Once we believe something with heart, it becomes fixed and steadfast and no one, including ourselves, can talk to us out of it -even when it’s not the truth.
Unfortunately, many people believe the truth of the good news of Jesus, but they have not been persuaded of the truth by the Spirit within their. hearts.
When the Spirit persuades us of the truth of Jesus we have the assurance of salvation and cannot be moved. It would take God Himself to convince us otherwise.
We come to believe all that we believe because someone or something persuaded us to believe it to be true. This is the “Trust and Authority Principle.
Faith from the heart is enduring. Once we believe something with the heart, it becomes fixed and steadfast The steadfastness of heart belief is made evident by our certainty of the Lord’s salvation. When we believe the good news with our hearts, we are made right with God as the scriptures declare.
“For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved” -Romans 10:10.
When we become persuaded of God and convinced of the good news, it is “the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.” Romans 1:16).
Intellectual belief is not saving faith. Intellectual delivers often struggle with feeling assured of their salvation. It is possible for them to be swayed by persuasive arguments, knocked off course by a difficult life experience, and if they don’t feel saved they deny what they do feel and try harder to believe,
They do their very best to “be saved” by trying to believe the good news of the Gospel, but because they have not been persuaded of this truth by the Spirit within their hearts, they lack “assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). When we know the truth in our hearts we have the assurance of salvation and cannot be moved. It would take God Himself to convince us otherwise. When the Spirit has persuaded us of the truth in our hearts, we are confidently assured of our place with God. If we do not believe with our hearts, then we are not saved.
No person or circumstance can ever talk me out of what I believe to be the truth in my heart. I did not decide to believe and become saved, the Spirit convinced me off the truth and as an outcome. I believed.
People who struggle with the assurance of their salvation may want the assurance may want to determine if they have believed with their heart, or they only have a mental assent of the Gospel (good news).
We are persuaded by the truth, not by effort or determination to believe, but because we have been convinced of the truth by someone or something that we trust and know has greater knowledge and understanding than we possess ourselves. This is why unless someone with greater influence than God comes along and convinces me otherwise, I will continue to believe and be assured of my salvation. I believe because the Spirit convinced me the truth of the Gospel.
We come to believe all that we believe because someone or something persuaded us to believe it is true. Everything that we currently believe was because we were persuaded of it. Belief is always the outcome of having been persuaded by some outside force. Once we are persuaded it requires someone or something that we trust and who holds a higher authority of knowledge to talk us out of what we believe.
We can know how to become a believer in Christ with knowledge and study of the. Bible. But, unless God shines His light into our hearts and brings about this belief, we cannot be saved.
We can believe the scriptures with our intellect and still never be transformed by them. Unless God “opens the eyes of your heart,” We cannot have faith. God said, “Light shall shine out of darkness is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4:6).
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