John Piper on Perseverance & eternal security
No — the genuinely saved will certainly persevere
THE POSITION
Perseverance, framed as living by future grace — the saved will persevere, and faith is the instrument through which they are kept.
WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, from a freely published Ask Pastor John episode, and copyright is not the reason the rest have none. This map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright, and the Sproul pass was built on freely published video rather than his books. Piper is in the same position: what is missing for the other ten positions is a primary-source pass, which nobody has run. They are established — well-attested accounts of his views, not checked against his own words — and they stay there until someone does the work.
6 being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Longtime pastor of Bethlehem Baptist, Minneapolis, and founder of Desiring God. Reformed soteriology combined with continuationism and historic premillennialism.
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"John Piper on Perseverance & eternal security", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/piper/perseverance (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/piper/perseverance).