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If you have Jesus, you have life. Not temporary life, but eternal. And, according to 1 John 5:13, you can know that you have this eternal life. God wants us to have assurance of our salvation. We should not live our Christian lives wondering and worrying each day whether we are truly saved.
Proper Christian living should never be the fundamental grounds for assurance of salvation. Rather, assurance of salvation which should rest in the merit and sufficiency of the Savior and the believer’s new life in Christ, must be the fundamental basis for proper Christian living.
The Bible teaches that the assurance of salvation rests securely upon four unshakable pillars: Pillar 1: God Cannot Lie! First, assurance is based on the absolute trustworthiness of Scripture. Throughout the New Testament, we read God’s promises to save all who will believe upon His Son.
The assurance of salvation in the Bible refers to the confidence that a believer has in their eternal life and relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. This assurance is rooted in Scripture, such as 1 John 5:13, which states that those who believe in the Son of God can know they have eternal life.
The assurance of salvation is the guarantee that once someone has put their faith in Jesus Christ, repented of their sins, and has entered into that relationship with God, that they are sealed with the Holy Spirit and are guaranteed their sins are fully forgiven.
The Bible consistently testifies to the assurance of salvation for all those in Christ and grounds that certainty first, in the objective promises of God and second, in the subjective work of the Spirit in both direct testimony and the indirect testimony of the fruit of conversion.
Though true believers can never lose their salvation, as God protects it, believers must confirm that they are truly saved. While many Scriptures help one develop assurance of salvation (i.e. the Beatitudes, the book of James, 2 Pet 1:5-10, etc.), 1 John was specifically written for this purpose.