Are You Genuinely Saved?

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: Are You Genuinely Saved?

PERSEVERANCE IS A MARK OF EVERY TRUE BELIEVER.

This is the great truth of Scripture, that those whom God saves, He keeps. Many verses teach this, but here are three of the strongest texts:

Philippians 1:6: For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

John 10:27-30: [Jesus is speaking]: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”

Romans 8:29-30: For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

Paul continues the same theme to the end of that great chapter, arguing that if God did the greatest thing for us by not sparing His own Son, then nothing can separate us from His great love. It is a wonderful truth that God gives to His weak and struggling children for their assurance.

However, this doctrine is often misunderstood and misapplied. For example, some use this truth to give assurance to those who have professed Christ as Savior, but who have no evidence that God has changed their hearts.

Sometimes it is phrased, “once saved, always saved.", but the key question is, “Was this person once saved?”
Many who claim to be born again are not even truly and scripturally born again. So where is the assurance of heaven for them.

The parable of the sower teaches that it’s possible to make a profession of faith and even to exhibit some signs of new life (such as the seed on the rocky ground and thorny ground). But only the seed that “bears fruit with perseverance” (Luke 8:15) is genuinely saved.

If you only serve God when this is easy for you, your faith is doubted.
If you can't endure for your faith your faith is doubted.
If you are save for real till the lord comes you can not miss heaven if Jesus found you in faith.

LET US PRAY
NO POWER OF SIN AND HELL WILL OVERCOME YOU IN JESUS NAME.

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