H o w C a n I K n o w I f I a m R e a l l y S a v e d lecture

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H o w C a n I K n o wI f I a m R e
a l l y S a v e d ?(lecture 2)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• Can the question be answered with certainty?
• The first epistle of John says
• by this we know that we know Him (23)
• We know we have passed from death to life
  (314)
• By this we know we abide in Him (413)
• that you may know that you have eternal life
  (513)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• Johns epistle provides four tests
• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• C. If we love one another
• D. If we obey His commandments

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
  ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
  confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
  forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness. If we say that we have not
  sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not
  in us. (17-9)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
  ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
  confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
  forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness. If we say that we have not
  sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not
  in us. (17-9)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
  ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
  confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
  forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness. If we say that we have not
  sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not
  in us. (17-9)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
  ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
  confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
  forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness. If we say that we have not
  sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not
  in us. (17-9)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
  ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
  confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
  forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness. If we say that we have not
  sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not
  in us. (17-9)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• But if we walk in the light as He is in the
  light, we have fellowship with one another, and
  the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
  from all sinIf we confess our sins, He is
  faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
  cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (17, 9)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• But if we walk in the light as He is in the
  light, we have fellowship with one another, and
  the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
  from all sinIf we confess our sins, He is
  faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
  cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (17, 9)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• He who covers his sins will not prosper, But
  whoever confesses and forsakes them will have
  mercy.
  (Proverbs 2813)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• He who covers his sins will not prosper, But
  whoever confesses and forsakes them will have
  mercy.
  (Proverbs 2813)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• Confess your trespasses to one another, and
  pray for one another, that you may be healed.
  (James 516)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Is it necessary to understand the atonement in
  order to be forgiven?

17
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Is it necessary to understand the atonement in
  order to be forgiven?
• if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with
  the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He
  Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not
  for ours only but also for the whole world.
  (21-2)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Is it necessary to understand the atonement in
  order to be forgiven?
• if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with
  the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He
  Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not
  for ours only but also for the whole world.
  (21-2)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Is it necessary to understand the atonement in
  order to be forgiven?
• In this is love, not that we loved God, but
  that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
  propitiation for our sins. (410)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Is it necessary to understand the atonement in
  order to be forgiven?
• Jesus whom God set forth as a propitiation
  by His blood, through faith (Romans 325)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Propitiation (in Rom.325) is the Greek
  hilasterion.
• It is used in the Old Testament, and in Hebrews
  95, as the term for the mercy seat in the
  tabernacle.
• In secular Greek, it meant that which appeases
  (as in an offering) an angry god.

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Propitiation (in Rom.325) is the Greek
  hilasterion.
• Propitiation (in 1 John 2 4) is the Greek
  hilasmos.
• This word refers to a means by which sin is
  covered or remitted.

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Is it necessary to understand the atonement in
  order to be forgiven?
• C.S. Lewis wrote
• Now before I became a Christian I was under
  the impression that the first thing Christians
  had to believe was one particular theory as to
  what the point of this dying was. According to
  that theory God wanted to punish men for having
  deserted and joined the Great Rebel, but Christ
  volunteered to be punished instead, and so God
  let us off

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• Now I admit that even this theory does not
  seem to me quite so immoral and so silly as it
  used to but that is not the point I want to
  make. What I came to see later on was that
  neither this theory nor any other is
  Christianity. The central Christian belief is
  that Christs death has somehow put us right with
  God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to
  how it did this are another matter. A good many
  different theories have been held as to how it
  works what all Christians are agreed on is that
  it does work

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• I will tell you what I think it is like. All
  sensible people know that if you are tired and
  hungry a meal will do you good. But the modern
  theory of nourishmentall about the vitamins and
  proteinsis a different thing. People ate their
  dinners and felt better long before the theory of
  vitamins was ever heard of and if the theory of
  vitamins is some day abandoned they will go on
  eating their dinners just the same. Theories
  about Christs death are not Christianity they
  are explanations about how it works. Christians
  would not all agree as to how important those
  theories are. (Mere Christianity, The
  Perfect Penitent)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus
  is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the
  Father and the Son. (1 John 222)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus
  is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the
  Father and the Son. (1 John 222)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus
  is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the
  Father and the Son. (1 John 222)
• Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is
  born of God (1 John 51)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you
  good tidings of great joy which will be to all
  people. For there is born to you this day in the
  city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
  (Luke 210-11)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• Therefore let all the house of Israel know
  assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you
  crucified, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 236)

