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How do I know I’m saved? God, since I was. What did he say? He told me in his word. that believe on me, hath everlasting life. I don’t know why I have eternal life. God said it yet. He said, if I believe it, I can’t everlasting life. Is that good enough or not? All I’ve got is His word. Isn’t that good enough? You don’t trust your feelings and you’d be surprised how many people they trust in their feelings. No.

Is faith in the facts that can produce the feelings? But when you don’t have faith in the facts, don’t you dare trust the feelings. Number two here, the walks of the saint do not attain these progressively. In other words, me being a child of God is not the result of me progressively little by little growing in the Lord because now I go to church and I give money and I try to live holy doesn’t help me to be one I ODA more a child of God than I was 50 years ago when I trusted him as my Savior.

In that little old living room that night when I trusted Christ as my Savior. I was every bit a child of God. Now as time has gone on I have grown as a Christian but I am still just as much a child of God. I’m not more of a child of God. I am a child of God. That’s my position. I mean just because I’m you know I’m 68 years old. I am really my dad’s child now. I’m no more my dad’s child today than I was the day I was born just as much.

Ben is now that don’t change. So your position in Christ doesn’t change. Now let her see they are not given on the basis of human merit. In other words your position in Christ your salvation is not the result of anything that you do in this life. That’s the first three that leaves you on the negative side, but it’s not. What it is, look there, let her deal. They are obtained completely at the moment of salvation. This is your position, your union, your standing.

Happens the very moment you trust in Christ as your Savior. They are realized only by divine revelation. How do I know all this is true? Because of divine revelation, God’s word reveals these truths to us. When I got saved, I didn’t have a Holy Ghost fit. I didn’t jump shout Hooten-Hollering and keep my heels together and lightning both straight and children up down the spine. Nothing happened. I Thought this is a total of dead Because I’ve already heard about the beer.

Look at these feelings tonight. Nothing happened to me. That didn’t work Because I got a trust in these feelings like this boy and this girl were kissing And he had chills going up down the spine Her popsicle was dripping letter F. They are eternal and never changing. This relationship is true of every believer and visible only to God. The only one that can see that you are truly a child of God is God. I want to believe, Peter Amato has trusted Christ as a Savior.

All I have is his word and he ain’t God. God knows whether he really believes it or not. God knows if you really have trusted him and saved you or not, but I can lie to you and you can lie to me. I can deceive you and you can deceive me, but none of us can deceive God. So being saved is only because God says so in a way you know you’re saved because God said so.

Then that doesn’t change. Nobody can fool God. So, are you saved? Do you know for sure you’re going to heaven when you die? You do not look at anything in your life as the evidence that you’re saved. God pity those preachers that give you a list. Ten ways on how to know you’re really saved. And they give you a list of all these things. How to know you’re really, well, you’ll love one another. You’ll want to pray. You’ll want to go to church.

You’ll change your life. And they get all these things. They just gave you ten reasons to doubt your salvation. Because if you don’t do them, I must not really be saved. And then they’ll have some evangelists come in and he’ll convince them and half the church and half the deacons and everybody else that you’re not really saved because, or if you were really saved, you were not going to play. this way you won’t do this. I must not really be saved.

Glory salvation. We had 50 people come down to the front and got saved today. It was the Deacon, two elders, piano player, Sunday school teachers. No, all he did was get everybody to question and to doubt their salvation so he can get them resaved again and he’s a great evangelist. I’ve been an evangelist. I know what they do And I don’t like it. I despise it. It’s not the Bible. Only way you know you’re saved is because somewhere along the line did you or did you not accept Jesus Christ and Him alone is your only hope of going to heaven.

And once you did you are saved you have eternal life. Look at the next statement. The state depends upon the walk of man. So after you’re saved, how are you doing? So you’ll find out, especially like in Thessalonians, that talks about that I may know your state. I may know your state. That means the condition that you’re in. You may have eternal life. You’re going to heaven when you die. But what is your spiritual condition today? Are you walking with the Lord?

Or have you gone astray? Are you moving forward or you moving backwards. Moving backwards is where people call about your backsliding. No Christian can ever backslide and lose salvation. None. Nobody has ever been saved twice because the only way you can get saved twice is you got to get lost after the first time you got saved and you can’t get lost so how can you get saved again? You can’t. Impossible. See people make up all kinds of things. But if you rightly divide the word of truth, anything that God tells you that you have to do concerning your works, then that has to be referred to service.

