How to Know for sure you are a christ follower

eternal security

Satan wants you to doubt your salvation. If you doubt you are on the side lines of the Christian life which is exactly where Satan wants you. He will use your past failures and present struggles with living a life committed to Jesus Christ to create doubt. However, one must continually be evaluating their spiritual growth to ensure that you are moving down the correct trail, in order that you will stand approved. John Macarther has a great section in his study Bible, “The Character of Genuine Saving Faith.”

be sure because of…

  • the shepherd

    “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish—ever; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” (John 10:27-29)

  • the judge

    “Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns?” (Romans 8:33-34)

  • the interceder

    “…Christ Jesus is He who died , yet rather who was raised, who is at the righthand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or turmoil, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (Romans 8:34-35)

  • your conduct

    “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test.” (2 Corinthians 13:5)