Is a Gradate of Northwestern University in 1911
BECAUSE "THE law brings wrath" (Romans 4:15), one who is under the law is subject to the wrath of God.
"Whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God" (Romans 3:19). The law is the service of death and of condemnation (Second Corinthians 3:7, 9). Therefore, one who is under the law is guilty before God and condemned to death.
Therefore, the one who is under the law is lost.
A saved person has been redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13) and from under the law (Galatians 4:5). He is no longer under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14).
Redemption was accomplished by the death penalty being borne by Jesus Christ instead of by the sinner. Thus execution by substitute, as explained in the preceding chapter, has been actually carried out. In the sight of the law, the guilty sinner is dead - dead to the law (Romans 7:4) and therefore free from it.
If one who is saved is to be lost, it is necessary to return him into the state of being under the law. As he was freed from the law by payment of the death penalty, he can be brought back under it only by the execution of his substitute. Until that is done, the law can have nothing to say to him. Therefore the payment by Christ of the death penalty of the law on behalf of every sinner that comes to him demands the acceptance of the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer.
Redemption is said to be: "not with perishable things - but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." This redemption price can never lose its value, for it is imperishable. It is infinite in its value, for it is the blood of the infinite Christ. It is perfect for He was without blemish or defect, and it is precious. An imperishable, infinite, perfect and precious redemption price insures an unchangeable, infinite, complete redemption. And such is the redemption of the believer. "He (Christ) entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption" (Hebrews 9:12). Inasmuch as the redemption of the one who has been saved from under the law is eternal, he cannot again come under the law and be condemned to death by it. He can, therefore, not be lost. Eternal redemption and eternal security are one and the same thing. There can be no doctrine of eternal redemption without the fact of eternal security.
As conclusive as all of this is, it is not all that God has done to make the redemption of the saved one absolutely certain. Redemption is not only from something, it is also to God (Revelation 5:9). Everyone who is saved had been "bought" (First Corinthians 7:23) by Christ, and the transaction has been sealed and witnessed.
After an individual has, through faith, accepted Christ as his redeemer, he is sealed with the Holy Spirit and is also given him as a witness to what has been done. This sealing is "until the redemption of the purchased possession" (Ephesians 1:14). The seal is legal evidence of a consummated purchase, and is proof of owner.
A beautiful illustration of the use of the seal is found in the story of the purchase by Jeremiah of a field from Hanameel, his uncle's son. The transaction was sealed according to law; and witnesses and the purchase price, seventeen shekels of silver, was weighed in the balances. Then Jeremiah gave the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to law, and that which was open (ie. witnessed) and gave them to Baruch to be put in an earthen vessel. The field was then Jeremiah's by purchase. (See Jeremiah 32:8-14.)
That incident in the life of Jeremiah is a beautiful picture of the sealing by the Holy Spirit. The transfer of the field to Jeremiah was a legal transaction. So also Christ becomes owner of every believer through a legal transaction. Natural man is under the law and condemned to death. In Christ is vested the right of redemption. He paid the redemption price, not shekels of silver, the redemption money of the temple, but his own precious blood to satisfy the requirements of the law. On behalf of everyone who believes, evidence is subscribed and sealed. The seal is the Holy Spirit. In addition thereto, a witness is taken. This also is the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:15, 16). These evidences are then place in an earthen vessel - the believer's body, where they continue until the redemption of the purchased possession is consummated.
A sealed and witnesses transaction is unalterable. It is final. It is irrevocable. The one who has been bought from under the bondage of sin and the condemnation of the law cannot be returned to that state. The seal is effective throughout the entire earthly life of the believer. To deny the eternal security of the believer is to reject the value of the seal and witness of the Holy Spirit.
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