PROOF OF SALVATION

There are only four ways of proving your salvation. We believe in him, God's spirit witnesses with yours, you get punished by him, and you confess him none of which includes a changed life.  Hard work is required for a changed life, salvation is not of works.  We should do that hard work but not confuse it with salvation.

 WE BELIEVE

 I John 5:13
 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that YE MAY KNOW THAT YE MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, and that ye may BELIEVE on the name of the Son of God.


 WE CONFESS

 1 John 4:2
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

1 Corinthians 12:3
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

 WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT

 Romans 8:16
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

WE ARE PUNISHED
 
Hebrews 12:7-11
 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.