1.         T          F          The Lord’s preservation of the saints and the saints’ perseverance in holiness are twin sister doctrines, neither of which can be ignored without upsetting the balance of truth.

2.         T          F          The saints’ perseverance is not a Divine gift.

3.       T           F          Arminianism has long played up to this natural pride, for this is its chief ally in its denial or debilitation of the sovereignty of God’s grace.

4.         T          F          This doctrine of the preservation of the saints and the saints’ perseverance is an isolated doctrine, totally unconnected with all other doctrines.

5,         The Baptists that deny this doctrine are generally known as ____________, ____________ or ____________ Baptists.

6.         There are eight misconceptions concerning this doctrine:

            A.        This doctrine leads to ____________.

B.        The saint has the same ____________ after ____________ that he had before.

C.        Just because a man ____________ to be ____________ he truly is.

D.        It is erroneously assumed that this doctrine teaches that one may and must reach ____________  ____________ in this life.

E.        The ____________ and ____________ of staying ____________ lie entirely with the individual himself.

F.         What happens when the ____________  ____________ fails?

G.        It is based upon the ____________ to the saved to ____________ in holiness.

H.        It is based upon one’s ____________.

7.         T          F          The moment anyone forsakes holy living and plunges into unrestrained sin, he destroys all proof that he has received the saving grace of God, and so, there are no promises of eternal security that apply to him.

8.         T          F          Every true saint not only sins all that he wants, but he sins much more than he wants, for he has the principle of grace in him, and that moves him to love his Lord.

9.         T          F          This is to overlook the fact that man is changed when he is born again, and he therefore has two natures, a carnal and a spiritual, which will henceforth be at war with one another.

10.       T          F          Hatred of sin is as much a part of the new nature, as love of sin is of the old nature.

11.       T          F          Such a gross view as is propounded in the above objection [the saint has the same nature after salvation that he had before] loses sight entirely of the nature of regeneration, tacitly denying that the new birth.

12.       T          F          Apostasy is no fruit of salvation, and any professed saint who permanently turns back from Christ only proves that he was never truly saved.

13.       There are certain things that accompany salvation:

            A.        ____________ ____________ is not one of them.

B.        The ____________ of the ____________ man is not a ____________, ____________ thing, but is a ____________, ____________ thing.

            C.        God has no pleasure in the ____________.

D.        [The saints] were not of the sort that draw back unto ____________.

E.        They are characterized by a faith that ____________ to the ____________ ____________ of the ____________.

14.       T          F          If the saved person will not control his fleshly lusts, there can result the chastisement of the Lord, even to the point of taking away his physical life.

15.       T          F          Any kind or degree of trust in the flesh to continue or to complete salvation is a form of idolatry, and is under the curse of God.

16.       T          F          The faith of the true saint can utterly fail so that he will be lost.

17.       T          F          Those who deny the eternal security of the true saint of God have never been able to produce a single clear instance of any true believer ever being lost eternally.

18.       T          F          Emotions have their place in Christianity, but they are not the criterion for the truth, and so feelings can be deceiving.

19.       T          F          The whole range of misconceptions about the doctrine of the eternal security of the saint is based upon the idea that God and man do not cooperate in salvation.

20.       The extent of salvation defines the meaning of this doctrine, for salvation is:

            A.        From all ____________.

            B.        Salvation is from all ____________.

            C.        Salvation is for all ____________.

21.       T          F          There is no circumstance that can intervene so as to overcome the soul that has trusted in Jesus, for He ever continues as our High Priest.

22.       T          F          The spiritual life of the Lord’s people is a free gift and is not conditioned upon anything that man does.

23.       T          F          God’s power does indeed maintain the saint in a state of grace, but He does this through the use of means, by the causing of the saint to be a saint in deed, and not just in profession.

24.       Our ____________ is not the cause of our ____________ but only a proof that we are of the character of those whom the Lord has determined to preserve.

25.       The believer, by being ____________ ____________, is made a partaker of the Divine nature by ____________, and sustains the relation of a son to the eternal God, and so must ever continue in this ____________.

26.       From the standpoint of the ____________, this doctrine generally motivates the ____________ to a scorn of it, for the ____________ man is ____________ and ____________ until grace teaches him otherwise.

27.       T          F          The glory for both the Lord’s power and His wisdom is at stake in this matter, for He has pledged Himself to save His people, not just to hold them in temporary safety, only to later let them fall away and be lost eternally. (p. 394)

28.       T          F          Though we have all the elements of failure and final apostasy in us by nature, yet our gracious Lord puts forth His enabling grace to sustain our faith and holiness so that we shall persevere in right ways to the end of life.

29.       Saints persevere because God ____________ them, and not the opposite, as some would try to make it appear, which is nothing less than man’s attempt to ____________ the ____________ for his salvation from God, and take it unto himself.

30.       T          F          The doctrine of the perseverance, or preservation of the saints, is, like the doctrine of election, very easily perverted.