Hello, welcome to the final session of the pre-membership class for Waco Family Baptist Church. We're glad that you have endured this long, this far. I hope that you are able to see each of these recordings of these sessions so that you don't miss one. I don't know that it's important that you see them in order. I mean, they're presented in order and, you know, in my mind, they have an order. But I don't know that it's as important that you see them in order as it is that you see them and get the information, get the data, understand who we are as a church, what we're about, what our doctrines are, what we stand for as you seek a church home. That's the purpose of these videos. That's the purpose of this class. So tonight we will be returning, let me remind you, if you have a workbook, we're on page seven. If you would like to have a workbook, please send us an email. You can send me an email at pastor at WacoFamily.com or you can call the church number 254-263-1689. If no one answers, you can leave a message there and I will probably be the one to return your call. but we're going to to be on page 7 of the notebook and I'm gonna get us to our slides so that we can see this. Oh I've got to get to the right thing. Please forgive me. I am technologically stunted today. So our slides we have been looking at the doctrines of grace and as we as we consider or as we remember what we've looked at already. Remember, this is soteriology. What does the Bible teach about salvation? And we've already seen that all people are born in a condition of total depravity. We also saw that God unconditionally elected those who are saved. We saw that Jesus particularly redeemed us and definitely paid for our sins on the cross. And then last time we saw the Holy Spirit effectually calls us to spiritual life. And at the end of that session, we just had a brief look, a brief history of the debates surrounding these doctrines. And tonight we will address this last point on our notes, page seven, all true believers will persevere in salvation. All true believers will persevere in salvation. Now, perhaps you have heard someone say something like this, oh, you don't believe in that once saved, always saved doctrine, do you? I hope you don't believe in once saved, always saved. And I hear people say that, and I think I know what they mean when they say that. There's a false idea, an error that goes around where people believe that once they have said a prayer and really meant it, you know, were as sincere as they could be, that they are saved forever, or once they have walked down the aisle of the church and shook the preacher's hand and filled out a card, or maybe once they've been through the waters in the baptistry, and then they are saved forever. And there's something there that those things, those outward visible things, those things of saying a prayer, walking the aisle, going through the baptismal waters, they may be, they may not reflect or they may not be a part of true salvation. So someone may be lost, unsaved by Jesus Christ, and say the words of a prayer. They may, as far as they can tell, they may say, well, I think I'm sincere as I say this prayer. They may walk down the aisle of the church and shake the preacher's hand and say a prayer with him and fill out a card. They may become members of a church. They may go through baptismal waters. The volume seems low. I'm gonna, well, let me see if I can turn this volume up. I am maxed out on my volume. So I will try to talk a little louder and then I'll ask you to turn the volume up on your set This is the good thing about a live stream or a recording. You have the ability to edit. You can pause. You can fast forward. And you can mute. And so I'll ask you. I am maxed out on the volume on this laptop. And I know this laptop is probably not the way to go. I will also move. If it seems I'm getting bigger, objects in the TV seem bigger than they were. I did slide it forward just a little bit. So I'll try to speak a little louder. So I apologize for that. And I lost my place. What we know is that some people have gone through those events, saying a prayer, walking down the aisle of the church, or going through the baptismal waters, becoming a member of a church. and not really been a child of God. And you would know that because perhaps they apostatized, perhaps they denied the faith, or perhaps they live in open, unrepentant sin, which is not a characteristic of a Christian, a true believer. Perhaps they're not submitted to the Word of God and submitted to Christ in that way. And we could say, well, that's not what a true believer is. So it is possible to say, well, we don't believe in that, quote, once saved, always saved doctrine. If when you say once saved, you don't really mean saved. But what we do believe is that once a person has truly been changed, has truly been made alive in Christ Jesus, saved, justified, sanctified by His power, once that person is saved, then they are truly saved for eternity. Now, I'm gonna go back to our slides. We're talking tonight about the perseverance of the saints, the perseverance. We're also going to speak about preservation of the saints, and we'll mark out a distinction between those two things. Sometimes people want to talk about once saved, always saved, and all they're talking about is preservation of the saints. But we're going to talk about both of those things, perseverance and preservation. Let me find my place and get us caught back up here. We're going to see that God's work guarantees our