How do I know im saved???

[Harley.]

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[Soyeong]

Our salvation is for sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so living in obedience to it through faith is intrinsically part of the concept of Jesus saving us from not living in obedience to it. For example, honoring our parents through faith is how that we know that we are being saved from not honoring our parents.

 

[d taylor]

Do you believe in Jesus.

That is do you believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah, The only begotten Son of God who is The Resurrection and The Life. Then that is how a person becomes a permanent born again child of God, by believing in Jesus for God's free gift of Eternal Life salvation.

Assurance Made Simple – Grace Evangelical Society

Zane Hodges and the Promise of Everlasting Life – Grace Evangelical Society

What It Means to Believe in Jesus – Grace Evangelical Society

 

[bbbbbbb]

Do you believe in Jesus.

That is do you believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah, The only begotten Son of God who is The Resurrection and The Life. Then that is how a person becomes a permanent born again child of God, by believing in Jesus for God's free gift of Eternal Life salvation.

Assurance Made Simple – Grace Evangelical Society

Zane Hodges and the Promise of Everlasting Life – Grace Evangelical Society

What It Means to Believe in Jesus – Grace Evangelical Society

Does it matter if a person believes in Jesus, but not in the Trinity?

 

[d taylor]

Does it matter if a person believes in Jesus, but not in the Trinity?

Well, not sure if you can believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that as Jesus states, I and The Father (God) are one and not believe in the Trinity.

A person believes in Jesus for The Life of God, but to be able to give a person The Life of God this person (Jesus) must be God.

If you do not believe in The Trinity, then who do you believe Jesus is.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

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Stop doubting.
Blessings.

 

[IoanC]

We may not know, but we have the gift of hope from God. Hope in God's Mercy and Plan to Save us is a virtue.

 

[bling]

You have the indwelling Holy Spirit as your guarantee.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Well, not sure if you can believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that as Jesus states, I and The Father (God) are one and not believe in the Trinity.

A person believes in Jesus for The Life of God, but to be able to give a person The Life of God this person (Jesus) must be God.

If you do not believe in The Trinity, then who do you believe Jesus is.

How would a person be able to know about Jesus Christ in order to believe in Him? It seems to me that either a well-qualified and experienced evangelist and/or a copy of the New Testament would be required.

 

[Blade]

You just read John 3:16-17 Rom 10 9:10 and you just believe that He is how He said He was. Then read Luke 11:13 and do what again He said and thank Him for giving you the sweet sweet holy Spirit. Not what I say or anyone else. Its written

 

[d taylor]

How would a person be able to know about Jesus Christ in order to believe in Him? It seems to me that either a well-qualified and experienced evangelist and/or a copy of the New Testament would be required.

To know about Jesus a person needs either The Bible preferably The Gospel of John. Or a person who can correctly explain or teach how to receive God's free gift of Eternal Life.

But not sure what that has to do about a question about the Trinity

 

[bbbbbbb]

To know about Jesus a person needs either The Bible preferably The Gospel of John. Or a person who can correctly explain or teach how to receive God's free gift of Eternal Life.

But not sure what that has to do about a question about the Trinity

My point is that in order for a person to be saved, there is much more to it than repeating a "sinner's prayer". It entails a certain level of knowledge and understanding of the Person (second person of the Trinity) and work of Jesus Christ. Faith without knowledge is empty.

 

[Mark Quayle]

How would a person be able to know about Jesus Christ in order to believe in Him? It seems to me that either a well-qualified and experienced evangelist and/or a copy of the New Testament would be required.

There is nobody so qualified. Our intelligence and knowledge is not capable of encompassing the facts, not to mention that our integrity and motivation lacks the ability that the Spirit of God alone generates in the Born-Again: Salvific Faith.

 

[Halbhh]

How would a person be able to know about Jesus Christ in order to believe in Him? It seems to me that either a well-qualified and experienced evangelist and/or a copy of the New Testament would be required.

Ah, that's what Paul wrote (as inspired from above in an epistle):

14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?

And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?

And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Bible Gateway passage: Romans 10 - New International Version

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they...

www.biblegateway.com

Praise be to God

There is nobody so qualified. Our intelligence and knowledge is not capable of encompassing the facts, not to mention that our integrity and motivation lacks the ability that the Spirit of God alone generates in the Born-Again: Salvific Faith.

 

[Soyeong]

You just read John 3:16-17 Rom 10 9:10 and you just believe that He is how He said He was. Then read Luke 11:13 and do what again He said and thank Him for giving you the sweet sweet holy Spirit. Not what I say or anyone else. Its written

In regard to Roman 10, why do so many people want to skip reading verses 5-8 and go straight to reading verse 9?

 

[ViaCrucis]

The very essence of the Evangelical Reformation (the Lutheran wing of the Protestant Reformation) was this question: How can I have confidence, assurance, that I am saved?

