#1573 Podemos ou não ter agora a certeza da salvação? Mario Persona

The certainty of the believer's eternal salvation is something that the Word of God gives us in several passages, both directly and figuratively. "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God" (1 John 5:1), and this new birth did not even begin with our own decision, nor "of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1:13). If we believe in Christ, it is because we have been "born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God" (1 Peter 1:23). "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8-9). I am not a pastor, priest, or clergyman. I am not affiliated with any denomination or religious organization. I congregate only in the name of the Lord outside the denominational system, without temples, leaders, priests, tithes, and similar things. The ideas here are not originally mine, but are the fruit of what I have learned from the Word of God outside of denominational systems with brothers gathered in the name of the Lord, and also from authors of other eras who gathered in this way, such as J. G. Bellett, C. H. Brown, J. N. Darby, E. Dennett, W. W. Fereday, J. L. Harris, W. Kelly, C. H. Mackintosh, A. Miller, F. G. Patterson, A. J. Pollock, H. L. Rossier, H. Smith, C. Stanley, W. Trotter, G. V. Wigram, and many others.