"You say a man can know that his sins are forgiven? No, never! For mortal man to say that he knows his sins are forgiven is presumption."
The man who had impatiently made these remarks had been told that sin was forgiven once and forever through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, but he did not believe it.
But is it so? Who is right? Can a man lie down on his bed at night and know with positive certainty that his sin is put away, and that if he died in his sleep, his sin would not be counted against him? What does God Himself say?
"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Isaiah 1:1818Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18). "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." Romans 8:11There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:1). "And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." Hebrews 10:1717And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. (Hebrews 10:17). "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins." Isaiah 44:2222I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. (Isaiah 44:22). "Verily, verily, (truly, truly) I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24). "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).
Many more of God's own words might be added, all proving that it is not presumption to know Whom we have believed, and be confident that He is both willing and able to present us faultless before His Father in that soon coming day, when we shall meet God.
He who only says: "I hope I am saved; I trust I am in the right way," cannot be happy in the fullest sense of the term. He is not in the position God would have him be. It is the perfect work of a risen Savior that gives us certainty.