Joseph,
Welcome to the YY Forum. Reading your post tells me lots about you.
Halleluyah,
FF
First that you are questioning everything with a repentant heart is a very good sign that you are saved. Because you have come to truth and it causes you to seek more truth and think for your self and make choices for your self based on scriptural truths.
Second you say you are still sinning is a very good indicator also that you are saved. Because the Set-Apart Cleansing and Purifying Spirit is causing you to admit you are a sinner and now one who is saved by the grace of Yahweh through Yahushua the Anointed Messiyah.
Third you made a personal choice to ask Yahshua to bear your sins.
Fourth because of the prior three you now have been clothed in the garments of light and truth and are being cleansed and purified by the Set-Apart Cleansing and Purifying Spirit your spiritual mom who gave birth to you spiritually in March...
VERY GOOD NEWS!!!
Now for scripture to back up my words with Yahuweh’s words.
First see:
Galatians 4:7-9 (New International Version)
7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. 9But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
Second see:
1 John 4:7-9 (New International Version) 7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son Yahushua into the world that we might live through him.
Third see:
Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
See John chapter 17 and it will explain who gave Yahushua his name and it was not man who 400 years ago made up the name Jesus. Now I know you can kind of sort of weave a web of thought into Latin, Greek, German, English and kind of sort of come to the conclusion Jesus is the Messiyah. But I do not think you can reverse the translation or transliteration and make it say the name Jesus is literally Yahuweh's Salvation. It is a very big stretch.
Fourth see the foot notes at the bottom of John Chapter 17 about who's name and what name you can be saved by and see the meaning of Holy as Set_Apart for sacred use:
John 17 1After Yahushua said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Anointed Messiyah, whom you have sent. 4I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. 6"I have revealed you[a] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify[b] them by the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. 20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
Footnotes:
John 17:6 Greek your name; also in verse 26
John 17:17 Greek hagiazo (set apart for sacred use or make holy also in verse 19
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