Purpose:  To show that God is who keeps us Eternally Secure.  Salvation is all of God and not of man.  Perseverance of the saints and grace are not a license to sin.

The idea that we can sin freely as much as we want after salvation is a complete and total misunderstanding of the doctrine of grace.  There are people who teach that once we are saved that Jesus does not have to be the Lord of our lives.  They teach we can continue on in our sins after salvation.  Roman 6:1-3  Disproves that.  We cannot continue in sin that grace may abound.  When we are saved we not only accept Jesus Christ as Savior, but we also accept Him as Lord.  “Indeed, we are justified for this very purpose, that we may afterwards worship God in purity of life.” John Calvin.  “The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever” Westminster Confession of
Faith.  If we are to glorify God, then we are not to be continually sinning.  Sin does not bring glory to God.  The people who teach that we can continually sin & remain in sin after salvation have been around since Paul’s day.  Romans 6:1-23

The use of Grace and Eternal Security as a license to sin is totally and utterly wrong.  “Medicine does not foster the disease which it destroys” Calvin.   Romans 6:6 henceforth we should not serve sin. “It is impossible for those who are dead to act as if they were alive.  It is just as absurd to suppose that a Christian should desire to live in sin as that a dead man should put forth the actions of life” Albert Barnes.  As Christ when He died, His death was inseparable of His resurrection even so when at salvation when we die to sin it is inseparable to the rising in newness of life.  We are not any longer in bondage to sin.  We are made alive through the Holy Spirit.   Verse 11 If we are dead to sin then we are freed from sin.   Once saved bought by Christ we are to be a servant of God not of sin.  He owns us now and we do not own ourselves.   Salvation commands a total surrenderance and commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out.  That does not sound like a continuance in sin.

One of the current seminary professors of a major school in Texas states this, that the conversion to Christ involves “no spiritual commitment whatsoever.” Zane Hodges   Matthew 7:20-23  Not everyone that claims to be saved is.  As my father puts it they have missed the boat by 18 inches.  You can believe with the head and you will join the devils which also believe and tremble in a Christless eternity in hell.  For it is with the heart we must believe unto salvation, a complete and total repentance from sin and commitment to the Lord Jesus.  We must accept His gift of salvation and realize that He saves us from the penalty and continual practice of sin.

At salvation the Holy Spirit indwells the believer and produces fruit in their lives.  Salvation is by grace through Faith and not of works, yet Faith produces works.  Works do not produce faith.  Galations 5:22-25  The Holy Spirit produces the fruit.  V24. Notice the flesh is crucified.  The death to sin is vital in order to be led by the Holy Spirit.  Galations 5:16, 2:20  II Corinthians 5:17  Once we are saved truly converted we cannot continue to be bound by sin.  Ephesians 4:30  We are not to grieve the Holy Spirit who seals us.  Leviticus 20:7,8  Following Christ allowing Him to be the Lord of our life is not an optional thing.

Ephesians 5:23-27  We should not give place to the devil.  If we give the devil an inch, then he will take a mile.  James 4:7,8  We are to submit to God not the devil.  When we sin we are no longer in submission to God.  Since we are kept by the Holy Spirit we do not lose our salvation, but we do lose the joy of our salvation.  I John 1:7-10  He is faithful and just.  Now this passage is not a license to sin.  This passage is the remedy for the illness.  I John 2:15-17, 25 True salvation involves a complete and utter change from sin, we can longer live in sin.

Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit we need to watch what we worship in these temples.  We also need to make our calling and election sure.  It is a terrible thing to miss heaven by 18 inches.

Ephesians 6:10-18 (spiritual warfare)  True Christian warriors will persevere through the battles.  Romans 12:1-3