How do we know, How can we tell?
Now thatis the question many ask.
Understand this.
Ever question if you are a true believer of Christ Jesus?
First off if you do; chances are you are.
For if you aren't you wouldn't be concerned about it.
A true believer in Christ Jesus described in 1 John
How to recognize a true believer:
How to tell if you are a true believer:
1John 1:5
This is the message we have heard from Him (Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit) and announce to you,
that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness,
we lie and do not practice the truth;
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If we say we are Christians but yet participate in the worldly ways we lie;
We do not practice the truth; we but rather live in darkness.
Not having fellowship with Christ Jesus nor His Father.
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1John 1:7-10
but if we walk in the Light as He Himself (Father GOD) is in the Light,
we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin,
we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins,
He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned,
we make Him (GOD) a liar and His word is not in us.
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You want to walk with Father God and His son Christ Jesus?
Then admit you have sin in your life,
repent of it and ask to be forgiven of it.
To repent is to turn away from it and walk in the light,
The light of the truth, the light of the Father and His Son Christ Jesus.
In not doing so you are calling both Father God and His Son Christ Jesus liars and can not have fellowship with them.
For GOD is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
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In 1 John we are told 1 John 2:1-2
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.
And 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 those of the whole world.
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When you come to the truth, the reality that you have sin in your life, that you do sin,
Know this that Christ Jesus the righteous one came to earth in human form and gave up that life and hung on a cross so that you may be forgiven of all your sins and be seen as clean by His Father, Father GOD.
Christ is our advocate, our propitiation He is our redeemer;
He is our only access to Father God and His kingdom.
He Christ Jesus paid for us, a price we could never pay.
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1 John 2:3-6
By this we know that we have come to know Him,
if we keep His commandments.
The one who says,
“I have come to know Him,”
and does not keep His commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him;
but whoever keeps His word,
in him the love of God has truly been perfected.
By this we know that we are in Him:
the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked
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Do we honestly keep the commandments of Father God and Christ Jesus?
Honestly?
1. Thou shalt not have any other gods before God.
2. Thou shalt not make yourself an idol.
3. Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy.
5. Honor your Father and Mother.
6. Thou shalt not murder.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not testify or bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet.
And in Matthew 5, reading what Christ Jesus says we find that He has taken the commandments from just actions to what we think and seak.
In Matthew 5:17 we find that Jesus did not come to abolish the commandments of the Father but rather to fulfill them.
And then He goes on in Matthew 5: 21 through Matthew 5:48 and shows us that keeping the commandments of Father God takes more than not just performing an action,
that it also has to do with what we think and speak.
Jesus sums all the commandments of the Father in this
Matthew 22:37-38
And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Do you keep Father GOD’s commandments?
Truly keep them?
Do you love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind?
Or do things of this world take up most of your time, thoughts and energy?
Is your time and energy spent with tings of this world that you think you have to have,
or with your creator, with the one who came to redeem your soul?
Christ is your advocate, your propitiation He is your redeemer,
Not this world nor the things of this world.
What say you?
As for me and my house we will chose to serve the LORD!
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1 John 2:3-6
By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.
The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected.
By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.