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Sunday School (Eternal Security and Counterfeit Salvation)

Eternal Security

(scriptures referenced in lesson)

In the last lesson on "Two Choices", we came to verses 7:21-23 of the book of Matthew which reads...

21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
(Matthew 7:21-23)

These verses touch on the subject of counterfeit salvation. Therefore at this point, I believe it would be appropriate to interrupt our sudy of the book of Matthew to take an indepth look at the topic of "Counterfeit Salvation".

I have previously written an in depth article on this topic "Eternal Security and Counterfeit Salvation" and so that article will serve as the study guide for this lesson. Notice that the lesson not only covers "Counterfeit Salvation", but also covers the topic of "Eternal Security". This is because the two subjects are so intertwined that I don't feel it is possible to study either to any depth without covering the other as well.

Some may ask, "Why is the topic of "Eternal Security" so important and worthy of study? After all, the term is not even mentioned in the bible, and aren't there more important things to focus on?" The reasons for doing an in dpth study on "Eternal Security" are as follows...

• How a person sees their salvation, whether it be eternal or otherwise directly affects the way they see and interpret the entire gospel, particularly the work of the cross.
  
  
• Eternal Security is a contraversial issue among Christians. If you believe in Eternal Security, you need to kknow why. Because it just seems right is not good enough. We need for all our beliefes to be based on sound doctrine so that we can have faith in our beliefes and also to be able to tell others why we believe what we believe if the question should arise. the bible tells us to be ready to give an answer for the hope that we have.
  
  
• Regarding "Eternal Security" not being mentiioned in the bible and there being more important things to study:  I believe that not only are those things which are presented to us in a direct fashion worhy of our study, but also those concepts which can be derived by reasonable and methodical deduction of God's word are also worth of our study. These are the things which requre a deeper study than simply skimming the surface of God's word. This class is not a class for new converts. The new convert and those who are still on the milk of the word are not ready for this type of study. They are still working on getting grounded in the basics and that is certainly essential and should take the higher priority. As an advanced class made up of those who should already be established in the basics and therefore ready to feast on the "meat" of God's word, topics such as "Eternal Security" are appropriate for study and sutible for our edification.

The lesson does not begin straight off with looking into either counterfeit salvation or eternal security. The first several pages is intended to set the stage for the study by preparing the reader who may not have confidence in the doctrine of eternal security and may not be very open minded to receive the teaching. Therefore the lesson begins by first bringing to light those things which commonly hinder people from seeing and accepting truths they may not have even been willing consider before.

This lesson is long and it is detailed. Therefore our Sunday School class will be studying this topic for the next several weeks. We will then pick up with chapter 8 of the book of Matthew.

This link will take you directly to the article on "Eternal Security and Counterfeit Salvation".

God Bless you,
Carl
I may not look like much, but I cost a bunch!

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