That remains, to this day, the heart of Lutheran theology, it's built explicitly into our Confessions. And the answer to this can be summed up this way: We are justified before God entirely by His grace alone, through faith alone, on account of what Christ has done alone.

First let's talk "justified", justification refers to how one is righteous, or made right, or put right; that is a matter of righteousness. Specifically here is the question, how is one to be considered righteous before God? If, as Paul says, all have sinned and fallen short, and that all are therefore condemned in their sin under the Law, who therefore can stand righteous before God? The answer, of course, is that we can't. However there is One who has been righteous, and that's Jesus.

Therefore there must be a righteousness apart from the Law, apart from our obeying God's commandments, since our works--our attempts to obey God's commandments--do not make us righteous, because sin gets in the way and poisons everything we do. And there is, as noted, there is the righteousness of Jesus.

And that gets us to "by grace alone". For here, out of God's super-abundant kindness toward us sinners, has chosen to give us, as a gift, the righteousness of His own beloved Son. Therefore, by God's grace, the righteousness of Jesus is imputed to us, and we are reckoned righteous in and because of Jesus.

How does God do this? How does God give me this righteousness? Through faith. Thus the righteousness which is apart from the Law is the righteousness which is through faith, out of God's grace, the imputing to us the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

But then comes the question, how does one have faith? The Scriptures tell us that faith does not come from ourselves, but that faith comes from outside of ourselves, from God as a gift. And that faith is given through means. Reading through Romans chapter 10 we see Paul ask a number of rhetorical questions, "How can they believe on Him whom they have never heard?" "How can they hear unless one is sent to preach?" Finally culminating in Paul saying, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ".

It is the external word of God, which we hear, which is preached to us, which is united to the visible elements of the Sacraments (Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Absolution) that creates faith.

So that from start to finish the entire work is God's. God uses the preacher to preach, and calls the Church to baptize, to celebrate the Lord's Supper, has said, "Whoever's sins you forgive are forgiven them" all as precious means of grace by which God declares us righteous on Christ's account. God is declaring our sins forgiven here. Here God is saying, "Christ died for you, you belong to Me". We were, Paul says, "sealed with the Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 1:13) when we heard the Gospel of our salvation. Peter in Acts 2:38 says that baptism is for the remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Throughout the Scriptures, time and again, we read about how it is God who comes and meets us, to give us faith, to justify us, to forgive us, to reconcile us. He has accomplished this once and for all of us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

So how can I know, how can I have assurance, of my salvation? Because God says so. Because you heard the Gospel and believed, because you were baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, because in the Lord's Supper there is the body and blood of Christ which was broken and shed for you, because in Absolution the very words, "Your sins are forgiven" are declared and they are forgiven indeed.

So that in all ways God has given all these precious means, of Word and Sacrament, to declare His unfailing love for us, His unceasing mercy for us, His saving power and grace to us, securing us, holding us, keeping us, loving us, proclaiming us forgiven, declaring us righteous on Christ's account, and saying that we are His beloved children; that not even the gates of Hell can prevail against us, that there is no power which can separate us from His love, that those whom are in the hand of Christ Jesus cannot be plucked away. Our security is found in Christ because God promises this to us.

It is an external promise that God declares to us. We cannot, therefore, trust in our feelings, in our works, in our strengths, in our efforts, in anything about ourselves. For it is not our feelings, our works, our thoughts, or even our theology that saves us: It is Jesus Christ who died and rose again, and Him alone. It is God who says, "You are forgiven" and we are truly forgiven. It is true because God said it. It is true because God is faithful even when we are faithless; it is true because God does not revoke His promises, He does not change His mind, He does not take back His word. For what He has said is eternal, everlasting, and irrevocable.

You belong to God because Christ died for you, and risen from the dead He has overcome every obstacle that stood in the way between us and God and He says, "Find your rest in Me." So that in our weariness, take shelter in Christ. In our daily burdens, take rest in Christ. In our sorrows, put our hope in Christ. In our sins, our forgiveness in Christ. In our despair, the love of Christ. In our weakness, the strength of Christ. In our death, the life of Christ. In all things Christ, Jesus Christ who has won for us the victory, and against which there is no power and no law.

Jesus Christ saves you, believe this, for it is most certainly true.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[d taylor]

My point is that in order for a person to be saved, there is much more to it than repeating a "sinner's prayer". It entails a certain level of knowledge and understanding of the Person (second person of the Trinity) and work of Jesus Christ. Faith without knowledge is empty.

If you thought i was saying a person is saved by saying a sinners prayer. Then you have completely misunderstood the post i have made. Saying a sinners prayer, is not belief in Jesus.

 

[Mark Quayle]

The very essence of the Evangelical Reformation (the Lutheran wing of the Protestant Reformation) was this question: How can I have confidence, assurance, that I am saved?

