How Can I Know for Sure?

Hi everyone,

Recently I have had a number of Youtube emails from a fellow Christian Youtuber who asked me the question:

Christian Youtuber

I've been watching some of your videos and have a question, How can I know for sure that I am saved?



My Reply

Thanks for your question. 

Romans 10:9-10 tells us, "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."

There must be a confession on our lips "Jesus is Lord", this confession will change everything and we will speak for Christ and our speech will be graced with His words. There must also be a change of belief in our heart, which means our life attitude will change and we will walk for Christ each and every day. In other words we will be the Lord's Ambassador and speak on His behalf and serve Him in all that we do, (this does not mean we leave our job and enter active ministry, it means we do our job in the name of Christ.)

If you watch my video "Repent and Sin No More" I believe it encapsulates the Biblical truth in relation to this subject.

There is more to be said on this matter and I would be happy to speak further with you.

Christian Youtuber Reply

Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I live in Atlanta GA USA, and there is so much prosperity gospel and OSAS, once saved always saved, preaching going on here, I am confused. I was saved back when I was about 7 years old, I'm 52 now, and I have always loved and depended on the Lord, but what concerns me is sin. I live a pretty clean life, but I do sin occasionally and it concerns me that it might keep me from entering heaven. I believe that the blood of Jesus is sufficient to cleanse me, but do I have to worry every time I sin. I mean, really, nobody is going from this day forth without sinning. I mean if I did that, somebody would at lease write a book about me. "Bill never Sinned". No, I don't think that's going to happen. Your thoughts?

My Reply

I understand your point and agree with much of what you are saying. 

Firstly I would reccomend you watch my video "Repent and Sin No More" as that sermon should give you all the answers you need on this subject. 

However, I will add, you are right, none of us have completely stopped sinning, but the difference between True Christians and unbelievers is we have the right to repentance. Now repentance should not be used as a cover for sin, in the sense that we plan to have a big night of sin and then plan to repent the following day. Sin should be rare and not the norm. Repentance means to turn our backs on sin and walk away from it. However, when we do sin, we need to come right back to God in a humble state of repentance and ask for His forgiveness. This act of humility proves that we are His people and it separates us from the world.

The problem I see in the CHurch today is the teaching that no matter what you do, you cannot lose your salvation. This is a warped and watered down version of the truth. Charles Stanley and John McCarthur teach that you can sin all you want and never lose your salvation. But Scripture teaches otherwise, as I point out in my sermon "Once Saved, Always Saved?".

I hope this has helped you. I will be uploading the sermon "Once Saved, Always Saved?" to Youtube.

Bless you abundantly in Christ's wonderful name

Christian Youtuber Reply

Thanks for responding again, I appreciate your insights. But I wanted to share something with you. I was watching Joyce Meyer today and kind of had a breakthrough by something she said. She said, "God is more interested in having a relationship with you than he is interested in making you perfect". I thought "WOW", that really struck a chord in me because I have been totally neglecting my relationship with Him because I'm trying so hard to become perfect, and we both know that ain't going to happen! We cannot perfect ourselves, that's why He went to the cross. So, I'm going to focus on building my relationship with Him, sending my love up to Him and letting Him love me back, the way I am. I trust that building that relationship with Him will make me more like Him. Instead of beating myself up and feeling unworthy and focusing on the negative, I'm going to bask in His love and let it work on me. If I feel like he loves me and approves of me, I can let that love shine to others, instead of feeling defeated and negative all the time.


My Reply

We were never discussing perfection, we were discussing the sin nature. It is vitally important that you don't equate turning your back on sin and walking in holiness as striving for a perfection which cannot be attained. If you do that, then you will stop striving to walk as Christ walked and settle into accepting the promptings of the sin nature and responding to it.

He. 12:14 "Without holiness no-one will see the Lord."
Holiness is an an evidence of being a true Christian, and if God is dealing with you on this issue I think that is something you must not reject just because it makes you feel uncomfortable.

We must be very careful of anyone who comes along and helps you to feel comfortable in your sin. It's obvious to me that God is dealing with you on this issue, yet you say, "Instead of beating myself up and feeling unworthy and focusing on the negative," you see it as a negative, but God calls all men to repentance, and that is a gift that you should treasure. And to put it bluntly, "we are unworthy", no one is worthy is salvation, we are all wretched in our sin state, yet now we are saved, we are to be new creatures in Christ, walking in holiness and filled with the Spirit of God.

The Word of God is clear, "Unless you repent you to will perish." Do not despise God's dealings with you but see it as a blessing from above. I know Christians who claim to have incredible relationships with Jesus, yet they are chronic sinners, getting drunk all the time, getting stoned, sleeping around, watching porn, the Word tells us "That those who live like this will not inherit the Kingdom of God."

The modern gospel focus' entirely on the consecration which is received when we first accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour. We are absolutely clean at slavation "IF" we repent and turn our backs on our old life. But this modern gospel puts nearly no emphasis upon walking in holiness by being filled with the Spirit daily and turning our backs on the sin nature, therefore the modern church is dreadfully sinful and corrupt. This is why Paul and Peter etc so often list off sins in their letters and tell the believers to walk away from all such things. see Ephesians 4:22-32, Colossians 3:8-10 and there are other places.

Ep. 4:17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 

Paul is speaking to Church abiding believers, and he is focussing upon the sins which they still commit and tells them to stop involving themselves in them. He tells them to get to the work of resisting the sin nature. Now you think that is beating yourself up and focussing on the negative, yet true repentance is edifying and releasing, it sets you free and enables you to walk in the Spirit, because without repentance the Holy Spirit will not fill you and use you.

Please watch the videos "Repent and Sin No More" and "Does Jesus Know You" as well as "Once Saved, Always Saved???" they will be the 3 most liberating sermons in your Christian walk.


I hope this blog has helped you as I'm sure this Youtuber is not alone in his situation.

Blessings to you all
Rob