God doesn't want to take your assurance.

God wants you to enjoy it.

God doesn't want to make you miserable and doubting.

God wants to make you joyful and confident.

God doesn't want you to question.

Whether you'll make it to heaven,

God wants you to know beyond a shadow of a doubt and live by hope.

But the way to experience that is not to let go and let God,

but to follow the effort prescribed and the virtues to be pursued.

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

As you probably know, the focus of our current study is

salvation assurance. What it means to know your faith is real, and some biblical ways you can verify it.

John's study is called myths about salvation. So far, John has examined several reasons. People might lack assurance, for example,

not knowing the exact moment they were saved. He's also considered several questions to ask yourself

that can help you know if your salvation is genuine. Questions like, do you desire to obey God's

word? And yesterday, John considered the attitudes required to have assurance, and he touched on

the actions needed to know that your faith is real.

And now, with some more helpful test questions that can help you be sure of your salvation,

here's John MacArthur.

Every true Christian should enjoy the reality of his or her salvation.

Peter's very concerned that his readers enjoy assurance.

So it is a main theme in this very brief epistle.

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