Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. So let's begin in a word of prayer and let's just dive right in this we got a

phenomenal text today phenomenal passage so father I pray now as we look into your

word that you will give us great insight and understanding

as we study your word, what a joy it is for us to study your word, and I pray for these men that you would

richly bless them in Christ's name, amen. Okay we're in 1st John 5 and

verse 13 first John 5 verse 13 first john five verse thirteen and this is the signature text for the whole

book of first john so this this verse really gives the purpose for the book of 1st John.

He writes, these things I've written to you who believe in the name of the son of God so that you may know that you have

eternal life. The key word there is no that you may know that you have eternal life. That's why the book of First

John was written to provide the basis for assurance of salvation. Now the Gospel of John was written so that you might

know how to be saved. First John is written that you might know that you are saved.

And so this is a very important matter.

And by way of introduction there are some reasons why people lack assurance of

salvation and I want to give you five reasons why I think people lack assurance of salvation.

The first is, they have sat under such shallow teaching of the word of God that basically they don't know enough

to have assurance of salvation. They don't have enough sound doctrine. They don't

have enough theology. They really do not understand

beyond just an embryonic introduction to what Jesus did at the cross.

They just know something happened at the cross and they put their faith in him.

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