Known for his unique ability to simplify profound truth so that it can be applied to everyday life,

Adrian Rogers was one of the most effective preachers, respected Bible teachers, and Christian leaders of our time.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

I was in the hospital. A lady was dying. Her family around the bed was one of those tense and

sad moments. Someone said she's not ready to die. She doesn't know the Lord. She's not saved.

And I said, may I have an opportunity to speak with her? And very gently and courteously, I said, I'd like to talk to you

about the Lord. And so I shared the gospel, and I told her that if she would by faith receive the

Lord Jesus, she could be saved, forgiven. And on her way to heaven with divine certainty, she said,

oh, I want that. And I led her in prayer, and she prayed and asked Christ

to come into her heart, to forgive her sin, to save her eternally. And I turned to the family,

and the son-in-law was there, and I said to him, isn't it wonderful that she has been saved?

Do you know what he said to me? Oh, he said, no one can know that they're saved.

I said, oh, yes, they can.

He said, no, no, no.

The best that a person can do is to say,

I hope that I'm saved.

And then I shared with him a verse of scripture.

It's the scripture we're going to read for our text today.

I want you to look at it. First John chapter 5 beginning in verse 11. And this is the record that God

hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his son. He that hath the son hath life and he that hath not the

son of God hath not life and then here's the verse look at it clearly and plainly

these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the son of God

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