TWO IMPORTANT EVIDENCES

“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” (I John 5:1)

Two important truths are obvious in this verse. First, the only way anyone can believe on Christ the Savior is to be born again with a new nature. Our old nature can never believe on Christ or love Christ. The only thing the new nature can do is believe and love Christ.

Second, anyone who is born again loves God and loves other believers. A child of God loves the other children of God. The family of God loves the family of God.

Where faith in Christ and love for believers is lacking, there is no evidence of the new birth.

Pastor

Believer, if you are looking for comfort, don’t look within yourself. If you look within, all you will find is doubt, confusion, ignorance and unfaithfulness. But to the one in need of mercy…the Spirit of God moved upon the prophet Isaiah to declare hope to such who are wretched sinners…”Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”

Pastor Marvin Stalnaker

YE ARE COMPLETE IN HIM” - Colossians 2:10

The believer standing in Christ does not fluctuate with his feelings, not even the increase or decrease of his faith or understanding or anything else. He stands complete in Christ. God would never trust any of His children to stand before him at anytime in their own selves – that is, in their merits or certain good frames of mind. He knows our frame. He remembers that we are yet dust. Therefore, He has on purpose provided for them this perfect standing in Christ Jesus. “Ye are complete in Him,” the Holy Ghost said. He says in another place, “Ye are perfect in Christ Jesus,” (Col. 1:28.) The very nature of our God requires us to be perfect and complete before Him at all times. He, out of necessity, therefore provided all this for His children: a perfection, a completeness, which can never be diminished. It is as unchanging as God himself, (Hebrews 6:17; 13:8). Every true believer may walk through this world in perfect liberty, free from anything and everything – yes, even his sin, fear of condemnation, and all else that would cause him to doubt of his completeness. He may freely come to God, worship Him, call Him “Father,” and this he may do at all times with the utmost confidence and thankfulness, because in Christ he stands, first and foremost and always, complete before God. O thanks be to God for Jesus Christ.

Pastor Bruce Crabtree

If my children follow my example, what kind of people will they be? Will they be faithful or unfaithful? Generous or stingy? Content or complaining? If every marriage has mine as its example, will people be happily married? If every church member were just like me, what kind of church would this church be? If every employee were just like me. . . I could go on and on, but the point is “Faith without works is dead.”

A faith that does not manifest itself in every area of my life is not saving faith! The first thing the Lord said to each of the seven churches in Asia was, “I know thy works.” It is our works that prove the reality of our faith. The example we give is what we really are!