Ultimate Questions: How can I know I am saved?

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Church, North Gower, Ontario. 

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The One Thing: How can I be sure that I am saved? Examine yourself.

Know

• K1 If resources were unlimited, what would you change about Cornerstone? (This is the second of the townhall questions – remember that the Cornerstone Townhall will take place on October 6^th at 6:30pm)

Grow

• G1 Someone asks you “How do you know that you are saved?”. Whether you consider yourself a Christian or whether you don’t, how would you answer this question?
• G2 Being in spiritual denial (thinking you’re a Christian but you’re not) or being a Spiritual Hypochondriac (doubting you’re a Christian, but in fact you are): which is worse? What are the potential consequences of each condition?
• G3 Read 2 Corinthians 13:5 – what does it mean to examine / test yourself? What does it meant to fail the test? How does Psalm 139:23-24 shed light on 2 Corinthians 13:5?
• G4 What does it mean to have Christian or Biblical Assurance? Is having assurance simply being presumptuous? Why or why not?
• G5 What are the three evidences that Dan said can lead us to assurance?* Do you believe that to be a Christian you need to have assurance that you are Christ’s? Do you have assurance?
• G6 Read Isaiah 59:1. Dan explained that sin puts us into quarantine from God, that we are in isolation from Him. What did you make of that analogy? What scriptures back up or speak against this sort of imagery?
• G7 Dan explained that, on the cross, Jesus infected Himself with our soul-sickness and then rose from the dead with an anti-venom or antidote that we can now apply to ourselves. Do you find this a helpful way of viewing Jesus’ work on the cross? Why or why not?

Show

• S1 If you have assurance (from the 3 evidences – Holistic Cure, Holy Spirit, Holy Living) take time this week to thank God. If you don’t have assurance, why not? Talk to God about this and see what He reveals through your conversation with Him, with others and through His Word.

*1) Embracing the Holistic Cure of Jesus (repent and believe) 2) The Holy Spirit 3) Holy Living