WANT SOME KIND OF ASSURANCE?

“ Jesus said to him, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”’

How could anyone feel any more assured of his salvation than this man? The man was going to be with Jesus in Paradice. That man has to be the most blessed of men in history. How could anyone have more assurance? The Bible tells us Jesus Christ is God.
What can anyone do to win that kind of promise from God?
The irony of this was that this man had absolutely no opportunity to do anything. He was pinned to a cross several feet off the ground. There was no way he could come down and be baptized or join a church. He wasn’t able to obey any commandment, and he wasn’t able to discuss the theology or think about it. He had to be in terrible pain, and he would be dead in a few hours..
Maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy. No, he said himself, he was on the cross because he deserved the cross. So this was a criminal worthy of dying on a cross. He was at the absolute bottom of the barrel of unworthiness. He had to have spent much of his life doing the wrong things–the most unlikely candidate for Paradise or of Heaven..
The only path for him was to look across to Jesus and ask Him: “Jesus remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” When he looked into face of Jesus Christ, he looked at the only person capable of saving him. The only person that can promise us Paradise or heaven
Jesus Christ said to him: ‘Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”’
Jesus Christ uses a word that means exactly that “assuredly the truth,’–this Greek is often transliterated “amen.”
In another place, John 3:17-18, Jesus says to anyone who listens: “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Do you want assureance of eternal life?