Are you Saved or Are you Lost? 1 John 3:13-24 (Part 2)
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Reminder
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
What is the Condition of Your Heart? Verses 19-22a
What is the Condition of Your Heart? Verses 19-22a
Heart Assurance Verse 19
Heart Assurance Verse 19
I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
This is a reminder of those who hold to truth
Persuade or convince our heart before him
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conciliate, pacify, set at ease/rest
Which do we Believe: Our Heart or God Verse 20
Which do we Believe: Our Heart or God Verse 20
“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Does your Heart Demonstrate Faith Verses 21-22a
Does your Heart Demonstrate Faith Verses 21-22a
When we have a clear conscience towards God we demonstrate Trust
Faith ---God said it, I believe it, and I live my life like I believe it
“The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.
“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Unstable is from not completely trusting God
But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
“We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.
John Baillie (Scottish Theologian)
Do you have Commitment to His Commandments? Verses 22b-24
Do you have Commitment to His Commandments? Verses 22b-24
Are you Following His Commandments Verse 22b
Are you Following His Commandments Verse 22b
Repeating Idea
Keep His commandments
By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.
pleasing in His Sight
equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
You were created for good works
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Are you following His Son Verse 23
Are you following His Son Verse 23
Believe in Jesus
Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.
The Heart Of The Gospel, Volume 32, Sermon #1910 - 2 Corinthians 5:20, 21
Charles Spurgeon
Proof you believe in Jesus
Demonstrate the Love of Jesus
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Are you Filled with His Holy Spirit Verse 24
Are you Filled with His Holy Spirit Verse 24
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
How can I know?
Because His Holy Spirit lives in me and affirms my salvation.
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 2
12 Now we ahave received, not the spirit of bthe world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
13 which things we also speak, anot in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, 1combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
14 But 1a anatural man bdoes not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are cfoolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually 2appraised.
15 But he who is aspiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.
16 For aWHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But bwe have the mind of Christ.