32
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 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.
• (Romans
  109)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God
• Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God,
  God abides in him, and he in God (1 John 415)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God
• You are the Christ, the Son of the living God
  (Matthew 1616)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God
• 4.That Jesus came in the flesh

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God
• 4.That Jesus came in the flesh
• By this you know the Spirit of God Every
  spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come
  in the flesh is of God, and 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 (1 John 43-4)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God
• 4.That Jesus came in the flesh
• By this you know the Spirit of God Every
  spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come
  in the flesh is of God, and 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 (1 John 43-4)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God
• 4.That Jesus came in the flesh
• For many deceivers have gone out into the
  world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming
  in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an
  antichrist.
• (2 John
  7)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• 1. That we have sinned
• 2. That Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)
• 3. That Jesus is the Son of God
• 4.That Jesus came in the flesh

41
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit

42
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• And by this we know that He abides in us, by
  the Spirit whom He has given us. (1 John 324)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• And by this we know that He abides in us, by
  the Spirit whom He has given us. (1 John 324)
• By this we know that we abide in Him, and He
  in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
• (1 John 413)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• And by this we know that He abides in us, by
  the Spirit whom He has given us. (1 John 324)
• By this we know that we abide in Him, and He
  in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
• (1 John 413)

45
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• For you did not receive the spirit of
  bondage again to fear, but you received the
  Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba,
  Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with
  our spirit that we are children of God
• (Romans 815-16)

46
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• For you did not receive the spirit of
  bondage again to fear, but you received the
  Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba,
  Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with
  our spirit that we are children of God
• (Romans 815-16)

47
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• Our convictions (our beliefs and confession)
  about Christ and about ourselves arises from the
  witness of the Holy Spirit who has been given to
  us.

48
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• Our convictions (our beliefs and confession)
  about Christ and about ourselves arises from the
  witness of the Holy Spirit who has been given to
  us.
• And it is the Spirit who bears witness,
  because the Spirit is truth. (1 John 56)

49
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send
  to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who
  proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
  (John 1526)

50
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send
  to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who
  proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
  (John 1526)
• And when He has come, He will convict the
  world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
  judgment. (John 168)

51
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He who believes in the Son of God has the
  witness in himself (1 John 510)

52
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• The possession of the Holy Spirit gives
  discernment concerning false teaching, and tutors
  the believer into greater knowledge of the truth

53
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• The possession of the Holy Spirit gives
  discernment concerning false teaching, and tutors
  the believer into greater knowledge of the truth
• But the anointing which you have received
  from Him abides in you, and you do not need that
  anyone teach you but as the same anointing
  teaches you concerning all things, and is true,
  and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you,
  you will abide in Him. (1 John 227)

54
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• The possession of the Holy Spirit gives
  discernment concerning false teaching, and tutors
  the believer into greater knowledge of the truth
• But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the
  Father will send in My name, He will teach you
  all things, and bring to your remembrance all
  things that I said to you. (John 1426)

55
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• The possession of the Holy Spirit gives
  discernment concerning false teaching, and tutors
  the believer into greater knowledge of the truth
• when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He
  will guide you into all truth for He will not
  speak on His own authority, but whatever He
  hears He will speak and He will tell you things
  to come.
• (John 1613)

56
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• You will be brought before governors and
  kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to
  the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do
  not worry about how or what you should speak. For
  it will be given to you in that hour what you
  should speak for it is not you who speak, but
  the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
  (Matt.1018-20)

57
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• You will be brought before governors and
  kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to
  the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do
  not worry about how or what you should speak. For
  it will be given to you in that hour what you
  should speak for it is not you who speak, but
  the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
  (Matt.1018-20)

58
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• You will be brought before governors and
  kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to
  the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do
  not worry about how or what you should speak. For
  it will be given to you in that hour what you
  should speak for it is not you who speak, but
  the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
  (Matt.1018-20)

59
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• You will be brought before governors and
  kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to
  the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do
  not worry about how or what you should speak. For
  it will be given to you in that hour what you
  should speak for it is not you who speak, but
  the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
  (Matt.1018-20)

60
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• Possession of the Holy Spirit means that we
  have direct contact with God and Jesus, and no
  longer must depend on external testimony or
  proofs (though such may be abundant).

