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Tag Archives: Assurance
Preparing for the Lord’s Supper
Amos 4:12 Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. C. H. MACKINTOSH (1820-1896): It may be asked, Is there no preparation necessary? Are we to sit down at the table of the Lord with as much indifference as if … Continue reading
Posted in Lord's Supper
Tagged Assurance, communion, Lord's Supper, self-examination
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Assurance: Some Biblical Test Questions
Romans 14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800): ’Tis a point I long to know; Oft it causes anxious thought; Do I love the Lord or no? Am I His, or am I … Continue reading
Posted in Assurance & Communion
Tagged Assurance, faith, motivations, questions, self-examination
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True Faith: The “No Pain, No Gain” Rule of Spiritual Exercise
Ecclesiastes 3:10; I Peter 1:7 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth. … Continue reading
Posted in Faith
Tagged afflictions, Assurance, evidences of faith, faith, growth in grace, trials, troubles
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Satan’s Spiritual Blitzkrieg: A Sudden Assault on a Believer’s Mind
I Peter 5:8, 9 Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he would devour: whom resist steadfastly in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Assurance, Satan, spiritual warfare
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Powerful Prayer Part 1: A Holy Boldness
Exodus 33:12-17 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, … Continue reading
Is a Full Assurance of Faith Attainable?
I John 5:19 And we know we are of God. JOHN NEWTON (1725-1807): My text assures us, that this assurance was possessed in the first ages of the church. There were some who could say, without hesitation, “We know … Continue reading
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Tagged Assurance, Calvinism, faith, presumption, Roman Catholicism
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Predestination or Freewill Part 10: The Inescapable Conclusion
Romans 8:30, 31; I Peter 1:4,5; I Timothy 1:12 Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. To an inheritance incorruptible, and … Continue reading
Posted in Sovereign Predestination or Man's Free Will: The Great Doctrinal Debate
Tagged Assurance, election, faith, final perseverance, power of God
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Old Mrs. Much Afraid
John 5:24; John 6:47; Romans 4:3, 21-25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death … Continue reading
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Tagged Assurance, faith, God's promises
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A Dreamy Breakfast with John Newton & Friends
1 Kings 19:9-13 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. JOSIAH BULL (1713-1813): John … Continue reading
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Tagged Assurance, communion, dreams
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Deathbeds
Isaiah 43:2 Fear not; when thou passeth through the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. J. C. PHILPOT (1802-1869): How many of the dear saints of God, when they have … Continue reading
