Can you lose your salvation? Notes

Matthew 24:13 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 10:22 22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will  be saved.

Hebrews 3:6 …but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold  fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

Hebrews 3:14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the  end.

Luke 8:13 And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy.  But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.

1 Timothy 1:18-20 This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies  previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 19 holding faith  and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,  20 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that  they may learn not to blaspheme.

1 Corinthians 10:12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Romans 8:13  For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the  deeds of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be  deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice  homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers  will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 9:24ff 24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So  run that you may obtain it. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to  receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not  box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after  preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Galatians 5:21  21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that  those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:20 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in  the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the  life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They  have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every  kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!

Ephesians 5:5-8 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is  covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let  no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes  upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them; 8 for at one  time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Colossians 3:5-8  Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil  desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is  coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you  must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth

2 Timothy 2:16-18  But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and  their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have  swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are  upsetting the faith of some.

SD IV.30-32  Thirdly, since it is also disputed whether good works preserve salvation, or whether they are necessary for preserving faith, righteousness, and salvation, and this again is of high and great importance,–for he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved, Matt. 24:13; also Heb. 3:6-14: We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end,–we must also explain well and precisely how righteousness and salvation are preserved in us, lest it be lost again. 31] Above all, therefore, the false Epicurean delusion is to be earnestly censured and rejected, namely, that some imagine that faith and the righteousness and salvation which they have received can be lost through no sins or wicked deeds, not even through wilful and intentional ones, but that a Christian although he indulges his wicked lusts without fear and shame, resists the Holy Ghost, and purposely engages in sins against conscience, yet none the less retains faith, God’s grace, righteousness, and salvation. 32] Against this pernicious delusion the following true, immutable, divine threats and severe punishments and admonitions should be often repeated and impressed upon Christians who are justified by faith: 1 Cor. 6:9: Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, etc., shall inherit the kingdom of God. Gal. 5:21; Eph. 5:5: They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Rom. 8:13: If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. Col. 3:6: For which thing’s sake the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience.

SA III.III,42-43 On the other hand, if certain sectarists would arise, some of whom are perhaps already extant, and in the time of the insurrection [of the peasants] came to my own view, holding that all those who had once received the Spirit or the forgiveness of sins, or had become believers, even though they should afterwards sin, would still remain in the faith, and such sin would not harm them, and [hence] crying thus: “Do whatever you please; if you believe, it all amounts to nothing; faith blots out all sins,” etc.—they say, besides, that if any one sins after he has received faith and the Spirit, he never truly had the Spirit and faith: I have had before me [seen and heard] many such insane men, and I fear that in some such a devil is still remaining [hiding and dwelling]. 43] It is, accordingly, necessary to know and to teach that when holy men, still having and feeling original sin, also daily repenting of and striving with it, happen to fall into manifest sins, as David into adultery, murder, and blasphemy, that then faith and the Holy Ghost has departed from them [they cast out faith and the Holy Ghost]. For the Holy Ghost does not permit sin to have dominion, to gain the upper hand so as to be accomplished, but represses and restrains it so that it must not do what it wishes. But if it does what it wishes, the Holy Ghost and faith are [certainly] not present. For St. John says, 1 John 3:9: Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, … and he cannot sin. And yet it is also the truth when the same St. John says, 1:8: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

(Pieper: warnings addressed to the carnal security of our flesh)

Rom 4:14 14 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise  is void.

Rom 11:20  20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches,  neither will he spare you.

Gal 5:4  You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

(Pieper: “One thing causes the loss of faith- self-confidence.”

Jn 10:28–30. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of  my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to  snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

Jn 15:3–6. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I  in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can  you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me  and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If  anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches  are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

Rom 5:2 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and  we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 8:38-39  38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor  things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will  be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom 11:20  20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through  faith. So do not become proud, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches,  neither will he spare you.

1 Cor 1:7-9  so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus  Christ, 8 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our  Lord.

Phil 1:6  6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion  at the day of Jesus Christ.

Phil 2:12-13 12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence  but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for  it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Col 1:21-23 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now  reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and  above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not  shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all  creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

1 Th 5:24 24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

2 Th 3:3 3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one

1 Peter 1:3-5 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he  has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ  from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in  heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation  ready to be revealed in the last time.

2 Chronicles 33:11ff, King Manasseh

Luke 22:61-62, Peter

Ez 18:31

Ez 33:11

Psalm 51

Luke 15

Perseverance is God’s work

Law- sorrow/contrition

Gospel- faith in the forgiveness of sins.