A test to know if someone is saved or not is God's test. He said; "you shall know them by their fruit." Fruit is not works, it is character qualities of the person. "love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, self control, are the fruit of the Spirit.
When we have Christ living in us we can see this fruit or lack of it. We can connect with someone's Spirit of God in them without either one saying a word or doing anything.
If there is a check in our Spirit when we meet someone, a sort of disconnect as though there is no Spiritual connection at all, then we are probably in the presence of a non-believer.
Remember that John the Baptist was in Elizabeth's womb and lept at the presence of Christ in Mary's womb. John sensed the joy of being in the presence of Christ even though he was not yet born. We can sense the presence of the Holy Spirit in those who are our fellow brothers and sisters.
Have you ever met someone for the first time and sensed an immediate connection? Or have you met someone for the first time and had the sense that something was not right? How about being in the presence of someone you don't know but have a sense of evil that you want to run from.
If we have the sense of walking on egg shells with someone we meet for the first time its likely that our spirits do not connect, we are of different spirits. Ours is the Spirit of Christ and theirs is the spirit of the world.
The spirit of the world is very uncomfortable around the Spirit of Christ. They think there is something wrong with us, when they can't figure something out about us they make it up. The spirit of the world hates the Spirit of Christ in us.
1 Corinthians 2:11-13 "…11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.…"
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