So, I've been unsure ever since I can remember that I'm really saved or being saved.
I've struggled with this for so long. I dont know what to do.
I've struggled with this for so long. I dont know what to do.
So, I've been unsure ever since I can remember that I'm really saved or being saved.
I've struggled with this for so long. I dont know what to do.
All of this...also he is waiting with his arms open for us to shelter and tell him our fears and our thoughts. Run to him he is your father and he loves you, so much that he shed blood and endured shame for you. This song is a gift as well.When we struggle with assurance, the most important thing for us to remember is that salvation is not based upon our performance but upon Jesus' performance.
He secured salvation for every single person that trusts him for it. We just need to make sure that we are doing everything we can to take advantage of the salvation he procured for us.
Salvation is for sinful, wretched, morally polluted people who no longer want to be sinful, wretched, and morally polluted before God.
Regardless of how good we may think we are doing, we are in need of God's grace every moment of every day, and his grace is more than sufficient to meet that desperate need.
What makes you think you are a Christian?
What evidence do you have for being a Christian?
Is Jess your Lord and
When we struggle with assurance, the most important thing for us to remember is that salvation is not based upon our performance but upon Jesus' performance.
He secured salvation for every single person that trusts him for it. We just need to make sure that we are doing everything we can to take advantage of the salvation he procured for us.
Salvation is for sinful, wretched, morally polluted people who no longer want to be sinful, wretched, and morally polluted before God.
Regardless of how good we may think we are doing, we are in need of God's grace every moment of every day, and his grace is more than sufficient to meet that desperate need.
So, I've been unsure ever since I can remember that I'm really saved or being saved.
I've struggled with this for so long. I dont know what to do.
Thanks for your reply....I found the song really appropriate for where I'm at.All of this...also he is waiting with his arms open for us to shelter and tell him our fears and our thoughts. Run to him he is your father and he loves you, so much that he shed blood and endured shame for you. This song is a gift as well.
1John 5:13,
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
We can have assurance of our salvation. Everything that John wrote in his first epistle is to bring to mind to his readers that they have eternal life because they believe on the name of the Son of God.
Keep in mind that getting back on our feet is in itself great progress; though we fall a thousand times.Thank you, from what you've said I think then it's best for me to just keep looking to him as best I can and hope he'll steer me forwards.
Thank you, it was really kind of you to reply, and also to those who also kindly replied.Keep in mind that getting back on our feet is in itself great progress; though we fall a thousand times.
Welcome! Have you recieved His Holy Spirit? This is our connection with the Father. Through His Holy Spirit, we are made whole in him and we trust in Him that His promise is kept to each and every regenerated believer in His Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Be blessed.So, I've been unsure ever since I can remember that I'm really saved or being saved.
I've struggled with this for so long. I dont know what to do.
So, I've been unsure ever since I can remember that I'm really saved or being saved.
I've struggled with this for so long. I dont know what to do.
I'm not sure, that's the issue.....
1John 5:13,
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
We can have assurance of our salvation. Everything that John wrote in his first epistle is to bring to mind to his readers that they have eternal life because they believe on the name of the Son of God.
Firstly, I want to say:
….don't be anxious for your life, …
Luke 12:22-31
God is extremely good and loving. What ever He will do, will be good in the end. So, there really is no need to worry.
And about saving. I think saving means person is saved from the judgment that would come because of sin. One is saved from that by the forgiveness that was declared through Jesus. It is also for you.
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Mat. 25:46
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, Because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to the captives, Recovering of sight to the blind, To deliver those who are crushed, And to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
Luke 4:18-19
Disciples of Jesus have the right to forgive sins and I would say your sins are also forgiven.
Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you retain, they have been retained."
John 20:23
However, as Jesus said after forgiveness, person should reject sin. For it is not useful, if old sin is forgiven, if you have new one replacing the old one.
"Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
John 8:11
But how can that be so, many will ask. And I think it is possible, if person is born anew as Jesus taught. There must happen change in persons hart so that he doesn’t want to reject God anymore.
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
Deuteronomy 30:6-9
That new covenant was done trough Jesus and by his words there can happen that change.
Jesus answered him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God! That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'
John 3:3-7
as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:12-13
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
John 6:63
If person is born of God, he is righteous, as said in here:
He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
1 John 3:7-10
And this leads to the final question, what is sin. I think Bible tells that righteous lives, if he is loyal to God and so, the real sin would be that person rejects God.
But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:38
Righteous person may make mistakes, but the difference is that even then, he is loyal to God and regrets, if he has done wrongly and want to be better next time. One example of righteous person is here:
"Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Luke 18:10-14
Righteousness is wisdom of the just, right understanding that makes person do what is right. And also, if righteous makes mistake, the wisdom of the just means he understands he has done wrongly and regrets it. And if person regrets something, he doesn’t want to do it anymore. Righteous person doesn’t want to do right because he tries to earn salvation by doing so, he wants to do right, because he loves God and wants what is right and good.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Pro. 24:16
So, your sins are forgiven and you are saved from the judgment, but from now, remain loyal to God and don’t reject Him.
Thanks for your post, I felt encouraged by it and whilst I have been concerned since, that doesn't mean that I didnt find what you shared very helpful as it got me prayerfully reading the bible and I felt God communicating through it.
You arent alone, we all have our war with doubts and insecurity. All I know is that he never leaves our side and it isnt him that goes quiet its us. We need to continue to seek him and share with him our hearts. Just chat to him.