Are You There Yet?

You have your Bible. Go and make your way to 1st John

John 4:13–21

chapter 4, verses 13 through 21. First John 413 through 21.

I just want to say thank you again to Danny for leading us

this morning in John's absence. By the way, tomorrow is Danny

Barker's birthday, so if you see him, give him a high 5 or a hug.

Tell him happy early birthday. Praise God for him and stepping

in to serve so well this morning, leading us as we sing

in worship. If you've ever taken a family

vacation or road trip, especially one with young

children, what question gets asked about 10,000 times within

the 1st 10 minutes? Are we there yet?

I finally had AI had a friend older than me.

Very godly guy. Just in case you're wondering.

After I tell you what I'm about to tell you.

Said finally. He just got so fed up every time

his kids would ask the question he just answered yes, yes we're

there. Open the door.

They'd look at him all 45° like this.

Damn what? What?

And they're like, Daddy, what do you mean?

Open the door, We're still moving.

He's like, exactly. That's why we're not there yet,

right? When the when the car stops,

we'll be there, right? Yeah.

So John doesn't exactly have us on a road trip in first John,

but you can think of it like 1 John has had us on a journey

towards a destination he's wanting us to arrive at.

And that destination is not a physical position.

It's a spiritual position of absolute assurance of our

salvation. The question wants us to arrive

at is a solid 100% knowledge of knowing we've been saved that

we've been rescued from our sin and that we belong to Jesus

Christ. In fact, he points to this

ultimate destination in first John chapter 5 verse 13 when he

1 John 5:13

says I write these things to you who believe in the name of the

son of God. Here it is final destination.

You ready that you may know that you may know if you read the

word know over and over and over.

If you've been reading first John that you may know that you

have eternal life. John wants us to arrive at the

destination of absolute assurance of our salvation.

So this text this morning is answering the question, how do

you know that you've been truly saved?

Now, all along the way, John has been posting mile markers, if

you will, to this ultimate how do you know question, right?

He's asked and answered the how do you know questions of how do

you know Christianity is true? And how do you know that you're

a true Christian? And if you're a true Christian,

how do you know what's dangerous to you as a Christian?

And then how do you live ready as a true Christian for Jesus's

return? How do you live in the last

days? How do we live towards one

another? And then now and of course, even

last week or week before he we, we asked and answered, how do

you tell what teaching is true or not?

And now how do you know that you've been truly saved?

All right, John wants you to have absolute assurance of your

salvation. The question this morning is,

are you there yet? Are you there yet?

Listen to the Word of God first. John 4, beginning in verse 13.

By this we know that we abide in Him and He and us, because He

has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testified

that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in

him and He in God. So we have come to know and to

believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God

abides in Him. By this is love perfected with

us, so that we may have confidence for the day of

judgement, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

There is No Fear in love, but perfect love cast out fear, for

fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been

perfected in love. We love because He first loved

us. If anyone says I love God and

hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his

brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not

seen. And this commandment we have

from him, whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Here's the message this morning. Absolute assurance of salvation

comes from undeniable evidence of salvation.

Absolute assurance of salvation. This destination John wants you

and me to arrive at, he says, comes from undeniable evidence

of salvation. Then you're perhaps like, well,

Kyle, what's that undeniable evidence?

What John tells us, we're going to walk through it together.

First is this absolute assurance of salvation comes from the

undeniable evidence of possessing the Holy Spirit.

Did you notice what verse 13 says?

Look at it again. He says by this we know that we

abide in Him and He and us. So just stop right there.

That's John's language of salvation.

God abiding in you, His Holy Spirit residing in you and your

life being in Him, being made alive by Him.

This is how we know that's the case because He's given us of

His Spirit undeniable evidence number one that you've been

saved is your possession, your indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

You see receiving the Holy Spirit of God living within you

is exactly what Jesus said what happened the moment he ascended

to the right hand of the Father and sent the helper the spirit.

Listen John 15 chapter 15 verse 26.

Jesus says, But when the helper capital H, the Holy Spirit

comes, who I will send you from the Father, that's the Spirit of

truth who proceeds from the Father.

That was the promise. Acts 18 Again, Jesus tells his

disciples you're going to receive power when the Holy

Spirit has come upon you and then Paul writing to the

Ephesian believers in verse 13 and 14 of chapter 1 says you

also when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your

salvation and believed in him that's believed in Jesus.

We're sealed with the promised Jesus promised the Holy Spirit

who is what's this the guarantee of our inheritance until we

acquire possession of it. Don't miss that word guarantee

there. That's like a down payment.

