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ARTICLES OF FAITH
Article - Perseverance & Preservation
We believe that all who are Regenerated/Effectually Called
will be finally saved: no one can be finally lost
1. God The Father has chosen
2. God The Son has Redeemed
3. God The Holy Spirit has Effectually Called
Scripture References:
Romans 8:29-30 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of his Son,that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified:
and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
John 6:37-39 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me
I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you
will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
John 10:27-29 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all;
and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.
Jude verses 1,2 1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,
to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
1 Thessalonians 5:23,24 23 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly;
and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless
unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Ephesians 2:8,9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
The just shall live by faith.
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.
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect,
and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
Colossians 1:21-23 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable
and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled,
and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard,
and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:
but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 7:21-23 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
and in thy name have cast out devils?and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever:
but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition;
but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Ephesians 1:13,14 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,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession,
unto the praise of his glory.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
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