Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-21
"MAY | KNOW THAT | AM
LOVED?"
Sermon by REV. w. H. FAUST, Lexington. Ca
Bible Teaches Assurance.


and so plain and clear that no one
could possibly misunderstood.
John VIA, Verify, verify I say unto
you, he that heareth My word. and
believeth on Him that sent Me, hath
everlasting life, and shall not come
into condemnation: but is passed
from death unto life" How much
stronger could language be than
that-hath everlasting life and SHAH
not come into condemnation?
Common Sense Teaches the Doctrine
Yonder is child running aboua
playing, singing, laughing, shouting,
chasing butterflies Do | need to go
and ask it's parents if it is alive.
OF course not. Evidences of life are
seen in the shouting, running, laugh
ing, playing. A sense of unworthi-
ness, sense of sin, a sense of wrong
doing. Conscience itself bears wit
ness when we do wrong. Go up to
man some time and ask him il he is
Christian. Does he say, Il hope
SO; l trust that ! am" or does ne say,
Il am or Il am not?" Ask a man
if he is married, and what would YOU
think of him if he We're to start out
in a stammering, halting, Indifferent.
embarrassed sort of way, and say, y
don't know whether / am or not.
hope | am. l trust | am. | feel some
times like | am and then again |
have my doubts about it," Such an
answer would cause you to question
the many saints, and if he were sane
and his wife got hold of the answer,
when he came home there would be
an account to settle. Shame upon us
that we are so Indifferent or so ig-
norant as to say, II hope / ann
Christian" There are evidences. and
we know whether we have the evil
dences or not
Evidences
/. KEEPING HIS COMMAND
MENTS.-We belong to Him whom
we serve and call our Master. And
hereby we do know that we know Him
If we keep His commandments |
John ii:3.
Are the commandments His? OF
course. There is nowhere on record
the statement that He came to de-
stroy. Rather did He come to full
fill. Don't get the false impression
that Jesus came to do away with the
law; He came to fill it full. He taught
not only against the violation of the
letter of the law, but against the vio-
latlon of the spirit of the law; not
look and the desire.
2. LOVE OF THE BRETHREN
we know that we have passed from
death into life because we love the
brethren" If we love not our neigh
bors whom We have seen, how can we
love God whom we have not seen?
Ii we love Him we will serve Him.
His greatest commandment was to
love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, soul, strength and mind, and
thy neighbor as myself Do you love
your brother in the flesh and in
the spirit? Then you are alive in
Christ.
3. BY THE SPIRIT.-God gives US
a proper spirit. And the Holy Spirit
bears witness with our spirits that
we are His children If we have a
spirit OF strife and envy and jealousy
and discomfort and murmuring and
complaining and malice and hatred,
we may we'll examine ourselves to
see If we are really saved. But if we
have in our lives the fruit of the Spir-
1t, love, joy, joynIsness, etc, We are
His.
a. NO F'EAR--A very dear friend
of mine recently told me that before
he was saved he void lie awake at
night and wear to die, but that
when perfect love came and he trust
ed fully in God and had the assurance
of salvation he no longer feared
God. but perfect love in his case cast
out all fear and he trusted God as
Father and knew that if he were to
die that he would have God with him
even in the valley Of the shadow OF
death, and so fear departed.
S. GROWTH.-A child grows,
n
power in prayer, power over sin.
power over temptation, power over
self, power over the world, and grows
in the grace and knowledge of the
Lord Jesus Christ. A dwarf is a sad
sight. To see q spiritual dwarf is
sad, one who has not grown, and yet
there are many Christians who, like
the little child's explanation as to
why he fell out of the bed, said che
stopped too close to where he got in
at" never grow much because they
are content with the condition just as
they entered.
6. BY SERVICE.-"Ye shall know
them by their fruits, even so every
good tree bringeth forth good fruit,
but corrupt tree bringeth forth cor
rupt fruit. A good tree can not
bring forth corrupt fruit, neither can
a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit"
Matthew vii:16. There are so many
ways and reasons if we would only
hunt them out. And this knowledge
and assurance is worth all other
on earth. To know Him
in the power of His resurrection is
worth all other knowledge that tho
earth can give.