Symptoms of Translation (02/15/2004)

Let's turn to Colossians chapter 1 and we're going to read

Colossians chapter 1 verse 12 through 13

And it talks about being translated God has translated us

So let's read this together Giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet that means fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the

Saints in light and And We're still talking about the father there found in verse 1 the father who has delivered us

It is he that delivers us from the power of darkness And it is the father who has translated us into the kingdom of his dear son so we've been delivered and Many times in the

New Testament when you see the word saved or salvation. It's the same word as this word for delivered It literally means rescued rescued

So he not only delivered us from the power of darkness But he has translated us into the kingdom of his dear son.

The translating is what he does after the delivery and Really, it is the end of the whole thing.

It's the reason for it. God did not just save us to save us from hell Although from our viewpoint, that was a good thing

But he saved us To bring us unto himself so that we might know him and we might have a personal relationship with him and that we might see him as Lord of all rather than certain

Masters that we used to have before our salvation Sin habits in the world the flesh the devil himself

Terrible masters that we had When Jesus saved us he set us free from those masters and he became our only

Lord and he has translated us into his kingdom and So we began to talk about that a little while back and we specifically moved into an area of conversation

It has to do with some symptoms of translation It's appropriate this time of year.

We talked about a head cold If you get a cold you have some symptoms that go with it In fact, if someone tells you

I've got a cold so I'm not coming into work today But they don't have any of these symptoms. You kind of wonder if they're just skipping work, don't you?

Because there are always symptoms that go with it. And so with this idea of translation when

God the Father has translated a person From the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.

There are things that go along with it. It's inescapable So we've been listing some of those things last

Sunday We just listed the first one in and took the whole time on it. And that was That you love the brethren.

So let me have you read 1st John 3 14 if you would turn there We spent most of our time in Hebrews chapter 10 verses 23 through the end of that chapter last

Sunday And it literally talks about church attendance

Which relates to what we're going to read here in 1st John 1st

John 3 14. We know that we have passed from death unto life Now we're talking about symptoms of translation or you could just say of salvation how is it that you can check your own salvation out and Determine if you've been translated

Translated from a kingdom of darkness into a kingdom of light. How can you know? Well, here is a way the

Bible says we can know in fact it says we may know That we have passed and that is in a tense.

That means it has already happened We may know that we have already passed from death unto life

Because we love the brethren he that loveth not his brother abides still in death

So there's your first symptom. Is that you all of a sudden have an ability to love?

Your brothers and sisters in Christ in a way that you could not do that in the flesh You can love them even when they're doing things that are disgusting to you

Even when they do things that hurt you even if they say things to you that are harmful or hurtful

Even if they don't do everything right in the way that you want them to do things for you

You still can love them because if you have this kind of agape love that only a saved

Translated person can have because it's God's love if you have agape love

Then your love does not depend on the other person and what they do or don't do it depends on that love that God's put in your heart that comes from him and so Only a translated person can have this.

So if you're checking out your salvation today, you ask yourself the question Do I love my brothers and sisters just when they're doing what

I want them to do? And everything's going fine, or do I love them even when they're not pleasing me?

great question to ask and that is God's kind of love and the lost world knows nothing of it and Carnal Christians can't know anything about it.

But those who are walking in the spirit walking with the Lord Have this as a symptom of their salvation and it leads down to Hebrews that we touched on last

Sunday because why? Why would you not want to be in church if you love the people that are there if?

You love the brothers and sisters Why would you possibly want to not be with them? When the meeting is called and so that's what we talked about last time was loving the brothers and church attendants

Now and how they relate now, let's move into a second area this morning Turn with me to John chapter 5 verse 24

John chapter 5 verse 24. We're going to look at a second symptom that you would have if you are really saved

John 5 24 verily verily or truly truly I say unto you Now Jesus is speaking here

And he says I'm gonna tell you something that is doubly true truly truly

I say unto you he that hears my word and Believes on him that sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is already passed

From death unto life So what is the symptom listed there? No It's the result of it, but look at it again specifically.

