TITLE:
Confident Salvation
TEXT: 1 John 5:111-13
PROPOSITION: We can be confident about our salvation.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Attitudes
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- Many Christians lack the confidence and assurance of
their salvation.
- We often treat salvation as “wishful thinking”
- AND we think that we are presumptuous to believe we are
really saved
- Without some feeling of confidence and assurance:
- We lack holiness and sanctification in our lives
- We are not dedicated to the work
- We don’t proclaim the gospel to others
- Even our worship suffers
- John is a source of assurance
- John 20:30-31
- 1 John 5:13
- Our world is filled with doubt – about everything – God,
Bible, Jesus, Heaven and Hell
- If you died tonight, do you know for sure that you would
be saved and go to heaven?
- Your answer to this question shows your:
- Insecurity about what to believe
- Unsure about believing wrong things
- Hesitant to believe right things
- Failure to understand the promises of God
- I hear some statements often
- “I don’t know what to believe so that I can be saved.”
i.
1 John 1:1-3
ii.
Romans 1:16
- “I am a believer but what happens when I sin?”
i.
Was the sin intentional or through weakness and temptation?
ii.
Have you repented of the sin?
iii.
1 John 1:8-9
iv.
1 John 2:1
- “There are so many contradictory teachings that I am
not sure what to believe.”
i.
1 John 4:1-3
ii.
Don’t believe the preacher – even Paul
iii.
Acts 17:11
- “How can I know that I am doing the will of God?”
i.
1 John 2:3-6
ii.
1 John 2:15-17
iii.
1 John 4:7-11
Do you KNOW that you are saved?
- Let me change the question: Do you have Eternal Life?
- Some view salvation like a light switch – ON / OFF / ON
/ OFF
- Thus we are never sure at any moment if the light just
flickered
- You don’t have to live in doubt – you can know
Conclusion:
- Do you know that Jesus saves?
- Do you believe that He offers eternal life to those who
believe?
- Salvation is not subjective jumping thorugh hoops
- Salvation is faith and trust in Him