The Psalmist in Psalms 73:24 says to God, “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.” No doubt, he was quite certain that God will receive him into glory no matter what.

Paul also in 2 Timothy 4:18 expresses this same confidence by proclaiming that “the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.” Paul was not worried that God might not preserve him. He assumes God will preserve him irrespective of any sin he might commit.

In fact, God is already engaged in accomplishing Eternal Security. Harold Barker in his book Secure Forever reveals the nature of Eternal Security’s paradigm in Scripture. Summarizing Romans 8:29-30 he writes, “Everyone foreknown is predestined. Everyone predestined is called. Everyone called is justified. Everyone justified is glorified.” God, therefore, is accomplishing Eternal Security by putting believers through His sanctification process.

God does His part to provide Eternal Security and urges Christians to their part to know it. In 2 Peter 1:9-10 God warns the Christian that he may forget “that he was purged from his old sins” but admonishes him “to make your calling and election sure:”

The Christian can know Eternal Security by nourishing himself with God’s Word. One finds that the Godly characters of Bible did that. They exhibited an attitude of eternal assurance in their salvation that would otherwise be impossible if they did not know Eternal Security.