ephesians
1/13
In whom ye also trusted,after that ye heard the word of truth,the gospel of your salvation:In whom also after ye believed ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promiise.

Ephesians

4//30
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ.Is there any room for questions:

YOU BE THE JUDGE
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