How do you know God saved you if you don't feel anything?
Assurance of salvation rests on faith in the Gospel, not on feelings. Scripture says the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, and God imputes righteousness, forgives, cleanses, and baptizes the believer into the body. You know He did it because the Book says so, even when you neither feel nor see it.
Les teaches that assurance comes by faith, not by feeling or seeing. In Romans 1:16, Paul writes that he is not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation—not church membership, not baptism, not a work. Salvation is the all-inclusive word for everything God does on behalf of the believer who cries out, “I’m a sinner, I’m in need of salvation, I believe that Christ died for me.” Then God imputes righteousness, forgives, cleanses, and baptizes the believer into the body; He does everything that needs to be done. How do we know He did it? By faith. You will not feel or see those things, but you know He did it because the Book says so. Les also explains that the Gospel itself is defined in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, and John 3:16 by itself is not the Gospel.