How God Deals with Our Sins (Eternal Security)

We are secure, because of how God deals with the sins of the believer.

Think about this, does God look upon the sins of a believer differently than a non-believer?  Many might think that God obviously does.  After all we are all human beings and sin is sin.

However, God does not even look upon the sins of the world, Ephesians 2:1-2a.

1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,

Non-believers are dead in sin.  This is similar to the person in the coffin, we cannot communicate with them.  As far as God is concerned, the world is dead.  For people who are dead in trespasses and sins, they are dead in God’s eyes.  That is why as for believers, Romans 8:11 is true.

11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Yeshua from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Messiah from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

For the non-believer, it does not matter how much more they sin.  They are lost.  The Bible states that the unbeliever is not condemned because of their sin, John 3:18.

18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

The unbeliever is condemned, because they do not believe in the only begotten Son.  It has nothing to do with their particular sins in life.

So how does God judge the sins of the believer?  1 John 2:1

1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Yeshua Messiah the righteous:

To have an advocate means that one that pleads your case.  If you have a good lawyer with a poor case; many times you are going to win.  We have a lawyer in Yeshua, who has not lost a case yet.

Yeshua is the advocate with the Father.  He is the mercy seat not just for us, but for the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2.

 2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Bible tells us in Romans 8:33-34 in relation to Yeshua being our advocate.

33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34Who is he that condemneth? It is Messiah that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Note that this is a present tense intercession.  Yeshua is not like the Old Testament priests.  There may be a good priest that died and the new one that takes his place may be a lousy guy.  Yeshua represents the unchangeable priesthood, Hebrew 7:24-25.

24But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.  25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

The use of the word uttermost refers to complete, perfect or finally.  Yeshua is able to save us completely, perfectly unto the end.  Yeshua is able to save unto the end all that comes to Him.  So when we sin, the intercession of Yeshua takes over.  God’s intercession keeps us, so that Yeshua can brings us unto the place that Yeshua desires us to be.

Does that mean a believer can do what ever they want?  Live their life anyway they want and God is not going to do any thing?  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 11:30-32:

30For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

A true believer that lives a life of sin; will find out that God will bring weakness, sickness and maybe even physical death in that person’s life.  As it is written 1 John 5:16b.

16BThere is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

One can be so far outside of the will of God, other believers should not even pray for them.  In 1 Corinthians 5 there was a case that an individual had committed fornication with their stepmother, 1 Corinthians 5:4-5.

4In the name of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, 5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Yeshua.

Therefore not only is Yeshua our advocate before the Father on basis of his blood.  Yeshua has a way of changing our will to serve Him.  There are many that have had the experience of sinning coming into that place that God had to deal with them.  In the Old Testament, there is a prophecy about the saving and keeping power of the kingdom of God in Yeshua Messiah, Psalm 89:26-37.

26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;  32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.   34My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.  36His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.

God has promised to us as His children, He will not send us away.  God will deal with us, so that grace operates in the life of the believer.  We have security in God because of the way God deals with the sin in our lives.  For the believer, God speaks of chastisement not separation.

For the person who does not know Yeshua, they do not experience this, Hebrews 12:7-8.

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

God calls the non-believer bastard and not a son.  Hebrews 12 tells us that the Father does chastise their child.  Thank God we are safe because of His chastisement and the way He deals with our sins.

We are secure, because of how God deals with our sin.

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