1. Having a Biblical Apologetic Without Being Sorry
CCS Apologetics
Having a Biblical Apologetic
Without Being Sorry

2. Topic 2: Can you lose your Salvation?

3. The Process This week: Next week:
Begin approach from a Theocentric, assurance perspective
Continue Theocentric perspective and then evaluate this perspective
Next week:
Anthropocentric, non-secure approach
Evaluate anthropocentric approach
Quiz
Dialog from both points of view

4. Can you “Lose it?” What’s involved?
Who Saves?
How is one saved?
What is the historical/biblical pattern of choosing/saving?
What is offered?
What was said? What are the implications?
What happens at salvation?
What would have to happen to lose salvation?

5. Who saves? Gen. 49:18 Exodus 14:13, 15:2 1 Sam. 2:1 2 Sam. 22:3
Psalm 3:8, 13:5, 18:2, 38:22, 51:10-17, 62:1-7, 79:9, 85:4-7, 98:1-3
Ezekiel 16
Isaiah 12, 60, 61
Luke 1:67-79, 2:25-32
John 3:16, 4:22 (Rom. 3:1-2)
Acts 4:12, 13:22-30, 28:23-28
Rom. 1:16
Eph. 1:13
1 Thess. 5:8-11
Titus 2:11-15
1 Peter 1:3-11
Jude 3
Rev 7:10, 19:1

6. How is one saved? Mark 10:23-27 Luke 7:36-50 John 10:7-18
Acts 2:14-21, 15:1-11, 16:30-31
Romans 5:6-11
1 Cor. 1:18-25, 3:10-15,

7. What is the pattern? Noah Abraham – Genesis 18:17-19
Israel – Deut. 4:32-39, 7:6-7, 10:12-16, 14:2; Ezekiel 16, 20:5
Prophets – Samuel, Ezekiel, others
Priests – Deut 18:4-7
John
Disciples (John 6:70, 13:18 & 26, )
Cornelius
Messiah – Matt. 12:18
Paul (Acts 9:15, 22:11)
Matt. 22:14; Mark 13:19-20; John 15:12-17; Romans 11:1-11; Eph. 1:3-6; 1 Thess. 1:4, 2 Thess. 2:13
The term “elect”

8. What’s Offered? John 3 John 10 John 14 Salvation New birth
Eternal life
John 10
Goodness
Strength
Security
Protection
John 14
Presence
Help
Guidance

9. What was said? JOHN 17 The Father gave the disciples
6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
7 “Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;
8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
9 “I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;
10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.
The Father gave the disciples
Jesus was faithful
Jesus gives them back

10. What was said?
cont . . .
11 “I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.
12 “While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
Jesus’ intention was to leave the disciples in the world
No one was lost, but the one that was intended to be lost

11. What was said?
cont . . .
18 “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19 “For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
20 “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;
21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
Jesus’ intention was to leave the disciples in the world
Disciples are sanctified
The scope just got BIGGER
Trinitarian unity is offered

12. What was said?
Romans 8
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
God causes everything to work toward good for those
Who love Him
Who He called
According to His Purpose
The time frame is in the “past” for the accomplishment
Foreknew (meaning of v. 28)
Predestined
Conformed
Called
Justified
Glorified
All, already happened

13. Is God a False Prophet?
21 “You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’
22 “When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
Deut. 18:21-22 (emphasis added)

14. What happened? At Salvation To lose salvation Unfulfilled promise
“Eternal life” is promised (John 3:16)
We are reborn from above (John 3:7)
we are a new creation in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 5:17)
we are part of the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12-20)
Reconciled (2 Cor 5:18-20; Col 1:20))
Redeemed (Col 1:14; 1 Pet 1:18)
Unfulfilled promise
Unreborn
No longer new Creation
Dismembered from the Body of Christ
In eternal debt again
Snatched into slavery again

15. What happened? At Salvation To lose salvation Old man resurrected
Old man crucified (Rom 6:6)
Dead with Christ (Rom 6:4,8; Col 2:12)
Dead to sin (1 Pet 2:24)
Dead and Delivered from the law (Rom 7:4; Gal 3:25; 2 Cor 3:11)
Sons of God (I John 3:3; 2 Cor 6:18)
Adopted into the family of God (Rom 8:15, 23)
Old man resurrected
Lost benefit of Christ’s death
Resurrected to sin
Enslaved again to the Law
Rejected by my Father
Kicked out of God’s family

16. What happened? At Salvation To lose salvation Not forever
Perfected forever (Heb 10:14)
Justified (Rom 3:24, 5:1; 1 Cor 6:11)
Made near to God (Eph 2:13)
Delivered from the Powers of Darkness (Col 1:13; 2:13-15)
Translated into the Kingdom (Col 1:13)
Heart circumcised in Christ (Col 2:11)
Not forever
Justice failed
Removed from God
Given back to powers of darkness
Kicked out of the Kingdom
Heart reverse circumcision

17. What happened? At Salvation To lose salvation Kicked out of court
A Royal Priesthood (1 Peter 2:5,9)
Access to the Father (Eph 2:18; Rom 5:2; Heb 4:14-16)
His Inheritance (Eph 1:18)
Co-Heirs with Christ (Rom 8:17; Eph 3:6)
Partners with Christ in Suffering (2 Tim 2:12; Phil 1:29; 1 Pet 2:20)
Heavenly Citizens (Phil 3:20; Eph 2:19; Heb 12:22)
Kicked out of court
Lose access to Father
Lose inheritance
Lose position in Christ
Lose ability to suffer rightly
Lose heavenly citizenship

18. What happened? At Salvation To lose salvation Unindwelt
Indwelt with Holy Spirit (Jn. 14:17)
Sealed with the Spirit as a deposit (Eph. 1:13-14)
Kept safe (Jn. 10, Jude 24)
Salt and Light (Eph 5:8; Matt 5:13-15; Col 4:6; Rom 13:12)
Complete in Him (Col 2:10)
Possessing Every Spiritual Blessing (Eph 1:3)
Unindwelt
Seal and deposit not good
Not safe in God
Lose constitution
Made incomplete again
Lose every spiritual blessing

20. Having a Biblical Apologetic Without Being Sorry
CCS Apologetics
Having a Biblical Apologetic
Without Being Sorry