Do we have eternal security? "once saved always saved concept?"

After having an enlightening and edifying conversation with some of my friends at applebees from a Christian group called 365 here in the Green bay area, I have been inspired to write this and show this to others as well in order to provide edification in Christ!

First, I would like to give thanks to God that he has allowed me to acquire wisdom on this topic through more developed men in Christ and if it wasn't for the wisdom that God gave them to give me, then surely I would not be able to write as much on this subject.

Alrighty folks check this amazing stuff out!... Here is what I have read and acquired as to what God has to say on the subject of eternal security... It is quite powerful what His word has to say :)

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2 Timothy 2:11-13 

11 "It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself..

we can see that verse 11, shows that if we die with him (believing and accepting what he did on the cross) we shall also live with him. In the next verse (12) it talks about us being able to reign if we suffer Then it says if we deny him he will deny us... 

This might be tricky for some, but it is really simple in understanding what we would be denied (our reward to reign with Christ: I Cor 3:13-15) you figure this one out by having the colons, which represent a break into another thought. 

But even better that shows we have eternal security in Christ even if we were to no longer believe him for whatever reason look at v.13 - "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself"

When we accept Christ as our savior we believe on his work and faithfulness not ours, for our faith is weak and wavering. If it was based on our faith, we would be poor fellows.

A supportive verse to this fact that it is based on Him and not us is Titus 3:5

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more verses showing that Christians cannot lose their salvation:

Ephesians 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..."

and what is that holy spirit of promise??? 

v14 "Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

It is a promise that we are sealed by the holy Spirit which is our inheritance until redemption!

Ephesians 4:30 "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

We are SEALED till the day of redemption! showing there are no strings attached to it! :) what a wonderful thing.

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Some verses that correlates with II tim 2:12 showing that we have a reward and that it can be destroyed...

I Cor 3:13-15 "Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built there-upon, HE SHALL RECEIVE A REWARD. If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer LOSS, BUT HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVED; yet so as by fire."

So if there is a Christian that is saved but holds no fruit or foundation, he will still be saved, BUT he will not receive a reward.

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And to cap it all off

Romans 8:35-39

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 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"

In conclusion, I find this amazing what these very words say that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God,which in our Lord Jesus Christ! We also know that he will not deny himself, even if we were to no longer believe on him!

If we cannot be separated from the love of Christ, than surely we have Eternal security and can know without a doubt in our mind that no matter what happens in our life we are saved!

I am so thankful for God's almighty love. He is the most loving of of all things and the father thereof.