It follows that it is actually easy to be saved and hard to be lost if one understands and believes how good the Good News is. The only difficult thing is learning how to believe the gospel. Jesus taught this truth.

What the Bible Says

E.J. Waggoner

E.G. White

Gospel Truth Index

How A.T. Jones Understood
    This Truth

        "When grace reigns, it is easier to do right than it is to do wrong. That is the comparison. Notice: As sin reigned, even so grace reigns. When sin reigned, it reigned against grace; it beat back all the power of grace that God had given; but when the power of sin is broken, and grace reigns, then grace reigns against sin, and beats back all the power of sin. So it is as literally true that under the reign of grace it is easier to do right than to do wrong, as it is true that under the reign of sin it is easier to do wrong than it is to do right" (Review and Herald, July 25, 1899).
        "It can never be repeated too often that under the reign of grace it is just as easy to do right as under the reign of sin it is easy to do wrong. This must be so, for if there is not more power in grace than there is in sin, then there can be no salvation from sin.  . . .
        "Salvation from sin certainly depends upon there being more power in grace than there is in sin.  . . . [Man's] great difficulty has always been to do right. But this is because man naturally is enslaved to a power—the power of sin—that is absolute in its reign. And so long as that power has sway, it is not only difficult, but impossible to do the good that he knows and that he would. But let a mightier power than that have sway, then is it not plain enough that it will be just as easy to serve the will of the mightier power, when it reigns, as it was to serve the will of the other power when it reigned?

Do we understand the power of grace?
        "But grace is not simply more powerful than is sin.  . . . This, good as it would be, is not all.  . . . There is much more power in grace than there is in sin. 'For where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.'  . . . Then the service of God will indeed be 'in newness of life;' then it will be found that His yoke is indeed 'easy' and His burden 'light;' then his service will be found indeed to be with 'joy unspeakable and full of glory'" (ibid., September 1,1889.
        "Take the man who does not believe in Jesus at all tonight.  . . . If this man wants to have Christ for his Saviour, if he wants provision made for all his sins, and salvation from all of them, does Christ have to do anything now, in order to provide for this man's sins, or to save him from them?—No, that is all done; He made all that provision for every man when he was in the flesh, and every man who believes in Him receives this without there being any need of any part of it being done over again. He 'made one sacrifice for sins for ever'" (General Conference Bulletin, 1895, p. 268). (Waggoner Agreed)