Do you ever feel like your security with God depends on your mood or how well you performed this week? How might you move from merely "hoping" you're saved to the unshakable certainty that you truly belong to Him?

Pastors Elliot Ramos and Michael Carter finish up the 1 John series by looking at the closing verses of 1 John 5. They examine how to anchor your faith in the historical facts of the gospel rather than the shifting sands of emotional highs and experiences.

-True assurance isn't found in a specific feeling or a "spiritual license," but rests entirely on the blood of Jesus and the conviction that His work on the cross was effective and sufficient for your sin.

-While salvation is never earned through effort, a genuine change in nature naturally produces new desires and fruit; not to prove your worth, but as a natural byproduct of abiding in a relationship with God.

-Because Jesus is the physical revelation of the Father, it is impossible to truly know God apart from Him; any other path or religious attempt to reach God on our own terms eventually leads back to the trap of idolatry.

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