Are you Saved or Are you Lost? 1 John 3:13-24 (Part 3)

Reminder

1 John 3:10 NASB95

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.

Do you have Commitment to His Commandments? Verses 22b-24

Are you Following His Commandments Verse 22b

Repeating Idea

Keep His commandments

1 John 2:3 NASB95

By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

pleasing in His Sight

Hebrews 13:21 NASB95

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.

Matthew 25:21 ESV

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

Ephesians 2:8–10 NASB95

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

Believe in Jesus

John 6:29 NASB95

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”

John 1:12 NASB95

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,

John 3:18 NASB95

“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.

Romans 10:9–10 NASB95

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

John 13:34 NASB95

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

John 15:12 NASB95

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

Are you Filled with His Holy Spirit Verse 24

John 15:4–5 NASB95

“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.

Romans 8:9 NASB95

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.

John 14:15–17 NASB95

“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.