But it’s about what God does for you, then that’s grace. That’s what God does, that’s gift. So salvation is one thing, service is another. God wants all those born into his family at salvation to serve him. But nobody serves the Lord till you’re saved. And if you are saved you may serve him and you may not serve him. But you’ll be disobedient and God may have to chase in you because of it. But it is the will of God that all of his children Live like his children.

Act like it. Talk like it. So your condition, your day by day, how you’re doing, well that determined by your walk. Your communion, where are you? You may have like I talked about in Sunday school, you have union, but you may not have communion. You may not have the unity. How can two walk together unless they be agreed. It’s not like I’m going this way God. If you want to have fellowship with me, come on. Uh-oh wrong way. God says this is the way I go and it’s a holy walk.

And if you want to walk with Him, you come over here where the Lord is and you can walk with God. So having things in fellowship is like two fellows in a ship. You’re getting along and you’re walking together and there’s peace, He says, Joy, there’s purpose. So look at the next statement there. Number three, your state, your walk is determined by moment by moment. It means why you’ve been sitting here. Did you realize why you’ve been sitting here?

You could have been thinking some holy thoughts. Isn’t that wonderful? And you could have been thinking about your husband. You could be thinking about your wife. You could be thinking about your boss. You could be thinking bad thoughts while you’re sitting here. So the state can change from moment by moment, but aren’t you glad that regardless of the state that you may be in, the condition spiritually you may be in has nothing to do with your standing in Christ.

That can never change. So even though since you trust the Lord there may be a lot of fluctuation You may be up here one day and down here the next day up there in the next day and down here the next day There’s some Christians there up here, and here’s the line of normal. And journey is high above the line of normal that a Christian goes. When he goes down, he goes that same distance below. And then when he come up, and they go down, what God wants you to do is learn how to walk on an even teal.

Some Christians, they are so emotional. And then the very next day they’re pitiful. They’re all excited and they’re pitiful. That’s not being very sober minded, not stabilized. Or the thing is going to happen in life. Yes, you may not walk around all day with a smiley face on, but neither should you walk around all time with a, like you’ve been baptized in lemon juice. There’s no charge for these extra little things that I’m looking but look at the next statement They relate to the believers walk on earth.

This is your state Your condition of how you’re doing and that’s why you should always be checking yourself spiritually. How am I doing spiritually? Now, I know I’m a child of God and I know my Lord wants me to walk a godly walk How am I doing? How was my thought life? Do I watch my tongue? Do I act and talk and sound like a Christian should?

Now if you don’t want to be reviewed all the time, I hope it hurts so much that you correct it so that you don’t have to be. And sometimes nobody will say anything because they know that you’re gonna say something back to them. Because they know if they can see that little splinter coming out of your eye, you probably can see the two before coming out of their eye. letter B, they are temporal and constantly changing. The condition day by day, it’s always, did you know you can sit here and have joy and fellowship and you can walk out that door and something go wrong and buddy just calls you to break down the weave.

Sorrow can hit so quickly, depression, discouragement, so quickly. Everything can be great and you can get one phone call with some bad news or sometimes just the phone ringing can do it to you. I wonder who that is. I don’t know what’s one of the kids. And we automatically think bad. And sometimes we’re going on past experiences. Number three, they are understood by the concepts of spirituality and her carnality. In other words, understanding and discerning where you are spiritually is determined by your spirituality.

Where are you spiritually? Can you detect in your own life when something is wrong? If some dirt got in your eye, can you tell it? Yankee, did you know you had an arrow sticking out of your eye? I didn’t know that. The? An arrow? But you know, there’s some Christians that they can do so much wrong and it doesn’t even bother them. Like they’re insensitive. They’re not teachable. They’re not pliable in God’s hands. Their whole body is one big scar.

There’s no feelings left. You need to say sensitive that when the Holy Spirit prompts you, you can sense it. talk to somebody or to do something to read a certain scripture, how you answer things, all these things are so important. Look at letter D, they are necessary for all of your growth and service is your discernment. That’s why you read and study the Word of God because the everyday is different. Tomorrow might bring some good news and it might bring something bad.

Tomorrow, you may lose a job, lose wealth, you might lose health. Who knows? Nobody knows tomorrow. But spiritually, if you’re strong enough between you and God, you can handle it. But if you’re weak, they can destroy you. The problems of this life are designed in such a way that if you do not serve the Lord with joyfulness of heart, he said he’ll put a yoke of iron upon your neck until it destroys you. Look at this. Better eat this relationship affects our mind emotions and our body.

