What is eternal security and can it be separated from spiritual growth?

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The Epistle to the Ephesians
Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• What is eternal security and can it be separated
  from spiritual growth?
• How does the epistle to the Ephesians address
  this issue?
• Why is this topic so important to each of us who
  are saved?
• How is spiritual growth measured?
• How are you doing here?

Dec 27, 2009 Bob Eckel
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The Epistle to the Ephesians
Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• Christianity 101
• What does it mean to be saved?
• Rom 310 As it is written "There is none
  righteous, no, not one
• Rom 323 For all have sinned and fallen short of
  the glory of God.
• John 33 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most
  assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
  again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
• I Tim 115 This is a faithful saying and
  worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came
  into the world to save sinners, of whom I am
  chief.
• II Cor 521 For He made Him who knew no sin to
  be sin for us, that we might become the
  righteousness of God in Him.
• Eph 24,5 But God, who is rich in mercy, because
  of His great love with which He loved us, even
  when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive
  together with Christ (by grace you have been
  saved),

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The Epistle to the Ephesians
Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• Why is eternal security so very important?
• Because its founded on the principle of grace
  not works
• Titus 35 not by works of righteousness which we
  have done, but according to His mercy He saved
  us, through the washing of regeneration and
  renewing of the Holy Spirit,
• Eph 28,9 For by grace you have been saved
  through faith, and that not of yourselves it
  is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone
  should boast.
• Because its grace not works and God never
  changes, eternity must be secured and assured,
  i.e. you cant ever lose your salvation!
• John 336 He who believes in the Son has
  everlasting life and he who does not believe the
  Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God
  abides on him.

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Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• Rom 623 For the wages of sin is death, but
  the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord.
• I John 513 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.
• Heb 1010, 14 By that will we have been
  sanctified through the offering of the body of
  Jesus Christ once for all. For by one offering
  He has perfected forever those who are being
  sanctified.
• Christianity 401 How does eternal security
  provide the needed foundation for our spiritual
  growth!
• It all begins with position
• Eph 13 Blessed be the God and Father of our
  Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every
  spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
  Christ,
• Eph 210 For we are His workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand that we should walk in them.

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Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• Eph 41 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
  beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with
  which you were called,
• Is this walking worthy of the calling on any
  different grounds than that by which we first
  believed?
• Remember, the being saved in Eph 28 is a perfect
  passive participle
• completed in the past for/upon us but having
  existing and ongoing results
• Eph 47 But to each one of us grace was given
  according to the measure of Christ's gift.
• Eph 414,15 that we should no longer be
  children, tossed to and fro and carried about
  with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of
  men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful
  plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may
  grow up in all things into Him who is the
  head--Christ

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Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• What does this walk look like?
• Eph 417-32
• Not in the vanity of your mind
• Not in ignorance because of blindness in your
  heart
• By learning Christ!!!
• What does learning Christ mean to you?
• The old man put off
• Renewed in the Spirit of your mind
• Putting on the new man
• Created in righteousness and holiness
• Rom 611 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to
  be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ
  Jesus our Lord.
• It is the Christ life
• Phil 121 For to me, to live is Christ, and to
  die is gain.
• And what is the process?

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Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• None but the Hungry Heart, Miles Stanford, Dec 27
  All of His servants in the Word stand before
  us as vivid illustrations of the value and
  necessity of broken material. All had to be
  broken to be made whole to be emptied in order
  to be filled to learn that, of themselves, they
  could do nothing, in order to be ready, in the
  Lord Jesus strength, for anything and
  everything.
• II Cor 129 My grace is sufficient for thee for
  my strength is made perfect in weakness
• How is spiritual growth measured?
• According to the Christian Top 1000 and Baptist
  Top 1000 website its a list of books under each
  of the following topics
• Worship
• Discipleship
• Ministry
• Evangelism
• Fellowship
• How are you doing here?
• After feeding the multitudes, Jesus walked on the
  water, and the people came on boats from Tiberias
  to Capernaum and asked Him

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Eternal Security and Spiritual Growth

• John 628 What shall we do, that we may work the
  works of God? Jesus answered and said to them,
  "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him
  whom He sent.
• What does this Christ life look like?
• Its like a fragrance
• II Cor 214 Now thanks be to God who always
  leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us
  diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every
  place.
• II Cor 216 To the one we are the aroma of
  death leading to death, and to the other the
  aroma of life leading to life. And who is
  sufficient for these things?
• Lets be cloaked with His armor (Eph 611-20),
  walk by faith and let God be the judge.
• Eph 210 For we are his workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath
  before ordained that we should walk in them.
• Lets quit working at our spiritual growth and
  rest, walking by faith that He is fully capable
  of His promises.
• KEEP LOOKING DOWN!

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