by Teresa Altman

Created on: April 24, 2008

HOW A PERSON CAN KNOW IF THEY ARE IN THE TRUTH AND SAVED_

A 10 point scriptural test for assurance of salvation. (1 John)

Instructions: This test must be taken in complete honesty with yourself to be effective. You do not have to write down or speak your answers aloud. Answer them silently and truthfully inside your heart. No one will know except you...and God.

1) 1 John 1:7_ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another

True Christians love to be around and fellowship with other believers. They enjoy conversations about Jesus because he is precious to them. Do you enjoy having conversations about Jesus with other believers and share how he blesses your life?

2) 1 John 1:8_ If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

A true Christian, in all humility and with a contrite spirit, sees himself as a filthy, wretched sinner before a Holy God and knows that he deserves His just wrath. Do you believe you deserve God's wrath for the sins you committed against His laws? Have you ever humbled yourself before God, repented for your wretched and sinful heart, turned away from your lifestyle of sin, and trusted in God's gift of grace through the death and resurrection of His son, Jesus Christ?

3) 1 John 2:3_ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

True believers strive to keep ALL the commandments. Most people don't even know all the commandments. Do you know all the commandments? Do you strive to keep them? Does your guilt consume you when you break one?

4) 1 John 2:15_ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

It's OK to enjoy the things or family that God has blessed you with, but if you put their worth before God and your service to Him, you will selfishly want more and will be in danger of the sin of idolatry. Does God get highest billing in your life? Do you place greater value on anything other than your time and relationship with God?

5) 1 John 2:13_ I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that was from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

Anyone that denies the Son is God, denies the Father. If a person does not understand the nature of the son (a person of the Godhead), then they don't have the Father in them. Do you believe and understand that Jesus is God?

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