perseverance. So to see that, we're going to go to the scripture. We're going to see Philippians 1.6. This is a verse that may be familiar to you. Philippians 1.6, I'll give you a minute to get your Bible and turn there. or look it up on your electronic device. Philippians 1.6 says this, for I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you, will be faithful to complete it or perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it or to perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. What we see here is God's work guarantees our perseverance. If he began the work, then he will be faithful to complete it. And what we're seeing there is already our perseverance is a result of the work of Jesus Christ, the work of God. He who began a good work will be faithful to complete it. If you'll remember to go back to, uh, Go back to Romans and we remember our golden chain in Romans, those whom he foreknew, those whom he predestined, he called and he justified and he glorified, sanctified, glorified. Those whom he began the work with are in that group that comes forward and they persevere because of the work that God has done. So Philippians 1 6. I'm confident of this very thing. He who began a good work and you will be faithful to complete it. Till the day of Christ Jesus. So we also see from Scripture, John 10 verses 27 through 29. We are eternally secure. John, the gospel of John chapter 10, beginning in verse 27, excuse me, we read this. This is the words of Jesus and he says, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give eternal life to them. and they will never perish. And no one will snatch them out of my hand. My father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the hand of the father." So what we see here is those who are his sheep, those who are the sheep of Christ, remember, those are the ones who believe. We believe because we are his sheep. We know his voice. and we follow Him. That's part of our perseverance. And he says in verse 28, I give them eternal life. Now, if it was life that could be lost in one year or five years or 10 years, or a hundred years, then he would not say, I give to them eternal life. And in case you're like, well, does eternal life really mean what you think eternal life means? Well, the very next statement, and they will never perish. I give them eternal life and they will never perish. And perhaps you're saying, well, okay, so if we're truly saved, he gives us eternal life and we'll never perish. But what if, Someone comes along and takes us away from Christ. Or what if we ourselves were to try to wiggle and wriggle and get out of Christ? Now that would not happen with a true believer. But what we have in this verse, John 10, 28, is a promise. They will never perish. His sheep, you will never perish. And no one will snatch them out of my hand. This is Jesus. And he's saying, I have them in my hand and no one will snatch them out of my hand. That is a statement of fact, but he goes even further. My father who has given them to me is greater than all. He's greater than you. He's greater than Satan. He's greater than all. And no one is able to snatch them out of the father's hand. Well, which is it? We may ask to Jesus. Are your sheep, are we as your sheep in your hand or are we in the father's hand? Because he says both here. And what we get here is the imagery of a double-fisted protection of the sheep. We are in the hand of Christ and in the hand of the Father. And this is a double-fisted guarantee. You can't lose true Salvation, true eternal life, true new life that Christ has given. So in John 10, 27 through 29, we see that all true believers will persevere in salvation because we are eternally secure. And then we see all true believers will persevere in salvation but we must actively persevere. This perseverance is not just preservation. Preservation is passive. You say, well, you do nothing to be preserved, but that's not what our statement says here. It doesn't just say we will stand idly by and be preserved. It says we will persevere. And this perseverance is active. And I've already alluded, we're going to have some things here that that we hold in tension. And that is the the action of a child of God and the power of God. And even as we as children of God act in the end, we are unable to take credit. We are unable to to take glory to ourselves and say, look at what I did. So we're gonna show that we are active in our perseverance, but ultimately we owe our perseverance to God himself as his work. So that's Hebrews 12, 14. Let's read Hebrews 12, 14. It says this, pursue peace with all men and the holiness, now your translation may say sanctification, it's the same word, pursue peace, and what else should we pursue? Holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. We are to actively pursue holiness. Abandoning sin, putting away sin, and living in righteousness, obedience to God's commands. Hating sin and loving righteousness. Pursue peace with all men and pursue the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. No one will see the Lord. So we We see all true believers will persevere in salvation. God's work guarantees that we are eternally secure, but we must actively persevere. It's an active thing. So we continue with our slides persevering. True believers must persevere. Now, what do we call a believer who does not persevere to the end? What do we call that? We call that in in the business I'm in, a lost person, a false convert, a false believer, because true believers must persevere. The