The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
So we don’t know who is truly saved, but God does.
We also know that we can have assurance of our own salvation.
1 John 5:13 says, “These things I have written to
you . . . that you may know that you have eternal life.” If
we are truly Christians, we would then strive in our
hearts to obey God’s Word and bear fruit for His glory,
abounding in good works. That doesn’t mean we don’t
ever fall. It does mean we repent and get up again, if we
do fall.
So, although the professing Church consists of
roughly two billion people, only God knows exactly who
are really His. Thus, we have within the nominal Church
many non-believers who are spreading their non-belief.
This is reminiscent of Christ’s parable of the wheat and
the tares:
The kingdom of heaven is like a man who
sowed good seed in his field: but while men
slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among
the wheat and went his way. But when the grain
had sprouted and produced a crop, then the
tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner
came and said to him, “Sir, did you not sow
good seed in your field? How then does it have
tares?” He said to them, “An enemy has done
this.” The servants said to him, “Do you want us
then to go and gather them up?” But he said,
“No, lest while you gather up the tares you also
uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow
together until the harvest, and at the time of
harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather
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