{"id":36767,"date":"2022-09-13T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-do-i-know-that-im-a-true-christian\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:09:49","slug":"how-do-i-know-that-im-a-true-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-do-i-know-that-im-a-true-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I know that I'm a true Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First a person needs to recognize that he is a sinner, accept Jesus as his savior and renounce his own will to do God's will (Matthew 16:24). When God accepts this dear one into sonship, he is spirit begotten. God's spirit will slowly transform him into Christ-likeness. How does this happen? Romans 12:2 (NLT), "Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world<\/strong>, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think<\/strong>. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you<\/strong>, which is good and pleasing and perfect." Disobeying God's will becomes painful and he seeks forgiveness to restore his close relationship with God. He sets his affections on things above<\/strong> and doesn't strive after earthly riches, status, power, etc. (See Matthew 6:19, 20.) He learns to love righteousness<\/strong> and hate wickedness (Hebrews 1:9).<\/p>\n

Another evidence of spirit begettal is answered prayer<\/strong>. A Christian will petition God for help and God will answer him. (Always remember to include in your requests, "Not my will but thy will be done" Luke 22:42.) Sometimes God answers yes, sometimes no, and sometimes wait. The answers may seems like coincidences but one wise man said: "Answers may seem like coincidences, but when I stop praying, the 'coincidences' stop happening<\/strong>." <\/p>\n

However, it is also possible for a Christian to ignore God's word. The apostle Paul warns,  "Do not quench the spirit<\/strong>" 1 Thessalonians 5:19 (ESV). This means a man can ignore those little prompts to do God's will and harden his heart. He may think that a little waywardness is not that important. It's just a small thing. Song of Solomon 2:15 warns, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines." These foxes represent those little compromises and sins a person may commit daily. But these sins actually can spoil his walk with God. Remember, "He who is faithful in very little things is faithful also in much<\/strong>…" Luke 16:10 (ESV).<\/p>\n

God loves His children so much that “even the very hairs of your head are all numbered<\/strong>…” Luke 12:7. Therefore, be “…confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it<\/strong>…” Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First a person needs to recognize that he is a sinner, accept Jesus as his savior and renounce his own will to do God's will (Matthew 16:24). When God accepts this dear one into sonship, he is spirit begotten. God's spirit will slowly transform him into Christ-likeness. How does this happen? Romans 12:2 (NLT), "Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, … Continue reading “How do I know that I'm a true Christian?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}