Am I Saved?

Your comments on the board demonstrate a genuine commitment to Christ. While I'm forbidden from judging your salvation, your overall comments lend support to you having a firm relationship with the Lord.

 

Gina, your conversion sounds very similar to many I have known (including my own). I also flirted with various denominations "seeking" a place to lay my head. I also cannot pinpoint the exact date either, and wonder often why I wasn't converted sooner. I just rejoice that I am saved.

 

Gina, James 2:18 says, "Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works."

John 15:8 tells us, "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

So in keeping with your OP, do you have any works that indicates fruit in your life?

 

Yes you are Gina.

 

Sister Gina, yes you're saved! Dr. Bob doing a much better job of explaining it than I can so I'll leave it at that.

PS My "Re-Birth" Day is April 4, 1995! A date I would have easily forgotten had I not written it down on the calendar back then! LOL!

 

Rather than having a firm date for trusting Christ cemented in our memory, knowing that right now I am trusting Christ alone is sufficient for me to know I am saved. Our faith can waver, but praise God He cannot!

 

I believe your testimony sister.

I also beleive there are many many out there who are confused by the yoke of bondage that so many denominational teachers place upon them to wit they are unable to bear the simple acknowledgement as Brother Mike declares that knowing he is right now trusting in Christ alone that he is saved.

The salvation discussions of other threads is ignoring one important factor, no one who believes that there are many 'heathen' regenerated children of God will give encouragement and hope of eternal life to any one of those (anywhere and at any time) who having heard the Gospel do not embrace it.

That is an important fact that is misunderstood.

Have I been blessed to have a continual experience of grieving over my sinfulness? Yes and I praise God for that and His Grace alone shed through Christ is the source of that and not my 'believing' in some man's report of how things are etc.

My point is that were I to sit under the sound of the gospel as I have throughout my life, hearing, knowing and never having that godly sorrow because of my depravity, then there is no warrant to give me encouragement to hope toward eternal life.

Otherwise, having heard the gospel and having responded to the gospel I have hope that table that has been prepared from eternity past has a place for me, otherwise, I would fear that eating of it would be the death of me.

Simply put any other way is an attempt of man to identify the circumcision of the heart in an intellectual manner. We cannot.

Bro. Dallas

 

Define works that indicate fruit. </font>[/QUOTE]One example might be something that helps another grow in Christ, or come to know Christ, or witness for Christ, or teach a Sunday School class, or visit someone that is in the hospital or nursing home. Those are just a few.

Perhaps you should do a word study on fruit and another on works.

 

Hmmmm, if that's not a subjective topic, I don't know what is.

 

People ask me all the time

"Preacher! Am I saved??"

You know what I tell them??

"I don't know! Why don't you ask the Holy Spirit!! He knows whether you are or not---and if you ask Him--He's gonna tell the truth!! I mean, do you think the Holy Spirit will lie and tell you "Yes!" when you're really not???? So don't ask me---ask Him!"

I mean---anybody I know---I don't really know them---but the Holy Spirit does! And I'd just as soon like to say that you're saved---but you might not be---but you can trust the Holy Spirit to tell you the truth about your need of being saved!!
Ask Him right now!! "Holy Spirit!! Am I saved??"

See what He says!!

[ December 13, 2005, 08:30 PM: Message edited by: blackbird ]

 

Hmmmm, if that's not a subjective topic, I don't know what is. </font>[/QUOTE]And salvation is subjective, right?

 

My wife came to repentance and faith in a UMC church. She was 12 yrs. old.

She met me and married at 17 yrs. old.

I had come to repentance and faith at about 13 yrs.

But I had convictions, or drawings, or dealings, or trouble, or whatever you call it; periods of great dread and fear and darkness coming over me regarding the subject of judgment from God. I have always wondered if those the Bible identifies as workers of iniquity who devise their evil upon their beds each night and in the day perform it because it is in the power of their hands have the same seasons of fear and trembling?

I have never been able to answer that question though because the only heart I have been blessed to see into the depths of its dark dungeons of depravity is my own. I note that I do not go into those dark halls because I rejoice in the evil I see but because God mercifully has shed His Grace into my heart to cause me to despise that wickedness.

I also have been blessed to have grown up under the free course of the gospel message. Regardless of how obedient TBN and other Christian Broadcasters think they are being, the world has not yet been covered;

Anyway, back to my wife, she continued under my disobedient leadership for several years. Finally I was blessed to be once again acted upon from God and moved to study my Bible for a period of months. Searching for what? I already 'knew' Christ right?

Yes I did. So what was I seeking? The truth. I learned by scripture that God had given us the atonement upon the altar and that the life was in the blood; I learned by scripture there is to be an altar built of earth (think flesh and blood) and not rendered upon by the hand of man, I learned of this altar also that there was to be no steps going up before it, lest any would see your (which includes OUR) nakedness (think spiritual nakedeness that we have tried to cover with the dead fig leaves of Adam, also of the steps being a systematic methodology that we have worked out to the minutest detail; then continue; I learned that there was a man sent from God with a mission; what did I learn of his mission? I learned he is not the Christ, but was sent to bear witness of the Christ, and that in Bold proclamation He declared Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.

All this time I am trying to feign obedience in a UMC church because of my great fear and trembling before God. Continuing, I even went so far as to announce my call to the gospel ministry. I was tried in a Sunday School class of 13-15 yr. old boys where I tried the age of accountability thingie and I learned it was not Biblical. Here also I stopped trying to get this young men to tell what Jesus would do and I began to tell them what He did do...until the leaders of the church learned I was speaking to this 'accountable' young men of the shed blood of Christ, thereby frightening them out of their wits...and I was removed from the Sunday School classroom.

(Now I know that was ok, all of those boys could already read when I went there anyway).

Continuing I dropped out of 'church' again, believing I must be an oddball and above all probably not even saved.

Then I found a people whose only hope is found in the shed blood of Christ;

Thank God for such sweet peace and rest.

May more and more of His dear children not rest until they come to the knowledge of the great reconciliation they now possess in the manifestation of the Godhead bodily. The Lord Jesus Christ. (They won't rest, not in this world, they will continue on, hating this world, even more than what I do, why? Because they are they whose presence this world is not worthy of, their heart crying out for the righteousness of God, their whole spirit desiring the pure word of Truth; but bound by the flesh and fear of death that hangs over them.

Why are we arguing over who is and who isn't His, why are we not out beating the hedges and the highways of the world and compelling them to come in?

We have grown fat in our blessings of corn and wine and we have gone about now just like Israel of old to establish our own righteousness and have not submitted ourselves to the righteousness of God.

What happens to those who grow fat? They appear to grow lazy. Is it that they are really lazy? Or do they simply no longer have the energy (the spiritual strength to continue in the way)?

His people perish for lack of knowledge. Not for lack of salvation, but lack of knowledge.

Bro. Dallas

O, about my wife, she never followed gospel obedience in baptism until coming to the MB/s why? No one had ever told her of her need. Was she yet in a condition of hopelessness?

 

Dear Sister Gina,
I now know you are a true Baptist. You will obviously take an argument any way you can get it.

Now, trying to get one BEFORE you die just so you can get the last word in

You are truly a Baptist, that's for sure

 

Hi Gina L,

In other words, ask your pastor whether you are saved. He should know.