A gospel preacher was talking to a woman who said she knew she was saved. The preacher said, “How do you know you are saved?”<\/p>\n
She made the following reply, “I was attending a religious service one time and all of a sudden I felt light as a feather-I felt I was floating-I felt I was saved.”<\/p>\n
The preacher asked the woman, “Were you light as a feather?”<\/p>\n
“Of course not,” she said. “Were you really floating”?<\/p>\n
“Certainly not.”<\/p>\n
“Were you saved”?<\/p>\n
“Oh, yes, I was saved.”<\/p>\n
The preacher then asked this significant question, “Lady, if you could not trust your feelings about the first two things, why do you trust your feelings about the third thing? Even though you felt light as a feather, that didn’t make it so. Even though you felt like you were floating and because you felt like you were saved, that didn’t make it so.”<\/p>\n
God’s word tells us how we may know for sure we are saved. “Faith comes by hearing the word of God<\/em>” (Romans 10:17). We are to walk by faith. The following texts will help to answer the question of how I can know I am saved: I John 5:13; John 6:45; Mark 16:16; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 2:38; Hebrews 5:8-9.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author Unknown via Seeking Things Above A gospel preacher was talking to a woman who said she knew she was saved. The preacher said, “How do you know you are saved?” She made the following reply, “I was attending a religious service one time and all of a sudden I felt light as a feather-I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[546,47],"class_list":["post-97319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-feelings","tag-salvation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11293,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/shady-lane-the-preacher-and-the-boy\/","url_meta":{"origin":97319,"position":0},"title":"Shady Lane, the Preacher, and the Boy","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Ken McDaniel via\u00a0Echo of Truth, Vol. 3, No. 29, July 16, 1995 During a recent gospel meeting that I preached, the local evangelist and I went calling on a few individuals in hopes of motivating some to faithfulness and setting up Bible studies with others who have not yet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Two-Men-in-a-Boat-300x239.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":28235,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/can-we-trust-our-feelings-about-salvation\/","url_meta":{"origin":97319,"position":1},"title":"Can We Trust Our Feelings About Salvation?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Mike Johnson via\u00a0simplebiblestudies.com Some people claim to rely solely on their feelings for assurance of personal salvation. 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