Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is dial in.

In this episode, I sit down with Pastor John MacArthur

and ask him one of the most prevalent questions facing many within the church today.

How can I know if I'm really saved? Let's dial in.

Pastor John, my question for you is, how can someone, how can I have assurance of my salvation,

I think it's so important because so much of our growth in Christ biblically is rooted

in a confidence that we have been saved. And for many people, they don't know if they've actually been saved.

They think they have, but they don't remember a specific date

or then there was a season of sin.

And so it's hard for them to move forward with confidence

that they have been saved and therefore they are dead to sin.

So help us out.

How can we have assurance that we are saved?

Well, you can eliminate one thing for certain that can take your assurance, and that is

the idea that you could lose your salvation.

That's a lie.

Salvation is forever.

Salvation is eternal.

There's nothing that can separate you from the love of Christ.

Jesus said in John 6th, all that the Father gives to me

will come to me and I will lose none of them but raise them at the last day. Salvation is forever.

So if you are saved, it's forever. That faith cannot fail because that faith is not your faith.

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