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In commenting on 1 John, Dr. Buzzell said, “If you want to be convinced that you are in Christ, then you have to live the way Christ taught you to live.” Why?
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The Holy Spirit, Christ’s power in us, works in the hearts of believers towards obedience.
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If we don’t live the way Christ has taught us then we are hypocritical – the way to experience christianity is to live according to Gods word and do what it says.
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Faith without works is dead.
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If we are truly saved we will want to walk as Christ taught us and if we are living as Christ taught us to live he will give us the confidence we need to know that we are HIs. If we are not walking as Christ taught then we can never be sure if we are truly saved and the world will be convinced that we aren’t.
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As unnatural as it maybe to our fallen humanity, living out the teachings of Jesus and patterning our lives after Him are definite proofs that we truly believe He is the Son of God, the Messiah, our Savior or else why would we want to follow Him? If we don’t believe the teachings of tge Bible, the following after fleshly desires would be our norm.