What is the symptom? listed here that If you have this symptom you have already passed from death unto life

You got half of it brother Burge, what's the other half? Yeah You got it the word an ability to hear the

Word of God You've been given an open ear that can hear

God's Voice and sense God's heart and mind when you read the

Word of God that you didn't have when you were lost That is very vivid in my salvation experience because I did not like the

Bible before I got saved I tried to read it a couple of times because I thought that by reading it

God would have to let me in heaven when I died I Had a system figured out where he'd have to let me in I was gonna meet him at the gate and say

I read your Bible and smile real big and hope he let me in that was my plan for salvation and Yet every time

I would try I never got past Genesis Never got past the flood got right in that area and I'd get so boring that I just lay it down and quit

Every time all the way through college from a little boy all the way through college on and off I tried that system never could hack it and then when

I turned 24, I got saved in my car driving to work one day and Not long after that I heard the

Word of God preached by dr. Rocky Freeman Which was the first preaching I heard after my salvation and it just came alive

And all of a sudden I wanted to study the word every day vivid change in my life

But Jesus says in John 5 28 that this is true of everyone in the sense that you once Were at a place where you couldn't hear and now you find that you can hear truly truly

Jesus says he that hears my word and Believes on him that sent me has everlasting life

Shall not come into come condemnation, but is already passed from death into life rather verge the belief

Is least as far as how we as men look at it from our viewpoint is a result of the hearing

It comes second not first now the way it's taught most churches today is Belief is something you can work up yourselves

From within you just make yourself believe and then all of a sudden you're saved It just doesn't work that way if you look at the great

Apostle Paul's salvation experience It's so vivid that he had to have an ear that would hear

Jesus first before he believed anything and The belief is a result at least in our way

I think with God it just all happens at once but we like to study things sequentially Now let's turn to John chapter 8

Turn over to John chapter 8 about verse 47 now, let's look at this a little bit further

He that is of God Jesus says Heareth God's words, isn't that the same thing?

He said earlier? He that is of God hears God's words

Ye therefore hear them not Because you are not of God So now he puts it in the negative as well and he's speaking to a group of Pharisees in this passage

Religious people who studied the Bible every day of their life some of the few people that were able to have access to written the written word in their day and They studied it and yet Jesus told them you are not of God because even though you're reading and studying the

Bible You're not hearing God's Word that amazing people like that all around us People sitting in churches all around us today

With a Bible and they study these things so that they can out argue you any day And yet they don't hear what

God's heart is in the stuff. It's just it's just a legal thing to them And it's been that way since this time and Jesus warned he said he that is of God hears

God's Words when he studies the Word of God you can say it that way When a person that saved studies the

Bible he hears God's words Ye therefore hear them not now he's talking to the lost

Pharisees The children of the devil as he called them. He said you don't hear

God's words because you're not of God Now, what does that tell me? What kind of person is it that will ever be able to hear

God's words Only the person that's off God The children of the devil will never hear

God's words You can put it on the radio. You can put it on the TV You can put it in the easiest to understand a little booklet

You've ever written and give it to them and they can read the booklet, but they won't hear

God's words in it Jesus said then answered the Jews and said and to him

Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and has a devil You see when

Jesus told these religious leaders that they did not have God because they couldn't hear God's words. They said well then you're demonic

Because we know we're God they were saying because we're religious, you know, we're religious

So you must have a devil because you disagree with us Jesus answered

I have not a devil But I honor my father and you do dishonor me and I seek not my own glory there is one that seeketh and judges

Truly truly I say unto you if a man keep my saying he shall never see death

If a man keep my sayings my words He shall never see death now turn to John 17 in verse 6

John 17 6 I have manifested thy name and to The men which thou gavest me out of the world

Thine they were and thou gavest them to me. Jesus said and they have kept thy what?

word For I have given unto them the words which the father gave us me and They have received them.

You see this great symptom of salvation They have received God's words and have known surely that I came out from thee

And they have believed that thou didst send me So if it's true that the first symptom of salvation is that we love the brethren

With a gop a love the second symptom is we have a love for God's Word Not only do we love his word, but when we study it we hear his words and We know him

Now go to Romans chapter 8 verse 15. We're gonna see a third symptom third symptom and Remember, these are not for judging the people sitting around you this morning to figure out if they're saved or not it's to look at one's own self and To test one's own salvation

Do I love the brothers and sisters? They come that God brings into my life in my local church is the first place to look and Then all over the world as I find my brothers and sisters.

Do I have a love for him? number two, do I have a newfound love for the word that I didn't have before my salvation and And now number three

Romans 8 15 for ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear But you have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry

Abba father The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God Another great symptom of salvation in your own life.

