Assurance: Acquired and Proved

The identity of the elect is laid out for us in the words, “being confident of this very thing, that He who hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:6). Here is clearly distinguished the regenerated elect from mere professing religionists, who have a name that they live but are actually spiritually dead (Rev. 3:1). The Word of God, living and operative, divides between the true children of God and the children of the devil. This “good work” begun in...