Assurance of Salvation
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“It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—SIGNED, SEALED, and DELIVERED by the Holy Spirit.” (Ephesians 1:13, The Message) In our post last week we looked at the dictionary definition for the word “seal” and found that it meant “to enclose…
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I was just a little guy, not quite 3 years old. There had been several days of heavy spring rains in my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, and I had gone with my Dad and Grandpa to the Lakeshore Drive area to see the flash-flood waters that had overflowed our favorite fishing spot on Cross Lake.…
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So you prayed sincerely from your heart to receive God’s love-gift, His Son, Jesus, as your Savior and Lord. At the moment you prayed that prayer, committing your life to Him, you may have had strong feelings, or a flood of emotions, or possibly, you felt nothing at all. It doesn’t matter. Feelings have nothing…