Heb 5:14-6:3  "But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.  Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,  and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.  And this we will do if God permits." 

This is where you really need discernment. Some are only playing along in displaying a certain kind of acceptance, not a true love for the things of God. Yet when their faith is really tried they fall away completely, denying, even having contempt, for Christ. They would sooner crucify Christ and all who follow Him than take up their own cross and deny themselves. 
What ultimately a person bears as the fruit of the Spirit only that will endure in the fiery judgment of God's wrath. Absolute Love will do away with all that is unloving and destructive. Thorns and thistles, destroy will choke out life and inhibit growth.


Heb 6:4-8  "For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.  For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.  But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned."



Gal 5:22,23  "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." 

This is where you can begin in discernment. Check your own heart and if in doubt seek out other faithful followers to validate your walk of faith. This is what you will find, your own concern is a testimony to your hearts desire to be found faithful. If it wasn't real in your life you wouldn't even concern yourself with faithfulness in following Christ. Just wait patiently, faithfully for God to complete what He has begun in you. This faith you have is a gift and He won't take the gift back! He is Absolute Love.



Php 1:6  "And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." 

Heb 6:9-15  "Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things--things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.  For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,  saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."  And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise."


You can be sure in the Love of Christ, because there is nothing greater than He. He is the Absolute Love. There is no way He will go back on His Word, there are no outside influences that can cause Him to change. He is the ultimate cause, and He is unchanging. His love and faithfulness towards you are sure because His promise and His character are unchanging. Flee to Him, He is a rock and a strong tower. 
He has entered into the very presence of the Father as a priest forever holding out His sacrifice for your sins. Providing to you forgiveness and acceptance into the Fathers arms. 

Heb 6:16-20  "For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,  so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,  where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." 


His priesthood was foreshadowed by the person of Melchizedek who was worshiped by Abraham. No beginning, no ending His pleading on behalf of your sins is from eternity and it will never end. 



Heb 7:1-4  "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever. See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!"