Making Your Calling and Election Sure

God's way of authenticating the certainty of your salvation experience is to tell you to do what only Christians can do. Nonetheless, There is such a thing as a near-sighted believer who sees only the present, the now. He does not consider what will happen to him if he fails to diligently add, for instance, temperance, self-control. He is and we are a bundle of desires, many of them evil, some not essentially evil but nevertheless pose a threat when done to excess. Wisdom is to add temperance, self-control. Christians can and must do this or else fall from their stedfastness with undesireable consequences. Some of the seed thoughts for this message came from Mark Minnick's message on this given March 8, 1998: Confirming Your Calling.