Translations:TC 1: How you can be sure you are a Christian/35/en

Second, there is the internal witness of the Holy Spirit. Paul wrote to the Romans, “For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we really are God’s children” (Romans 8:16, TLB). It was such an important point that he emphasized it again when he wrote to the Christians in Thessalonica. “For when we brought you the Good News,” he writes, “it was not just meaningless chatter to you; no, you listened with great interest. What we told you produced a powerful effect upon you, for the Holy Spirit gave you great and full assurance that what we said was true” (1 Thessalonians 1:5a, TLB). There is assurance because of the Holy Spirit.