How Can I Know That I Am Saved? (Chantilly Sermon)

How can I know that I’m saved?

1 John 5:13 CSB – I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

1. Faith

1 John 5:1-5 CSB – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. Who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Do you trust Jesus?

2. Love

1 John 3:13-18 CSB – Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him? Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

Do you love fellow believers? 

3. Obedience

1 John 2:3-6 CSB – This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commands. The one who says, “I have come to know him,” and yet doesn’t keep his commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the love of God is made complete. This is how we know we are in him: The one who says he remains in him should walk just as he walked.

Do you obey God?

4. Light

1 John 1:5-10 CSB – This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in him. If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” and yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. If we walk in the light as he himself 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, “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, “We have not sinned,” we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Do you walk in the light and confess sin?

Discuss
1. What did God say to you?
2. How will you respond?
3. Role-play talking with someone