Thought for Today - May 17
God's Promises When We Need Assurance of Salvation
By: Robert A. Searles
"Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him. I will set him on high because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation." Psalm 91: 14-16
"Who is a god like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depth of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and thy mercy to Abraham. which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. ." Micah 7: 18-20
"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, tha whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, , neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest,that they are wrought in God." John 3: 14-21
"Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her, thy brother shall rise again. Matha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this?" John 11:21-26
"And at midnight Paul and Silias prayed, and sang prises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly theree was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately, all the doors were opened, and every one's b ands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awqaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew his sword and would have killed himself, suposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, do thyself no harm; for we are all here, Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling and fellk diwn before Paul and Silias, and brought them out, and sid, sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they wsaid, believe o9n the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be3 saved, and thy house. And they soaje ybto him the word of the Lorde, and to all that were in his house. Ane he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their wgtripes; and was baptised, he and ll his straightway. And when he had brought them into his house he sat meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with ll his house." Acts 16: 25-34
"If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself; he that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the son hath life, and he that hath not the son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye my believe on the name of the Son of God."1 John 5: 9-13
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