See, your salvation, if you've been saved is a reality right

now. It's just not a full complete

reality yet. It's full completion won't

happen until you're locking eyes with Jesus face to face the

moment you see him and righteousness in your life is

perfected and Christ's likeness in your life is perfected and

you're in his presence perfectly in paradise forever.

Your your salvation if you've been saved, it's a reality now.

But there's more to come. And so in the meantime, you've

been given a down payment. The very presence of the person

of the Holy Spirit of God living within you.

This is undeniable evidence, number one, that you have truly

been saved. You say, Kyle, how do I know if

I've received the Holy Spirit? The way John states it here, he

just like states it. And if you're going to notice in

a second, it's like he just moves on.

I can't, can't help but think that John is thinking.

If you've received the Holy Holy Spirit, there's no doubting it.

You simply know. I'll never forget the first time

I say I'll never forget. Like it was this big moment in

my life. I just remember when I passed a

billboard and I saw the acronym for the first time, IYKYKIYK.

Somebody looking at me like I got to think real hard about

this. IYKYKI had no clue what that

meant. It was an advertisement.

I had to Google it. Y'all know what that means?

If you know, you know, no pun intended.

Literally the acronym is if you know you, you know, I kind of

think that's the way John is almost processing it right here,

right? I mean, it's almost like he, you

know, if you've received, if you've possessed, if you've been

given off the, if you've been given the Holy Spirit, He

doesn't explain much more. But I think I would expand upon

it like this if I were, if I were trying to explain if you've

been saved, you've responded to the presence and the power and

the person and the conviction of the Holy Spirit of God.

It's because there was a day and time in your life when you were

under the conviction of sin, when your eyes were open to

Jesus and your need for a Savior.

Do you remember that day when you encountered the work of the

Holy Spirit in your heart, and then if you responded to that in

faith and confess Jesus as your Lord?

Let me ask you now, are you continually, even to this day,

experiencing the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit in

your life? Do you sense the Holy Spirit

guiding you, impressing upon you decisions and direction and the

things that you've since God would have you do and say and

where you would have you go? Would you say you, you

experienced the continued conviction of sin in your life

and the leadership of the Spirit in your life and the comfort and

the help and the strength of the Holy Spirit in your life?

I think you could if, if that's the case, if you know you, you

know now if you've never responded to the conviction of

sin and the need for a Savior in your life, then what you don't

know that you need to know is that God so loved you, He sent

his Son to die on the cross for your sin and your place so that

whosoever will believe in him should not perish but have

everlasting life. Jesus says I'm the way, the

truth and the life. There's no other way of

salvation. Every religion, every quote

effort, religious effort, spiritual effort to get to God

is an effort to receive righteousness and eternal life,

to please God, to be good enough.

There's no good enough. Jesus is the only one good

enough. But he was good enough in your

place. He was perfect in your place and

the Holy Spirit. When you hear the word of the

gospel, that good news of what Jesus has done for you, living

and dying and rising from the dead for you, When you hear that

news, the Holy Spirit of God works in your heart to convict

you of your sin and unrighteousness and need for the

righteousness of Jesus and the fact that you are separated from

Him and the conviction of your sin that leads you to a

realization of Jesus. Has that happened in your life?

If not, that's what first of all needs to happen.

Have you, have you arrived at the undeniable evidence of

possessing the Holy Spirit? Are you there yet?

Are you there yet #2 Absolute assurance of salvation comes

from the undeniable evidence of confessing Jesus as Lord.

Look at verse 14 and 15. And we've seen and testify that

the Father, that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of

the world. Now, John is not dealing with

these things in a strict chronological order because if

he was doing that, he would have started with this one because

this is what happens first before you receive the Holy

Spirit. But John is talking to us now as

those who if you have received the Holy Spirit, it's because

you've confessed Jesus as your Lord.

Of course, when John says here we've seen, he's literally

referring to the fact that he and the other apostles

physically witnessed the incarnation Jesus in the flesh,

living and walking among them. Of course, we don't have that

physical testimony, but we have that physical testimony recorded

for us as the Holy Spirit inspired those eyewitnesses to

write of what they witnessed so that we could be receivers of

that testimony. And not only we have that, but

we didn't have the internal witness of the Holy Spirit that

testifies to us as they testified and wrote it down for

us. So God the Father, John says,

has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

That is the heart of our faith right there, that God the Father

sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

The world includes you. God the Father sent his Son,

Jesus to be your Savior, to be my Savior.