verse we just read, Hebrews 12, 14, without holiness, no one will see the Lord. So what do you call a believer who is happy to live in unrepentant sin? You call that person a false convert, a lost person, Because without holiness, no one will see the Lord. The Bible knows nothing of a believer who continues to live happily in sin without conviction, without the Holy Spirit sanctifying work. As a matter of fact, the Bible goes so far as to say that if a believer continues in unrepentant sin, that God will destroy the body in order to preserve the soul. This means true believers must persevere. So we're kind of working through these backwards. True believers must persevere because we have to have that sanctifying work, that holiness, because without that, no one will see the Lord. Philippians 2, verse 12. Philippians 2, 12. We read this. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Now, many people have read that verse. Maybe that's a familiar verse to you. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. And I've known people who read that and they say, you see, you must work for your own salvation. You must work in order to be saved. That is not what this verse is saying. Let's look more at the verse and read the full verse. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who is at work in you both to will and to do or to will and to work for his good pleasure. Work out your own salvation because it is God who is at work within you. If you don't have salvation, God is not at work within you. But remember, he who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it, and you will work out your own salvation. You work out because God is working in. You work out what God is working in you. You work out your salvation that you have through Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Work out your own salvation. True believers must actively persevere. We don't just come to Christ Say, please forgive me of my sins and then sit in our recliner until Jesus comes back. We must pursue holiness. We must work out our own salvation. And John 10, 27, we read it just a few minutes ago. What else must a true believer do? My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they, the sheep, the true believer, follow me. They follow me. Now, this is not going on a hike. This is not going on a walk. This is following in life. This is following in the walk, in the steps of life after what Jesus Christ has commanded. How do we know what Jesus Christ has commanded? It is in his word. Let me tell you from Genesis 1.1. when Jesus Christ stepped out onto nothing and spoke the world into existence. I know if you're looking in Genesis, you're thinking, well, that just says God, but Colossians gives us the specifics, the particulars, that it was the person of Jesus Christ in the Trinity who spoke the world into existence. From that moment, when he spoke things into existence, He is the author. He is the speaker. He is the commander of things in scripture. So we see the law of God, the moral law of God summarized in the 10 commandments. Those things are what Jesus Christ has commanded. And we see them throughout the Old Testament and we see them in the New Testament and we see them expanded and broadened that we might understand in detail. What we see here is true believers must persevere because my sheep, Jesus said, follow me. My sheep follow me. Matthew chapter seven, verse 18, Matthew chapter seven, verse 18. This is a fearful section of scripture. This Matthew seven, it should bring fear to many hearts. Let's read verses 18 through 20, Matthew 7, 18 through 20. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Let me pause there and say this. Every fruit tree produces fruit. And in this word picture that Jesus is giving us, in this analogy, we are all fruit trees producing fruit. We produce good fruit or we produce bad fruit. No one says, I don't produce fruit. You produce good fruit or you produce bad fruit. You can look at your life and you can see, am I a child of God? And you can know that by the fruit because a good tree, verse 18 tells us, cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then you will know them by their fruits. I believe the first place that we are to be fruit inspectors, the first place that we are to look is to our own hearts, to see the fruit in our lives. Do I look to my life and see the fruit of the Holy Spirit? Or do I still see the fruit of sinful, dead, old man, unsaved man? And some of those things we have to see gradually going away the fruit of the old man. It may take some time for that old dead fruit to fall off. It may take some time for that to not be seen any longer. But we should see the existence of good fruit. I have a friend who said once, a true believer is not marked by a total absence of sin. but a true believer is marked by a presence of grace, a presence of God's grace in our life, a presence of God's sanctifying work. We will know true believers by their fruit. Now we come to 1 John, 1 John 1, verses five through seven. What we're seeing here is that true believers must persevere and it is an active perseverance. 