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With the results of Christianity before him and in him, the Christian may confidently say to all his foes: “If a lie can do all this, then a lie is better than all your truth; for your truth does not pretend to do it. And if our lie is better in every possible legitimate result than your truth, then your truth is proven to be a lie, and our lie is the truth.” Of all short methods with infidelity, this is the shortest.
— J. G. HOLLAND.
Source: SAGE Digital Library
Topics/Tags: Jesus, the christ, redeemer; Assurance
Bill Whittaker describes how he received a greeting card from Washington, D.C., one Christmas. On the front was a depiction of the White House, and inside was a greeting from the President and First Lady.
Whittaker notes: "I knew it came from the White House because the card had been stamped with the Presidential seal. It was the sign of authenticity."
In the same way, the Holy Spirit is God's seal of authenticity on the believer. No external sign is a guarantee of salvation—but the presence of the Holy Spirit guarantees that you belong to the Lord Jesus.
Source: "Proclaim," 1980 #2, p. 34.
Topics/Tags: Holy spirit; Authenticity; Assurance
During a revival meeting, George W. Truett became greatly interested in the conversion of a Brilliant Baylor University student. He arranged for a private meeting with the outstanding student.
After an earnest conversation about the Savior, the student asked Dr. Truett, "Is Jesus Christ _real_ to you? Please don't give me a theoretical or theological answer."
Tears came to Dr. Truett's eyes as he replied, "Son, Jesus Christ is more real to me than the skin that covers my bones!"
Source: Knight's Illustrations
Topics/Tags: Jesus, the christ; Salvation; Assurance; Devotion
Hurrying to board a train and out of breath, an inspector saw me huffing and puffing,, and took compassion upon me by saying "There's plenty of time, sir." As I knew he was the man who would give the signal for the train to start, I immediately slowed down. The man in authority could speak the word of assurance.
It would have been folly for me to have heeded what a passenger had said, or a passer-by, but when the man in power spoke, there was power to stop my hurry and flurry.
When the Lord speaks, too, His word is arresting and assuring.
— F.E. Marsh
Source: Illustrated Bible Study Outlines
Topics/Tags: Authority; Word of god; Assurance
When Nansen started on his Arctic expedition he took with him a carrier dove, strong and fleet of wing; and after two years -- two years in the desolation of the Arctic regions -- he one day wrote a tiny little message, and tied it under the dove's wing, and let it loose, to travel two thousand miles to Norway; and, oh, what miles! what desolation! not a living creature ! ice, ice, ice, snow and death. But he took the trembling little dove and flung her up from the ship, up into the icy cold. Three circles she made, and then, straight as an arrow, she shot south; one thousand miles over ice, one thousand miles over the frozen wastes of ocean, and at last dropped into the lap of the explorer's wife. She knew by the arrival of the dove that it was all right in the dark night of the North.
So, to the apostles and the rest of the disciples, when Jesus had finished the covenant, He said, "Wait till I send from heaven the promise of the Father. Go not home till He has arrived. The Dove that descended on Me at the inception of the New Covenant in the baptism of Jordan, He will come. I shall send Him. Wait till you hear from Me." They saw Him go; they saw Him disappear into the blue of heaven. As they were all waiting with one accord, in one place, suddenly a noise as of a rushing mighty wind filled the house, and the Spirit descended, and there appeared cloven tongues like as of fire, and sat upon each of them. The Dove had arrived! it is all right with the Mediator of the New Covenant.
Source: F.E. Marsh, Bible Study Outlines
Topics/Tags: Holy spirit; Assurance; Sign
Assurance is having confidence of eternal life that is resting upon the sure foundation of Jesus Christ, but presumption is presuming ourselves to have eternal life when in fact our confidence is based on nothing more than the flimsy foundation of our own self-righteousness.
- D. J. Kennedy
Source: D.J. Kennedy
Topics/Tags: Assurance; Confidence; Eternal life; Salvation
"An atheist is a man with no Invisible means of support."
Topics/Tags: Atheist; God, providence of; Assurance
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, and acts with a hand that never fails.
- Unknown
Source: PULPIT HELPS, July, 1991
Topics/Tags: God, faithfulness of; Assurance
THE EPITAPH
A cemetery has a tombstone which bears the following epitaph:
Pause Stranger, when you pass me by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be,
So prepare for death and follow me.
An unknown passerby scratched the following reply underneath:
To follow you I'm not content,
Until I know which way you went!
Source: unknown
Topics/Tags: Conversion; Eternal life; Death; Assurance
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