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How Do You Know You Are Saved?

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True Blu

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I'm directing this towards those in youth programs. I am a teen myself, and I have asked this question around other youth ministries. Here's the problem: as teens, we are taught to live under a Christian label. (Actually, labels are our lives, whether we like it or not! Thank media for that.) Naturally, almost everyone you know in a youth group professes to be Christian, but asking around I found that most don't know why they're saved. They don't know when they were converted, if they've ever experienced the Holy Spirit, or anything like that. They just call themselves Christians because they read the bible and go to church. But isn't there more to it? Is that going through the motions and missing the point?

A lot of this I personally blame on the church trying so hard to fit into modern teen culture. It takes a lot of the focus off of Christ and onto being hip and trendy. And now we are all confused and misdirected. Or are we all?

I'm referring to you. If you're a teen, how do you know you are saved? Do you know for sure? Like (gruesome moment here) if you died, if that's possible because teenagers are invincible, where would you go?
 
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I am a newly-saved Christian, the way I know that god has saved me is the steps and motivation that I've unexpectedly got to better myself and to try and be happy and positive around people who I love most. Since giving my life to christ, I've reconnected with my father ( Who I've had blind rage towards for the past three or four years; for several things he did when I was younger. ). He even said he prayed and God told him he was proud of me, if that's not a sign what is?

God comes to people in many different ways, all you have to do is seek to find him. I believe that a lot of teenagers just expect jesus to appear to them, right in front of their eyes to know they are saved. However, if you are following the bible and jesus's word you need to be aware of everything that happens afterwards. Because you're never the same after you've been saved.

I'm not completely /there/ yet, but I'm improving everyday, and good see's that!
 
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I have always been educated in a Christian household, where they told me the truth, and I thank God for that.

How do I know I am saved? I know that I am saved because I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that he is the Son of God, that he was crucified to pay the penalty for my sins, and that he rose from the dead to claim victory over death and allow me to live.

I believe that there is nothing else I must do to be saved: believing is enough, and countless passages point us to this: John 1:12, John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Ephesians 2:8-9 and many more.

However, going to church and reading the Bible is also important, although not necessary or sufficient for salvation. This thing of ‘playing the Christian game’ does not save anyone. One must have a true and genuine transformation by the Holy Spirit — as 2 Corinthians 5:17 says: ‘Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.’ The ‘Christian game’ is evidence of being a Christian and comes as a result, not as the reason or necessary condition for salvation.
 
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I always doubt of everything -classic from a teenager. If the answer was right there in front of me, I would still doubt. Yet, I know a few things: God loves me deeply. I feel it and because I feel it, I know it. It fills me with joy. I was born on a family heavily believer and they led me to the Church every Sunday since my birth. They offered me a Bible and everything. Yet, they can't totally do God's work and for a couple years, I had many troubles with my faith. It was.. too strange. I asked for God's help and he decided to get involved. A few events changed my life and the most important: I experienced the Holy Spirit, as you asked. It happened. I don't have any "good" explanation for that, but something incredibly wonderful happened once in my flat life (this is quite long to detail, so I won't). During a moment after, I knew I was saved. I knew God's love was more powerful than everything my human eyes could see. However, after a month, my doubts concerning my place in God's kingdom were back.. I can't help, this is my human nature.
A teenager feel totally lost in a great world which seems to be a living Hell. How couldn't he doubt of everything? He often doesn't believe he's got an incredible value. How could he think he is really beloved and saved?

I don't blame the society for trying to fit the youngs' culture. They just want to be more accessible to a youth that doesn't care anymore of the Bible -as she finds it very long and boring- and is very uncomfortable with her faith. Our generation is quite difficult to approach.. Just ask your friends how many of them have ever thought of suicide, you may be surprised. This is frightening. We are totally lost -Internet and the disillusionment it brings don't really help.
 
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Hi.

Isn't it interesting how even though you've been brought up in the knowledge of Christ and attend church frequently that you find you still have trouble keeping a personal relationship with God? That's been a mind blower to me, because there's lots of youth like this who seem to have very dedicated parents.

I do think it's because a relationship between God is only between you and God. Nobody else can save you or fix you for you. That's something that only God can do. Maybe the youth today don't actually seek God, maybe they just coast off the knowledge they inherited from their parents? I'm sure there are very dedicated youth even in this age, but this is just a theory.

I'm glad you seem to have a firm confidence in your salvation, (*cough* I don't even have that yet *cough*) that's a good start! And any troubles that come after, you can be assured that since you belong to God, he'll lead you through them. Prayer is a really good habit, too! And I've learned through experience that even when you think you get nothing out of the bible when you read it, it still helps your spirit, because when I don't read the bible for a week I feel a weird sort of emptiness.

Oh, and lastly, about the churches trying to fit teen's culture, I'm serious about that, it really is a huge problem! What happens is churches try to become "seeker friendly," and so they adopt all kinds of strange and questionable trends to attract more potential believers. Here's the problem: they end up feeding the goats and starving the sheep. In other words, those who still seek God's message when they go to church are robbed of it because the church is too busy trying to attract carnal people and entertain them to get them to stay. I've seen it happen quite a few times.
 
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Dear TrueBlu. In Matthew 22: 35-40: Jesus tells us: " The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. The second is like it: love thy neighbour as thyself." In verse 40 we are told: " On these two Commandments hang all thy Law and the Prophets." Love is very important to our Heavenly Father. In Matthew 7: 7-10: we are told: " ask and you shall receive," we ask God for Love and Joy, then thank God and share all Love and Joy with all around us: friend or not friend. God will see our loving efforts, and God will bless us. The Bible tells us: " Repent and be Born Again," we change our selfish wishes and wants to; loving and caring and kind attitudes. The Holy Spirit will help and guide us, and Jesus our Saviour will lead us all the way: JESUS IS THE WAY. We might stumble and forget at times, but then we ask God to forgive us and carry on loving and caring.
Whether we are old or young, God wants loving sons and daughters. Keep asking God for Love and Joy, then thank God and share all with our neighbour. ( neighbour is all we know and all we meet, friends and not friends) Let us love and care, then find Jesus guiding us to God, who made us in His image.
Love God and love our neighbour, and Jesus will lead us back to God. I say this with love, TrueBlu. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
 
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Sometimes we are forced not to believe in Jezus even we want it.
They say you are indoctrinated.
There is no way to tell them you really want to be with Jesus within your heart.
I am an example who was in my youth totaly not programmed in Religion and Christ.
I was just on my own who wanted it anyway while my family was against Religion and Church and torutured me by letting me all alone since I was a child with not playmates or play ground or any form of attention, because my parents protest against my free will to be with Jesus. I sitll because of that reaon life a lone with no love and hated and get no support and I am not treated human one day in my life because they think I do not deserve it. They are proud to be released form church and indoctrination and call me weak I was nog making it that far and therefor they hate me and reject me. Among all circumstance since I have not even proper cloth to wear any more I want to be with Jesus. I blame the church not. They are female friendly as you find no where since everybody puts me down for being a woman accept the church. It feels so different. I am poor. my family is risch pretend poor. They support me not and work against me very cruel.
but I miss Jesus and want to be with Jesus with no support from my family.
 
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