Why does it say, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God?” Because we’re eternally secure and sealed by the Spirit, that’s why. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever…I’m sealed by the Holy Spirit; and so I don’t have to worry about grieving the Holy Spirit of God. Because I’m sealed by the Holy Spirit in the heavenlies, eternally secure with Christ, and all my future sins are forgiven. Is that what the Bible says? Because if that’s what the Bible says, that’s absolute confusion.
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Don’t worry about your ministry career preacher, ’cause if I’ve changed your mind, you can always leave the SBC or PCA for the InterChurch Holiness Convention, the Free Will Baptist Church, the Wesleyan Church, the Free Methodist Church, the Global Methodist Church, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Church of the Nazarene, the Salvation Army, the Southern Methodist Church, or Church of Christ. If you’ve always secretly believed in Acts 2:4, but you were too afraid to admit it among your SBC or PCA buddies, then there’s always space for you at Assemblies of God, Church of God (Cleveland, TN), the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, and the Foursquare Church. Add ’em all up, and you’ve got 6.5 million strong in the United States. Not bad. Sure, you’ll have to walk away from 16 million SBC people, but your conscience will feel better won’t it? You’d think so. But where’s the itinerant evangelist of today? This is needed more than anything. The bold text indicates to me the strongest denominations on conditional security. –J.B.
Just to jog your memory some…
John Wesley – he’s the theological father of all these denominations.
Finney, Ravenhill, and Tozer – BIG focus in the InterChurch Holiness Convention.
Charles Finney and Leonard Ravenhill – books in the Church of the Nazarene.
David Wilkerson and Smith Wigglesworth – they were Assemblies of God.
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WesleyGospel, “Conditional Security: What the Bible Says About It.”
Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, vol. 2 (Pathway Press, 1993), pp. 183-192.
—. Unconditional Eternal Security: Myth or Truth? (Pathway Press, 2005).
Dr. W. T. Purkiser, Security: The False and the True (Beacon Hill Press, 1956).
David Anderson, Conditional Security (Schmul, 1985).
Randolph Foster, Objections to Calvinism As It Is (Schmul, 1998).
John Wesley, Calvinism Calmly Considered, 2 vols. (Schmul, 2001).
Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1967), ch. 30: “Apostacy.”
Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994).
Dr. Robert Picirilli, Grace, Faith, Free Will (Randall House, 2002).
Dr. J. Matthew Pinson, ed. Four Views on Eternal Security (Zondervan, 2002).
Robert Shanks, Life in the Son (Bethany House, 1989).
Daniel Corner, The Believer’s Conditional Security (EO, 2000). 800 pages.
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