Assurance of Salvation

You may know that you have eternal life.

• 1 John 5:13 HCSB I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Job was sure he would be redeemed, even if he died.

• Job 19:25-27 HCSB But I know my living Redeemer, and He will stand on the dust at last. 26 Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh. 27 I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me.

Paul had assurance of eternal life.

• 2 Timothy 1:12 HCSB and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

The Spirit testifies to our spirits that we are truly God’s children.

• Romans 8:16-17 HCSB The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God's children, 17 and if children, also heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ--seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

We know that we live in Him; we know and rely on the love God has for us.

• 1 John 4:13-16 HCSB This is how we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given to us from His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God--God remains in him and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Now we are the children of God, and we shall be like Him.

• 1 John 3:1-3 HCSB Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn't know Him. 2 Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.

A Christian has a living hope through Christ’s resurrection.

• 1 Peter 1:3-5 HCSB Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who are being protected by God's power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.