That remains, to this day, the heart of Lutheran theology, it's built explicitly into our Confessions. And the answer to this can be summed up this way: We are justified before God entirely by His grace alone, through faith alone, on account of what Christ has done alone.

First let's talk "justified", justification refers to how one is righteous, or made right, or put right; that is a matter of righteousness. Specifically here is the question, how is one to be considered righteous before God? If, as Paul says, all have sinned and fallen short, and that all are therefore condemned in their sin under the Law, who therefore can stand righteous before God? The answer, of course, is that we can't. However there is One who has been righteous, and that's Jesus.

Therefore there must be a righteousness apart from the Law, apart from our obeying God's commandments, since our works--our attempts to obey God's commandments--do not make us righteous, because sin gets in the way and poisons everything we do. And there is, as noted, there is the righteousness of Jesus.

And that gets us to "by grace alone". For here, out of God's super-abundant kindness toward us sinners, has chosen to give us, as a gift, the righteousness of His own beloved Son. Therefore, by God's grace, the righteousness of Jesus is imputed to us, and we are reckoned righteous in and because of Jesus.

How does God do this? How does God give me this righteousness? Through faith. Thus the righteousness which is apart from the Law is the righteousness which is through faith, out of God's grace, the imputing to us the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

But then comes the question, how does one have faith? The Scriptures tell us that faith does not come from ourselves, but that faith comes from outside of ourselves, from God as a gift. And that faith is given through means. Reading through Romans chapter 10 we see Paul ask a number of rhetorical questions, "How can they believe on Him whom they have never heard?" "How can they hear unless one is sent to preach?" Finally culminating in Paul saying, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ".

It is the external word of God, which we hear, which is preached to us, which is united to the visible elements of the Sacraments (Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Absolution) that creates faith.

So that from start to finish the entire work is God's. God uses the preacher to preach, and calls the Church to baptize, to celebrate the Lord's Supper, has said, "Whoever's sins you forgive are forgiven them" all as precious means of grace by which God declares us righteous on Christ's account. God is declaring our sins forgiven here. Here God is saying, "Christ died for you, you belong to Me". We were, Paul says, "sealed with the Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 1:13) when we heard the Gospel of our salvation. Peter in Acts 2:38 says that baptism is for the remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Throughout the Scriptures, time and again, we read about how it is God who comes and meets us, to give us faith, to justify us, to forgive us, to reconcile us. He has accomplished this once and for all of us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

So how can I know, how can I have assurance, of my salvation? Because God says so. Because you heard the Gospel and believed, because you were baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, because in the Lord's Supper there is the body and blood of Christ which was broken and shed for you, because in Absolution the very words, "Your sins are forgiven" are declared and they are forgiven indeed.

So that in all ways God has given all these precious means, of Word and Sacrament, to declare His unfailing love for us, His unceasing mercy for us, His saving power and grace to us, securing us, holding us, keeping us, loving us, proclaiming us forgiven, declaring us righteous on Christ's account, and saying that we are His beloved children; that not even the gates of Hell can prevail against us, that there is no power which can separate us from His love, that those whom are in the hand of Christ Jesus cannot be plucked away. Our security is found in Christ because God promises this to us.

It is an external promise that God declares to us. We cannot, therefore, trust in our feelings, in our works, in our strengths, in our efforts, in anything about ourselves. For it is not our feelings, our works, our thoughts, or even our theology that saves us: It is Jesus Christ who died and rose again, and Him alone. It is God who says, "You are forgiven" and we are truly forgiven. It is true because God said it. It is true because God is faithful even when we are faithless; it is true because God does not revoke His promises, He does not change His mind, He does not take back His word. For what He has said is eternal, everlasting, and irrevocable.

You belong to God because Christ died for you, and risen from the dead He has overcome every obstacle that stood in the way between us and God and He says, "Find your rest in Me." So that in our weariness, take shelter in Christ. In our daily burdens, take rest in Christ. In our sorrows, put our hope in Christ. In our sins, our forgiveness in Christ. In our despair, the love of Christ. In our weakness, the strength of Christ. In our death, the life of Christ. In all things Christ, Jesus Christ who has won for us the victory, and against which there is no power and no law.

Jesus Christ saves you, believe this, for it is most certainly true.

-CryptoLutheran

Maybe I missed it, but where does Regeneration sit in your narrative?

 

[ViaCrucis]

Maybe I missed it, but where does Regeneration sit in your narrative?

Faith. Faith is regeneration.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[bbbbbbb]

There is nobody so qualified. Our intelligence and knowledge is not capable of encompassing the facts, not to mention that our integrity and motivation lacks the ability that the Spirit of God alone generates in the Born-Again: Salvific Faith.

Nevertheless, it is quite impossible for anyone to be saved who is utterly ignorant of Jesus Christ.