Today on Summit Life, Pastor JD Greer explains how you can know for sure that you're saved.

You asked me, are you sure that you will enter into heaven and spend eternity with God?

Do you know what my answer is? Yes. You look, well that's arrogant because you think you're better

meeting? Nope. It's because all the full weight of our condemnation was put on to the head of

Jesus who now stands as our advocates before the throne of God. And that gives me great confidence

before God. Welcome back to Summit Life with JD Greer. As always, I'm your host Molly Bitovich.

Now I'm guessing sin is in a very popular water cooler conversation. No one likes being reminded

of their failures and even in Christian circles, the subject of sin tends to get glossed over.

It's easier to ask for prayer for an illness or a job situation than it is to admit your deepest

struggles and failures. But today, Pastor JD explains that the way we think about and deal with our sin

is a crucial sign of where we stand with God. He's continuing our teaching series called A Shored

with the second half of his message titled Three Attitudes Towards Sin That Give You Assurance With God.

Right now, let's rejoin Pastor JD in the book of First John.

How do you know that you know God? How do you know that you know God? How do you know that what you

think about your experience with God is genuine? That is the question that the book of First John

is written to answer and what John does is he identifies three signs in the last half of First John

three signs of somebody that doesn't know God even though they think they do. Let's look at those

three. Let me give you all three of them at the right here at once. Right? Number one, you don't know

God, John says, if number one, you sin. You continue to sin. And by that, he means willfully,

habitually, we'll get to that. Number two, you don't know God if you say you have no sin.

And then number three, you don't know God if you have no confidence before God because of your sin.

Right? So you don't know God if you sin. You don't know God if you say you have no sin. You

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