If you're struggling with assurance of your salvation, a couple of things I want you to know first before I talk about some practical steps. One is to realize that occasional doubts are normal. I think it's almost universal and the older a person is in Christ the harder it is for them to admit that. I mean if you're a leader in your church and you're in your fifties how do you easily say, "You know sometimes I wonder "if I'm even a Christian," it's hard to say that. And yet it's normal I think to have those occasional doubts and it's a good reflection because it speaks of a heart that says, "I want God, I want heaven, I want salvation "more than I want anything." And things in our lives that may hint at the possibility we're not going to heaven, we don't know God terrifies us. That's good to be terrified of those things. So when Satan or when your mind says, "How could you do that and be a Christian? "If you were a Christian could you have said that, "could you have had that thought?" Well, that's a good thing to have that concern. Because unbelievers generally don't have those concerns.

Unbelievers don't wring their hands wondering if they're going to heaven or not by and large. I think Satan has made his business to try to convince Christians they're not going to heaven and non-Christians that they are. Non-Christians are pretty assured that they're going to heaven and believers often struggle with whether they are, but I think that can be a healthy thing sometimes. Now persistent, unresolvable doubts that's another thing altogether. When no biblical remedy over long periods seems to help someone then that is a real concern. But let's also be clear about this, doubting salvation is not necessarily unbelief. There is a kind of doubt that leans toward faith and there's a kind of doubt that leans away from it. That's skepticism.

Almost anything, any doubt only increases your skepticism and makes you more and more unlikely to believe that this is true. But some doubts cause a person to say, "I believe there are answers. "I want there to be answered. "I'm going to look for answers. "Someone help me find these answers." That kind of doubt may just arise from not knowing the Bible well, some person asks a question you've never thought about before and "Wow, I've never considered that "and if that's true then maybe Christianity "isn't even true," and so forth, "but I believe it is "I just don't know how to answer that question." That's leaning toward faith. So that's not unbelief in the classic sense.

Unbelief rejects the gospel. So just because a person may have occasional doubts that don't mean that they're not a Christian. So what do you do if you're struggling with assurance of salvation, you're doubting your relationship with God whether you have a relationship with God, whether he has saved you?

1. First thing I would encourage you to do is make sure you're clear on the gospel of Jesus Christ. If someone were to say to you, "How can I be saved? "How can I know Christ? "How can I be sure of going to heaven?" what is the message you would tell them? What is the message a person must believe to know God? Well if you're unclear on that message well that's going to foster doubt. So make sure you're clear on what the gospel of Jesus Christ is and I could elaborate here, but I want to point you to the Bible and to people who can give you biblical counsel on this and help you be clear on the gospel. It's not a complicated message.

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