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NASB | Matthew 13:8 "And others fell on the good soil and *yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 13:8 "Other seed fell on good soil and yielded grain, some a hundred times as much [as was sown], some sixty [times as much], and some thirty. |
Bible Question: How can I know if I am a good soil or a bad one? How can I know if I have saving faith or just head knowledge? I've been checking the Reformers and the Arminians to help arrive to some final conclusion, but it has not helped. How could anyone be certain if even the tares cannot be easily identified as the following verse says: Matthew 13:30 30 'Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn." |
Bible Answer: Dear Finder, Very good question! It is a question that you must find the answer to in the looking-glass of the Word of God. For example: Read through Luke 14 asking the questions of yourself: Do you love Christ more than your own life? Are you bearing your cross in trials for Him? Have you forsaken your old life? Is there a growing love for the things of Christ and a growing hatred for the things of the world. Read through John 15 asking the questions of yourself: Do I live in the Word? Is the Word living in me? Do I love the Word? Am I bearing fruit for the Lord? Is my life more and more about God and less and less about myself? Do you love the Lord? How do you know that you do? Do you struggle to be holy, or have you developed a kind of accommodation with your sin? The fact that you are even asking these questions is a good indication that you belong to the Lord. Of course, our best proof will be our perseverance to the end. In Him, Doc "The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ or not, or whether His Spirit dwells in us or not—which argue both the difficulty of attaining an assured confidence herein, as also the danger of our being mistaken, and yet the certainty of a good issue upon the diligent and regular use of means to that purpose." --John Owen "Though true grace has various degrees, and there are some that are but babes in Christ, in whom the exercise of the inclination and will, towards divine and heavenly things, is comparatively weak; yet everyone that has the power of godliness in his heart, has his inclinations and heart exercised towards God and divine things, with such strength and vigor that these holy exercises do prevail in him above all carnal or natural affections, and are effectual to overcome them: for every true disciple of Christ 'loves him above father or mother, wife and children, brethren and sisters, houses and lands: yea, than his own life.'" --Jonathan Edwards "Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying “I am saved” is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee." --Charles H. Spurgeon "It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but 'as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.' (Romans 8:14)." --Arthur W. Pink |
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