Many people nowadays are confident that they are saved. They base on their current fervor of worshipping God making certain comments, such as,
“I am a good person, I’m not as bad as that other person, I had an experience with God, I am saved from my sins, I can feel God is with me, I know the Holy Spirit is inside of me, I believe in God, I sing to God, I sing in the choir. I go to church, I praise and worship God, I give my money to the church”
Caleb Boadi
While all of this sounds very nice, it is not based upon biblical knowledge.
But brethren let us know that
“8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”.
Ephesians 2:8-10 NIV
Let our prayer be that the feelings and faculties of our souls may be increasingly “alive unto God, through Jesus Christ;” (thus acknowledging what he has done) that we may exercise, in a growing measure, the confidence and love which his presence and his perfections excite in the glorified; that we may be able to say not merely “in Him we live,” but for Him and unto Him we live; not merely “in Him we move,” whether physically or intellectually, but towards Him is the supreme, the willing movement of our affections and desires; not only “in Him we have our being,” but in Him is our hope, in Him is our happiness; so that we can no otherwise think of a present or a future well-being, than in the enjoyment of filial union with our Father and our God in heaven.
Christ’s promise will amount to the brethren who will come into the true gospel light, love Him, believe His word and obey His laws. He will ever manifest to such people and inspire them with present revelation and He shall enjoy the light of God’s countenance.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 8:28-31, NIV
