What About a Person Who Says He Believes in Christ, Yet Says He Doesn’t Have Eternal Life Because He Does Not Want it? Also: How Are We Sanctified?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are answering a question about who has eternal life and a question about sanctification. What if a person believes in Christ but does not want eternal life? Do you need to want it? What is sanctification? How is faith related to sanctification? Please listen for some Biblical clarity about these questions.
Do I Have to Believe in Eternal Security to Be Saved? Also: What Is Eschatology?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are looking at a couple of questions today. Is it possible to be saved before we gain eternal security? What is the Biblical doctrine that is called eschatology? What judgments will be included in the end times? Bob and Philippe will offer Biblical answers about these issues in today’s episode.
What Are Final Salvation, Lordship Salvation, and Perseverance of the Saints?
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Welcome to the Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Steve Elkins are addressing “final salvation” and “perseverance of the saints.” When does God grant justification? Is it at the beginning of the “race” or at the end? Does faith have to produce works to be saving faith? Please listen for some Biblical answers to these questions.
Why Is Doing Good Works Evidence of Salvation in the Tribulation Period, But Not Proof of Salvation Today?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Leon Adkins are answering a question (based on Matthew 25) about the relation of works to salvation and whether works can ever evidence salvation. Does this happen during the Tribulation period, for example? Have there been different saving messages in different dispensations? Please listen for some Biblical clarity about this.
Does 2 Corinthians 5:10 and the Bema Contradict Calvinism’s Teaching About Perseverance? Also: Can Supporters of Homosexuals and of Abortion Be Saved?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Steve Elkins are answering a few questions wrapped into one. How is teaching about the Bema related to Calvinism? Also, can supporters of abortion and of homosexuality be presently saved? Bob Wilkin and Steve Elkins will offer their thoughts about these things.
Romans–Part 19–Romans 8:18-27–Suffering
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are continuing their fly-over look at the NT book of Romans. They are in the middle of Romans 8–a really great chapter! What is the purpose of suffering for the Christian? What is the meaning of all the trials we go through? Why can’t prosperity be for all believers as some teach and believe? Lots to think about here. Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates will offer their thoughts about Romans 8 and these topics. Please listen! SPECIAL OFFER: Bob Wilkin’s book, Turn And Live–The Power of Repentance is being offered through May 31st, 2023 at half-price for those who use the code word, “Repent.”
Can a Christian Lose His Faith?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Steve Elkins are explaining the Scriptural meaning of statements made about losing one’s faith, “falling away,” or the equivalent. Can believers fall away? Yes, but is this talking about a loss of eternal salvation? You will surely find this episode interesting. Please join us! SPECIAL OFFER: Zane Hodges’ Commentary on James, The Epistle of James–Proven Character Through Testing, is being offered through April 30th, 2023 at half-price for those who use the code word, “JAMES.”

Was Zane Hodges’s View of the Saving Message Misguided, Anemic, Inconsistent, and Evasive? Part 2 

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A 2019 doctoral paper by Nicholas James Claxton (available online—see here) is entitled “Faith Without Works: The Gospel According to Zane Hodges.” In part 1, we considered Claxton’s first three objections to Hodges. Now we will discuss his other four objections: 4. “To limit the content of faith to Christ’s guarantee of eternal life seems
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