THE EVIDENCE OF SALVATION
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Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 corinthians 5:17
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
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THE EVIDENCE OF SALVATION
THE EVIDENCE OF SALVATION
Illustration:
A young American engineer was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepted because it would enable him to earn enough to marry his long-time girlfriend. She had a job near her home in Tennessee, and their plan was to pool their resources and put a down payment on a house when he returned. They corresponded often, but as the lonely weeks went by, she began expressing doubts that he was being true to her, exposed as he was to comely Irish lasses. The young engineer wrote back, declaring with some passion that he was paying absolutely no attention to the local girls. "I admit," he wrote, "that sometimes I'm tempted. But I fight it. I'm keeping myself for you."
In the next mail, the engineer received a package. It contained a note from his girl and a harmonica. "I'm sending this to you," she wrote, "so you can learn to play it and have something to take your mind off those girls." The engineer replied, "Thanks for the harmonica. I'm practicing on it every night and thinking of you." At the end of his two-year stint, the engineer was transferred back to company headquarters. He took the first plane to Tennessee to be reunited with his girl. Her whole family was with her, but as he rushed forward to embrace her, she held up a restraining hand and said sternly, "Just hold on there a minute, Billy Bob. Before any serious kissin' and huggin' gets started here, let me hear you play that harmonica!"
I. THE EVIDENCE IN THE SAMARITAN WOMAN’S LIFE.
I. THE EVIDENCE IN THE SAMARITAN WOMAN’S LIFE.
1. She had feet that were in the Lord’s service;
The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
2. She witnessed concerning Christ;
2. She witnessed concerning Christ; .
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
3. She had a testimony that led people to Christ;
3. She had a testimony that led people to Christ; .
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
II. THE EVIDENCE IN THE GADARENE MANIAC’S LIFE.
II. THE EVIDENCE IN THE GADARENE MANIAC’S LIFE.
1. He had a new nature;
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
luke 8:35
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
2. He had a desire to follow Jesus; .
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
2. He had a desire to follow Jesus; .
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
2. He had a desire to follow Jesus; .
2. He had a desire to follow Jesus; .
2. He had a desire to follow Jesus; .
2. He had a desire to follow Jesus; .
Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
3. He was commissioned to witness for Jesus;
Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
III. THE EVIDENCE IN ZACCHAEUS’ LIFE.
III. THE EVIDENCE IN ZACCHAEUS’ LIFE.
1. He received Christ joyfully;
And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
2. He had an open heart to the poor; .
2. He had an open heart to the poor; .
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
3. He desired to repent of his unrighteous life; .
3. He desired to repent of his unrighteous life; .
1. He confessed Christ; .
2. He followed the Lord in Baptism; .
3. He rejoiced in his salvation; .
V. THE EVIDENCE IN THE PHILIPPIAN JAILOR’S LIFE.
1. He washed the preachers’ stripes; .
2. He showed kindness in his home to the preachers; .
3. He rejoiced in his salvation; .
IV. THE EVIDENCE IN THE APOSTLE PAUL’S LIFE.
IV. THE EVIDENCE IN THE APOSTLE PAUL’S LIFE.
1. He surrendered unto the Lord; , .
And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
2. He preached Christ; .
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2. He preached Christ;
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
2. He preached Christ; .
3. He became an ambassador for Christ;
3. He became an ambassador for Christ; , .
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
V. THE EVIDENCE THAT SHOULD BE IN THE BELIEVER’S LIFE.
V. THE EVIDENCE THAT SHOULD BE IN THE BELIEVER’S LIFE.
1. The believer should keep the Word of God;
Thy word have I hid in mine heart,
That I might not sin against thee.
Before I was afflicted I went astray:
But now have I kept thy word.
psalm 119:
2. The believer should have a forgiving spirit; .
Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
matt. 18
3. The believer’s life should be crucified;
3. The believer’s life should be crucified; .
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Alaskan Sourdoughs
One day in 1909 a group of Alaskan miners, popularly called Sourdoughs, were sitting in a saloon in Fairbanks talking about outsiders such as Dr. Frederick Cook climbing “their” Mount McKinley. Convinced that Cook’s ascent had never been made, some of the miners decided to prove it the only way they knew how—by doing it themselves.
After a long climb, three miners left their base camp and raced for the North Peak, carrying some doughnuts, thermoses of hot chocolate, and a 14-foot wooden flagpole. As simply as they went up, the Sourdoughs returned to camp. But when they returned to Fairbanks, nobody believed them—and nobody could see the flagpole. But in June 1913, when some professional climbers reached the summit, to their surprise they found the flagpole planted by the Sourdoughs.