1. Can We Know We Are Saved? 1 John 5:13-21

2. Introduction Important question –Confidence provides motivation (2 Corinthians 12:9, 10) –A lack of confidence leads to despair (1 Kings 19:9)

3. Related Questions What does it mean to be lost? –Do I have a choice? –Must I continue in sin? What does God do to help me? –A look at the providence of God –A modified view of depravity –Can we know what sin is?

4. What Does It Mean To Be Lost? Calvinistic view –Suffer from “inherent total depravity” –Presbyterian Church

5. Westminster Confession of Faith “By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and became dead in sin and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation.”

6. What Does It Mean To Be Lost? Calvinistic view –Suffer from “inherent total depravity” –Presbyterian Church –Baptist Church

7. Philadelphia Confession of Faith “Our first parents by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them, whereby death came upon all; all becoming dead in sin, and wholly defiled, in all the faculties, and parts of soul, and body.”

8. Philadelphia Confession of Faith “They being the root, and by God’s appointment, standing in the room, and stead of all mankind, the guilt of their sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity, descending from…

9. Philadelphia Confession of Faith “…them by ordinary generation, being now conceived in sin, and by nature children of wrath, the servants of sin, the subjects of death and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus sets them free.”

10. Philadelphia Confession of Faith “From this original corruption whereby all are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.”

11. What Does It Mean To Be Lost? Calvinistic view –Suffer from “inherent total depravity” –Therefore, we can’t avoid sin

12. What Does It Mean To Be Lost? Bible teaching is clear –Choice (Genesis 4:7; James 1:12-15) –Guilty of one’s own sins (Ezekiel 18:4, 20; 1 John 3:4) –Do not have to sin (1 John 2:1)

13. What Does God Do To Help? Works providentially –Nations (Daniel 4:28-35) –People (Genesis 50:15-21; Esther 4:13, 14)

14. What Does God Do To Help? Helps us deal with sin –Limit temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13) –Job (Job 1:12; 2:6) –No excuse for sinning

15. Can We Know We Are Saved? Paul knew –Suffered because he knew (2 Timothy 1:12; 2:10) –A crown awaited him (2 Timothy 4:6-8)

16. Can We Know We Are Saved? John said we can know (1 John) –By a promise of forgiveness (1:5-2:2) –By abiding in the Son and the Father (2:24, 25) –By pleasing Him (3:19-24) –By loving God and others (4:7-21) –By believing in Him (5:10-14)

17. Conclusion Do you have the assurance of being saved? May we help you?