The Bible tells us that there are people who think they're in a right relationship with God when actually they're not.

We have to allow for the ways in which we can be fooled, the ways in which we can be deceived,

so that we seek the authentic knowledge of our assurance and not just some fuzzy experience.

It's one of the most frightening passages in the New Testament.

On the day of the Lord, people who say they know Jesus actually do not and are rejected by Christ.

So how do we know what genuine faith is and how can we know for certain that we have it?

That's our focus this week here on renewing your mind.

As we feature our C-Sprull series, The Assurance of Salvation.

We're going to continue now with our study of the subject of the assurance of salvation.

And in our first two messages, we saw the controversy that there is in various camps of theology about the very possibility of having assurance of salvation.

And then in our second message, we looked at the biblical call to seek that assurance of salvation.

And so now I want to look at some of the problems that we encounter when we're diligent in our quest for the assurance of salvation.

When I deal with this subject, I frequently mention that there are four kinds of people in the world.

We know that that differentiates us from the standard division of people in the world.

We're normally, we say, there are two kinds of people in the world.

And those two kinds of people in the world are those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Or as James Kennedy says, there are three kinds of people in the world, those that can count and those that can't.

But we're now going to look at the four types of people that we must discriminate in terms of this issue of the assurance of salvation.

And let's start with the first type of person.

And that is the person who is unsaved and who knows it.

I remember once sharing the gospel to a man in Cincinnati, and I asked him the evangelism explosion diagnostic questions.

And I began with the first question, have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for sure that when you die, you're going to go to heaven.

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