HOW TO KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE DISCIPLE?

 

Scripture References:

1.      Matthew 7:16, 20 “By their fruits ye shall know them.”

2.      Matthew 7:21 “He that doeth the will of the Father…know Him…”

3.      John 14:15, 23 “If you love me, keep my commandments…If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”

4.      John 15:4-5 “I am the vine, ye are the branches.  Abide in me and I in you.”

5.      John 15:8 “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”

6.      Galatians 5:22-23 “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, good ness, faith, meekness, self control.”

7.      I John 1-5

·        I John 1:4 “These things write we unto you that your joy may be full.”

·        I John 1:5-7 “If we walk in the Light as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

·        I John 2:3-6; “Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep His commands…He that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him.”

·        I John 2:10 “He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there in none occasion of stumbling in him.”

·        I John 2:15 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.  If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

·        I John 2:17 “He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.”

·        I John 2:23 “He that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”

·        I John 2:29 “Every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.”

·        I John 3:1-10; 5:18-21 “Not habitually sin.”

·        John 3:10 “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”

·        I John 3:24 “And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.”

·        I John 4:2 “Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus is come in the flesh is of God.”

·        I John 4:7 “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”

·        I John 4:13 “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath give us of his Spirit.”

·        I John 4:15-16 “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.  God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

·        I John 5:1 “Whosoever believe that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.”

·        I John 5:4-5 “For whosoever is born of God overcometh the world.  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God.”

·        I John 5:12 “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life..”

·        I John 5:13 “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

·        I John 5:14 “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:”

 
 

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