A genuine question asked by many about the truth of the eternal security of the believer:

If works of the law do not save me, why work? If I am not saved by obeying God, why obey? Some would say that, if I am secure and get to go to heaven no matter how I live, why should I go to church and strive to be a good moral person that loves my neighbors? I can go out now live for my own selfish lusts and still make it to heaven, I have Jesus, and He is my fire insurance. If an individual thinks this, when they hear about the security of the believer it only exposes the motive of their heart. They do not really love God but are only going to Church and being religious because they believe in heaven and hell, and they are afraid they might end up in hell. Or because they are like a religious Pharisee who is full of pride and loves the esteem of people more than God; and for them religion has become a form of social respectability and worldly gain.

Why can’t I fall from grace and lose my salvation? The answer is, “We love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:5), “and though you have not seen Him you love Him” (1 Peter 1:8), “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him”(1 John 5:1). A person who is born of God loves God because “God first loved us.” This is a Characteristic of one who is a genuine Christian; to love God We do not love God with a perfect love, but a love that is genuine and sincere. Also as one who truly loves God, we will strive to walk in obedience with Him, though imperfectly in this life (1John 1:2). Therefore, the fruit of one truly born of God will be obedience that comes from a heart of love. Though we may fall down many times as Christ followers, we will get up and continue on the path of righteousness. God’s spirit within us will pick us up and help us overcome and persevere in faith even if that faith becomes a little flame. . 1 John 5: 11- 12,

11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Therefore, Salvation is not a matter of us keeping the law or not keeping the law, but the question that must be answered is have we been born again. Are we a new creation, this is what counts with God. So it is not a matter of us cleaning the outside of our plate and bringing it to God, but God comes into us Tabernacling with us, and His spirit in us cleans up the plate (our heart). “Therefore if any man is in Christ he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 517); “ your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you” when we are born again God’s Spirit indwells us, and were the Spirit of God dwells lives are forever transformed. For the God that is holy cannot take up residence within someone without there being a changed life, and God receives all the glory and honor for the person’s transformation.

No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1John 3:9). So those who are born of God will not practice sin as a lifestyle without coming to a place of repentance, for if they are born of God His seed (Spirit) will lead them back to righteousness, because they have been indwelt by God. We know that this verse is not talking about living a completely sinless life because John says in (1 John 1:10) “If we say that we have no sin we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.