Confidently Knowing Christ

Theme: The Certainty of Knowing You are A Believer

I. Assurance of Salvation is Absolutely Certain (I John 5:13)
A. I know that I am saved if I have confessed my sin to God(I John 1:8-9)
B. I know that I am saved if I believe Jesus Christ came inhuman flesh (I John 5:1)
C. I know that I am saved if I do not practice sin (I John 2:1)
Gary Burge said 'A world denying philosophy has ledto a sin-denying theology.'
D. I know that I am saved if I love Christians (I John 4:7)

II. Awareness of a Joy-Filled Life (I John 1:3-4)
A. Because of fellowship with The Father and Jesus Christ
B. Because of fellowship with John

III. Alert to those trying to deceive you (I John 2:18-27)
A. How deceivers are recognized (v. 18)
1. They deny the Son (I John 2:23)
2. They deny Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (I John4:2)
3. The deny that Jesus in the Christ (I John 2:23)
B. How to overcome the deceivers (vv. 24-27)
1. Through the Word of God
2. Through the Holy Spirit