Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, that you would go to heaven?  1 John 5:13 says, "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may KNOW that you have eternal life."  You CAN know for certain!  The problem is that some of you don't know if you're saved or not.  There are many good moral people who attend church regularly who don't know if they are saved or not!  I'm going to tell you what the Bible says about how YOU can know for sure if you are saved!

                    You might be asking, "What do I need to be saved from?"  We are saved from 1) the penalty of sin (spiritual death - Romans 6:23); 2) the power of sin, and 3) the presence of sin (eventually).  The Bible says in Romans 3:23 that All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  That means that each one of us is a sinner, and is in need of salvation.  We can't save ourselves, or do anything on our own to merit salvation or God's grace.  The Bible says in Romans 6:23 that "The wages of sin is death..."  That's the penalty for sin...spiritual death.  But, there IS good news!  Romans 5:8 says "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."  Christ took upon Himself the sin of the entire world, past, present and future!  He died, and was buried, and rose again to pay the penalty for sin, and to purchase a place in heaven which He offers to us.  What do we have to do?  Romans 10:9-10 says "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;  for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."  You must believe with your heart, and confess with your mouth that Jesus is God, that He died, was buried, and rose again.  That's all! Many people believe you might be saved because perhaps you've made a decision once in your life to follow Christ.   This is good, and may be true, but there are some evidences that will PROVE your salvation is genuine.  They are: