Posted by: Bill Hornbeck | July 11, 2009

Assurance of Grace and Salvation

Dear Family and Friends:
                                                               
Revelation 20:15 states:  “And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
                                                                
Because we can not read this “Book of Life” (which can only be read by God), and because our names are not written in the Bible (which can be read by us), how do we receive assurance of grace and salvation?
 
I liked today’s (July 11, 2009) Daily Confession which I copied and pasted below.  Here is the link to the web site Daily Confession in case you want to read the foregoing Daily Confession in its original format and/or want to save the web site as a “Favorite” – Click here: Daily Confession 
                                                                          
 
July 11, 2009

Chapter 18: Of Assurance of Grace and Salvation

1: Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor of God, and estate of salvation[348] (which hope of theirs shall perish):[349] yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love Him in sincerity, endeavouring to walk in all good conscience before Him, may, in this life, be certainly assured that they are in the state of grace,[350] and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which hope shall never make them ashamed.[351]

2: This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion grounded upon a fallible hope;[352] but an infallible assurance of faith founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation,[353] the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made,[354] the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God,[355] which Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.[356]

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