Discussing Assurance - Unbeliever

The final issue that William Patton lays down as being a major reason for a lack of assurance of peace with God is that one may not truly be a Christian:

The most common reason why people have not assurance is because they are not Christians at all.

It would be very difficult for me to be sure that I have ten thousand pounds in the Belfast Bank, because I have not.
And it is very difficult for people to have assurance that they are Christians when they are not Christians at all.

Now, my unconverted reader, why should you not be saved? When "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," why not you as well as poor Joseph?

Spurgeon often tells the story of his conversion.
He had been anxious for months, struggling, and resolving, and praying, and going to meetings, and yet had no peace. In a sermon preached on Sabbath morning, January 6, 1856, he says: "Six years ago today, as near as possible at this very hour of the day, I was in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity, but had yet, by divine grace, been led to feel the bitterness of that bondage. Seeking rest and finding none, I stepped within the house of God, and sat there afraid to look upward, lest I should be utterly cut off, and lest His fierce wrath should consume me. The preacher rose in his pulpit, and, as I have done this morning, read this text: 'Look unto ME, and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.' (Isaiah 45: 22). I looked that moment; the grace of faith was vouchsafed to me in the selfsame instant; and now I think I can say with truth:

"'E'er since by faith I saw the stream
His flowing wounds supply;
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.'"

In another sermon he gives more particulars.
"Just setting his eyes on me, as if he knew all my heart, the preacher said, 'Young man, are you in trouble?' Well, I was, sure enough.
Said he, 'You will never get out of it unless you look to Christ.’ And then, lifting up his hand, he cried out, as only, I think, a Primitive Methodist could do, 'Look! Look! Look!! It is only look!'

I saw at once the way of salvation. Oh, how I did leap for joy at that moment! I know not what else the preacher said. I did not take much notice of it, I was so possessed with that one thought. Like as when the brazen serpent was lifted up, they only looked and were healed. I had been waiting to do fifty things, but when I heard this word 'Look!' what a charming word it seemed to me! Oh, I looked, until I could almost have looked my eyes away; and in heaven I will look on still in my joy unutterable."

May God enable you, dear reader, to look to Jesus, and this instant you become a child of God by faith in Jesus Christ.
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