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First Baptist Church on the Square

How Can I Be Sure?

How Can I Be Sure?

How can we be sure we are really saved? This question is a crushing burden for many people. This morning we will learn what Scripture teaches on the assurance of salvation.

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First Baptist Church on the Square Sanctuary

100 Broad St, LaGrange, GA 30240, USA

Sunday 8:45 AM

1 John 5:13, 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.
My Doubt Destroys My Faith
My Salvation is in Christ Alone
- His Provision
Heb. 10:14, For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
Eph. 2:8-9, For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— 9 not from works, so that no one can boast.
Romans 4:5-8, “But to the one who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness.6 Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:7 Blessed are those whose lawless acts are forgiven and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the person the Lord will never charge with sin.
My Salvation is in Christ Alone
- His Provision
- His Promise
Romans 8:35-39, Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered. 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 6:37, Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.
1 Peter 1:3-4, “3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you
My Salvation is in Christ Alone
- His Provision
- His Promise
- His Power
John 10:27-29 "My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
I Need to Deal with My Doubt
1 John 5:13, 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.