Assurance

Can one have assurance of being a child of God?

Can one know for sure heaven will be their eternal home?

Do you know beyond a doubt, that when you die, you will be welcomed into the presence of God and not have to face hell as your eternal abode?

Some say “That’s absurd! No one will know absolutely until they die…”

Others have said, “I hope so.”

Some very pompous religionists will tell us “If we continue in good works (defined by various criteria) we have a good chance, if we endure to the end.”

Romans 10:17; says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

I cannot make you, dear reader, believe what I am about to layout here. Nor is it my intention to do so, but the Bible is God’s Word and it loudly says that you can know for sure without doubt that you are a child of God, heaven will be your eternal home, you will be welcomed into the presence of God and not have to face hell. Don't take my word for it see what God has said.

This promise is not made for everyone, but only to those who believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead. Here are a few Scriptures to read, ask God to help you understand them. If you have questions about them let me know in the comment section or by my email link in the profile section.

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.. (John 1:12-14)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. (John. 3:16-18)

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. (John. 5:24)

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for 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 death. (Ro. 8:1-2)

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. (Eph. 2:8-9)

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, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of his glory. (Eph. 1:13-14)

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ro. 6:23)

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. (1Jo. 5:13)

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Heb 9:12-14)

In His fellowship,
Brother John