Temple Baptist Church - 10-12-2025
John 10:27-30
Introduction:
A. I want to finish Soteriology this morning with one of the most attacked aspects of salvation, ETERNAL LIFE, which is the foundation of BLESSED ASSURANCE. The devil cannot destroy our salvation as it is an act of God, but he can attack our blessed assurance and render us ineffective in both our personal life and our outward testimony.
B. Most major denominations teach the possibility of the child of God still going to hell after salvation.
1. Protestants, Pentecostals, and some branches of Baptists believe the unbiblical doctrine of “Falling from Grace.” Although they may claim to have a blessed assurance, they cannot be 100% certain because the last page of their lives has not yet been written.
2. If there is a possibility of losing your salvation, then there is a possibility of going to hell after you have been born again, i.e., saved. Those who teach such false doctrine never preach that false doctrine. If they believed in “falling from grace,” they would spend most of their time preaching it.
3. “Falling from Grace” is a damnable doctrine taught by biblically ignorant people. I say damnable because it incorporates works or personal merit into salvation when the Bible is clear that works and grace destroy each other. It is God’s mercy and grace that saves the sinner, and it is God’s mercy and grace that keep the saint saved.
4. I am not saying that all who attend such denominational churches are lost. I am saying that they are biblically ignorant of God’s righteousness and man’s unrighteousness. Therefore, God’s righteousness (which is impeccable and immutable) MUST BE IMPUTED to the sinner in salvation.
C. John chapter ten is one of the most wonderful, quoted chapters in the Bible. It is a discourse spoken by the Son of God to His children to give them blessed assurance.
D. Here is an excellent breakdown of verses that explains what God did for His children and the eternal life that He promised.
E. Often, people quickly read familiar verses of Scripture without seeing what God is saying in them. John, chapter 10, serves as both an answer to the unbelieving Pharisees and an assurance to those who have come to God by faith in the finished work of Christ, known as the Gospel.
F. Here is the breakdown of our text.
1. “My.” Possession! As we begin to break down these verses, we need to understand that we that are saved are His! I thank God that I belong to the Lord and He claims me! In Him is wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
2. Sheep.” Peculiarity! In a world of “goats,” sheep stand out because they are different, and their natures are different.
Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, (12) Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (13) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (14) Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
3. “Hear my voice.” Privilege! God’s people understand God’s Word. God’s people recognize the small still voice of God in their minds and hearts.
John 10:3-4 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. (4) And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
4. “And I know them.” Personal! We hear much concerning the words “Personal Saviour.” Salvation is not generic. The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man is not a Biblical doctrine.
Song of Solomon 2:16a My beloved is mine, and I am his …”
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
5. “And they follow me.” Pleasure! Living for Christ is a pleasure. Battling the flesh is not!
Philippians 1:20-21 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. (21) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
6. “And I give unto them.” Purposed! God did not save us and leave us where He found us. Salvation is purposed in its change as well as its destination.
2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
7. “Eternal Life.” Permanence!” I will deal with this more next week but we need to realize that “saved and forever I am!!
1 John 5:12-13 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. (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.
8. “And they shall never perish.” Promise! I do not know what the future holds and neither do you but I do know Who holds the future and Who holds my hand. When the roll is call up yonder, I WILL BE THERE!
Jude 24-25 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, (25) To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
9. “Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” Protection! In the hand of Christ, in the hand of God the Father, and sealed by the Holy Spirit!
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
10. “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.” Peace!
Conclusion: Salvation and Eternal Life go together! You cannot have one without the other. Salvation is Eternal Life, and Eternal Life is Salvation. How can a child of God who has the Spirit of God living within and the Word of God in their hand believe that they are good enough to go to heaven through personal merit when the Spirit of God tells us that we are sinners at best and the Word of God tells us that we are all sinners?
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