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Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be added to you.
–Matthew 6:33 (ESV)–

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality…And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
–Revelation 17:4, 6 (ESV)–

Two are better than one,
because they have a good reward for their toil.
For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls
and has not another to lift him up!
–Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (ESV)–

¹³ She seeks wool and flax,
and works with willing hands.
¹⁴ She is like the ships of the merchant;
she brings her food from afar.
¹⁵ She rises while it is yet night
and provides food for her household
and portions for her maidens.
¹⁶ She considers a field and buys it;
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
¹⁷ She dresses herself with strength
and makes her arms strong.
¹⁸ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
Her lamp does not go out at night.
¹⁹ She puts her hands to the distaff,
and her hands hold the spindle.
²⁰ She opens her hand to the poor
and reaches out her hands to the needy.
²¹ She is not afraid of snow for her household,
for all her household are clothed in scarlet.
²² She makes bed coverings for herself;
her clothing is fine linen and purple.
²³ Her husband is known in the gates
when he sits among the elders of the land.
²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them;
she delivers sashes to the merchant.
–Proverbs 31:13-24 (ESV)–

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Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman (Sprinkle Publications, 1989).

Larry Burkett, The Word on Finances (Moody, 1994).

Dr. John R. Rice, False Doctrines Answered (Sword of the Lord, 1970), pp. 382-393.

William Mathews, Getting On In the World (S. C. Griggs, 1879).

Paul Edwards, Secrets of Successful Self-Employment (Nightingale Conant, 1995).

Joe Schimmel did an excellent job at presenting the Bible’s teaching of conditional security; and he preached it strongly and urgently.
Absolute knock out presentation.

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The books below by Corner (over 800 pages) and Shank (400 pages) are possibly the most comprehensive Arminian treatments of conditional security. They respond thoroughly to the popular “once saved, always saved” Bible verses, often used by Baptist pastors to teach that unconditional eternal security is the lived reality of salvation. The concept that a backslidden and relapsed alcoholic, an atheistic, agnostic, drug addict, a porn addicted, wife beating, raping, murdering criminal, a business idolizing, habitually lying, gratuitously cussing gang member, who might also be a homosexual, burglar, child molester, and sex offender involved in satanic ritual abuse will be saved from Hell and definitely go to Heaven, simply because he really believed in Jesus once before in his life and got baptized a long time ago! Yes, there actually are Baptist pastors who believe in this. Take a real close look at what Charles Stanley said about eternal security. Not all of them are like this, but many of them do believe like that. It makes you think twice about attending and tithing to just any Baptist church. They think that holding this belief makes man look humble and that it glorifies the grace and mercy of God. This is the main problem with all of Calvinism when its pulled into one focal point.

Dr. Picirilli from the Free Will Baptist Church, Dr. Arrington from Church of God (Cleveland), and Dr. Purkiser from Church of the Nazarene have also written well on conditional security. The pastors of the following denominations would take sides against the Baptists, especially if they’re conservative rural churches out in the country, and they’re involved in Fall revivals and camp meetings: the Free Will Baptist Church, Church of the Nazarene, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Free Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Church, the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Assemblies of God, the Foursquare Church, the Salvation Army, the Southern Methodist Church, the Global Methodist Church, Church of Christ, the Evangelical Methodist Church, Church of God (Holiness), Church of God (Cleveland), the InterChurch Holiness Convention, the Bible Methodist Church, and God’s Missionary Church–these last three are the most fundamentalist and are closely connected with Schmul Publishing and God’s Bible School & College. The only tongues speaking churches above are the IPHC, AG, Foursquare, and COG (Cleveland).

Daniel Corner, The Believer’s Conditional Security (Evangelical Outreach, 1997).

—. The Gospel According to Charles Stanley (Evangelical Outreach, 1995).

Robert Shank, Life in the Son (Bethany House, 1989).

David Anderson, Conditional Security (Schmul, 1985).

Dr. Robert Picirilli, Grace, Faith, Free Will (Randall House, 2002).

Dr. French Arrington, Unconditional Eternal Security: Myth or Truth? (Pathway, 2005).

Dr. W. T. Purkiser, Security: The False and the True (Beacon Hill Press, 1956).