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Assurance is a knowledge which the Holy Spirit implants in your heart through the Word of God, and which teaches you that your faith is not a product of nature or self, but is “the faith of God’s elect” (Titus 1:1), that your love for Christ is no sham, but true, and your manner of life that of a re
For in half of the occurrences of the word itself, reference is made to full assurance of faith, or too much assurance. Yet it is not easy to unite on the subject of assurance, lest we distress and dishearten the truly godly, or pull lip those who suppose they are rich and have need of nothing. Many
This shows that assurance is the effect of righteousness. The meaning is that assurance is maintained in the way of righteousness. “The effect of righteousness (shall be) quietness and assurance forever” (Isa. 32:17). Righteousness requires the keeping of the “heart with all diligence” (Pros’. 4:23)
The assurance of which Scripture speaks and which believers and their children have, and ought to have, is certainty. It is certainty about God, about the spiritual things made known in the Bible, and about salvation. Another word for this spiritual state of the soul of the believer and child of bel
Faith is assurance. Faith is assurance of personal salvation. Faith is assurance that the one who, from the heart, believes the gospel is saved now, has been saved from eternity in the decree of election, and will be preserved unto everlasting salvation. Faith is absolute certainty of personal sa
Previous article in this series: October 15, 2020, p. 36. Assurance of the essence of faith Assurance is of the essence of faith. This is the historic and confessionally Reformed view of assurance, as it is the teaching of Scripture. The Heidelberg Catechism teaches that assurance is of the essenc
True faith is assurance of personal salvation. Because assurance is certainty -- absolute certainty (to be redundant) -- true faith is certainty of one's own salvation. It is certainty of deliverance from sin, death, and hell. It is certainty of acceptance into the fellowship of God, which is life e
True faith is assurance of personal salvation. Assurance is not the fruit of faith for a few old people after many years of doubt. Assurance is not the "well-being" of faith (for the few believers who are "God's best and dearest friends") in distinction from the "being" of faith. Assurance is what
Ask them whether they are assured of their own salvation, and they answer "no," also without hesitation. They never come to the Lord's Supper. They live and die unsure whether their eternal destiny will be heaven or hell -- dreadful condition -- although all their life they are faithful at church, d
An illustration may help to make clear both that we trust in one of whom we are certain that he is our helper and that the activity itself of trusting in a true and faithful helper necessarily implies assurance. When I was a little child, I knew my parents as my help and refuge. I went to them for e