“No matter how you put it, no matter how you argue it,
no matter how you outline it, one of the evidences of having salvation in your
heart is a desire to be obedient to Him. If you’re a professing Christian and
your whole nature is disobedient to what God says in His Word, you better have
a meeting with the Lord.
"If you don’t believe this is true, you carefully
read 1 John and find out how many things John puts in that little epistle about
the evidence of salvation, and almost every one of them, if not every one of
them, can be tied somewhere to the idea of obedience. Once saved, you’ll want
to obey the Lord. Now that is not to say that in every instance every Christian
all the time will, but there will be a desire in his heart to obey the Lord….”
-- James T. Jeremiah (fomer president & chancellor
of Cedarville University)
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