HEALTHY ASSURANCE
Pastor Bill Young
Three keys to healthy assurance. You need to understand…
I. Your Salvation is
A. God really did say “Your can_KNOW_!”
1 JOHN 5:11-13 NIV84 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
JOHN 5:24 NIV84 I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
B. Remember,
JOHN 8:44 NIV84 When [the devil] lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
GENESIS 3:1 NIV84 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
LUKE 4:3 NIV84 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
JOHN 10:10 NIV84 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
C. Don’t believe Satan’s
2 CORINTHIANS 11:14 NIV84 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
REVELATION 12:10 NIV84 [Satan is] “The Accuser of the brothers.”
II. Your Salvation is
A. You’ve been bought with Jesus’
!
REVELATION 5:9 NIV84 You are worthy …because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
ACTS 20:28 NIV84 Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
EXODUS 12:13 NIV84 The blood will be a sign for YOU.
B. Don’t be foolish-salvation is not by
! GALATIANS 3:3 NIV84 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
EPHESIANS 2:8-9 NIV84 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
III. Your Salvation is
A. You are in
.
JOHN 10:27 NIV84 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.B. No one can
you from God.
ROMANS 8:37-39 NIV84 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.C. Your deposit
your return.
EPHESIANS 1:13 NIV84 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,EPHESIANS 4:30 NIV84 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
2 CORINTHIANS 1:22 NIV84 He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:5 NIV84 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
D. “The more
IV. Summary: Your _SALVATION_is…
1. Promised
2. 2. Paid for
3. 3. Protected