In Jesus, we can still go home to our heavenly Father. Our confession, repentance, and salvation in the name of Jesus brings about our restoration to our position as children of God. Salvation is by grace alone and through faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. This is where our assurance of heaven comes from. This is an assurance of salvation which does not come from presumption or false confidence. Our assurance must come from an adequate understanding that we are saved through faith in Christ alone!

True salvation is not of the self but of Jesus Christ. He is the only way to heaven, and the only One a true believer looks to. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotton Son, that whosoever belives in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16). 

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