Is Jesus your Savior because you've confessed him as Lord and

believed on him for forgiveness of sin?

Salvation happens. That rescue happens the moment

when someone believes and confesses Jesus as Lord, the Son

of God the Savior. Y'all That happened in the first

service as a young lady walked the aisle during the invitation

and knelt right there and prayed to confess Jesus as her Lord and

as her Savior, and she was saved right there when she did it.

Praise God, that's when it happens when you realize your

need of a Savior, you realize your sin and you say I'm

confessing Jesus because I realized the Father has sent the

Son to be my savior, the savior of the world.

Has this happened? This confession happened in your

life. Verse 15 since whoever confesses

that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him and he and God

there it is again. God abides in him by the Spirit

now possessing the whole that that believer possessing the

Holy Spirit on the inside as he resides in us as those who

confessed Christ as Lord. Have you undeniably confessed

Jesus as Lord and have you undeniably received the Holy

Spirit dwelling in you? Absolute assurance of salvation

comes from undeniable evidence. Are you there yet #3 absolute

assurance of salvation comes from the undeniable evidence of

love for God, love for God. Listen to verse 16 and 17 again.

So we have come to know John says, and to believe the love

that God has for us before we get to our love for God.

John starts where it all starts with God's love for us.

Y'all if salvation. We're a diamond of massive

proportion that we could hang from the ceiling and let the

light shine and reflect off every individual facet of it.

We could sit here and describe all the unique dimensions and

facets of our salvation because it's so much to describe.

It is being born again. It's being made alive.

It's being made a new creation, the old being gone and the new

coming. It's being forgiven of your sin.

It's being rescued from death. It's being rescued from hell.

It is being freed from shame and guilt and bondage to sin.

It is redemption. It is purification.

It is justification. It is the reception of Christ's

righteousness. It's adoption into God's family.

It's eternal life. And I'll run out of breath

telling you all it is. We could keep going.

Salvation is all of these things and more.

But the facet of salvation that John is wanting to point out to

us this morning is a bone marrow deep awareness of God's love for

you and me. Salvation is ultimately a bone

deep awareness that God loves you.

And it's your response to that realization that God loves you.

We've come to note which John says and still know and we have

come to believe and still believe the love that God has

for us. Y'all, to attempt to describe

the love of God for you and for me is to try something that will

take us to a loss of words. I feel the most feeble as a

preacher when I'm trying to tell you how much God loves you.

Paul describes it sort of like this.

It's, it's greater than life and death, it's greater than angels

or rulers. It's greater than things

present, past or things to come. It's greater than height or

depth and anything in creation. And the love of God is, is

greater than we can put into words and nothing can separate

us from it. Why?

Because God is love. We looked at this last week, how

God and his character and nature is this word in the Greek New

Testament that means agape, that means God has chosen to, to, to

love you. Why?

Because in his character and in his nature, he is love.

Love that is not one activity God picks out on Monday morning.

Love is what informs and drives and motivates everything God

does and all that He is. God is love.

Some people struggle with the idea that God could love them.

We talked about this last week. If you missed it, I want to

repeat it, even if you didn't miss it, because this is worth

taking home. Some people struggle with the

fact that God could love them, and to be honest, they're

thinking about how unlovely they are.

And when it comes to our sin and our natural tries at

righteousness, you would be right.

We're unlovely compared to God's righteousness.

We can never earn his favor or earn his love.

But maybe you've made some really big mistakes and you're

thinking, well, even if I want to believe that God is love or I

want to receive Jesus, God could never forgive me.

God could never love me. And if God's love operated by

your human logic, you would be right.

You would be right because we can never earn God's love.

We can never be lovely enough for God to love us.

But praise God, God's love doesn't work by human logic.

God's love doesn't work on the fact that our love is always a

response to a condition of something being lovely.

But God doesn't say he loves you based on the condition of you

being lovely. God's word says he loves you on

the unconditional condition of he being loved.

God doesn't love you because you're you.

God loves you because he's God. And God is love in some ways.

If you feel like God couldn't love you, this is the, this is

the hard truth, the blunt truth. I'll say it to you in love, you

got to get over yourself. God loves you.

God loves you. It's just a matter of whether

you believe it or not because it has nothing to do with you being

lovely or unlovely. It has everything to do with God

being God. Do you know in your bones that

God loves you? Or do you have days when you

feel like he might not? You're still thinking about you

instead of thinking about God. Absolute assurance of salvation

comes when you realize the depth of the love of God for you.

