IYKYK - 1 JOHN 5:11-13
HOW DO I KNOW I AM SAVED?
1 John 5:11-13 – 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has life. The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
SERMON TITLE: “IF YOU KNOW… YOU KNOW!”
1. SALVATION IS A *DECISION, AS A *RESPONSE
John 3:16 – 16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
John 6:44 – 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Romans 10:8b-10 – …This is the message of faith that we proclaim: 9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.
2. SALVATION IS NOT *FROM *WORKS, BUT *FOR THEM
Ephesians 2:8-10 – 8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift 9 not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.
James 2:17 – In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
3. SALVATION *CHANGES *EVERYTHING ABOUT *YOU!
Matthew 7:17-18 – 17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.
DOES MY LIFE REFLECT THE FAITH I PROFESS?
Romans 5:1 – 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Not your works
Not your effort
Not your feelings
Not your past
It’s Jesus