The Gospel, English, p. 20

                   

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ASSURANCE

If you have placed your faith in Christ alone, and you were to die tonight, do you know for certain that you would go to heaven?  Since there are no “virtual links” to the answer on which you clicked, you may have concluded that “nothing happened.”  Nothing could be further from the truth!  The spiritual world is far more real than the “virtual world.”  And this is what took place in the spiritual world the moment you believed:
Jesus said:

Most assuredly I say unto you: He that hears My Word and believes on Him that sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.   John 5:24

♦    “Most assuredly I say unto you:”     How certain of this was Jesus?

♦    “He that hears My Word”                 Have you heard the words of the gospel of Christ in the pages of this booklet?

♦    “and believes on Him that sent Me”          Do you believe that God sent Jesus to die in your place?

♦    “has everlasting life”              Does this say that you will receive it later, or that you already have it?

♦    “and shall not come into condemnation”     Does the Bible say “might not” or “shall not?”

♦    “but has passed from death into life.”     At what moment does one pass from death into life?

 According to this verse, how can you be sure that you have truly been saved?

❏               You can be sure that you have truly been saved if your life begins to change, showing that God has really come into your life?

  ❏           You can be sure that you have truly been saved if you bear the fruit of good works?

  ❏         You can be sure that you have truly been saved if many years from now you are still walking with Christ?

  ❏         You can be sure that you have truly been saved if you heard the gospel and believed it?

(See also 1st John 5:10-13).

                    

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