When your hope is fixed, then you purify yourself.

It has a purifying power.

If I know I'm going to see God, I know I'm going to see Christ,

I know I'm going to see them face to face,

I'm going to give an accounting for my deeds,

I'm going to spend eternity with the Lord bearing the reward

for that which I have rendered to him by way of service,

that's going to change the way I live my life.

Welcome to Grace to you with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

One of the greatest benefits of becoming a Christian. Well,

someday you get a new body that will never get sick and an eternal home that's better than you can

imagine. You escape hell and it's endless suffering. And best of all, you'll be with God and

enjoy him forever. If you know those amazing blessings are coming your way and no one

can take them from you, how should that change the way you live day by day? What should be different

about your words and actions around friends or family or coworkers? That's John McArthur's focus

over the next half hour in a study called

Myths About Salvation here on Grace to You. And now here's John with the lesson.

Let me say that having the assurance of your salvation, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that

you are forgiven, knowing that you are indwelt by the

spirit of God and headed for eternal glory in heaven, is the supreme blessing of the Christian

life. Because all of the other blessings of the Christian life can only be partially enjoyed

if I do not know for certain where my eternity will be spent.

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