The Progress of Salvation
Perseverance of the Saints
Kept by the Power of God
Description
Those whom God effectually calls and justifies He also preserves to the end. True believers cannot finally and totally fall away from grace but will certainly persevere to salvation. This perseverance is not due to our own strength but to God's faithfulness. He who began a good work will complete it. We are kept by the power of God through faith. Christ loses none of those the Father gives Him. Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Our perseverance is grounded in God's electing purpose, Christ's intercession, and the Spirit's indwelling. The saints persevere because God preserves.
Key Verses
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jude 24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.