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Originally Posted by Timmy
You don't know. Nobody does.
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Bingo! We are all trusting the Lord for our salvation, but until we find out for sure our name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, I don't know, and neither does anyone else know FOR SURE.
I do know that we can TRUST that we are being saved by God's mercy and grace, by applying the principles of scripture to our life, ridding ourselves of any idolatry in our hearts (that is the worship of anything other than the Lord), loving the Lord with all our heart, and our brethren too... but we won't KNOW for sure that we have got it all right.... until the Book of Life is opened, and we find our name written in it.
That is why we walk by faith Timmy.... faith is something that you can't see. It is something you are trusting in. It is very difficult to do as times, but with the Spirit of God indwelling us, that Spirit teaches us how to walk in faith towards God.
I love what Peter has to say about our eternal destination:
II Peter 1:5-11
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
If we have the fruits of the spirit manifesting in our lives such as faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity... then Peter does give a promise that if we do these things, an entrance SHALL be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of Jesus.
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