What are the signs that I have been saved?

(1) Desire to obey God’s commands:

Believers will desire to do everything that God tells them or has commanded through in His word in obedience.

John 14:21 (NKJV)

He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

1 John 2:5 (NKJV)

But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him

(2) There will be evidence of transformation in the believer’s lives and desires:

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

This wondrous work of regeneration is expressed in the glorious transformation of the believer’s life and desires.

(3) Believers will have a desire to repent continuously

The Bible tells us that all have sinned, but God is faithful to forgive and cleanse us. Believers will continually repent as God confronts them with their sins. It is not just a one-time event of repentance but constant repentance.

1 John 1:8-10 (NKJV)

8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

(4) Believers will experience and abiding peace.

Redeemed people experience a feeling of deep settled peace. The peace is rooted in the removal of sin and the establishment of communion with God.

Romans 5:1 (NKJV)

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

(5) Believers will have a sense of assurance and will not live in fear of judgement.

In salvation, the question of sin has been settled. Judgment and condemnation have passed.

Hebrews 2:15 (NKJV)

and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

(6) The necessity of doing good.

James 2:17 (NKJV)

Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

This not about working for our salvation rather, believers have a desire to do good works as a result of their salvation.

(7) The necessity to love and forgive others.

Matthew 6:14 (NKJV)

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Believers realize that they have been forgiven so much, and out of that appreciation, they forgive others who might have hurt them. Most importantly, believers do so out of love for people.

(8) Desire not to live according to the flesh.

Galatians 5:24 (NKJV)

And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

When believers find themselves desiring something, they grow a desire to kill it.

(9) The necessity to love the truth and walk in the light.

2 Thessalonians 2:10 (NKJV)

and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Believers love the truth and walk in the light because Jesus is the truth and the light. Believers, therefore, are always seeking the truth.

(10) The necessity to be childlike.

Matthew 18:3 (NKJV)

“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Believers have a trusting faith in God because they know that He is omnipotent.