Do I have salvation? Indicators. Part 2

Let’s move on in our self examination of the indicators of salvation. Remember this verse:

2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

5. God will discipline you. Just as a good father will discipline you when you do wrong, so does our heavenly Father. God is clear about this in his Word. No one likes to be disciplined but it is needed in our walk with God!

Hebrews 12:7-8 
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

Hebrews 12:11 
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

6. The Holy Spirit dwelling in you. If are a follower of Jesus, the Holy Spirit dwells in you. When Jesus went back to heaven He promised to send back Helper and He did the Holy Spirit. You receive the Spirit as soon as you put your faith and trust in Him!

1 John 3:24
The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

Having the Holy Spirit is proof you are a follower of Jesus! The Spirit will also convict you of sin:

John 16:8
And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:

The Spirit also reveals what God’s Word says, this is why many don’t get the Word, they don’t have the Spirit!

John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

The “I” in the above verse is Jesus who is the Word.

The Spirit will also overtime start to produce these traits in you if you will surrender to the Holy Spirit:

Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Do you have the Holy Spirit?

7. Faith in Jesus alone to save you! Nothing you can do. It is all what Jesus did on the cross.

1 John 5:12-13 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

Plain and simple here....you have Jesus or you don’t!

So there are 7 indicators. Very important! Look over them, evaluate yourself as the Word tells us to do.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Tom