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16/m Hi I've read some of your other answers to questions and i really enjoyed reading them so I decided that that maybe you can help me too. Ok this is a little confusing but i think you can help with this one.
Ok Last summer i accepted Jesus into my life. I started to try to live the right way and stuff. I still try to do that, but somehow I dont feel like I am saved. I asked God to save me a couple of times before, but it just doesn't feel like I really am saved. I was just wondering where you stand on this issue. So I guess the question is, how do you know when you're saved? Thanks for your help.
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This is one of the most common concerns that younger believers, and sometimes older believers have; I don't feel saved, am I?
Romans 8:16 states that; "The spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children." So the first answer to the question of how we know is that the Spirit of God is the one who testifies to us that we are saved. It is not for people to give assurance of salvation, neither is it someone to simply convince themselves that they are saved. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that bears witness with our spirit that we are saved.
The next question should be; how does the Spirit bear witness with our spirit? Ephesians 2:8 tells us "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is a gift of God..." Faith is the avenue by which a person is saved and it is faith that is produced, by the Spirit, when He testifies that we are God's children (Rom. 10:17). Therefore, we know we are saved because the Spirit of God testifies to our spirit that we are God's children and faith is produced in us.
What is faith? The Bible gives us the definition in Hebrews 11:1 "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." So, what the Spirit produces in us when He testifies to our spirit that we are God's children, is a certainty that even though we do not see the full reality of being children of God while we are on this earth, by faith we have an internal confidence that we belong to God. That internal confidence comes from the Lord and that is what we should count on to know that we are saved.
If you lack that confidence, seek the Lord to produce that in you. I know without a doubt He will. I'll pray for you.
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