“once saved, always saved.” It is the truth that those who have been brought to faith in Jesus Christ—having been foreknown and predestined to faith by God from eternity past, having been called, regenerated, and justified in this life, and having been so set on the road to ultimate glorification that this culminating glorification can even be spoken of in the past tense—that these persons never will and never can be lost. Perseverance is implied in each of the other doctrines we have studied and