We must consider the practical effect of this teaching of eternal security upon the life of the Christian.

Those who oppose eternal security charge that it leads to carelessness, indifference, and licentiousness. But this is exactly what would happen if the truth of eternal security were given to a natural, unregenerate soul.

Actually, this charge is a withering indictment against those who make it, that they know nothing of the actual experience of the new life in Christ Jesus. The true Christian is inherently one who;

• has been regenerated,
• has the Holy Spirit indwelling his body and
• is motivated by heavenly principles.

While on earth the believer still has the ‘sin-nature of the flesh within him’ as all men do, to which he may at times yield, and against which he is warned in such passages as Galatians 5:13, nevertheless he is a new creation in Christ whose ‘inner man is  bing renewed day by day.”

“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” (2 Corinthians 4:16 (KJV)

Actually, nothing could be more conducive to a godly, consecrated life than to come to know and to appreciate the wonderful riches of His grace in irrevocably bestowing eternal life upon believers through faith in the Cross-work of Jesus Christ our Lord.

By comparison, in making the charge that ‘eternal security leads to careless living,’ one might as well argue that it is a very dangerous thing to repeat the marriage vows; for the wife, having been endowed with all of the worldly goods of her husband, will immediately rush out and squander them upon her own selfish desires. This has happened in cases where a woman’s motive in marriage was money instead of love. But the true child of God is one who loves the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 16:22), and the more he Knows of The Truth of his Eternal Security the More His Love Will Abound.

• The UNregenerate soul can conceive no other motive for obedience but fear of punishment.
• But the Regenerate Biblically Intelligized Believing Soul cries out with Paul:

“The love of Christ constrains us...that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5:14)