many Believers lived their lives in fear constantly wondering if the last mistake that they made was the one that caused the Holy Spirit to leave if you’ve ever come to the place in your life where you wonder if the holy spirit is distancing or removing his presence from your life this is really going to bless you my goal is to use the scripture to encourage you in the Assurance of your salvation in knowing that the Holy Spirit abides with you Faithfully let’s start here number one confidence in Salvation now go with me

to Ephesians chapter 2 I’m going to read verses 8 and 9 God saved you by his grace when you believed and you can’t take credit for this it is a gift from God salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done so none of us can boast about it or it’s not of works but by faith lest any man should boast let me show you something else here but you are not controlled by your sin nature you are controlled by the spirit if you have the spirit of God living in you and remember that those who do not have the spirit of Christ Living in them

do not belong to him at all the Holy Spirit comes upon the life of a Believer the very moment they are saved it’s not as though you receive the Holy Spirit at some later point now we could talk about the baptism with the Holy Spirit which is somewhat of a different experience than salvation in and of itself but that’s a different message for a different time to simplify for the sake of this message I’ll simply say that the Holy Spirit abides with you the moment that you are saved and the baptism with the Holy Spirit by the way is not about