How do you know you are saved? What gives you assurance?
2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV
[5] Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
What do you look for when examining, testing yourself? You look for fruit. Are you bearing good fruit?
Luke 6:43-44 KJV
[43] For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
[44] For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
What is "fruit?"
Galatians 5:21-24 KJV
[21] …of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things [EVIL WORKS, DISOBEDIENCE] shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
[24] And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
A whole book, 1 John, is dedicated to revealing what a saved person looks like, so that people
can examine themselves.
1 John 5:13 KJV
[13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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