1.Do you enjoy Fellowship with God and Christ?
2.Are you Sensitive to Sin in your Life?
3.Do you Obey the Scriptures?
4.Do you Reject this Evil World?
5.Do you Love Christ and eagerly await His Return?
6.Do you see a Decreasing Pattern of Sin in your Life?
7.Do you Love other Christians?
8.Do you Receive Answers to your Prayers?
9.Do you Experience the Ministry of the Holy Spirit?
10.Can you Discern between Spiritual Truth and Error?
11.Have you Suffered on Account of your Faith in Christ?
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Thought it was ...believe and thou shalt be saved.....
With a centurion’s faith.
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. Romans 10:9
And then God makes it even simpler.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13.
“7.Do you Love other Christians?”
I think there is a mistake here. Shouldn’t it read,
“7.Do you Love other bible believing, pre-tribulationist, King James only, Baptists?”
Timely series, thanks. I’ve gotten a bellyful of “belief is enough, repentence is optional” sermonizing lately. If sin abounds in your life you need to examine yourself.
John mcarthur believes Christians are selected by God and not saved by faith.
Very good article xzins.
I did not know that Jonathan Edwards Ministry lined up so well with John Wesley’s.
This is what is missing in ChristianDom today.
Real Salvation that leads to a Change of Heart!
I read the 11, and if this were a True-False test, like in grade school, some of my answers would be the “T” with an extra line under the crossing top line, in an attempt to obfuscate. Didn’t work in grade school either.
I believe I am saved by faith in God. The indwelling Holy Spirit (with all the power, and promise of God) will change me.
Now, do I see those changes? When I do, I praise God! for his Love and Faithfulness.
When I do not, I pray for forgiveness, and repent, and trust God to hold up his end.
Any change in me is the Power of God, working in me. I can do nothing to ‘force’ the issue, earn my way, stress to be better, etc. Problem is, someone looking at me from the outside may see a lazy sinner, who is not trying enough. Or (on a good day) see a Christian, who is doing God’s will. The “works” I do are those things the Holy Spirit shows me to do, and as I obey (and the HS produces results) it may appear that I am a Good Christian. (And I may still appear lazy or hypocritical to an observer from the world or be judged by a Christian.)
I have to continue to believe God is saving me as I appear as lazy, or even good. Especially when I am judged by others, or by even myself. (Sometimes the face I see in the mirror is not a nice guy.) Now, even as I type, I want to repent of my view of myself, and look at myself with the Forgiveness and Love of God.
Disclaimer= = This is not just feel good ideas out of my head. This is the life of Christ that has been formed by years of believing, fellowship, and Bible reading. I could find scriptures to support much, and they flitted through my head as I typed, but I am relying on the HS and the Mind of Christ in other Christians to hear them from the HS also. (And too much time to find and quote and cut and paste for accuracy.)
**’Failing Miserably Daily’ Bump For Later**
While everything on the list is good, and cause a Christian to ponder, They are Not “10 New Commandments” to either save or KEEP Salvation.
If a person is a believer, these 10 things will start to happen, (because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit)and will be the RESULT of Salvation.
And if a person is NOT a Christian, they won’t care.
And here’s the rub...if we start answering “YES” to the majority of the questions, do we become like the pharisee who went up to the Temple to pray, and addressed God by listing all his good deeds?
Eek...don’t wanna be like THAT!
Grace and peace to you, FRiend.
Interesting list. With arguably the exception of #3 none of them are work based related. If one goes to the website MacArthur points out how even #3 is that we want to be obedient because of our gratitute for what Christ has done.
It's all about a relationship, not works.
If you're going to ping this out, please add my name to the list.
While various excesses and heightened emotional experiences were common, scores of people didn't demonstrate any evidence in their lives to verify their claim to know and love Jesus Christ, which led critics to attack the Great Awakening, contending it was nothing but a big emotional bath without any true conversions.
This still seems to be the case in many groups I've encountered and in some churches and denominations as well.
This is a weakness of televangelists. There is lots of show but there's no way to determine if what happens is of God because there's no follow up.
BFRL.
Is it possible for me to take my life back after I have turned it over to the Lord of all creation, the King of Kings, the Alpha and Omega?
Who has the power to snatch that life from God’s hand?
Bookmark for later read.
Bookmark for later read.