Clearing Up Conversion Confusion

Welcome to the intense podcast with tile standing for Friday, April 8 when believers question their salvation. They risk stepping into the devil's snare.

Learn to recognize the enemy's tactics as a key part of clearing up conversion confusion, which is our employees the first John chapter 5103 verses 10 through 15 and with talking about clearing up conversion confusion a lot of people who get confused about their salvation experience, you look at your behavior and use that there's no way the world visibly say behaving like this, or maybe you just think you are and you are not. So he begins in verse 10 bussing the one who believes in the son of God has the witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar because he is not believed in the witness that God is born concerning his son, and the witness is this that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his song he who has the song has the life. He who does not have the son of God does not have the light, the life referring to eternal life. Once verse 13. These things have I written to you who believe in the name of the son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life. You have to hope you do. He says I'm writing these things that you may know that you have eternal life. Listen to what he says these things. John says I written to you who believe in the name of the son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life, and this is the confidence which we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will he hears is that it is his will to save us so we ask him to.

He's willing and if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the request which we've made of him. Listen, God doesn't speak in generalities.

God doesn't speak in confusion. He speaks very clearly very precisely God never intends to leave us in confusion, but there a lot of people who confused about their salvation and listen to me very carefully. Here's how Satan operates. Satan would have an unbeliever to believe on false basis that they have been saved because of how good they are the good works, and so he wants a lost man to believe that he say that's part of his ploy and deceiving him a false sense of security. But what about all the believers would Satan ever attempt the believer or confuse a believer about their salvation and the answer is yes and I want to show you something here that I think is very significant and very important when you and I think about the fact that a person who is been saved by the grace of God, whose name is been written in the Lamb's book of life is been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise whose Benadryl for the life of Jesus Christ. How in the world. That person ever doubt their salvation. If they really and truly been saying one of the primary reasons a believer will doubt his salvation is because of the presence of sin in his life. If Satan can get you to sin against God, and then harbor that sin and hold onto it rationalizing and keep it and enjoy little bit. Listen, here's what he'll do.

He will use that to cause you to doubt your salvation. I'm going to show you a few moments to primary reasons why he doesn't, but I sure want to show you first of all the tools he uses the first of all, he'll use sin in your life. Do you know one of Satan's primary most successful tools and getting God's people. God saves Saints the doubting their salvation.

He uses our ignorance noticing if I'm saved by the grace of God and also I have a hazy, foggy, cloudy notion as the possibly what happened.

Satan will take my hazy, foggy, cloudy notion and heal twisted just a little bit and he'll get me to doubting my salvation. This is why it is so very very essential that you and I understand what God says about the plan of salvation what he says about how to be say what really transpires in our heart. What really takes place in the mind of God and what really transpires within the life of this new born person. Thirdly, he uses a tool that usually works and that is our feelings.

If he can get you the feeling down and out or you get the situation you disable look at my life and I just don't feel saying how could God love me and all the normal that's feelings. That is not what God says about salvation emotions have nothing to do with my position in Christ Jesus. Emotions are the most trustworthy part of us. You cannot depend upon your motions. You cannot trust them under any condition. It is the last part of you that you want to put your trust in, but my friend, if you began to operate on the basis of a motion you going to continuously be confused in your spiritual life and a 4th Way, Satan causes us without our salvation is just continuous harassment. He harasses us to doubt. He harasses us to doubt the things that God says he harasses us to doubt the experiences we've had.

He harasses us to doubt who God is and what he's doing in our life. So he's always doing his best to causes that are salvation now what is motivation what is it that Satan is motivated by to get is that I'll salvation the two primary motivations number one. If Satan can get you to doubting your salvation and arming you really save now you know that you say, but he get you doubting that is the first thing he does what he wants to do is to put you in bondage. It is a twofold bondage. It is a bondage. First of all of the fear of God.

All my goodness, I have sinned against God, what's God going to do to me now and so what happens if he can get you in the bondage he has you exactly where he wants to fear of what God may do next. The second aspect of that bondage and the ops of that almost is this and that is not only fear of God, but feverishly setting out to work for God in order to eliminate the fear or to eliminate the sense of bondage or what you are doing is trying to get his acceptance. So you see, when a person doubts the salvation Satan will put them in bondage. Fear of God old what's God going to do.