Listen to what famous preacher by the name of Charles Spurgeon

said about grasping God's love for us.

Listen to this. Get the thought in your head for

a minute. God loves me, not merely bears

with me, thinks of me, feeds me, but loves me.

Oh, this is a very sweet thing to feel that we have the love of

a dear wife or a kind husband, and there is much sweetness in

the love of a fond child or a tender mother.

But to think that God loves me, this is infinitely better.

Who is it that loves you? God, the Maker of heaven and

earth, the Almighty All in all, does He love me, even He?

If all men and all angels, and all the living creatures there

that are before the Throne loved me, it were nothing to this the

Infinite. One loves me and who is it that

he loves me? The text saith us.

We love him because he first loved us by this.

But this is the personal point. He loves me.

An insignificant nobody full of sin, who deserves to be in hell,

who loves him so little in return.

God loves me. Have you realized God loves you

and that can ever change? Are you there yet?

John then says next verse 16 end of it.

God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God and God

abides in him. Is He?

To truly know the love of God, y'all produces from the depths

within you a love for God in return.

We love not because we first loved him, but because He first

loved us. This is where love of God comes

from. Love of God doesn't come from

because somebody's better than somebody else, so they love God

and somebody else doesn't. That's how we think.

Love of God comes when you realize God loves you

unconditionally. And when you receive that love,

you can't help but love back. You can't help but reciprocate

it back verse 17 by this is love perfected with us.

Now John's not talking about being perfect in terms of

righteous practical behavior. That's not what he's talking

about. He's using that word perfected

in a different way by this love is perfected with us so that we

we may have confidence for the day of judgement because as he

is so also are we in this world. All right, so by this, and the

reality is the reality of God abiding in US and us and him,

that's John's way of saying salvation.

All right, so by perfected, John means that as we abide in God

and God in us, the love of God reaches its intended goal, its

intended point. It achieves its purpose in the

sense that when we realize God's love for us and it produces in

US a love back toward God and a love towards one another, that's

when God's love is perfected than us, when it actually

achieves its design, when we receive it and then we show it.

John says when salvation is genuine, when we've received

really the love of God and the love of God is shown back out,

that's when God's love is perfected in US.

That's when it achieves its point, love towards God and man

as we abide in God and he and us producing love and confidence

before God. Listen to what John says here.

It literally produces a confidence in us for the day of

judgement. Now this is what verse 17 says.

Listen to it by this is love perfected with us so that we may

have confidence for the day of judgement.

If there is one day that you want to have confidence for of

all days, it is this day. It's not the day of your big

interview. It's not the day of the big

presentation. It's not the day of the sale.

It's not the day of your wedding or proposal.

The day you want to have confidence for men and women,

ladies and gentlemen, friends, boys and girls, is the day you

stand before your maker. This is the day you want to have

confidence for. How do you have confidence for

that day? Literally the word confidence.

There is a word that means freedom of speech, like an

ability to feel good about stating your status.

OK, so think about it like this. Let's say you're on the way home

today and blue lights are all the sudden behind you and sure

enough, you pull over. But you know what?

You know between you and God, you weren't in the wrong.

You weren't speeding. You didn't run a red light.

Your tail lights aren't out. You don't know why he's pulling

you over. But there was a car about 10

seconds earlier that flew by you at about 100 miles an hour that

look just like your car. And you know, you weren't in the

wrong. You know you saw somebody in the

wrong. And you it's pretty clear he got

the wrong guy. But now he's walking up to your

window for judgement. And if you're not, if you know,

if you're confident of your status when he goes to say, hey,

I mean, what's going on? What are you going to say?

I was speeding. Forgive me, Sir.

I all my heart before you. I I know nothing that I did to

violate the law. I I I declare I'm I'm innocent.

Think what you wanted is that other truck that just drove by

that looked just like mine, right?

You you're what I'm trying to say.

You're given a confidence to speak up when you're aware of

your status is right when when when you're aware your status

with God is right because of Jesus's righteousness in your

place. You show up confident on the day

of judgment before Almighty God. Now I'm not saying you're going

to start talking on that day. I'm just saying you're going to

feel confident for that day, probably going to bow in silence

to put your face on the floor before the glory of Jesus on

that day. But what is this?

What does this mean right? So he says here, John says

living in the love of God and love for God produces in us this

amazing confidence for the day of judgment.

I want to be clear about the day of judgment.