1st John chapter 1 verses 5 through 7. This is the message we have heard from him and announced to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in light, in the light, as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin. What a verse here. If we walk in light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. There's not much for me to have to explain here. This is pretty clear. The one who says he walks in light, I'm sorry, the one who says he loves God, but walks in darkness, he is a liar and the truth is not in him. But if you walk in light, True believers walk in light. We must persevere actively. Part of that perseverance, that walking as a Christian, living as a truly saved person is walking in light. If we walk in light as he himself is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us. James, I have James written here in general, faith without works is dead. But I'd like to read a couple of particular verses from the book of James. James, the whole book is about false faith, false professions of faith that are dead. And we are not saved by works, but we are saved unto works. Remember some of our favorite verses. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, it is by grace that we are saved through faith. That is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. It is not of works. Our salvation is not of works. But sometimes we leave off, verse 10, Ephesians 2, 10, the very next verse, but we are saved unto good works. We are saved so that we might live and walk in good works, in righteousness. James speaks much to false faith, because true believers must persevere. James 2.10 says this, Even so, faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. So faith does not come from works, but it comes with works. Works accompany faith. So a person is not saved by works, but when a person is saved, works will be present. Works will be present if faith is without works, James 2.17 says, it is dead being by itself. James 2.26 says this, for just as a body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. So we're seeing here that true believers must persevere. We don't just sit by and do nothing. True believers are active, actively living according to the commandments, according to the scripture, according to the commandments of Jesus Christ. So we are working as Christians living in righteousness. Persevere. The definition of persevere. If we look at the definition of persevere just from a dictionary, it may not be as helpful to us. Let's look and see. I have a dictionary definition here. Persevere, continue in a course of action, even in the face of difficulty. or with little or no indication of success. So that's how we would use persevere in our vernacular, in our daily speech. We would say to persevere is to continue in a course of action, even in the face of difficulty or no guarantee of success. But biblically, this is not an accurate definition. Biblically, we wouldn't use that definition to say what it is that a Christian must persevere. Biblical Christian perseverance is to continue in a course of action, even in the face of difficulty, with absolute assurance of success. Why? Because God's work guarantees it. He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it because Jesus Christ guaranteed it. He will give us eternal life and we will never perish and no one can snatch us out of his hands. So we continue, we persevere, we continue in the course of action, which is living according to the commands of Jesus Christ, following him. We continue in that action with confidence, with assurance, and we have assurance and we persevere because of preservation, because of preservation. So we want to see we persevere because of preservation. Now, these words, I know when you pronounce them, they're there. They may seem close, but they are different. And the differences are are important. True believers will persevere because true believers preserved by Christ. Let's look again at Hebrews 12 14. Remember it says pursue peace with all men and pursue holiness because without holiness No one will see the Lord. So Christian, you should be living, pursuing holiness. But if you stand before God, will you say to Him, God, look at the pursuit of holiness. Look at how I spent my life pursuing holiness and look at what I have done. Please look at my holiness and reward me based on that. Will you do that? I hope not. That's not what a true believer would do. What we will do is we will stand before God clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Clothed in a foreign righteousness, in an alien righteousness. We will stand before God in Christ's righteousness, in Christ's holiness. So we pursue holiness, but we are clothed in Christ's holiness. We are new creations in Christ, and we are forgiven of our sins, our sins imputed to Him, imputed to Christ on the cross, and His righteousness imputed to us. So we are preserved by Christ, not by the small holiness that we may pursue, not by the half-hearted. By the way, any pursuit of holiness for a Christian in this life is going to be mixed. It's going to be mixed with pure motive and impure motive. It's gonna be a mixed effort in this life. What a day it will be when we're in heaven and we no longer have sin weighing us and besetting us. What a day that will be. But in this life, our pursuits are mixed and we are not Preserved by our feeble efforts, we are preserved by Christ and His holiness. So pursue holiness, but we are clothed in Christ's holiness. Now we revisit Philippians 2.12. Work out your own salvation. Christian, you should be working, you should be living and making efforts in righteous living. Work out your own salvation. But what does the verse tell us? God is at work in us. Work out your own salvation for it is God who works in you. It is God who works in you. So, we work out our own salvation. The verse says four, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Four, it is