DOCTORINE OF THE ETERNAL SECURITY OF THE BELIVER
This doctrine stats: One who is regenerated through the salvation of God through Jesus Christ can never again be in any danger of being lost or of going to hell.
This docrine is sometimes described as "once saved, always saved" or "once in grace, always in grace" or the "perseverence of the saints."

Our Southern Baptist Church article of faith states All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace,but shall persevere to the end. believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the spirit, imair their graces and comforts, bring reproach on the cause of Christ, and temporal judgment on themselves, yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith into salvation.

SALVATION IS COMPLETELY OF AND FROM GOD
	God does all the drawing, saving, and keeping. All man provides is a willingness to be saved.
Joh 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Joh 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
Joh 6:39 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.
Joh 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
A. salvation is a gift
Ro 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
B. salvation means God comes into the life to dewll.
Re 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
1co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
C. we do not deserve to be saved, nor do to e kept saved. This is a fact of God's love and grace.
2ti 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
D. salvation is being born again
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
E. salvation seals s for eternity. Circumcision of the flesh and heart is a permanment mark of the covenant.
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

F. salvation embarks a person on a new course for life and eternity.

G. God wants us to know we are dafe now and forever.
1jo 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1jo 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
1jo 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
H. God keeps all believers
Jude 1:24 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,
Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen.
I. All believers are adopted into God's family, joint heirs with Christ, sons and daughters of God, and this never changes.

J. The 	quality of life God gives is eternal, everlating, unending now and forever.
1jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
WHAT ABOUT A BELIEVER AND HIS/HER SINS AFTER SALVATION
(argument of those who believe in falling from grace)  If we could lose salvation if we sinned again after being saved, then being saved would be pointless, because we as humans are to foulable and aren't perfect and will inevitably sin again.

A. At salvation, we receive a new nature, a spiritual nature as well as retaining the flesh nature.
2co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
B. When we are temped into sin agains God as a believer, or in sin for any other reason, we wither confess it or are disiplined because of it, either way, our home in heaven is never in doubt.
1jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
C. The discipline, when necessary, is equal to the sin, and is for our own good.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
D. Itsis within the realm of possibility to become so involved in sin as a backsliding believer that we not only lose rewards, but may experience premature death, minus rewards.
1co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
IF SALVATION COULD BE LOST, TERMINATED, IT COULD NOT BE REGAINED
God gives only one life, saes only one time, seals only once, adopst into the family once and for all.
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

PEOPLE WHO ARE POINTED OUT AS HAVING FALLEN FROM GRACE EITHER NEVER KNEW GOD OR WILL SOON BE UNDER DESCIPLINE.
Some join the church for various reasons, turn over a new leaf, but never come to know God through Jesus Christ a personal way. (ie were never really converted)
2pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
ONE GENUINELY SAVED GIVES EVIDENCES IN DAILY LIVING.
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
A.  a non-working faith indicates no salvation. you can't continue to live a volunterily sinful life and claim to be saved. By faith in God you stive to live a respectable life that God wants for you. and to continue sinning by choice shows lack of belief.

REASONS WHY SOME BELIVERS DO NOT FEEL SAVED
A. Unconfessed sins
B. Unwillingness to do God's revealed will in their life
C. Walking in disobedience
D. One of the devil's works is to make a believer emtionallu uncertain