How do you know God saved you, forgave you, and cleansed you?
You know God saved, forgave, and cleansed you by faith, not by feeling or sight. When you cry out as a sinner and believe Christ died for you, God imputes righteousness, forgives, cleanses, and baptizes you into the body. You know He did it because the book says so.
Les explains that salvation is the all-inclusive word covering everything God does for the believer who cries out, “I’m a sinner, I’m in need of salvation, I believe that Christ died for me.” God then imputes righteousness, forgives, cleanses, baptizes into the body, and does everything needed. Les teaches that assurance does not come by feeling or seeing those things, but by faith, because the Book says so. The Gospel, not church membership, baptism, or works, is the power of God unto salvation.