So last weekend was Passion. If you're not familiar, that's a conference for college students.

And this year it was in Arlington at Globe Life, where the Rangers play.

And I got to play a part in that in a discussion around how to follow Christ in college

and what sanctification looks like in college.

And that discussion kind of wrapped up with Sadie asking me the question, hey, what about

assurance of salvation?

Like, what if someone's here and they're just not confident in their salvation, you know,

what would you tell them?

And I said, I responded to that in saying that the way, the method that I

most often used to share the gospel is with two questions, the first one being between one and

10, 10 being certain, and one being not so sure, if you were to die right now, how certain are you

that you would go to heaven? And so I threw that out to 45,000 college students. And I just said, hey, I want you to think of your number. Between one and ten, ten being certain, one being not so sure. If you died right now, how certain are you that you would go to heaven? And then I walked to the front and there was kind of a section right here in front of the stage and I said, is there anyone here that's kind of a five, six or seven? And there was a gentleman, there's a few

hands raised, but there was a gentleman, you know, with this hand raised high and I said, I'd love to have

a conversation with you. So I walked off the stage there to have a dialogue with him.

And I just said, what is your number?

He said a seven.

And I think, did you don't throw that picture up?

Yeah, there it is.

And so he said a seven, and I said, you know, what if I give you tickets to the Mavs game?

And it's an illustration that I used recently here. I said, if I give you tickets to the MAVS game? And it's an illustration that I used recently here. I said,

if I give you tickets to the MAZs game, floor seats, great, amazing seats, and you go over there to the American Airlines Center and they stop you and they say, why should we let you in? What would you say? To which he said, I would say because I have a ticket. And I said, what if they say, did you pay for the ticket? He said, I would say that it was a gift. And I just expounded on that as like, hey, that's how heaven works. Like, Jesus paid our way in. Like, he paid for our sins. If our sins are paid for,

then we get to experience God as his children forever redeemed and glorified because of Christ before God.

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