God who works in you. Let's say that four, F-O-R, could be, or it means, it's defined in this use as Because you persevere Because God is at work within you he who began a good work will be faithful to complete it John 10 27 John 10 27 we said my sheep hear my voice and they follow me They follow me but verse 28 says and I give eternal life and they will never perish. Who is it who preserves us? Is it our following? Are we preserved because we follow well and we don't make mistakes in following? No. My sheep hear my voice. I know them. They follow me and I give eternal life. And it is not based on how well we follow. He says, I give you eternal life. You never, excuse me, you never perish. No one will snatch you out of my hand. My father is greater than all and no one will snatch them out of his hand. So we have this preservation by Christ. as the cause, as the foundation, as the root of our perseverance, of our living and following. Now we come to, these are verses we've already looked at. 1 John 1, 5-7, we've already considered on the one hand. This is the message that we have heard from him and announced to you that God is light, in him there is no darkness at all. Now, what I'd like to get you to do, and follow along in your Bible, let's look for the command. Let's look for in this verse, the command that we see. Sorry, I gotta get on the right page. So I'm gonna start over and we're gonna look for the command as we read. This is the message we have heard from him and announced to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him and yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, his son cleanses us from all sin. And that's the end of our verse. I didn't find a command. I didn't find a directive. There's nothing here that commands believers to walk in light. Now, we do know this. True believers will walk in light, but there's no command here. This verse, these verses, serve as a confirmation that true believers will walk in the light. And it is a checkup that we might examine our own heart. We might examine our life for Christ likeness. This is also the case for the James passage that we saw. Faith without works is dead. And we know that faith without works is dead, but there's no command there. It's just a checkup for us to see. Are we walking in the light? Are we persevering in the faith? So this is this is a checkup for us here. So we'll continue with our slides here. Somebody may be saying, I see these verses. Some of them seem to say that we are preserved, that if we are saved, we have eternal life, that he who began a good work will complete it. But what about verses that seem to say something different? What about verses that seem to say something different? And this is an important thing. Let me introduce to you, maybe this is new for you, this term called the analogy of faith or the analogy of scripture. Just in very simplistic terms, the analogy of faith or the analogy of scripture says that one doctrine or one principle in the Christian faith will not contradict another principle in the faith. So that's the analogy of faith, the analogy of scripture. Scripture does not contradict itself and true Christian doctrine, true biblical Christian doctrine does not contradict itself. So what do we do? Because I know all of us have read through the scripture and we've come to a verse and we've said, wait a minute, this verse seems to contradict that verse. So what do we do with that? When we find a contradiction like that, remembering the analogy of faith, Scripture doesn't contradict itself. The doctrines of the Christian faith do not contradict themselves. So the contradiction must be found somewhere else. And most of the time, that is in our understanding. We often read what we want to read or we read what we think something means. and we've missed it if we see a contradiction. So what about verses that seem to say something different? I've thrown up a couple of verses here for us to consider just very quickly. And I'm not about to say that we're gonna answer every question that you may have about this, but I do want to just consider a couple of things. Hebrews 6, four to six says this, For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away. So they've tasted, they've been partakers, they've been enlightened, and then they have fallen away The verse continues, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. Now at first glance, this verse may seem to say there are those who are true believers who have fallen away, but When we see the guarantee of God's work being completed, when we see eternal life and no one snatching them out of the Father's hand, when we see those things, we must understand that this is apparently those people who perhaps are raised in church. Perhaps they have heard about the cross of Christ. Perhaps they have heard about the virgin birth and the perfect life of Jesus Christ, their whole life. Perhaps they have heard the gospel to repent and believe in Jesus for salvation. Perhaps they've been enlightened enough to understand it intellectually. They have in that way tasted just a taste. They have not received the heavenly gift, but they've tasted the heavenly gift. And they've been a part of the church. If you've grown up in church around believers, you've experienced benefit. If your parents are believers in Jesus Christ, you are particularly blessed to have been brought up in that household, a Christian home. So you have had an experience around believers at home and then at church and being a part of a community of