It is so possible to have accurate knowledge about Mt. Everest
just because one has read a lot of books about it, it's terrain,
it's climate, it's steepness, it's topography and etc. While it's
one thing to have actually gone personally to Mt. Everest.
Let both of them talk about Mt. Everest and you will find the
distinct, description of the one who has actually gone there. The
one who has gone there describes it differently than the one who
just read it in books. There is a world of difference between
knowing about salvation and knowing salvation. there is a mountain
of difference between head knowledge and experiential
knowledge.
Head knowledge stops just there in the head while experiential
knowledge involves the totality of the sinner, primarily his
will.
it is so possible to know about pertinent verses in the Bible about
how to be saved and give an orthodox "how-to" about salvation, but
himself outside the pale of salvation. Not all who pray the modern
practice of 'sinners prayer' are saved.
Only those who have trusted alone in the Lord Jesus Christ for
salvation is saved and therefore a real Christian. There are
pastors and church workers who later on realized that they are not
yet saved during their stint as a pastor of a church when they got
really saved.
How do we know that we are saved? 1) Have i seen my utter
sinfulness and helplessness regarding righteousness and salvation?
if Yes, then
2) do you find the work of Christ alone in the cross of Calvary as
the only work sufficient to fill that utter lack of
righteousness?
Do you find His work alone all-sufficient for salvation nothing and
no one else?
Are you trusting in that one finished work alone?
If you have prayed the 'sinner's prayer', are you trusting in the
prayer you made to Christ or are you trusting in Christ alone for
salvation?
If your answer is 'yes' to the latter question and the rest of the
questions in number two, then you are saved.
Praise God!!!!!!
