The moment that should anchor your confidence can become the moment you quietly interrogate for years. If you’ve ever laid awake replaying your baptism and asking, “Did I understand enough, was I sincere enough, did it actually work,” you’re not alone and you’re not crazy for feeling the tension.

We walk through chapter seven of Jack Wilkie’s You Are Saved: A Christian’s Assurance with one goal: move from self-focused uncertainty to God-centered confidence. We start where the gospel starts: nothing cleanses sin but the blood of Jesus. Then we unpack a sticky illustration that reshapes how many people define faith, the football “completing the catch” idea. Faith is not just mental agreement; it follows through in a unified response that includes confession, repentance, and baptism, not as competing checkpoints but as one movement of trust.

From there we do what clears away a lot of fog: we simply read the passages. Acts 2:38 on forgiveness, Mark 16:16 on salvation, Romans 6 on death, burial, and resurrection, Colossians 2:12 on “faith in the working of God,” Acts 22:16 on washing away sins, and 1 Peter 3:21 on baptism and a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The big turning point is this: assurance collapses when we build it on our memory and emotions, but it strengthens when we trust what God said he would do and believe he did it.

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