I would like to highlight dr. David Jeremiah a preacher mentioned five
birthmarks of salvation maybe some of you have ever wondered how do I know if
I am saved or maybe somebody came to you and says how do I know if I am saved
today I'm gonna help you to understand that I didn't come up with those I
copied them from David Jeremiah but they were really good and I just wanted to
share them with you the first one is confession have you
confessed Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior not have you confessed your sin
please understand every criminal in front of a judge confesses his sin even
after they caught after they get caught people confess their sins Christians
don't confess just their sins they confess Jesus as the Lord and the Savior
that's why the Bible says if we confess with our mouth and believe with our
heart what that we're sinners no it says that Jesus is Lord
so the first mark of a born-again person Christian is confession of Jesus Christ
as the Lord and Savior the second one is change change that happens within change
that happens within their heart and their nature it's when you feel changed
on the inside number three it's when you have compassion the Bible says he who is
born from God loves his brothers see one of the things that happened to you when
you got born into the family and you grew a little bit you realize you had
brothers and sisters now I'm pretty sure a lot of you had a very difficult time
getting along with them as some of you are still seeing a therapist dealing
with things that happen with your brothers and sisters nevertheless family
gave you brothers and sisters one of the marks of a born-again Christian is you
will have brothers and sisters but it will take time to learn to relate to
them as God wants you to relate you will have compassion number four you will
have conflict because you've new nature you still have an old mind you still
have all patterns the old man is crucified with Christ but certain habits
the old man has developed remained and so there will be a conflict inside of
you and this conflict does not mean you're not born again
it actually means you are born again because if you wouldn't have the
conflict it means you would be dead and floating with the current the fact that
the devil is fighting you is a sign you're not on his team so it's a good
thing it's not a bad thing and the last one is Conduct meaning it's when your
behavior begins to change now change of the behavior does not mean it doesn't
make you born-again it's when you're born again that your behavior changes
now we as Christians we don't focus on changing we focus on growing the baby as
long as the baby grows it will change because you must understand this thing
about our nature when you add nurture to it crazy stuff will come out like for
example every baby every baby is born within its nature to speak write create
marry even procreate and one day have its own children all that nature needs
is nurture nurture doesn't make a baby to write walk and speak give the same
nurture to your dog 20 years he still won't write and speak give the same care
to your cat your cat will not wash dishes after 50 years because the nature
is not there when you become born again God places and nature new spirit that if
with the renewing of the mind remaining in his presence nurtured that nature is
nurtured is taking care of you will become fabulous
you will become incredible and you will become amazing you will change because
you grew so we don't focus on the change we focus on the growth we know that it's
within our nature all I need now is to nurture my life change in my soul so
that the change in my spirit will be made manifest in my natural
visible realm