It affects it. So this is your walk. Remember I was teaching in the book of Ephesians. The first three chapters talks about the wealth of the believer. And the last three chapters talks about the walk of the believer. So you’re supposed to walk according to your wealth. It’s just like in this life. Aren’t we supposed to live according to our wealth? In other words, according to the means you have, I know people who always live above their means. Do you ever know anybody like that?

Soon or later, you’re gonna get trapped. You’re gonna get caught. And you’re gonna find out that you can’t live here if the income is only here. We call that indebtedness. And this is why you ought to do everything in your power not to have a lot of debt that you can’t pay. Because to do so you’re walking into a trap by which the devil himself is able to manipulate you and Remember the borrow is servant to the lender and so you have to keep those things in mind and watch yourself Don’t over extend yourself Look at the next statement Unconfessed sin breaks our communion two things I put into that broken communion breaks our walk broken walk breaks our fellowship.

Confession of our sin forgives us of our sins. Forgiveness of our sins restores our communion. Our communion with God restores our walk. Our walk with God restores our fellowship. I’ve heard so many people say like 1 John 1 9 is just a rebound and if we confess our sins it restores your fellowship. That is not what the verse says. It says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanses from all unrighteousness.

If you don’t restore the walk, you can’t restore the fellowship because the fellowship is according to your walk. It gives you the communion that you have between you and the Lord. It’s a place to begin to walk. He can forgive you for what you’ve done. But if you don’t serve the Lord and walk with the Lord, the fellowship is not going to be restored. God didn’t break the walk. God didn’t break the fellowship. You did. And only you can restore the walk.

God doesn’t restore the walk. You break it, you restore it. And that means commune with the Lord and you talk to the Lord and you admit to God, I have sinned against God. I want to stray. I did this confess it means to name whatever it was and then you walk with him He doesn’t change God’s still there. He’s always there Did you know that the perfect will of God lies as close as the next decision you make You can have the perfect will of God for your life by the next decision you make and you can have not the will of God by the next decision you make.

So in your walk, you’d be surprised how quickly you can deviate from the will of God and how quickly you can get back to the Lord. If you fall in the mud, what should you do? Later, just later, just lay right there in the mud. That’s what a lot of Christians do. No, first John 1-9, you can get a pot of the mud. But the walk isn’t restored to restore the walk. Now you start walking with the God and doing things in common with God and having fellowship with God.

And you’ll find out that the walk is restored, the fellowship is restored. And that’s something that you do. This is underlined, let’s look at it. Confession of our sins in and of itself does not restore fellowship. If the walk is not restored, then the fellowship is not restored. But God wants us to walk with him. He wants us to talk to them. It’s just like Mama says, son, take out the trash. I will not. Nobody’s going to be happy.

Because Mama’s not happy. Nobody’s happy. And so the kid may get a whooping. And the kid may say, Mama, I’m sorry. I’m sorry, will you forgive me? Yes, I will. And everything’s wonderful. No, it’s not. You still haven’t took out the trash yet. Take out the trash. You still gotta be obedient. And a lot of people, they say, well, just, it doesn’t matter if you sin, just confess it and everything’s fine. No, it’s not. Just like I said before, if I take my arm and I lay it up here and I take an ax and I cut off my hand.

It’s a rather dumb thing to do. Sure was, but I didn’t need it right now, so I don’t care. Or later on, when I try to tie my shoes, try with one hand. You know, I need my hand. I made a dumb decision. I confess it to you. It was sinful. It was wrong. And God says, I forgive you. It does put my hand back. Become an alcoholic and ruin your kidneys. Lord, I’m sorry. It was wrong. God said, I forgive you.

He didn’t give you new kidney because of it. That what you have to not restore it because you confess the sin. You can ruin your marriage. Lord, I was wrong. I doesn’t restore the marriage. She might have already done a left and married somebody else. Or you just don’t fall into that false spirituality trap. There’s consequences to sin in this life after you trusted Christ as your Savior. Consequences. And some of those things are irreversible. You can’t change it.

That’s why they always say, you know, don’t burn the bridges behind you. Some people say burn the bridge. all the time, what kind of a bridge? Look at the last statement down here as we close. And I brethren, that’s your position. That’s who you are. You’re a brethren. Ciao of God. Could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, that’s your condition. But as unto carnal, that’s your condition. You may be spiritual, you may be carnal, but that’s your condition.

That’s not your standing in Christ. That is your condition. That’s your state. That’s How you doing? Even as on the babes as your condition in Christ, because you’re still a babe. Now you’re a child of God, but you may not be a… Growing in the Lord, you can go from a babe to a man of God. I fed you with milk, not with me. For hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet are you able. For you’re yet carnal, that’s your condition.

