Can I have assurance of salvation? (What I Didn't Say on Sunday)
On Sunday I held up a bottle labeled honey . But the substance inside the bottle looked like ketchup. It smelled like ketchup. And it tasted like ketchup. We may call it a bottle of honey based on the label on the outside, but the evidence of everything on the inside says that it is just a mislabeled bottle of ketchup. In Acts 11:26 we have the first group of people labeled “Christian.” They didn’t label themselves. The Bible doesn’t explicitly say why, but there must have been something about them that reminded others of Christ. Many people claim the label Christian. But when the evidence is examined, what's on the inside doesn't always match the label on the outside. That’s what I said on Sunday. So, let’s talk about something today that I didn’t have much time to say on Sunday. Can you have assurance of salvation? Maybe you were at Liberty on Sunday and left unsettled. You left wondering, “Am I really saved?” Perhaps you are reading this post for the first time, but...





