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No Murderer Has Eternal Life Abiding in Him (1 John 3:15)

March 19, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 John 3:15, Abiding, Assurance, Fellowship, Perseverance, Transformation

A reader who likes our magazine wrote, asking us to take him off our subscription list: It is with sadness I ask you to remove me from your mailing list. I truly love your materials. But 1 John is fairly clear that there has to be transformation in your life or eternal life simply doesn’t

Continuous Drinking Required for Everlasting Life? (John 4:13-14)

March 13, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Doubt, John 4:13-14, Perseverance, saving faith

I received this email question from a reader: In the article “The One Who Believes: Is Continuous Faith Required to be Born Again?” by Bob Wilkin ( https://faithalone.org/magazine/y2006/06jf1.html ) in the second footnote regarding John 4:13, Bob Wilkin mentions: ‘Amazingly, Wallace says ho pinōn here means, “everyone who continually drinks…,” ibid, p. 621, text. Of course, he must say

I Discovered Another Calvinist Who Conceded He’s Not Sure

March 8, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Doubt, John Piper, Perseverance, R. C. Sproul, Uncertainty

Some of you may have read the article by Dr. R. C. Sproul which he published back in 1989 in Tabletalk. In it he said that he was uncertain about his salvation, but that he learned the lesson that the Apostle Peter learned as well: “being uncomfortable with Jesus [is] better than any other option.”

Examples of Believers Who Persevered to the End of Their Lives

February 22, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Timothy 2:12, Assurance, Endurance, Perseverance

Last year in Grace in Focus magazine, Marcia Hornok wrote an article about believers in Scripture who lived messy lives. You can read her article here (pp. 35-36). In her conclusion she said, “Anyone who thinks true believers persevere in following God cannot prove it with Biblical examples.” I received an email from a reader

Saving Faith Should Result in a Lifetime Overflowing with Good Works

January 30, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - good works, Perseverance, saving faith

The following comments and question were in response to my recent blog (see here) about the saying, “Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is never alone.” This is in response to the article on your website responding to Dr. Grudem’s critique of the Free Grace message. I would appreciate thoughtful answers because I

Calvinism Has a Box of Mystery Verses

June 26, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Calvinism, Eternal Security, Perseverance, saving faith

I’m sitting on the plane awaiting takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth to Orlando, FL for our June 8-9 regional conference on the theme “Is Calvinism Biblical?” I pull out my conference schedule and look it over. Then I begin to go over the message I was giving that night. Then something unusual happens. It has become

The Overcomer

November 16, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Overcomer, Perseverance, Reign with Christ, Zane Hodges

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from The Journey of Faith, Sermons on Hebrews And he who overcomes, and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations-‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have receive from

The Captain of Our Salvation

November 10, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Captain of our Salvation, Perseverance, Suffering

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from The Journey of Faith: Sermons on Hebrews My Christian friend, we are saved freely by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. But the road to glory and dominion over the creation is a tough road. We often encounter on that road, trouble, hardship, frustration, and suffering. But,

Finishing Well

September 30, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Bob Wilkin, Perseverance, Rule with Christ

by Bob Wilkin My wife and I changed churches in 1992. We had been in a large Bible church. We moved to a small Plymouth Brethren church. Zane Hodges was one of the preachers at the church. I remember hearing teaching from him on perseverance that challenged my thinking. Before I went to the PB