How is OSAS or Eternal Security best understood?

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The best way to explain the correct understanding of Eternal Security (OSAS), is to explain it as "The finished work of Jesus on the Cross", applied to every believer that causes them to be BORN Again.

Eternal Security is the fact of God providing Jesus as our redeemer, unto us.
This is why Eternal Security exists IN US right now.
Jesus who Himself IS Eternal Life, is IN US, (Christ in you the hope of Glory) and so, we have what He Has because we are JOINED Spiritually to God and Christ....as "ONE".
Eternal Security, or, being Born Again, is the end result of God making us Righteous, using the Life and Blood and Death and Resurrection of Jesus to accomplish it for us.

How many times are you born again?
Exactly once.
So then...... that "once" represents being SAVED, once.
We are not saved 456 times.
We are not saved, then we sin, and are unsaved and we confess, and are saved again.
That is the Theology of a theological nut-bar. (Heretic).
We are saved exactly as many times as we are born again.
= ONCE.
So, ONCE we are SAVED, we are Always Born again.
And so the proper understanding of (Eternal Security) being saved and kept saved by God through Christ, would be OSABA.
= Once Saved, Always Born Again.

Eternal Security is the same thing as Eternal Life.
Both ARE Jesus, Himself.
Its Jesus IN us, and its His sacrifice of Blood and Death, culminating in His Resurrection as Proof....is the reason we have Eternal security, IF we are Born again.

So, Once Saved, Always BORN AGAIN = Eternal Security.
All the Born Again are always Born Again, so, we always have Eternal Security who is Christ IN Us.
Being Born again is PROOF we have Eternal Security.
The Proof we have Eternal Security is that we are born again.
 

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The best way to explain the correct understanding of Eternal Security (OSAS), is to explain it as "The finished work of Jesus on the Cross", applied to every believer that causes them to be BORN Again.

Eternal Security is the fact of God providing Jesus as our redeemer, unto us.
This is why Eternal Security exists IN US right now.
Jesus who Himself IS Eternal Life, is IN US, (Christ in you the hope of Glory) and so, we have what He Has because we are JOINED Spiritually to God and Christ....as "ONE".
Eternal Security, or, being Born Again, is the end result of God making us Righteous, using the Life and Blood and Death and Resurrection of Jesus to accomplish it for us.

How many times are you born again?
Exactly once.
So then...... that "once" represents being SAVED, once.
We are not saved 456 times.
We are not saved, then we sin, and are unsaved and we confess, and are saved again.
That is the Theology of a theological nut-bar. (Heretic).
We are saved exactly as many times as we are born again.
= ONCE.
So, ONCE we are SAVED, we are Always Born again.
And so the proper understanding of (Eternal Security) being saved and kept saved by God through Christ, would be OSABA.
= Once Saved, Always Born Again.

Eternal Security is the same thing as Eternal Life.
Both ARE Jesus, Himself.
Its Jesus IN us, and its His sacrifice of Blood and Death, culminating in His Resurrection as Proof....is the reason we have Eternal security, IF we are Born again.

So, Once Saved, Always BORN AGAIN = Eternal Security.
All the Born Again are always Born Again, so, we always have Eternal Security who is Christ IN Us.
Being Born again is PROOF we have Eternal Security.
The Proof we have Eternal Security is that we are born again.
No, the promise is of eternal salvation, but the means to get there is not a perpetual state upon one's initial confession. For as easy as one gained salvation, one can just as easily renounce it (seeds sown among the shallow soil). God does not possess people, nor does He hold them under bondage, disabling them from rejecting something that they once accepted. For clearly, by the effort that it took, in the first place, to make a convert, we understand the struggle that exists. This resistance is not eradicated upon a momentary acceptance of a principle. Much work is still required to fortify the convert, for the wiles of the devil do not relent. This is why the devil even bothers to torment Christians. And, is also why Paul, with so much pain and anguish, sought to strengthen and preserve the faith of the young and naive Churches that he initially established, for many false teachers and judaizers were out to undermine his efforts.

Even Paul said that he has not reached the goal yet, and he wasn't referring to the tangible state of heaven, but to the constant effort required in order to justifiably reach the goal. For, he states immediately within the context, the battle within himself that persists until the crown has been awarded.
 

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Eze 33:11, Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Eze 33:12, Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Eze 33:13, When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Eze 33:14, Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Eze 33:15, If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze 33:16, None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Eze 33:17, Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Eze 33:18, When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
Eze 33:19, But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Eze 33:20, Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.


Eternal security rests in the fact that as those who are born of God (see 1 John 3:9), we will abide for ever (1 John 2:17).

Abiding means that we will exhibit a certain amount of holiness (1 John 3:6) throughout the rest of our lives; to the point that the apostle said (whether he was using hyperbole or not), that "he who is born of God cannot sin." (1 John 3:9).