Do you now have a Spirit that lives within your spirit

That's one with your spirit that testifies to your spirit that you are God's child now

Do you sense that if you don't sense that if you're not sure of that then you lack this great?

Symptom of salvation and you should certainly look at your own salvation to see if it's real or counterfeit

Because if one is saved The Many things that can come in life as we study the physical examples of them in the book of Joshua In our adult

Sunday school class. We see the battles that were fought which picture spiritual battles in our lives

There are many things in our lives as adults in particular that can bring fear

Children have their own kind of fear We had Matthew sleeping On the couch in my study

So he'd be close to us last night because we didn't want to sleep with Ben because Ben's got this bad cold well,

Matthew doesn't like like to sleep by himself and Certainly not in a strange room

So throughout the night there were many occasions when he would get up and come and he always goes like this

On the side of the bed scares you to death I mean it just you wake up and you don't know what's happening.

Just a little Like that and then you know, it's him. It's too dark in there

Okay, so mom goes and pulls the blind all the way up, you know And then she comes back and I'm looking at her

I said, I don't like that now people can see in and see us sleeping So next time you fix this problem, don't mess my problem up.

I don't like blind up. I know just for tonight I said, okay, so we go to sleep all of a sudden

Says a Person could shoot through that crack. He says Little kid now, what's he thinking, you know?

All these fears and I can hear her say your father will protect you and I'm thinking not with that window up.

I can't you know So we had an interesting night of fear last night both

Matthew and myself But the kinds of fears that we as adults have are different they're more subtle They're the kind where you wake up in the middle of night.

You lay there and you gentlemen wonder Am I going to make able to make ends meet?

And someday we'll have you ladies come up and tell what you think of in the middle of the night Not being a woman.

I'm sure it's different. But do you have fears I Call these adult fears

But what do you do when that happens what is it you're able to do that maybe Matthew's not quite

Able to do yet. You've all done it You tell me there's no such thing as monsters or no such thing as this no such thing is that so you don't have to Worry about it.

Does that work? No It doesn't matter what you tell them the fear still there that you as an adult.

How do you deal with it? You pray you say Lord, you know I know that you haven't given me this spirit of fear

And I know that you don't have that. It's not part of your nature Would you please remove it?

And then it goes away you go right back to sleep And you just pray and you ask the

Lord to take whatever burden it is. That's on your heart away Because he can bear it and we cannot

Now if you don't have the ability to do that And you don't know how to deal with fears and fears are in your life all the time

You lack a very important symptom of salvation and that is that yes

It doesn't say we don't have fear. But what it says is God hasn't given us a spirit of fear

Which is a spirit of bondage to the fear Where we are a slave to that fear and it begins to change our very life

It's not that way for a saved person the fear can be there but you're not in bondage to it and you have in fact received the spirit of adoption which even in the midst of the fear says to you, but you're my child and After all,

I'm sovereign And after all I am omnipotent And can take care of all your needs

So, do you have that voice that says that to you in times of fear I'm your father just like you tell the little child

I'm your father I'll take care of all your needs. You don't need to worry.

You don't need to fear Now we get upset with our little children when we tell me no such thing as monsters

They're not and they certainly don't live under your bed And then they come back in 30 minutes later

But Why don't you just go to sleep? I'm telling you dad's gonna protect you we get upset with him, but you know sometimes

We know full well God is sovereign and he's our father and he owns everything in the universe and it's all ours because we've inherited it and we say

But God, I'm still fearful So we can learn from Matt. I use him because not here today

See so you make sure you show up because I might use you if you're not here Okay Let's go to the next one

When we're saved all of a sudden we have a newfound love for the brethren and you found love for God's Word and we have a new nature

That witnesses to our spirit that we are God's children first John chapter 3 verse 10

Turn to first John 3 10 and also Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 the fourth symptom of Salvation or of translation is

Good works now. I don't really want to phrase it good works because we get all kinds of ideas

Tied in with that But let's just call it Experiential righteousness,

I like that one. It sounds doctrinal doesn't it? Experiential righteousness

You know that when you've been saved that you have been made righteous because you've been given the very righteousness of Jesus Christ God took your sins placed them on Christ on the cross

Trent Translated them to him Or imputed them to him and then he took his goodness and righteousness and imputed that to us

So we know we have the righteousness of Christ But there is such a thing taught in the

Bible as Experiential righteousness, which means some of them call it experimental. I don't like that word sound like I'm experimenting with it, but it's experience

It is has your lifestyle changed? since your salvation

The sin habits that used to control your life. Are they gone now?

