February 13 2026

Friday February 13

The Assurance of Our Salvation

Ephesians 6:17

“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

Today we're talking about the armor of God that we must put on if we're going to stand against the wiles of the devil. In Ephesians 6:17, we read about the helmet of salvation that we must continuously keep on our heads, keep surrounding our mind.

This is so important. Taking up the helmet of salvation and putting it on means that we are having confidence that we are God's children. We are in His family. You see the helmet protects us from the biggest lie of the devil that we are not safe in Jesus Christ. Listen carefully. One of Satan's most crippling attacks is to make believers feel insecure. Their insecurity produces paralysis. If a Christian thinks, "I might not be saved," then they stop moving forward.

What we're talking about is the assurance of our salvation. If we don't have the assurance of our salvation, we stop serving the Lord. We stop praying boldly. We stop living with joy in our lives. We become fearful, anxious and unstable in our walk with God. This is so important. This thing of assurance of salvation. Why do we lose our assurance of our salvation? Because the assurance of our salvation is the joy we are experiencing when we know that we are saved and safe!

In 1 John chapter 1, John is talking about the eternal life that was manifest to him. He wrote: “We have seen, we bear witness, we declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us”. Why? John saw Jesus personally for three and a half years and walked and talked with Him. He goes on to write: "That which we have seen and heard, we declare to you that you also may have fellowship with us. Truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. These things we write to you that your joy may be full." 

My friend, what John is writing about in the book of First John is how we can have assurance of our salvation. Here's the fact. Either we have been saved or we've not been saved. That's why assurance of salvation deals with these two issues. In this epistle John gives three series of tests. The test of obedience, the test of love, and the test of truth. I really encourage you to read the Epistle of First John if you're dealing with doubt and saying to yourself: "I'm not sure I'm saved. I wonder did I ever get saved? I prayed a prayer when I was a child, but now, I don't know that I’ve ever truly been born again. Yes, I got baptized, but I don't know that Jesus is my savior. I don't have that assurance of salvation."

John gives three series of tests, as I said, and the tests have to do first with sonship. Are you really a son of the Father? You really in the family? Secondly, there is the test of fellowship. You can be saved and lose fellowship with God. The following verses in 1 John 1:5-10 have to do with that. They basically say that if we have fellowship with Him, we walk in the light as He is in the light. If we sin, we can lose that fellowship. But if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Then we love Him. We walk in His truth and we keep His commandments. We're obedient.

The devil doesn't want you to have the assurance of your salvation even when you're saved. So that's why John writes in 1 John 5:11-13 “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.” My friend, your eternal life is not in who you are and what you do and what you can do for God. Your eternal life is in Jesus Christ. 

Jesus tells us in John 10:28-29: “And I give them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand”. Romans 8:38-39 also assures us: “For I'm persuaded that neither death nor life nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God that's in Christ Jesus our Lord”. My friend, this is the helmet, this is the settled truth. I belong to Christ. I'm kept by Christ and I'll be brought home by Christ today.

Keep on that helmet of salvation on 24/7 and then you can cast down that lie from the devil  that you're not God's son. You're not God's child.

God bless you, and may you have a wonderful, wonderful day.