This is, I think, the scariest verse in the Bible.

Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform many miracles?

And then I will declare to them, this is Jesus speaking, I never knew you, depart from me, you doers of lawlessness.

I think, first of all, some people spend their life in crippling doubt regarding their standing before God.

And I just want to tell people, it is not God's will for your life for you to be unsure of your standing before him and your eternal destiny.

Looking at the fruit of your life and examining the legitimacy of your salvation, that is not a bad thing.

That is a biblical thing. And I think, too,

I should have maybe started here. I really struggled with assurance, you know, for a long time.

With that being said, some people listening are in Christ and they lack the assurance that they're

really, truly in the Lord. And I want to just speak to those people for a moment. So we're just

going to look through six birth marks of genuine saving faith.

All right, last week we talked about false signs of assurance, meaning that there are people that claim to know the Lord, like these religious

leaders, but they didn't in fact know him. We see this constantly throughout John's gospel.

In John chapter 2, Jesus turns water into wine. And then it says at the end of John chapter 2,

it says that many believed in him. And then it says this, but Jesus on his part was not

believing in them for he knew all men, meaning that they were placing their faith, so to speak, in Jesus. But it wasn't saving faith. It was as DA Carson says, spurious faith. Same thing happens in John chapter 6. It says many believed in him. Then Jesus says some difficult things, and it says many departed from him. In John chapter 8, you see the same thing again. Jesus says, I'm the light of the world.

And it says many believed in him.

And if the chapter ended, as we talked about last episode, right there at verse 30, you would say, hey, these people got saved. This is great. But he says, hey, if you continue in my word, then you're my real disciples. We're going to talk about that in this episode. John chapter 12 is another example.

It says they believed in him,

and it said, but they did not confess him because they loved the glory of man, not the glory of God.

So we see this constantly throughout the scripture. People maybe even familiar with Matthew

7 in verse 21, Jesus says, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father who is in heaven will enter. And this is, I think, the scariest verse in the Bible. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform many miracles? And then I will declare to them, this is Jesus speaking,

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