Am I(are they) Saved?

1) Our job is to sow

We can sow seed, but we cannot control the results

2) People will respond to the Gospel differently

Jesus tells us about 4 ways people will respond to the Gospel.

Some will not understand

v4 along the path and birds came and devoured them

v19 Satan takes the word away from them

“But I am a good person”

God wouldn't really send people to hell

God could never forgive me

Some will receive the word with joy, but fall away

v5-6 on rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and the son rose and scorched them

v20-21 has an emotional response

make’s a decision (decisionalism)

but there is no depth

It’s a superficial faith

Some will be uninterested

v7 among the thorns and choked out

v22 more concerned with today than eternity

having fun dating around

worried about money

partying

Some will be saved

v8 on good soil and produced fruit

v23 a soul that is saved will produce fruit

So how do we know?

Fruit…not works

A relationship with Jesus

The importance of the doctrine of election

In reality, only 1 person, the Lord, knows