How To Be Sure

Intro

[Emily Lin, talking about Upcoming Saturday]

VBS Success!

VBS Volunteer Appreciation—Plano Aquatic Center

Alter Call- around 30 kids went up

Does that mean 30 kids are now saved, brought from death to life?

My experience as a kid- on/off switch for salvation

I don’t think I knew Him at all

Body

How do you tell the difference between a saved person and unsaved? [group]

Unsaved:

2 Timothy 3:1–5 ESV

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Sounds like some people I know who call themselves Christians

Galatians 5:22–23 ESV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

What does it take to be filled with the Spirit? [group]

Rom 8:

Romans 8:5–10 ESV

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

What doesn’t save:

Sinners prayer, alter call, going to Church, convincing yourself that you’re saved, looking back to an experience with God, being a good Christian, NOT EVEN THE BIBLE. Memorizing the Bible, volunteering, being a Pastor.

Saved people have most of those traits

Not as the substance of salvation, but outcome of that substance

Prayer Time