Yes, you can know you have eternal life by believing the gospel and taking God at His Word.
Les Feldick teaches that assurance rests on the promises of Scripture, not on feelings or personal merit. Once you believe the gospel of your salvation, God says you are forgiven, redeemed, justified, translated, reconciled, and glorified. Faith that is strong enough to save you is strong enough to take God at His word for everything else.
Ephesians 1:13-14 — It shows that after hearing and believing the gospel, believers are sealed with the Holy Spirit as God's guarantee of their inheritance.
Acts 16:31 — It is the direct scriptural answer: salvation comes through believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:33 — It asks who can charge God's elect, affirming that God Himself justifies the believer.
Ephesians 1:13-14 says, 'In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.' This ties eternal life to hearing and believing the gospel. Acts 16:31 answers the question directly: 'And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.' Romans 8:1 and Romans 8:33 also ground assurance in God's work: 'There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus...' and 'Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.' These verses give the believer a solid basis for certainty.
Les Feldick consistently answers the question with one word: faith. Faith is taking God at His word. He points to Ephesians 1:13-14 and says, 'that's the core of eternal life, is believing the gospel.' He asks, if God has said you are forgiven, redeemed, justified, translated, reconciled, and glorified, 'how can you doubt?' The believer's response is to claim those promises. Assurance is not based on feelings; it is because 'the book says so.' Les also says believers can know what they are 'by lining ourselves up with the Word of God,' and that anyone who claims no one can know their eternal destiny is 'totally unaware of true saving faith.'
Les calls the gospel the core of eternal life. He reads Ephesians 1:13-14 and says, 'That's the core of eternal life, is believing the gospel.' Eternal life is not something we work for; it comes when we hear the word of truth, the gospel, and place our faith in it.
Yes, because assurance is not based on feelings. Les asks, 'Do you feel this? Can you see this? No.' He then asks, 'How do you know it's true?' and the answer is 'because the book says so.' The knowledge that you are His comes from trusting what God's Word says, not from an emotional experience.
Les teaches that the Holy Spirit's work guarantees eternal destiny. In one clip he says being baptized into the body by the Holy Spirit 'guarantees your eternal destiny.' In Ephesians 1:13-14, he points out that after believing, believers are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the earnest of their inheritance. These are God's acts that the believer can rest on.
Les is direct: when someone says no one can know, 'they themselves are totally unaware of true saving faith.' If your faith was sufficient to bring you into salvation, it is enough to take God at His word for the rest — including that you are His. He adds that no one can take you out of His hand.
How Can You Know You're Saved? The Plan of Salvation in Scripture
Hello and welcome to Through the Bible with Les Feldick. An Oklahoma rancher and farmer, Les Feldick has been teaching homestyle Bible classes for 20 years in Iowa, Oklahoma, and Texas. Les Feldick's unique style of Bible teaching has made the books of the Bible come to life. When Les is teaching, it's so interesting that people say time just seems to fly by. And now, here is Les Feldick.
God's Promises Remove Doubt
Because believers have been forgiven, redeemed, justified, translated, reconciled, and glorified, Les asks how they can doubt; the believer claims God's promises.
Assurance Comes From the Book, Not Feelings
Salvation is not just a fire escape; daily assurance that you are God's comes because the Book says so, not because you feel it or see it.
Believing the Gospel Is the Core
Reading Ephesians 1:13-14, Les shows that after hearing the word of truth and trusting Christ, believers are sealed — 'that's the core of eternal life, is believing the gospel.'
The Philippian Jailer's Question
In response to 'What must I do to be saved?', Paul's answer — believe on the Lord Jesus Christ — shows that faith is the single requirement for salvation.
Know Yourself by the Word of God
No one can look at another person and know they are a Christian, but Les says, 'I know what I am, you know what you are' by lining ourselves up with the Word of God.
All of Salvation Is God's Work
Because justification is by faith and all of salvation is an act of God with no energy of our own, the believer can rest on the promises of Scripture instead of living in perpetual insecurity.
Know You Are His
Les argues that if faith is strong enough to believe the gospel, it is strong enough to take God at His word that you are His; no one can take you out of His hand.
Ephesians 1:13-14: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
This verse connects eternal life assurance with believing the gospel and being sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Acts 16:31: And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
This is the direct Scriptural answer to how a person is saved.
Romans 8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
This shows that those in Christ Jesus are free from condemnation.
Romans 8:33: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
This affirms that God's justification is the ground of the believer's assurance.
Yes. Scripture says that after hearing the gospel and believing, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Ephesians 1:13-14), and Acts 16:31 says, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.' Les Feldick says if your faith was enough to bring you into salvation, it is enough to take God at His word that you are His.
Les says assurance is not based on feelings — he asks, 'Do you feel this? Can you see this? No. How do you know it's true?' The answer is because the book says so. Scripture promises that believers have been forgiven, redeemed, and justified, and those promises are the ground of assurance.
Les said when someone talks like that, they are 'totally unaware of true saving faith.' If you had enough faith to believe the gospel, you should have enough faith to take God at His word for everything else — including that you are His.
Les points to the Holy Spirit's work. He says being baptized into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit guarantees your eternal destiny, and Ephesians 1:13-14 shows believers are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise as the earnest of their inheritance.
Watch the Teaching: How Can You Know You're Saved? The Plan of Salvation in Scripture