Can a person really know for sure that they have eternal life? Is it arrogant for a person to presume that he or she will go to heaven when they die?

Does the Bible give us any certainty on these important questions?

Well, in this series that we are calling, You Can Know, Scott Pauley will lead us through

1st John to find Bible answers that will lead to Blessed Assurance. Be sure to stay tuned to

learn how you can get our new resource, the 23 birth marks of the believer. And now,

let's join Scott Pauli.

There are no perfect Christians. Let me repeat that. There is no such thing as a believer who has

reached a place of sinless perfection. There's only one person

that's ever walked this planet that was sinless and perfect, and that's the God man, the perfect

man, the Lord Jesus Christ, and we will not be perfect until, according to 1 John, we see him and we are made like him. For the record,

I'm looking forward to that day because I'm so sick of battling myself and fighting against

sin and dealing with the effects of the fall in this world. And I know so many of you feel the

exact same way. So the question is, if there's no such thing as a perfect Christian,

how can we know for certain that our sins have been forgiven?

How can we know that we truly belong to the Lord and he belongs to us?

In a word, I would say it this way,

because it is not about you being a perfect Christian,

it is rather about our perfect Christ. Salvation never rest on the merit of the sinner.

It always rest on the merit of the Savior. We return today in our study in 1 John to these beautiful

birth marks of a believer. And they're repeated throughout the book, but they're very definite,

very specific. You remember that the first one was that we believe and have been born again.

The second was that not only have we put our faith in Christ and experienced the new birth,

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