are you saved?

If you've ever questioned your salvation, this is for you, if you do not have a full assurance of faith, this is for you.

In this discussion I want you "Christian" to consider the life according to the word and not sugar-coat the word for your assurance of salvation:

One does the Spirit bear witness that you are a child of God? It's yes or no.

Do you have victory over sin? Yes I know you'll be tempted and still mess up, but is Christ presently winning the fight in you?

Do you love God? Which is seen in keeping his commandments.

Does your assurance of Salvation come from knowing you prayed a prayer, because you "think" you have saving faith, or you've changed alot (outwardly) since you got saved?

Do find yourself alot about holiness and obedience because you know your lacking?

Do you find yourself always trying/willing to live the Christian life but never doing it?

Do find yourself making excuses for you sin, because you have no victory?

Do you hate how you feel when you sin, but not actually the sin itself (because you always come back to it without prompting and enjoy your time in it)?

Do you know GOD, do you experience him when you not emotionally high?

Have you ever known the power of his presence?

Have you ever felt his love?

Does your relationship with the Lord, consist of you reading about him in the word and learning his characteristic, but never experiencing them?

___________Verdict____________

If the Spirit doesn't bear witness in your Spirit that your a child of God you aren't.

If you do not know God by experience you are not saved.

If you've been walking with the Lord for years and you have yet to overcome sin, I'd worry, unless the above are NOT true of you

If you find yourself talking the talk and walking the external walk, but you heart has not changed you are not saved?

If you struggle with masturbation and or pornography, after being a Christian for a long time I'd worry.

_______Conclusion________

We lie to ourselves all the time because of the evil wolves that preach on the pulpit. Examine yourself and don't got easy, examine yourself again periodically. If you don't see an inward change, an experiential knowledge of GOD, and you continue to habitually fall to the same sins deem yourself as what you are an unbeliever, a child of wrath, a hater of God.