The Day of Judgment is the day we'll stand before our Maker to

give an account of our lives. The Day of Judgment is the day

we're going to face the verdict of heaven or hell, eternal

paradise or eternal punishment. It's the day when unrepentant

sinners who have refused Jesus are sentenced to an everlasting

hell. And it's a day when sinners who

have repented and trusted Jesus will be invited into everlasting

life. The two verdicts could not be

more different. It will all be based on whether

you've received or rejected Jesus.

This is what will happen on the day of Judgment and a day that

could strike terror in your souls.

The Bible says you can have absolute, complete confidence

for that day. Are you there yet?

Are you there yet? Because you've trusted Jesus

Christ as your Lord and Savior, confessed him as Lord, you've

received the Holy Spirit, You've realized in your bones God loves

you. You can't help but love Him in

return. And the love of God's being

perfected in you because you're loving God back and loving

others and you've got confidence for the day of judgment as He

is. John says we as so we are.

So are we also in this or what does that mean?

He's comparing now our status because of those who've been

saved with the connection with Christ as he is right?

Listen to this. As Jesus abides in the Father,

so do we. As Christ is the Son of God,

we've become as those that have been saved, the adopted sons and

daughters of God. As Christ is righteous, we have

his righteousness. And as Christ is loved by the

Father, so we too have been loved by the Father.

So our confidence from the day of judgement comes from the

assurance of knowing. Listen to this.

Our confidence to stand before God in the day of judgment comes

from the fact that we know that God will treat us just like He's

treated his one and only Son, because our lives are in him.

Our righteousness is his shared with us.

He by His blood has forgiven us of our sin.

And we're going to be ushered into the presence of Almighty

God because of Christ as He is, so also are we.

Are you there yet? Are you there yet?

You can have absolute assurance of salvation because of

undeniable evidence. You've confessed Jesus as Lord,

you possess the Holy Spirit, and because of love for God, love

for God #4 absolute assurance of salvation comes from the

undeniable evidence of fourthly, No Fear.

No Fear. This is closely connected to

what we just processed. But this is verse 18.

John gets even more clear. He says there is No Fear in

love, but perfect love cast out. Fear for fear has to do with

punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

You see, living in love of God and living in love with God

eliminates all fear of punishment from God.

There's No Fear in love. Love and fear don't mix.

They don't mingle. Love and fear cannot coexist

towards God in the same heart. So if we're afraid, if you're

someone who's still afraid of what's going to happen when you

stand before God, you're not yet fully living in the love all God

for you, because love for God and fear of God and fear of

what's going to happen on that day can't coexist in the same

heart. Not someone who's truly received

fully the love of God. General Stonewall Jackson is

noted to have said the following statement.

He said my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in

battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my

death. I do not concern myself about

that, but to always be ready no matter when it may overtake me.

That is the way all men should live.

And then all would be equally brave when you know the love of

God for you, because you trusted in Jesus Christ as your Savior,

and you know God ordained the day that you took your first

breath. And in God's Providence and

sovereignty, He knows the day you'll take your last.

You can live each day without fear.

Christian, listen to me. You ought not fear death.

I'm going to say it one more time that needs an Amen.

You ought not fear death. The day you take your last

breath is a day you get to see your Savior eye to eye, face to

face. It's a day when the life that

God is planned and prepared for those He loves are ushered into

a reality that no words could describe this side of heaven.

The day you take your last is the day you walk into His

presence forever. Nothing can snatch you out of

His hand. And the day you stand before

judgement, if you're covered by the blood of Jesus and praise

God, praise God. I don't have to give an account

for my sin. I'm going to get to see the one

who died in my place. I'm going to get to walk in to

the presence of my Savior. You don't have to fear.

If you know the love of God what Jesus has done for you, you can

have No Fear. Are you there yet #5 Absolute

assurance of salvation comes from the undeniable evidence of

love for others, Love for others.

This is verse 19 through 21. It says here John writes, we

love because he first loved us. If we live in God and God lives

in US and God is love, guess what you're going to do?

I thought it was more obvious than that.

You're going to love like you're not going to have to make

yourself do it. You're going to, you're not

going to have to put it on your To Do List.

You're not going to have to set a reminder on your phone.

You live in God and God lives in you and God is love.

You're going to John says this is just going to happen.

If your salvation is genuine, this is going to happen.

This is how you can know if you've been truly saved.

And John says if you haven't or you don't love, then listen to

what he says. Verse 2221.

If anyone says I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.

