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I'm thinking today of Hebrews 11, verse 1. Hebrews

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11, verse 1 says, Now faith is the assurance

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of things hoped for, the conviction of things

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not seen. So first of all, we have the faith,

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and then we have what the faith is directed towards,

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I guess you could say. So we have two words,

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assurance and conviction. Assurance is when you're

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getting constant confirmation. You're comforted

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in your knowledge that something is true. Conviction

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is when it goes deeper than the belief. I think

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it's true, and therefore I'm going to act on

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it. I'm almost 100 % certain, and therefore I'm

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going to act on it. But conviction goes way deeper

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than that, so that when everything else you believe

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would seem to contradict your conviction, your

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conviction holds true anyway. I believe in gravity,

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so I don't go walking off cliffs. But I am convicted

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that there is a life after this one and that

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Jesus came so that we might have life and have

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it more abundantly in this lifetime and then

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for eternity with God. We can know. It's more

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than just believing a thing. It's the overflow

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of knowing a thing down in your soul. Faith is

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fed by deeper holdings. We are a people of faith

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and we live in the realm of what we believe.

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And what we believe flows out of what has become

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who we are. And believing in Jesus Christ as

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your Lord and Savior, God will come in and He

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will save you. If you're 97, 98, 99 % sure that

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you're saved, that's just not good enough. 99

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% saved is 100 % lost. Accept Jesus Christ as

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your Lord and Savior today.