When Jesus declared there was a fake Apostle, all of the Apostles were shocked, and started asking if they were the fake Apostle. Nobody but Jesus knew about Judas Iscarriot. Therefore fake Christians are not easy to spot.
I wrote previously about being a full, True Christian (see https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2018/05/full-true-christians.html ).
Fortunately, the Bible offers a test.
If you don't make out so well on the 10 Question test, there is a solution, presented below, so don't worry.
Dr. Steve Lawson, as a new Pastor at a well established church, suspected that many in the congregation were not saved, but going through the motions. What was he to do?
What should he preach to bring church members to Christ?
Dr. Lawson said,
“ I said the last thing I would preach would be John 3:16 that that just lulls everyone in the building to sleep. I would preach the lordship of Christ. I would preach repentance. I would preach the new birth. I would preach the necessary evidence of the new birth. I would preach the sovereignty of God in salvation to the extent that I could push that. I would do everything that I could to blow a trumpet in Zion and to awaken those who are asleep.”
"When a dead man is made alive in Christ an individual should notice some changes and that is precisely what John was after when he wrote the first John Epistle."
“When I was at my previous church (it's not it's not a County Church but it was it was a long-standing church a hundred years old) when I preached 1 John and the necessary evidences of the new birth, it rocked the planet, for good and for worse.”
“If you do not see this evidence in your life, you are not saved, you are self deceived, you have never been born again, and I mean across the board, not three out of these nine. it's not a multiple-choice. All nine of these will be evident and present in your life if you are born of God, if you know God, and if not you're going to hell.”
"There is a necessary evidence of the new birth and that's why first John is written that you may know that you have eternal life and there's something worse than not having the assurance of your salvation what's worse is to have a false assurance of no salvation and so you just have to shake people loose from their dead testimony from their dead religion and and you just have to be relentless with it you have to paint things in black and white"
Test to Detect Luke Warm Christians
- If we walk in the light as He himself is in the light then we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7)
- If we say that we have no sin we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us (1 John 1:8)
- By this we know that we have come to know Him if we keep his Commandments (1 John 2:3).
- Do not love the world nor the things of the world if anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15).
- Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." (1 John 2:23).
- Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." (1 John 3:2).
- No one who is born of God practices sin because His seed abides in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God (1 John 3:9).
- We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (1 John 3:14).
- We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. (1 John 4:6).
- Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God God abides in him and he in God (1 John 4:15)
To understand the full meaning of the Questions, the video below is recommended viewing.
Do you feel wounded by your answers to these 10 questions?
Dr. Lawson continued:
"People like that usually don't walk the aisle at the end of the service I mean Spurgeon said the wounded deer wants to withdraw to the thickets and lick its wounds in private rather than be paraded forward in front of a TV camera and so there was week after week after week after week after week after week after week, just non-stop, that knock on my my office door when the service is over and can I talk to you and my office became like the the birthing room at the hospital and I would just say have a seat and the the cushion is still creased from the last person that was you know sat there and the box of Kleenex right there and and people just under the sense of desperation and that's the way it was in acts two they interrupted Peters sermon and the sinners gave the invitation what must we do to be saved there's a sense of desperation."
Do you feel desperate?
Todd says,
"You're not desperate.
Desperate is to be without hope. Desperate is to recognize: I'm in really big trouble here and there is no rescue for me. The good news of the gospel is you should feel desperate, but you should also know that you're not, because you have a rescuer, you have a redeemer, you have a Savior, and his name is Jesus Christ."
If you have been alerted to the state of your salvation, and now you're in a panic, you don't have to be. Call out to God, repent, put your trust in Jesus Christ, and you will be adopted into his family, totally and forever.
All the above was extracted from the transcript from the following video. Well worth your time to watch, listen, and consider.
If you are a True Christian, you are guaranteed protection under Psalm 91, a spot in Heaven, and many other benefits.
If you failed the test, here is a summary of all the important Bible references to God's 26 Commandments for Christians (10 in Old Testament, 16 more in New Testament, for a total of 26), and instructions for moving up to a full, True Christian.
https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2019/12/gods-26-commandments-for-christians.html
