No Born Again Person Is Fully Saved Yet

5 Birthmarks of the Built-in Again Christian

Turning Point
2021 4 December

5 Birthmarks of the Born Again Christian

What is a Born Again Christian?

While the entire Bible stresses certainty and assurance for Christians who are built-in-again, in that location's one section of Scripture that stakes out this theme equally its central focus—the letter of ane John.

As we carefully read through 1 John, nosotros notice a five-fold argument for the assurance of conservancy—five of the birthmarks of the Christian. These are characteristics and traits of someone who is born again through faith in Jesus Christ.

"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this nosotros proclaim apropos the Word of life. The life appeared; we accept seen it and testify to information technology, and we proclaim to yous the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. Nosotros proclaim to you what we take seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy consummate." i John 1:one-4

Let'due south have a wait at the 5 signs of those who are born again Christians

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1. Built-in Once again Christian: The Birthmark of Confession

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The get-go is the birthmark of confession, described in 1 John 5:1: "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is built-in of God." Before y'all can have balls of salvation, y'all have to believe and be saved. You have to confess Jesus Christ as Lord. Some people assume they are saved considering they grew upward in a Christian culture, or they have gone to church all their lives, or they have been baptized, or they have tried to alive a good life. Yet they've never distinctly and personally confessed Jesus Christ every bit their Savior and Lord.

The Bible teaches that we are sinners, separated from God by a sinful nature. We can never earn, buy, or climb our style into heaven. By our ain efforts or goodness, nosotros can never be saved. That'southward why God became a human who lived a wholly righteous life, died on the cantankerous, shed His blood for united states, and rose from the dead. He paid our penalty, took our judgment upon Himself, and He offers usa the opportunity to be born again.

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2. Built-in Again Christian: The Birthmark of Change

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If the starting time birthmark is our confession of Christ every bit our Savior and Lord, the second is a changed life, every bit nosotros see in 1 John 2:29: "Everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him." When Jesus truly saves us, it makes a difference in how we think, human action, speak, and acquit ourselves. The Bible says, "If anyoneisin Christ,he isa new creation; erstwhile things have passed away; behold, all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17).

As we begin learning to exercise righteousness, our habits modify. We will non be sinlessly perfect while we're on this planet; merely if nosotros're Christians, we need to behave similar Christians. If we say we're saved but nothing has changed about united states of america, something is wrong. We are non savedbygood works, only we are savedforgood works, and the Gospel is a transforming agent in our lives.

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iii. Built-in Again Christian: The Birthmark of Compassion

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Those who are truly saved as well bear the birthmark of pity. How can you know that you are a Christian? By what you believe, by how you alive, and by whom you honey. Love is a recurring theme in 1 John, and the apostle leaves no doubtfulness nearly how it permeates the lives of true Christians. "Love," he wrote, "permit united states love ane another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is built-in of God and knows God. . . . Nosotros know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren" (1 John iv:7; 3:14).

Do you lot love your brothers and sisters in the family of God? Those who are truly saved are those who relish and bless the household of organized religion, the family of God.

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four. Born Again Christian: The Birthmark of Conflict

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A quaternary sign of existence truly saved is conflict. According to 1 John 5:iv, "Whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the earth—our organized religion." The give-and-takeovercomeimplies a struggle. We're faced with an adversary whom we must overcome. Our antagonist is identified in i John ii:14 as the wicked i: "I have written to you lot, immature men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked i." John went on in the adjacent verses to say: "Do non dear the globe or the things in the world. . . . For all thatisin the globe—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father merely is of the world" (one John 2:15-17).

When you're genuinely born of God, you'll be growing to be an overcomer equally y'all deal with the temptations effectually you—the world, the flesh, and the devil. You may non be victorious over every temptation every fourth dimension, merely you lot'll make progress in gaining more victories and losing less battles as yous grow stronger in Christ and in the power of the abiding Give-and-take of God.

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5. Born Again Christian: The Birthmark of Conduct

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That leads to the final bespeak I desire to make: We tin run into evidence for the validity of conservancy in our desire to carry ourselves in a fashion that pleases God. According to 1 John 3:ix, "Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been built-in of God."

If nosotros're not careful, nosotros might translate this verse to teach that anyone who is born of God never sins. That would conflict with other passages in the Bible that describe usa as fallible and frequently failing.

In i John 3:9, the word for sin is a present active infinitive and information technology describes a continuous action. John is not saying that whoever sins in one case is non born of God. That would disqualify all of united states of america. It would certainly disqualify me. Just John is maxim, in event, "Whoever keeps on willfully sinning, violating God's constabulary with stubborn disregard and ongoing wickedness, cannot accept assurance of conservancy."

If we are truly saved, we will grieve over our sins, confess them, and seek God'due south grace to do better.

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You can take assurance of salvation today.

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His grace is inexhaustible and His conservancy is irreversible. Make sure you have confessed Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and then trust Him with your eternal hereafter. He will never leave you lot or forsake you. His Word was given that you might know Jesus Christ as your Savior and that you might know that you have eternal life.

Article excerpted and edited with permission fromDr. David Jeremiah's book, 10 Questions Christians are Request.

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