THE SALVATION OR ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
A) THE PRIVILEGE OF THE BELIEVER:
The privilege of the believer is in the assurance of his salvation, or the certainty of eternal life ..
"This, I have written, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God" 1 John 5: 13.John wrote his first letter to those who believe in the name of the Son of God, specifically to make them aware of the privilege that was theirs to own eternal life and to be assured.
"And whoever believes in him is justification for everything that you could not be justified by the law of Moses. "Acts 13: 39
"He who believes in the son has eternal life, one who does not trust the Son of God will not see eternal life, but the wrath of God remains on him. "John 3: 36
"Verily, verily, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me a life and does not come to trial, but has passed from death to life. "(He was born again). John 5: 24
And now we know if we believe or not, we know that if we have real faith in Christ. This faith which will enable us to have this firm assurance of salvation. If we have faith, the written testimony of God we will guarantee eternal life, forgiveness of our sins and our quality of God's children.
"He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that does not believe in God, made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. " 1 John 5: 10-12
We know that we are children of God because the Spirit himself testifies with our spirit (Romans 8: 16).
B) WHAT IS THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPIRIT?
"And because you are a son, God sent forth into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, crying Abba Father! "Galatians 4: 6. When we accepted Christ and we came out of slavery of the Act to become son of God, God sends the Spirit of his Son into our hearts: it bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
C) HOW TO GET THIS INSURANCE?
"In this, I've written, so you know you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God" 1 John 5: 13.
a. For a well-founded assurance of eternal life, we must believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.Many claim that they have eternal life as they do not really believe in the name of the Son of God. This is not true insurance. It does not rely on the word of one who can not lie.
b. We obtain assurance of eternal life by believing in the Word of God. We need for this purpose, study the word (read and meditate on the word, believe in it and put it into practice). The insurance is based on the state of our feelings vary according to the ups and downs. But that which rests on the immutable word of God will be strong. Ignorance of the word is the biggest cause of lack of confidence (1 John 5: 10-12).
NB: the study of words will not produce the insurance. Believe it should be while the student. We also need to live a life of love, not in word but in deed and in truth (1 John 3 :14-19, John 8: 12).
