Assurance: Nurtured and Maintained

The gift and grace of assurance is received, nurtured and maintained through a holy, godly and righteous life, and not otherwise. It is an outright gift and blessing of Gods unconditional covenant.

Assurance and good works (1)

Assurance belongs to salvation In the goodness of His grace, God not only saves His people; He also gives them the assurance of their salvation. Theoretically, God could have saved us but not given us the assurance of our salvation. Throughout our lives we would, at best, be left to wonder whether

Assurance: Defined and Promised

8:16), and be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace and shall persevere therein unto salvation” (I John 5:13; 11 Tim. 1:12) Westminster Larger Catechism, Q. 80. From this twentieth century we have another statement. “Assurance is the believer’s full conviction that through the work

PRTJ Vol. 42, No. 2 (April 2009)

April 2009 45 It is false and pernicious teaching, that assurance is intended by God only for a favored few of His believing children and that the many ought to accept doubt as their portion for many years, perhaps their lifelong, in the will of God. O believer, gratefully receive, and enjoy, assur

Using Our Time for the Glory of God

Assurance, and joy (which is a result of assurance), we attain not by trying to work up in ourselves fake emotions, or looking for some sort of mystical, Puritan experience, but primarily by faithful attendance to the means of grace, namely, the preaching of God’s Word and the administration of the

Thoughts on the Doctrine of Election (14)

12. Its Assurance “Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God: for our Gospel came… in much assurance” (I Th. 1:4, 5), which means not only that it is possible for us to know our election, that we may and ought to know it, but also that we may be assured of it beyond a doubt. When the Gospel c

Assurance

We all have a need for assurance in life. We want to have an assurance that we can go to college and do well enough to get a decent job. When we marry we want to know for sure that our spouses will be faithful to us. But the most important assurance we need in life is the assurance of our salvation.

Walking by Faith (3)

This confidence is assurance that our very own sins have been entirely washed away by the blood of Christ. Indeed, the confidence which of true faith is that of personal salvation. Every child of God finds rest and the peace that passes all understanding; peace which consists of having peace with Go

The Only Begotten Son of God

1. Christ's Unique Sonship
2. The Believer's Sonship
3. The Clear Calling Psalters: 103D, 15A, 119B, 149B

Glorying In That One Cross

1. In What We Glory
2. Glorying As We Embrace Its Twofold Result
3. Because Of Its Fruit