The Test of Our Assurance of Salvation (1 John) - 6/16/24

INTRO

• 1 John 5:13 – So that you may KNOW

• 2 Corinthians 13:5 – Let us examine ourselves

• Assurance in our salvation = Confidence in our salvation
  

There are tests we should consider as we think through the assurance of our salvation. God lays them out perfectly for us in the book of 1 John.

The Test of Right Doctrine (Theological Test)

1 John 2:23; 3:23; 4:2; 5:5; 5:10; 5:13

The Test of Right Living (Ethical Test)

1 John 2:3-6; 3:4-9

The Test of Right Loving (Moral Test)

1 John 2:8-11; 3:10-12; 3:18; 4:7-11

Do I know I have a personal relationship with God and that I am daily experience the joy of my salvation and the fellowship with the saints? – 1:3-4

• Fellowship – to share, to have in common.

• Joy – gladness

• Full – complete
  

Do I walk in the light and flee from darkness? – 1:5-10

• Light – Truth, Holiness

• Psalm 119:104

• Darkness – Untruth, Unholy

• 1 Thessalonians 5:4-7

• Deceive – Cause to wander

• Confess – agree with God. Denounce it.  Forsake it.
  

Do I love His Word and strive to live in obedience to it? – 2:3-6

• Know – To realize who He is and to grasp His greatness and glory.

• Keep – have our eyes fixed upon…guarding a prisoner.

• Practice righteousness– to perform and accomplish

• v. 29; 3:10a
  

Do I demonstrate my love of God by the way that I treat others? – 3:10b-15; 2:9-11

• The world hates… the world loves.

• If we cannot love within the body of Christ, then how can we love outside the body.