“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 Father’s hand” (John 10:27-29).

I regularly teach God’s word to young people who come from Messianic congregations all over Israel. Some of these congregations believe it’s impossible to lose one’s salvation, others do not. And though I do not believe it is possible to lose one’s salvation, I’m convinced that every believer, no matter what their views on soteriology (the doctrine of salvation), must have security in their salvation to be genuinely healthy believers.

Let me explain. It is conceivable I could become so angry with my own children that I change the lock on the front door and completely disown them. It is also possible my wife could do the same to me. But neither the Postell children nor my wife’s husband live with this fear. We expect bumps in the road of our relationships, but we also live in complete security that genuine (albeit imperfect) love undergirds and protects our relationships. And we would have very unhealthy relationships in the Postell family if I or my children lived in constant fear of being kicked out of the family for good.

And if I and my children live securely in the imperfect love of the Postell family, how much more so can we live securely in our relationship with God. So even if our theological perspective allows for the possibility of losing one’s salvation, we still have ten thousand reasons to live completely secure in God’s perfect love!

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God” (Eph 3:14-19).