Perseverance of the Saints and its Relation to the other Four Points

 

The doctrine of perseverance is inseparably connected with the other Four Points of Calvinism. The elect are preserved, but they are preserved because God has chosen them and because Christ died for them. They need that preserving grace because in themselves they are totally depraved and can do no good, certainly not the great good of finding and obtaining life everlasting. The grace that God gives them is powerful and irresistible, so that not only their own sins, but even the devil and the whole wicked world, cannot prevent them from being saved with an everlasting salvation.

To deny the doctrine of perseverance is to say that God’s counsel can be changed, that God Himself can change. It is to say that Christ groaned and bled and died on Calvary for nothing, that God’s promise can fail, and that the gifts and calling of God can be revoked, and that by weak, sinful man himself. God forbid that it should be so. Thanks be to Him for the work of grace, sovereignly begun, sovereignly brought forward, and sovereignly finished.

Ronald Cammenga
Ronald Hanko
Saved By Grace, pp. 174-175

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