ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE SAVED?
Some people say that we really don’t know if we are saved or not; only when we die will we know for sure.
No one really knows if you are saved or not if salvation depends on you. But when salvation depends on Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross, to doubt is to dishonor Him.
The work of salvation is solely His work. Because it is His work, our response must be nothing but certain. To doubt is to insult the one who did the work.
Our new identity is found in Christ.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ”
Divine facts:
What happened with Christ from the cross to the throne, happened as well to those who believed in him.
Divine Facts:
Those who are in Christ were also
CRUCIFIED with him,
DIED with Him,
RAISED with Him and now
SEATED with Him in the heavenly realm
(see Rom. 6:1-18, Eph. 2:4-8).
Take note, you don’t work for these! It’s a done deal! This is who you are when you believe in Christ! This is the essence of rebirth in Christ!
Regardless of how you feel, God cannot lie;
Rom. 13:10
In Christ, we are like him in this world!
“In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the Day of Judgment, because as He is, so also we are in this world”
“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the Day of Judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
Regardless of how you feel, God cannot lie;
In Christ you are complete!
Col. 2:9
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you are complete in him.”
Regardless of how you feel, God cannot lie;
In Christ you are made holy!
“Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.”
Regardless of how you feel, God cannot lie;
In Christ you are anointed!
“Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. 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.”
Regardless of how you feel, God cannot lie;
In Christ you are made perfect forever!
“Because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being sanctified.”
Regardless of how you feel, God cannot lie;
In Christ you are made righteous!
“For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.”
In Christ you are in the Spirit.
Rom 8:9
“But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.”
Our new identity is found in Christ!
In Christ we are like Jesus!
In Christ we are complete!
In Christ we are made holy!
In Christ we are anointed!
In Christ we are made perfect forever!
In Christ we are made righteous!
In Christ we are in the Spirit!
Regardless of how you feel, God cannot lie. Believe it because it has happened. It’s all about Jesus, His grace and His finished work on the cross!
Salvation is not a reward for your obedience! It is a gift of grace that you receive by faith.
Eph. 2:8-9
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Gal. 2;21
“I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
Learn from the mistake of the Jews.
Rom. 10:3-4
“Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.”
Eternal life is a gift in Christ.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Life in the Spirit begins with “There is now no
Rom. 8:1-
“There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and
God removed guilt and condemnation in order for faith to
Jesus can not be your savior if you are not a
You have to curse “self-righteousness” in your life and embrace God’s righteousness in Christ, so that faith will flow in your
Grace makes “nothing” of a man. You can’t earn it, work for it, deserve it or merit
Self-righteous people are uncomfortable with it and most of the time questions it.
Law makes you self-righteous. It makes you mean when right and miserable when wrong.
A self-righteous person believes that he is better than others because he does certain things that others don't and vice versa.
The Pharisees were not really bad people; they were just self-righteous. They pride themselves of their obedience to the law.
The bible says, Christ is of no effect on you if you are self-righteous.
Gal 5:4
“Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace” (kjv).
Whose sins was Jesus condemned for?
We are accepted by God based on our offering; and our offering is the blood of Jesus Christ.
We are accepted, blessed and favored because of Christ our offering.
“Because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord.”
If we are in Christ and Christ is seated in heaven; where do you suppose we are?
Eph. 2:6-7
“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”
The church is not married to Christ while he was still on earth; we are married to him after he rose from the dead; gloriously enthrone with all authority in heaven and on earth.
This is why God does not look at you to judge you!
The biggest error in the church today is to link God’s blessings to your obedience to the law.
John 13:34-35
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
“Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Under grace we are blessed because we are righteous in Christ!
To expect good from our flesh is the reason why many of us were discouraged..
Phil. 3:3-4
“For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reasons for such confidence.”
Phil. 3:7-8
“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.”
God’s grace is what makes us walk in righteousness.
“What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!……..you are slaves to the one whom you obey-- whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.
Rom. 6:17-18
“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of doctrine to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.”
The gospel of God’s Grace which was hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known to all nations for the obedience of faith!
Rom 16:25-26
“Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.
If you do not know you are righteous by faith in Christ, then you will try to perform what you already are.
The church is admonished to live a Christ-centered life.
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
