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Why Do You Believe
Your Salvation is Secure?

Do we ever think of our salvation as being secure? We all have the freedom of choice, but can we run the possibility of apostasy? Of course we can, but by the blood of Jesus Christ we can have a firm, secure salvation! Apostasy (falling away from the faith) does not just happen by pure instinct. We see that throughout the inspired Word, the Bible does not take human freedom from us. “You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace” (Galatians 5:4). Also in 1 John 5:13 we find, “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.” The Scriptures affirm that it is possible to fall away from our salvation. There are other Scriptures to consider (2 Peter 2:20; Hebrews 6:18-19; 10:22; 2 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Timothy 4:8). There are three ways we can be confident and secure in our salvation toward God. We first need to know that God is stronger than our enemies (Romans 8:31-35; John 10:28)! Second, we see God’s grace is more abundant than our sins (Romans 3:24; 5:20-21; 6:23; Titus 3:5)! Lastly, we can see that perfection is not the means to forgiveness, but forgiveness is the means to perfection as John wrote, “But if we walk in the light as He is …