Salvation is God’s gift entirely. Someone who has new life by the Holy Spirit cannot lose their salvation. Believers did nothing to earn regeneration and there is nothing they can do to become un-regenerated. The Spirit indwells all true believers, and he convicts God’s children of their sin in his sanctifying work. 

What did Jesus mean when he said, “But the one who endures to the end will be saved” (Matt. 24:13)? Can Christians lose their salvation at some point in life?

Jesus tells us that there will be those who profess Christ but don’t have new life in the Spirit:

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Matt. 7:21)

And Jesus tells us what the Father wills regarding all who believe in him:

“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” (John 6:40)

Having new life in Christ by the Spirit guarantees that one will endure to the end.

All who are regenerated to new life in Christ by the Spirit will endure to the end. The Spirit does not come and go depending on our level of faithfulness (Eph. 1:23-24). Once the Holy Spirit has regenerated you, making you a new creation in Christ, he keeps your life and preserves you forever:

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:5-8)

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (Eph. 1:13-14)

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