Are you different are Your friends different the places you hang out.

Are they different and on and on and on? That's what this has to do with now. We have to understand making all those changes does not save a person

These are symptoms of having already been saved by the power of God having been delivered having been rescued

Having been translated out of darkness into the kingdom of light. These are some when you get in that kingdom

There's just different stuff to do Than what you did when you were in the old kingdom Do you find that true in our in our lives first John 3 10?

very clear in this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil

So whatever it is, we're about to talk about Brings to light who God's children are and who the devil's children are

Whosoever doeth not Righteousness is not of God Neither he that loveth not his brother

Now I think it's amazing how that statement is given It doesn't say here is how the children of God are manifest.

They do righteousness all the time. Aren't we glad it doesn't say that Because we're not perfect are we because we still walk in a body of flesh that is not saved yet That pulls against everything that God wants for us and everything that we want, you know to do for God But it puts it in the negative and it reveals who the children of the devil are the children of the devil are people

Whosoever doeth not Righteousness, they can't do righteousness It's not within them to do it

Neither they that love not their brother. They can't have a goth a love ties in with the other point.

We've already studied So this adds a new point though Those who do not have the ability to do

Righteousness and to walk with God and to fight those old sin habits and to win like Joshua did as he went into the promised land they were defeated and So That is the calling of the righteous person is as you are born again

One of the symptoms is you begin to have victory After victory after victory over the old sin habits in your life

And you in fact do become more righteous in the experiential sense of it you change people that went to high school with you if you were lost when you were in high school and then you got saved at the age of 24 like I did after they were all gone and then they meet you at the you know, the 100th anniversary or whatever you call it your graduation and and you're different to them because God has changed you little step by little step and It's not so much.

He made you righteous He called you righteous when he saved you but as far as the experience he begins to take away the unrighteousness little at a time and Since there can't really be a vacuum.

It just fills up with stuff you do for God and You may not even realize the change but your buddies from high school will see the difference and The ones that will see it the most are the ones that also got saved during that time period they meet you and they're saved

To what they want to talk to you about Hey, I got saved. Well, so did I man?

Isn't it great if you had discussions like that with old friends from the past that also got saved?

It's it's really wonderful It's because of this new nature So the new nature is in itself a great symptom of salvation and so are the good works

That stem from it. Let me give you one other one Ephesians 2 8 that deal with the good works

Ephesians 2 8 Ephesians 2 8 and 9 we talked about the salvation experience, but verse 10 is just as much a part of it

That's why it's connected to it in the scriptures For By grace or you save through faith and it not of yourselves.

It is the gift of God. No one saves themselves It's a gift from God. It is not of works

Even though we're talking about works right now Being a symptom of salvation The symptom doesn't cause the disease does it brother

Clarence? That's not how it works. Is it the symptom is not what causes the disease?

There is a disease that makes the symptom come forth. And so it is not the good works that cause salvation

No number of good works can cause a person to be saved The works are an outpouring from The salvation that had to take place first.

So here in Ephesians 2 8 and 9 we see the salvation taking place first We see that it's through faith.

We see that it's by grace. We see it's a gift from God It is not of works and no man can boast about it.

So it doesn't come from man Doesn't have anything to do with man in it. It's from God salvation is from God.

However Look what verse 10 says That when there is salvation present

It says then we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus For the very purpose.

That's what the word unto means of good works We were saved to do good works one of the reasons he saved us

We were saved unto Good works not only that but it says

God has before ordained. In other words. He has predestinated That we will walk in those good works if we are saved in other words when we are saved

The word should there in the English Would be more nearly translated would

From the Greek doesn't mean that you should but you might not doesn't mean that at all doesn't carry that sense

It is saying that you've been ordained that you will walk in good works When you're saved another great symptom of salvation

First Peter chapter 4 if you turn there, I'll give you the fifth symptom The fifth symptom is has to do with your speech

Believe it or not How you talk? Changes when you get saved first Peter 4 11 if any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God All the sudden your speech carries with it

Bible principles, which of course it never did when you were lost But after you're saved and you begin to study the word because you can hear

God's words and you're in the word Your speech will carry with it either words from God's Word or Principles from it and it will be there.

