Part 4 – How Do I Know If I AM Saved?

This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called Sometimes Believing in Jesus Doesn't Save.

With the truth of “the gospel of the grace of God” not commonly being clearly preached today, many are insecure and have the question: “How Do I Know I Am Saved?

If you do Not Know that you are saved it is because you likely are Not Saved. I am not trying to be cruel, but simply honest. It would be the worst kind of negligence if I, as a teacher of His “word of truth,” encouraged you to think of yourself as saved when actually you are not saved… but you can become saved!

Many unsaved people on the earth think they are right with God but they are not. This sense of insecurity is telltale of what’s behind their question of “How Do I Know I Am Saved.” This question is the greatest question one could ask. The answer is to believe the only gospel that saves today – Paul’s “gospel of the grace of God.” (Acts 20:24). The Christian life does not work on the basis of ignorance. By neglect of “the gospel of the grace of God,” so many so-called churches and preachers today are sending people to eternal judgment and their “everlasting destruction” (2 Thes. 1:9). Paul wrote;

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:13-14).

A preacher does not necessarily infer a Pastor, but rather anyone who shares the gospel with their neighbor.

So many people remain unsure of their salvation, fearing they’ve left something undone, or didn’t say the right words, or are not worthy enough, or haven’t done the right thing to be accepted by God. Perhaps you want to do right and want to be saved, but you don’t know how to know for certain. You need to know the genuine “gospel of your salvation” that makes us eternally ‘secure’ with God. Here is how we are accepted.

“To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted IN The Beloved (in Jesus). (Eph. 1:6)

Ask yourself, do I really know and believe in ‘the gospel truth that is for today’? Some may object to my question and claim to already know the gospel, but they really aren’t saved; while others still have the question; of “How do I know I’m saved?”

The true gospel for today comes with the Spirit’s Inner Witness of Your Salvation. You will know your saved even if you can’t explain every detail.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:” (Romans 8:16)

If you don’t know for sure that you are saved, then you do not yet know or believe the true gospel that saves. If you claim to know the gospel but still are not sure you’re saved, you likely have been told and hold to the wrong gospelthe one of manmade Religion… that insists on what you must “do” and “not do.”

Perhaps you have erroneously been told salvation comes by or is maintained by doing things such as these.

- Attending church services

- Being baptized

- Being confirmed

- Believing in God

- Following what Jesus said

- Praying early in the morning

- Loving the Lord
- Keeping the commandments
- Repenting and confessing your sins daily
- Trying to Make Jesus Lord of your life

If you’ve been told salvation comes by or is maintained by any of these (above), then you were told wrong and your insecurity testifies that these are false gospels that not able to save you with the knowledge of your salvation. Though what you heard may have had bits Biblical truth; if you’re still left wondering how to know if you are saved it’s because these things do not represent the gospel that saves today in this age of God’s pure grace... totally apart from any ‘good works.

 

 

Only God’s free gift of grace that operates though faith alone in Christ alone is able to save us.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” (Romans 4:5)