Secondly, what they will oftentimes do that is some people. They just feverishly began to work harder and harder, longer and longer, taking more more activity in order to do what, to lengthen the distance between them and God.

It is a satanic trap that you work for God and labor for God to get God's acceptance and you see the problem is I've never met in the body and all of my years who was in that trap. Whoever said hallelujah I finish I finally got God's wonderful acceptance in my life. I finally feel say what you feel safe while I finally finished the work.

There is no way the first of all he puts is in bondage bondage of fear or bondage of feverishly fervently working for God in order that we might be able to say that we know is he says that we have eternal life. The second reason Satan will pull a trick on you is barrenness.

This if he can get you doubting your salvation.

I'll guarantee you my friend that listen the feverish work you do won't have much preterm invective or have any fruit to because the motivation for the work is wrong and so what happens there is barrenness. If a person feels their unsaved if they feel unsafe, they feel unworthy and they feel inadequate and they feel insecure and so either they gonna go one direction and work work work work work to get God's approval of items that I can do it.

If Satan can get you to doubting your salvation, he has you right where he wants to. He has you straddled over bondage and barrenness, and if Satan get you straddle of those to your wiper heaters again. What else you do as long as he gets you doubting your salvation. Now, the reason we doubt it. As we said Satan is trying to render us in operative or fruitless and nonproductive as the children of God. God doesn't want his people living in doubt. He doesn't want is living in fear. He doesn't want us straddling barrenness open one side and bondage. On the other. And here we are impaled upon these two absolutely have no real lasting eternal value to Almighty God are the three things that are absolutely essential. Number one. If you going to be saved and sure of it. You got to know something first of all, you must know what your condition is not being say what is that condition. The Bible says the on saved man is dead in trespasses and sins, that is, he is spiritually dead. What in the world can a dead man do that man can do anything to save himself, so first of all he needs to understand what his position is what his condition is his condition is he's a spiritual that his position as he separated from God. I was understand my condition. Secondly, I must understand Christ's ProVision for my condition. What is Christ provision for my condition.

The ProVision is that a loving heavenly father seeing I was now helpless and hopeless condition, sent his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, who was virgin born nailed him to the cross outside of Jerusalem and placed upon him all the sin of mankind. The Bible says without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness, no remission of sin. There can be no forgiveness there can be no salvation there can be no assurance that can be no hope. There can be no eternal life. There can be no confidence there can be no forgiveness of sin apart from the payment of Jesus Christ and the cross which was a substitutionary all sufficient adequate payment for your sin and my sin. When you leave that out usually about the heart of salvation. When you leave that out. Usually that the foundation you leave out the heart and the core of God's redemptive plan, the ProVision is the death of the only begotten son of God, Jesus Christ, the cross is the heart of the whole Bible from beginning to man. It is the blood of animals in the Old Testament, the blood of the only begotten son of God in the New Testament is broad.

It is the death of Jesus Christ. That is the provision so first of all got to know something. Secondly, I've got to believe something a lot of people deceive when you talk about believing. So the best word for you to use in your own understanding as well as understanding to your children is the word trust.

If I'm going to be saved. First of all, I was understand what my condition is secondly what the provision is then I must place my trust in Christ Jesus and his death on the cross. The payment for my sin. I'm expressing faith.

What did Paul say believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. We are saved.

First of all about knowing something that's a first step. Second step is placing our trust in placing our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and his death on the cross as sufficient payment for my sin I am placing my trust in the person I'm not placing my trust in a thing or an activity. The Bible says we to place our trust in what, in the person of Jesus Christ. I must believe something I must believe what the testimony of a person I must I must place my trust in Christ that when he died he took my sin and what he says is true that I'm forgiven and what is said. He promised me that I did receive that is eternal life, we must understand that what we do is we leave people in confusion and not only that our kids come along and they are right victims for the cults because the cults are always built on human works and never own the grace of a loving God is always built on works, having understood what your condition is knowing what that condition is seeing who you really are and understanding, the ProVision that God is made in Jesus Christ and the forgiveness of your sin. Placing your faith in what Jesus said in what he did.