It might not be that noticeable to yourself But others around you will notice it

In fact that old crowd you hung around with before you got saved will not like it They'll begin to notice it through the years

It becomes more prevalent as you grow in the Lord your speech becomes more like the oracles of God What are the oracles of God the oracles of God are the things that the

Jews had in the Gentile world didn't have? What was it? That was first of all the oral tradition of God's Word that came down from Adam All the way through down the godly line

And then when Moses penned it and put it in written words so that we had the written

Word of God those are the oracles of God your speech are supposed to be as God's Word If any man

Minister let him do it as with the ability that God gives him that God and all things may be glorified

Through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever Amen, our very speech will be different.

Look at Ephesians chapter 4 verse 29 Ephesians 4 29 let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth

But that which is good to the use of edifying The only thing that should come out of the mouth of a believer is something that will make another believer stronger make him grow

Anything that comes out of your mouth that doesn't do that is coming from the devil himself

You say well, how can that be if I'm saved because if you're walking in the flesh it can be Why is it that more often than not it's your

Christian brothers and sisters that hurt your heart more than anybody else in the world Doesn't usually tend to do that It's because all of a sudden they found themselves in a place where some corrupt communication did proceed out of their mouth

It was not from God. It was from the flesh or the devil That does not bring edifying to the hearer

It tears down the hearer. It makes him feel badly. It makes his heart hurt

It sets him back for several days. If not longer That's not from God Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but only that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace to the hearers and I find it interesting that the very next verse is the one that says grieve not the

Holy Spirit of God Whereby you are sealed into the day of redemption It grieves the Holy Spirit when words come out of our mouths that strike at another

Christian rather than building the other Christian So what is one of the symptoms of salvation is that our very words?

Are seasoned with the salt of grace the grace of God and they edify and lift up other believers

All right. Let's go to another one first John 3 13 The next one is that you will be hated by the world itself a

Symptom that you've been translated from the kingdom of darkness is that the kingdom of darkness no longer likes you

Because you have made it clear that you are not part of that kingdom First John 3 13 marvel not my brethren at the world hate you

John 7 7 the world cannot Hate you

But me it hated now that seems like a contradiction, but keep read on Because I testify of it that the works thereof are evil

So when you see the world hating you who are they really hating? They can't really hate you

Because all they're looking at is flesh. They don't see the real you anyway, so they're not hating you who are they hating

Christ in you? They're hating Christ in you So if the world does not hate you who are they not seeing

They're not seeing Christ in you and I'm not saying that you're not saved necessarily

You may have some of these other symptoms and so you may know you're safe But you may be to the place where you're not walking in the spirit enough where the world notices

If you walk with the Lord though, the world will hate you John 1516 you have not chosen me

Jesus said so I don't like the bumper sticker that says I chose Christ you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and Ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain now there's an interesting symptom of salvation and We're going to end with those same two verses at the end of Hebrews chapter 10 today that we have several times in this study

We are not all of those that fall away Notice that this backs that idea It says if you're saved you have fruit that not just that you have fruit, but you have fruit that remains it doesn't go away

That whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name he may give it you These things

I command you that you love one another If the world hate you

You know that it hated me before it hated you If you were of the world the world would love his own

But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

Therefore the world hated you Remember the world the word that I said to you the servant is not greater than his

Lord if they have persecuted me They also will persecute you if they have kept my saying then they'll keep yours also

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him that sent me another symptom of salvation is

That you're not a friend of the world John 17 14

I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them

Wow The very thing that is the greatest blessing in your life was the day your eyes and ears were open to hear

God's words That's the very thing that causes the world to hate you I have given them thou word and The world hath hated them because they are not of the world even as I am

NOT of the world I pray not to the father that you would take them out of the world But thou should keep them from the evil one while they're in the world

I added that last phrase They are not of the world even as I am

NOT of the world sanctify them set them apart Through that truth Thy word is the truth.

That's what sets us apart. That's why they hate us We have God's Word in us first Peter 3 14

But and if ye suffer for righteousness sake happier you be not afraid of their terror neither be troubled

Little children should be listening to this because this world gonna change so much between now and when you're our age

You see when this world comes after you He said don't be troubled don't be afraid of their terror

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts always have a special place for God in your heart that you never let the world into that place

Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asked you why you believe the way you believe

Always be ready to give an answer, but do so in meekness and in fear not haughtiness and pride which

I've seen so often In people Christians who purport to be arguing the faith

Don't bring pride and haughtiness into it. It should be with meekness and fear First Peter 4 12 beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial

Which is to try you as though some strange thing had happened to you But haven't you had even asked this yourselves, but had your your

Christian brothers and sisters and loved ones Just say I just don't know why

God did that or let that happen We have a tendency to blame

God But look what it says here. He says don't think it's strange

Concerning the fiery trial which is going to try you.

