How can we know we are justified, redeemed, and forgiven when we cannot see it?
We know we are justified, redeemed, and forgiven by faith, not by sight or physical proof. These realities are intangible and invisible; they cannot be laid out, microscoped, or analyzed. We rely on the promises of this book: because the book says it, we know it has happened.
Les explains that justification, redemption, forgiveness, and imputed righteousness all fit together as part of salvation. These things cannot be laid on a table, put under a microscope, or analyzed, because they are all intangible and invisible. So how do we know they happened? By faith. Les says the only way he knows he is forgiven is by faith, not because he has some plaque or decree from God saying he is justified or redeemed. What believers have are the promises of this book; because the book says it, we know it has happened. He recalls a lady who was told she would probably have doubts afterward and should come back, look at the verses, claim them, and say aloud that God said it, promised it, and she believes it.