A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Part One: Scriptural Foundation
2 The Teaching of Jesus
3 The Teaching of Paul
4 The Teaching of the General Epistles
5 The Means of Perseverance
Part Two: Erroneous Distortion
6 A History of Antinomianism from 1600-1950
7 Free Grace and Perseverance
8 Radical Grace and Perseverance
9 Hyper-Grace and Perseverance
Conclusion
Selected Quotes
- “In John 10:27 we read, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” I chose this verse as the title for this book because of its straightforward declaration.” (37)
- “If failure to bear spiritual fruit shows that someone is an unbeliever, then only believers who are obedient will persevere and, further, all believers must persevere because if they do not persevere, they prove to be unbelievers.” (39)
- “Thus, the warning passages of Hebrews remind us that continuing in the faith with right belief and right actions is the expectation and necessity for the true children of God.” (52)
- “Please consider with me five ways God helps believers to do good works and so to persevere in the faith: (1) the Word of God, (2) suffering, (3) Christian fellowship in the church, (4) prayer, and (5) and attention to spiritual duties/practice of spiritual disciplines.” (59)
- “Nineteenth-century antinomianism adhered to five basic beliefs: (1) the law is fulfilled in and not by the Christian, (2) feelings and subjective evidence are trusted more than the Bible,(3) reliance on the Holy Spirit’s witness to the individuals’ spirits as their means of assurance, (4) the denial of progressive sanctification, and (5) the denial of the believer’s duty to grow in grace.” (88-89)
- “When Free Grace teachers minimize the importance of repentance, claim that believers can fall away, and prioritize positional truth, they allow for lawless living—for antinomianism.” (115)
- “My hope in writing this book on the beautiful doctrine of perseverance has been to clarify its meaning, to defend its significance in the biblical record, and to warn of its current-day distortions in evangelical teaching.” (155)
- “May God help us to avoid such antinomian influences, to be balanced in our preaching and teaching by emphasizing both the indicatives and imperatives of Scripture, and to let each passage speak for itself.” (158)