God's already told us it's going to it's his will Don't think it's strange as though some strange thing had happened to you

Do you know that it's strange when things are going smooth in this world? I? Mean we're not on the other side of the garden.

We're on this side of the gate outside of the garden There was a fiery sword put there to keep us out of that place.

We're walking in the thorns and the thistles We're walking in a place where you earn by the sweat of your brow and we think it's strange when things go badly

We should think it's strange when things are going smooth in this world And so God says don't think it's strange when the fiery trial comes.

It's coming at you from the world It's the world that brings it. It's not God. I mean, I know God's sovereign. I Know God has ordained it this way because we'd be fat dumb and happy if everything was smooth all the time

But it's the world that dishes it out Don't think it's strange that this thing has happened to you

But rejoice in as much as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings That when his glory shall be revealed you may be glad also with exceeding joy

What does that mean when Jesus glory is revealed at the rapture? All of the suffering and trials and tribulations and persecution that you went through Will be nothing more than a contrast of the unspeakable joy

That you will have when you're with him But rejoice in as much as your partakers of Christ's suffering that when his glory shall be revealed you may be glad also

With exceeding joy if you be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you a symptom of salvation a

Symptom that you've been translated The glory of God rests upon you if you are persecuted for his name's sake on their part he is evil spoken of but on your part he is glorified and lastly

The seventh great symptom is found in John 17 verse 9 He says

I pray for them I pray not for the world Jesus doesn't pray for the world now

What does that tell you tells you he knows the elect from the non elect? He knows who's elect and who's going to be saved and he knows who is non elect and who are the devil's children

He does not pray for them He prays for God's children. I Pray for them.

I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me for they are thine and all mine

Jesus says are thine and all of thine are mine and I am glorified in them and now

I am no more in the world But these are in the world and I come to thee

Holy Father keep through thine own name Those whom thou hast given me

That they may be one as we are While I was with them in the world,

I kept them in thy name those that thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled

So the last symptom of salvation is that you are kept You're a kept one

You are kept safe from the world the flesh and the devil Safe in God's hand.

You are not one who could in fact fall away You are one who in fact whose fruit endures to the end and we'll close with the same two verses

We've closed each one of these sessions with Hebrews chapter 10 verses 38 39 now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure with him, but We are not of them that draw back

We are not of them that draw back unto perdition utter annihilation hell

But we're of them that believe unto the saving of the soul The greatest symptom of salvation is that your belief your believer doesn't stop believing

It can't happen all your buddies that are in those other denominations. They won't why you could fall away couldn't you?

What if you just start hating God? We're not of them that fall back

You Can talk about hypotheticals all day long if you want to but it doesn't faze me because I'm not of them that fall back

You know think about it. You've got some symptoms you love the brethren You love the

Word of God God's given you in nature that doesn't fear But it cries out of a father and says to you you're mine now

You have good works that you know, well, you couldn't have had in your own flesh Your speech has even changed

And all of a sudden the world doesn't like you like you are anymore But even through that you're kept

Every step of the way by Jesus Christ Seven great symptoms that you've been translated from the power of darkness into the kingdom of light

Let's stand and have prayer together Father we thank you for your power that works in us

That you didn't stop working the day you saved us, but you continue to work in us and you are able to present us faultless and To preserve us into the day of the

Lord Jesus Christ Thank you that you've given us these things to look at so that we might examine our own hearts to know if we're saved

Thank you that you give us the knowledge of our own salvation and the assurance of it from the

Word of God and from your Holy Spirit within Lord if there's any one among us today

That lacks some of these seven symptoms May they not just flippantly allow

Satan to take the seed from their heart before they think about it but may made they actually think about these things and go before the

Lord in private and seek thy face and Father we thank you for a time of fellowship.

We're about to have together. We ask you to bless our meal Thank you for healing Many of us in the room from the illnesses that have been going around We do pray for our brothers and sisters that couldn't be here today

Because they're under the weather we ask you to strengthen their bodies as well and bring them back soon in Jesus name.