03/05/19 THREE EVIDENCES

03/05/19 THREE EVIDENCES

Three evidences we are saved.
1. We departed from evil.
2. We love one another.
3. We walk in the Spirit (not the flesh).

God knows His own because WE HAVE DEPARTED FROM EVIL.
2 Timothy 2:19
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

He also says that other people will know that we are truly saved because WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER WITH A PURE, SELF DENYING, SELF SACRIFICING LOVE (agape).
John 13:35
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

And don't forget, the witness of the Holy Spirit is not only His voice speaking to us, it is primarily His Spirit enabling us, so that WE WALK IN THE SPIRIT AND NOT IN THE FLESH.
Romans 8:12-17
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.