Then you can be saved. But there's one more step, he says, but as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God and here is the problem.

Often times when people they see salvation is something that God sends down inner in in response to their prayer all know salvation for any and every person is the resurrected living Christ coming to indwell the person through the presence of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible says Christ, who is our life. Do you know what happens when you place your trust in Christ Jesus you receive him as your Savior and the Bible says that Jesus Christ comes what he you receive him into your life.

He comes to indwell what part of your body through the Holy Spirit. What part he comes to indwell your spirit so that salvation. Listen salvation is knowing my condition, knowing the provision placing my trust in the only ProVision from our salvation and receiving that Christ as my Savior and my life as they are all right now what about repentance was repentance.

All this that you know that we who are believers will do formal repenting of the lost person and explain you about repentance.

There is no way to have repentance, genuine repentance and faith about having both is your you are. If I place my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as her and for my salvation. What is that indicate indicates I've had a change of mind and the word repentance means the change amount. That's what it means to repent means to change your mind if I place my trust in Jesus Christ. That means I change my mom about the way I've been living about who God is about who Christ is and I express my trust in him. But how my going to repent of my sins without first of all, believing or not believing that there is a God, there is a Christ, what my condition is UK separate the two. You cannot separate repentance and faith in the salvation experience, you cannot do it, so the person who's placing his trust in Jesus Christ is saying I change my mind about the rambling. I do understand what God says about my condition.

I will live account of life in a more I'm willing to place my trust. I'm willing to ask God to forgive me of my sins and my trust is in the atoning death of Jesus Christ and I'm accepting Christ into my life.

The only mother that brother is to have a change of mind that would have a change amount is to believe what the Bible says you cannot separate the two isn't just repentance. It isn't believe without repentance it is placing my trust. Listen with a repentant spirit.

I place my trust in the sacrificial all sufficient atoning death of Jesus Christ and as a result, receiving Christ as my Savior. He becomes my light. That's why I can never be lost again Jesus.

I receive Christ as my light. He becomes my life and the Bible says the moment he becomes my life.

I am sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise on to win on till the day of redemption. That is another day. Jesus Christ comes. That's how long I'm still a massive question who does the ceiling. The Holy Spirit listen if I listen if I am sealed by my behavior then bad behavior breaks the seal.

If I am sealed by the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit of the living God, no behavior that I ever exercise can ever break the seal. I didn't make the seal I can break the seal. He says sealed unto the day of redemption. He didn't say if you sin unless you send or accept you soon sealed forever and ever and ever child of God. That's what salvation is all about knowing something believing something placing my trust in someone and receiving that person that is what salvation is all about and I will ask you my friend has never been a time in your life when you recognizing your condition when you understanding your condition helpless. It may have been just in the last 10 minutes you understand your condition. You do not have the life of God, you are living in sin and I will tell you the only single Centura health when somebody says you are not to drink an adult and land still cheat. Listen, those are sins and God hates everyone of them. The only sin that will send you the hell is the sin of unbelief in Jesus Christ until you place your faith, your trust in his atoning death.

You are hell bound. There's no question about that. The moment you do. You can't go to hell because your and 12 on the life of Jesus Christ himself. No way. But if you're not done that you lost and you can do it right now, right where you are. If you willing if you willing to admit what your condition is recognize it as it is you want to place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Recognizing his forgiveness provided in the cross and you willing to surrender your life to him that is you will and the place your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ you willing to receive his life as your life, which means you gotta turn your life over to him. If you willing to do that and you will and the prey that simple prayer and you willing to pray it sincerely to Almighty God in your own words, telling him and absented about 15 times so that you could not forget. If you say that in your own words and you tell him that, my friend. He's going to save you and your name is written in the Lamb's book of life unmistakably for ever and ever and ever.

Your essay thank you for listening to clearing out conversing confusion. If you like to know more about Charles Stanley and touch ministry@intouch.org. This podcast is a presentation of index ministries Atlanta, Georgia