When coming along side someone to engage in discipleship with them, after they come to salvation there may be an experience where one questions if they were truly saved. Reading C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters shows an insight into the probably insight into Satan's working - he may have lost the battle for the soul, but the battle for the will is still possible. A nominal Christian is a non-threat.

So when someone asks you if they are saved what route do you take? Do you just ask them if they prayed a prayer for God to save them? Did they have an emotional experience? Can they remember that changed heart experience?

In and of themselves these might not be totally wrong to ask per se. However, these questions tend to point the wrong way. They point to man and his determination of something only God can do. They ask to look in to one's self and search for the truth. Where does ultimate truth lie - the truth of salvation? Is it not Christ's atoning work on the cross? Are we not changed from putting ourselves first to making Christ our Lord and our God? An emotional experience can produce wheat that is quickly burned up from being in rocky soil. But the death and resurrection of Jesus at Calvary is what saves. Not a memory. Not an emotion. Not the works of man.

We have an eternal High Priest who lives o make intercession for us (Hebrews 8:6). Our intercessor was not only our perfect sacrifice but He enters into the Holy of Holys and He sits on the throne (Hebrews 8:1). In the earthly temple there was no seat for the priest to sit. The only place to sit is the place reserved for God Almighty. The seat is the Tabernacle the very place where God resides and sin is atoned for perfect. Our assurance of salvation rest on our Lord Jesus Christ dying on the cross, being raised from the death, and offering the Perfect Sacrifice as our Lord and our God. We don't look within - we look up!

That is the lesson is discipleship today that Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives today.

https://youtu.be/sqrPvH-divk