Confident Salvation

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Confident Salvation

• 1 John 511-13
• November 7 - AM

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Are you confident?

• Many Christians lack the confidence and assurance
  of their salvation
• We sing Blessed Assurance
• But We dont believe it
• We often treat salvation as wishful thinking
• Many think it is presumptuous to believe that we
  are really saved

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Are you confident?

• Without some feeling of confidence and assurance
• We lack holiness and sanctification in our lives
• We are not dedicated to the work
• We dont proclaim the gospel to others
• Even our worship suffers

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Are you confident?

• John is the source of assurance
• John 2030-31 - 30And truly Jesus did many other
  signs in the presence of His disciples, which are
  not written in this book 31but these are written
  that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,
  the Son of God, and that believing you may have
  life in His name.

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Are you confident?

• 1 John 513 - These things I have written to you
  who believe in the name of the Son of God, that
  you may know that you have eternal life, and that
  you may continue to believe in the name of the
  Son of God.

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Age of Doubt and Insecurity

• Our world is filled with doubt
• About EVERYTHING
• God Jesus
• Bible Heaven Hell
• QUESTION If you died tonight, do you know for
  sure that you would be saved and go to heaven?

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Age of Doubt and Insecurity

• Your answer to this question shows if you are
• Insecure about what to believe
• Unsure about believing wrong things
• Hesitant to believe right thing
• Not confident in the promises of God

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Some Statements

• I dont know what to believe so that I can be
  saved.
• 1 John 11-3 - 1That which was from the
  beginning, which we have heard, which we have
  seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon,
  and our hands have handled, concerning the Word
  of life2the life was manifested, and we have
  seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that
  eternal life which was with the Father and was
  manifested to us3that which we have seen and
  heard we declare to you, that you also may have
  fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is
  with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

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Some Statements

• I dont know what to believe so that I can be
  saved.
• Romans 116 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel
  of Christ, for it is the power of God to
  salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew
  first and also for the Greek.

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Some Statements

• I am a believer but what happens when I sin?
• Was the sin intentional or through weakness and
  temptation?
• Have you repented of the sin?
• 1 John 18-9 - 8If we say that we have no sin, we
  deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
  9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just
  to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness.

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Some Statements

• There are so many contradictory teachings that I
  am not sure what to believe.
• 1 John 41-3 - 1Beloved, do not believe every
  spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of
  God because many false prophets have gone out
  into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of
  God Every spirit that confesses that Jesus
  Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3and
  every spirit that does not confess that Jesus
  Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And
  this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you
  have heard was coming, and is now already in the
  world.

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Some Statements

• There are so many contradictory teachings that I
  am not sure what to believe.
• Do not believe the preacher even the Apostle
  Paul
• Acts 1711 - These were more fair-minded than
  those in Thessalonica, in that they received the
  word with all readiness, and searched the
  Scriptures daily to find out whether these things
  were so.

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Some Statements

• How can I know that I am doing the will of God?
• 1 John 23-6 - 3Now by this we know that we know
  Him, if we keep His commandments. 4He who says,
  I know Him, and does not keep His commandments,
  is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But
  whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is
  perfected in him. By this we know that we are in
  Him. 6He who says he abides in Him ought himself
  also to walk just as He walked.

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Some Statements

• How can I know that I am doing the will of God?
• 1 John 215-17 - 15Do not love the world or the
  things in the world. If anyone loves the world,
  the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all
  that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, the
  lust of the eyes, and the pride of lifeis not of
  the Father but is of the world. 17And the world
  is passing away, and the lust of it but he who
  does the will of God abides forever.

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Some Statements

• How can I know that I am doing the will of God?
• 1 John 48-11 - 8He who does not love does not
  know God, for God is love. 9In this the love of
  God was manifested toward us, that God has sent
  His only begotten Son into the world, that we
  might live through Him. 10In this is love, not
  that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
  His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
  11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to
  love one another.

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Do you KNOW?

• Do you KNOW that you are saved?
• Do you KNOW that you have eternal life?
• Some view salvation like a light switch On /
  Off / On / Off
• Many are never sure at any moment if the light
  just flickered
• You dont have to live in doubt.

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Do you KNOW?

• YOU CAN KNOW FOR SURE!

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Are you sure?

• Do you know that Jesus saves?
• Do you believe that He offers eternal life to
  those who believe?
• Salvation is not subjective jumping through
  hoops
• Salvation is faith, trust, and obedience in Him