For whereas there is among you Indian and strife and divisions, are you not carnal? And walk as men. So can a Christian walk as a carnal man, a lost man? Yes, and can you get bitter and fill with envy and hatefulness and jealousy and envy? All those wicked things? Yes, you can as a Christian. But that does not affect your standing. You’re still a child of God. But because of the condition, your moment by moment spirituality or lack of it thereof, God, your heavenly Father, might have to chase in you or he may bless you.

But that’s on a moment by moment walk with the Lord. That’s why just because I walk with God yesterday I still got to walk with God today and tomorrow you still are supposed to do right tomorrow True and the next day you should still do right the next day It’s a day by day, but is it possible just because you’re spiritual today. You’ll be spiritually minded tomorrow You may not be you can be fleshly minded You can turn on God and ruin your whole testimony and ruin your life.

Is that the will of God? No. Look up here. This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sinned. God loves us but He hates our sin. And for you and I, we have to pay for that sin. And because the payment for sin is death, we’re all condemned. That’s why everybody dies. Because everybody’s sinned. Now to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect. We are all sinners.

That is our position. That doesn’t change. That’s the first birth. That’s when I was born into this old world. That’s my position. I’m a sinner. I can’t change that. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s God in the flesh. came into the world because he loves us, but he hates what we do wrong. And our sins separates us from him. You see, I’m unholy and he is holy. Therefore we can’t walk together. We can’t have fellowship together. We can’t commune together.

We’re separated. So what Christ did was he came into the world and because he had no sin didn’t have to die, he took hours. the sin of all the world upon himself paid for it came back from the dead. And God said that if you are anybody would believe that he did it for them. God would give you a new birth. So he doesn’t change the first one. He gives you a new birth. This new one comes from God.

That means God is the Father. You are the child. And God has no sinful nature. So the new birth has no sinful nature. If it has no sinful nature, it cannot sin. If that cannot sin, it cannot die. That’s why once you trust Christ as your Savior, you’re a child of God without a sinful nature that cannot sin. You said, but where did all my sin come from? That old guy, this other one. So yes, I still have him.

He was not eradicated. God didn’t change him, didn’t convert him, didn’t do a thing for him or with him. Give me something brand new. And I am going to heaven when I die. Only perfect people get to go to heaven. That’s why you have to be perfect in Christ. If I went to heaven with this guy, he will sin in heaven just like he sinned down here. So God said, he can’t go. That’s why you have to be born again into God’s family gives you a new birth.

Born of God and you get to go to heaven whenever you die. And this never changes. That’s who you are. So God says, because of in this life, Well, the short period of time to live, I want you to live here the way you’re going to live there. Up there, see, I will live without sin. So God says, I want you down here to live without sin. But you say, I got this over here, I know, and that’s our problem.

And that’s the battle we go through in our Christian life. But this one never does sin. And since God won’t let him up there, then God says, don’t let him control you down here. sense to me. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I urge you to do so. You see, you don’t have to promise God to stop anything. You don’t have to change your life.

You don’t have to have to promise that you will change your life or to stop some particular sin, that’s not the issue. Christ paid for your sins. You don’t have to promise God how you’re going to live. That would make your religious hypocrite. And then what if you don’t keep your part of this bargain? Then you’ll question whether or not God ever saved you to start with. So just forget all that junk. And realize God loves you. He paid for your sins and He will save you and give you eternal life as a free gift if you only trust him.

Believe that he did it for you and God said he would save you and you can go to heaven whenever you die. In just a moment I’m going to ask for a raise of hand. Raising your hand does not save you. It only lets me know that what I said made sense to you. And I like to have prayer for you in closing. So we hit bow nice, close, no one looking around. Is there anyone else that says yes?

That made sense to me. And tonight I will trust Jesus Christ as my Savior. And preach I like me to pray for me in closing. Would you just slip in it very quickly and put it right back down, Zhenra? Write where you are. If you’ll believe it, God will save you and give you the free gift of eternal life and He’ll never cast you out and never lose you. The best news at all the world I pray that you will.

Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together. We’re thankful for the truth that you’ve given us in your word to rightly divide. so that we can understand these things. Bless each one for being here, give us a good week. And Father, different people are gonna have different things ahead of this week. I pray you’ll be close to them. And that Father, many things will happen and it reveals where we are spiritually. And I pray that it’ll challenge and motivate us to become spiritually minded, stronger, mighty in spirit.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day. Believe in that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.