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NASB | 1 John 3:24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 3:24 The one who habitually keeps His commandments [obeying His word and following His precepts, abides and] remains in Him, and He in him. By this we know and have the proof that He [really] abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us [as a gift]. |
Subject: How do we know that we are truly saved? |
Bible Note: Why do you ask? I'm not trying to be a smarty pants. Are you asking because you are unsure? Or, you'd like to make a judgement about someone you like as a friend, or a wife? Well because you signed from the heart, I'll take it that way. In Romans 10:9 it tells you how to get saved; that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead you will be SAVED! When a person does that, they may not feel any different. Even though scripture says you are a new creature in Christ. What happened was you asked the spirit of God to come live in you. Spirits live in the spirit realm. Your fleshly appearence didn't change but, your spirit did. We are made up of 3 different parts; spirit, body, soul. So, a born again Christian has a new spirit; the Spirit of God. You have probably heard; once you have Christ you have all you need. Well it is true-everything God has, God gave to Jesus and, everything Jesus has He gives to us. Jesus gives everything to us in our spirit. Now how we get the stuff from the spirit realm is manifesting it through faith. Faith is believing in the unseen as though it were. The unseen is the spirit realm. I hope I'm not complicating something that is so simple. I'm going to tell you how the first mannifistation of the spirit happened; Genesis 1:3 'Then God said let "there be light"; and there was light.' That was the simplest example of the mannifistation of the spirit realm. God is a God of example. He spoke it, believed it, and it became. For us to mannifest what was poured into our spirit: first we speak it, then believe it and wait. But the whole thing here is we live here in the earthly-physical realm. Quess who's dominion that is Satan's-the father of lies. Who is our enemy, he came to rob, steal, and destroy. This is the account of Satan: When in heaven his name was Lucifer. He was one of the top angels and was jealous of the praise God was getting. He decided to put his throne above God but, Jesus kicked him and his followers-one third the angels down to earth. Where he was classified as a serpent. Adam and Eve were told not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent now Satan, conviced Eve and Adam with lies to eat of the forbidden tree. When they did they believed Satan's words over God's words. Belief is one of the highest forms of worship. Anyhow once they believed Satan they put themselves under Satan, now everything they had was under Satan, he which acquired. What they had was dominion over the earth. Dominion means authority. Jesus is called the 2nd Adam because He came to give dominion back to God's creation. But things are differnt because their is sin in the world so, Jesus had to do carrying of sin as well. That's the reason for the cross. God knew we wouldn't be perfect because our bodies are born in this world from the dust of this world. Our flesh is of sinful nature because of where it comes from. Some might say of a newborn baby; he is so innocent. Sure he has not sinned yet but his body was made from dust that came from where Satan has dominion. Scriptures say your flesh is always at odds with the spiritual things of God.So we have Satan as our enemy who is the father of ALL lies. That is his true power; if he can get us to believe his lies instead o God's truth we cannot believe for the inheiritance Jesus died to give us. Satan might even be trying to tell you that you are not a child of God. He might say: you have sinned to much, your not good enough to go heaven, your salvation didn't stick. Whatever, he says is a lie. Part of it might be some truth but, added up it makes a lie meant to miss lead you just so you are believing him and not God. If you are not sure if your saved commit or, re-commit your life to Jesus. Because it is God's will that none should perish. God is good He loves you and wants you to be blessed. He wants to give you everything He gave His son to you. Remember this; God loves all of His creation but, we are not His children untill we ask Jesus into our hearts as our Lord and savior. Because Jesus is the One who has addopted us as His brothers and sisters so His Father can be our Father. Therfore inheriting all our Savior has......believing His will. A person's will doesn't come into affect untill He dies. That is why He came from His throne, was born as a man so he could leave us a will so we could inherit the goodness of God. Since everything that is sin burns up in the presence God. Jesus out of the love for His Father was obedient to come to our world to bring us the truth and then die so He could take that sin from us to leave it in hell to be burned there. Now once we have the birth rite from Jesus we need to renew our mind so that we know what our inheritance is so we can claim it in faith. Ask God for faith to believe the fullnes of his word through revealation of the Holy Spirit |