believers. You've been a part of something that so many people in the world have not been a part of. You have seen the underbelly, if you will. You've seen the inside. You know the love of believers one to another. And then when you have denied, when you have tasted those things and then fallen away or walked away and cursed the Holy Spirit and said, I will not accept Jesus Christ, this verse is saying, It's impossible for you to be saved by any other means. It says, you have crucified to yourself the Son of God and put Him to open shame. If you deny that Jesus Christ is the only Savior, There is no other savior. There is no plan B. You don't choose, well, I'm gonna have Jesus as my number one pick, but I'm gonna have Buddhism as a backup, and I'm gonna have Islam as a third choice there. One of those, no, there is no other choice. If Jesus Christ is not your savior, you have no hope. that heaven is your home. That's what this verse is teaching. It may need to be developed more for you to see of that. But let's go to Matthew 7, 18 to 20. We looked at this earlier. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Some people say, well, that's a Christian. That's a Christian who is a true believer in Jesus Christ, but they're just not producing fruit. But what we know of this is. A Christian produces the fruit of the spirit, A Christian produces Christian fruit. You will know them by their fruits. And this verse is not in any way saying that a person who is a believer may be cut down and thrown into the fire. This is not what this verse is saying at all. There are other verses that you may read and you may say, well, what about this? Or what about that verse? By the way, while I'm saying the word, what about, there's a book that I would recommend. If you're struggling with these doctrines that we've been teaching, these doctrines found on page seven, these doctrines that we went over at the beginning of this class, if you're struggling with those, and perhaps you're struggling with them honestly and biblically, there's a book that I would recommend. And I didn't plan this ahead, so I don't have the information yet, but I'm trying to get it right now. The book is called 12 Whatabouts. Let me see if I can find 12 Whatabouts. I'm just looking at it on Amazon, so I can tell you the author. The author is John Hendricks, H-E-N-D-R-Y-X. Oh, wait, maybe he's the author. Nope, that's not right. That's the author of The Forward. You get all kinds of good information on Amazon. The author is John Sampson, S-A-M-S-O-N. 12 whatabouts answering common objections concerning God's sovereignty in election. That is a book, now I wouldn't say that, I don't know John Sampson. I only know him because of this book. So I would recommend this book. I don't know what else he's written. I have no idea, but that book answers some good questions and has some good, useful stuff. Ultimately with whatever verses we find that may seem to say, that a believer is not preserved and therefore may not persevere? Whatever verses we find that may seem to say that, 1 John 2.19 serves as the final answer. The final answer to all these things. Can a believer fall away? Or will a believer persevere because we are preserved? 1 John 2, verse 19 says this, speaking about some who had been in the church, who had made professions of faith, perhaps been baptized, perhaps been church members, and then they went out. This is what it says. They went out from us, but they were not really of us. For if they had been of us, they would have remained with us, but they went out so that it would be shown that they are not all of us, that they all are not of us. but you have an anointing from the Holy One and you all know." We have this explanation. And by the way, don't we need that explanation when we see people who have made professions of faith, when we see people who we have counted as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, who we have possibly looked up to and admired, and then they walk away from the faith What is the answer to that? Well, it doesn't change the fact that it's a sad situation, but we do have an answer in 1 John 2, 19. They went out from us because they were not truly of us. If they had been truly of us, they would have remained. Let's say it another way. If they had been truly of us, they would have persevered because true believers persevere. True believers persevere. We have looked, and I wanna go again to our notes. We have looked at all people are born in a condition of total depravity. God unconditionally elected those who were saved. Jesus particularly redeemed us and definitely paid for our sins on the cross. The Holy Spirit effectually calls us to spiritual life and all believers will persevere in salvation. These doctrines we hold dear at Waco Family Baptist Church. And we hope that you will too, not because they're Waco Family Baptist Church doctrines, but because we believe these to be beautiful doctrines about the salvation that we have in Jesus Christ. If you have further questions, I would invite you, please send me an email, please call so that we can correspond If you are attending our services in person, please come to me there. Let me know in some way that you have questions. Thank you so much for tuning in here in this. And we hope that you will be praying about salvation if you need salvation in Christ. And for those of you who need church membership, we hope that you will be praying where God would have you to be a member. Thank you very much for tuning in. Have a good night.