In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. There's a distinction between salvation and assurance

of salvation. And in this category of the assurance of salvation throughout the entirety of

1st John, three main tests are listed.

The love test, that's what I've been espousing these last seven minutes, love for the household

of faith, love for the brothers, love for Christians.

The obedience test, obedience to Christ's commandments, beginning with the moral law of God,

which we find in its summary in Exodus chapter 20, the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments.

Love for God and neighbor, not creatively defined by you, but immutably defined by God in Scripture.

Love for God, have no the gods before me. Do not make for yourself any graven images.

Do not take the Lord's name in vain and remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.

Love for neighbor, and particularly fellow brothers in Christ, honor thy father and mother,

do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, and do not covet.

This is how we love our neighbor.

The First Four Commandments teaches how we love the Lord are gone.

So the obedience test, obedience to the moral commands of God.

As we grow in outward obedience, it's tangible, it's objective, it can be witnessed, not just by you.

Here's the beauty.

Not just by you, but it can be co-discerned as we grow in obedience and our outward obedience to the commands of God is witnessed by others,

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