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a. Promises Conditions
(1) John 6:37 Come to Christ
(2) John 10:14-15, 27-28 Know Christ
(3) John 15:1-8 Abide in Christ
(4) John 3:16-21 Believe, come to the light, live the truth
(5) 1 John 1:9 Confess our sins
(6) 1 John 5:10-13 Believe, be “in Christ”
(7) 2 Pet 1:5-11 Sanctification as evidence of salvation
(8) Heb 10:14 “Perfected forever” on condition that we continue in the
relationship with Christ through which we are “being
sanctified”

b. Warnings about possibility of falling.
(1) Ezekiel 18: 21-24 A righteous person who turns away from righteousness will
be punished with the wicked
(2) Matt 18:21-35 Forgiveness can be forfeited
(3) 1 Cor 9:27 Even a minister can fall away and be lost
(4) 1 Cor 10: 1-5, 12 Israelites, though “baptized,” fell away. “Therefore let him
who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.”
(5) Gal 3:1-3; 5:4 “You have fallen from grace.”
(6) Heb 3:12-14 Beware of apostasy through unbelief
(7) Heb 6:4-8 Apostasy crucifies Christ again
(8) Heb 10:26-29, 36-38 Continuing in known sin tramples the Son of God
underfoot; profanes the blood of the
covenant, and insults the Spirit of
grace
(9) 2 Peter 2:20-22 Better not to have known the way of righteousness, than
having known it, to turn from it
(10) Jude 5 Once “saved,” but later “destroyed”
(11) Rev 2:4-5, 25; 3:2-3, Churches threatened with “removal” if they don’t repent
11, 15-16 and change; those who endure to the end will be saved

c. Present assurance, based on the Word and the inner witness of the Holy Spirit.
(1) Rom 8:1, 14-17
(2) Gal 4:6-7
(3) Acts 5:32
(4) 1 John 3:18-22
(5) Luke 23:43

(7) 2 Pet 1:5-11 Sanctification as evidence of salvation

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2 Peter 1:5-11 King James Version

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.