I love John. I wish I could have a

conversation with him. He'd said a lot of things

straight in my life. For Hugh does not love his

brother, whom he has see, has seen, cannot love God, whom he

has not seen. And this commandment we have

from him, whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Now, you need to be reminded there that the word hate there

in John's usage does not mean like digging a hole and throwing

somebody in it. All right?

Hate is anything less than love, and love is acting for the good

of someone else at your own expense.

You can do nothing and be hating.

All you got to do is turn your head the other way and ignore

the obvious need in front of you that you could have met.

He who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, the

book of James says, is sin. Sin is hate.

Hate towards God and man to anything less than love in our

lives is hate. So John says, you claim to say I

love God, but don't act sacrificially for the good of

others in your life when you see obvious needs that God could use

you to me and you say you love God.

John says point blank to your face, you're a liar.

It's not true. Now what John is not trying to

say is that loving people is easier than loving God.

We all know that's not necessarily the case.

Don't know some hard to love people, come on that make you

uncomfortable. You can say Amen, I know some

hard to love people. But John's point is that listen,

you're given more opportunity on the daily to act sacrificially

for one another, then you're given up, you know, practical

opportunity on a daily basis to show love towards God.

So if you're not doing it towards those in your life, even

those closest to you, your spouse, your kids, your family,

your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, and even

strangers, if that's not happening in your daily life,

don't act like you love toward you.

You love God. You don't unless it's first

happening with the people in your life.

If God lives in you and you live in God, and God is love, guess

what you're going to do? John says you can have love

towards others. Jesus says this, If you love me,

you will obey my commands. Listen to what 1 preacher said

you said. Brothers and sisters, one of the

main reasons why so many professing Christians have

little confidence with God and little boldness is because their

lives are not devoted to the salvation of the lost and to the

glory of God, but rather instead are devoted to providing earthly

security and comfort for themselves and their families.

What he's saying is we get so caught up in the things of this

world as Christians and pursuing what we think should give us

earthly security. We don't have earthly confidence

toward God because we're living for our Kingdom instead of His

Kingdom, at living for what the world says we should love rather

than what God says we should love, and it messes with our

confidence. Absolute assurance of salvation

comes from undeniable evidence. That final undeniable evidence

is love for others. So here's what we've walked

through. You ready?

I'm asking you, are you there yet?

Absolute assurance of salvation comes from undeniable evidence.

What is that undeniable evidence?

Let me put it in a little different order.

Number one is confessing Jesus Christ is Lord, and then two,

the one we started with, it is possessing the Holy Spirit and

#3 it's love for God. You can't help but love Him back

if you know how much He loves you.

And then it's No Fear. No Fear in life, No Fear in

death, No Fear for the day of judgment.

And then finally, it's love towards others.

If you've received it, you can't help but show it.

Are you there yet? Are you there yet?

I'm going to ask you to bow your head and close your eyes.

Jesus knows right where you are. If you're not at the final

destination of absolute assurance of your salvation,

would you be willing to do something about it this morning?

Maybe it's because you need to be saved.

You need to trust Christ. You need to confess Jesus as

Lord, just like that young lady named Allie did in the first

service. She just walked right up to me

where from where she was sitting.

She said, Pastor Carl, I really don't have the words to say, but

I want to trust Jesus as my Savior.

Do you need to do the same thing?

Would you step out and come in a moment when we stand and sing?

Or if you have, are you lacking confidence in any of those

categories? Is there a lack of undeniable

evidence? And if so, do you need to

confess that before Lord? Do you need to ask God to change

something in your life, to let go of something?

Do you need to come and get it on your knees at this altar and

say, God, I'm lacking in this area?

Would you show me why? Or God already know why?

I just need to tell it tell you or you already know, but I just

need to be honest with you God, I need you to redirect me in

this area because it's causing me a crisis of confidence in my

life and living for you now and even on the day of judgement.

God give me absolute assurance. Help me to see this undeniable

evidence in my life. I'm going to ask you to respond

as the Lord leads you as we worship heavenly Father.

I pray in just the next few moments that we would do

business with you unashamed to do it before men, as we'll stand

before you unashamed one day and you unashamed of us.

Lord Jesus, you came and bore the shame for us so that we

could walk free of our sin and shame because of your blood.

Father, I want to thank you for the confidence you've allowed us

to have. I want to pray for every person

in this room and watching online that they wouldn't walk out of

the room today or walk away from the screen until they have

absolute assurance of their salvation.

Let it be, Lord Jesus, we pray in your name, Amen.

Would you stand with me? Cheers family.