61
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• But you are not in the flesh but in the
  Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
  you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of
  Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you
  (Rom.89-10)

62
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• But you are not in the flesh but in the
  Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
  you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of
  Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you
  (Rom.89-10)

63
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• But you are not in the flesh but in the
  Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
  you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of
  Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you
  (Rom.89-10)

64
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• But you are not in the flesh but in the
  Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
  you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of
  Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you
  (Rom.89-10)

65
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• And I will pray the Father, and He will
  give you another Helper, that He may abide with
  you foreverthe Spirit of truth, whom the world
  cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor
  knows Him but you know Him, for He dwells with
  you and will be in you. I will not leave you
  orphans
• I will come to you. (John 1416-18)

66
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• And I will pray the Father, and He will
  give you another Helper, that He may abide with
  you foreverthe Spirit of truth, whom the world
  cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor
  knows Him but you know Him, for He dwells with
  you and will be in you. I will not leave you
  orphans
• I will come to you. (John 1416-18)

67
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He who has My commandments and keeps them,
  it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will
  be loved by My Father, and I will love him and
  manifest Myself to him."Judas (not Iscariot) said
  to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest
  Yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus
  answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he
  will keep My word and My Father will love him,
  and We will come to him and make Our home with
  him. (John 1421-23)

68
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He who has My commandments and keeps them,
  it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will
  be loved by My Father, and I will love him and
  manifest Myself to him."Judas (not Iscariot) said
  to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest
  Yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus
  answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he
  will keep My word and My Father will love him,
  and We will come to him and make Our home with
  him. (John 1421-23)

69
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He who has My commandments and keeps them,
  it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will
  be loved by My Father, and I will love him and
  manifest Myself to him."Judas (not Iscariot) said
  to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest
  Yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus
  answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he
  will keep My word and My Father will love him,
  and We will come to him and make Our home with
  him. (John 1421-23)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He who has My commandments and keeps them,
  it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will
  be loved by My Father, and I will love him and
  manifest Myself to him."Judas (not Iscariot) said
  to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest
  Yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus
  answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he
  will keep My word and My Father will love him,
  and We will come to him and make Our home with
  him. (John 1421-23)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• So when the Samaritans had come to Him,
  they urged Him to stay with them and He stayed
  there two days. And many more believed because of
  His own word. Then they said to the woman, "Now
  we believe, not because of what you said, for we
  ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is
  indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
  (John 440-42)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• So when the Samaritans had come to Him,
  they urged Him to stay with them and He stayed
  there two days. And many more believed because of
  His own word. Then they said to the woman, "Now
  we believe, not because of what you said, for we
  ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is
  indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
  (John 440-42)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• So when the Samaritans had come to Him,
  they urged Him to stay with them and He stayed
  there two days. And many more believed because of
  His own word. Then they said to the woman, "Now
  we believe, not because of what you said, for we
  ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is
  indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
  (John 440-42)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• So when the Samaritans had come to Him,
  they urged Him to stay with them and He stayed
  there two days. And many more believed because of
  His own word. Then they said to the woman, "Now
  we believe, not because of what you said, for we
  ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is
  indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
  (John 440-42)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• So when the Samaritans had come to Him,
  they urged Him to stay with them and He stayed
  there two days. And many more believed because of
  His own word. Then they said to the woman, "Now
  we believe, not because of what you said, for we
  ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is
  indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
  (John 440-42)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• "Now we believe, not because of what you
  said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know
  that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the
  world. (John 442)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• "Now we believe, not because of what you
  said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know
  that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the
  world. (John 442)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• "Now we believe, not because of what you
  said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know
  that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the
  world. (John 442)
• And we have seen and testify that the Father
  has sent the Son as Savior of the world. (1
  John 414)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He said to them, "But who do you say that I
  am?
• Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the
  Christ, the Son of the living God.
• Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are
  you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not
  revealed this to you, but My Father who is in
  heaven.
• (Matthew 1615-17)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He said to them, "But who do you say that I
  am?
• Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the
  Christ, the Son of the living God.
• Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are
  you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not
  revealed this to you, but My Father who is in
  heaven.
• (Matthew 1615-17)

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How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• He said to them, "But who do you say that I
  am?
• Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the
  Christ, the Son of the living God.
• Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are
  you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not
  revealed this to you, but My Father who is in
  heaven.
• (Matthew 1615-17)

82
How Can I Know If I am Really Saved2?

• A. What we believe and confess about Christ and
  ourselves
• B. If we possess the Holy Spirit
• Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are
  you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not
  revealed this to you, but My Father who is in
  heaven.