Assurance of Salvation (178)
  1. Luther’s theology lets the believer in Christ dwell under the cerulean sky of God’s unchanging grace.
  2. “Whatever you do, don’t share the Gospel with me?” Those were my exact words to my slightly mystified seminary professor. As he set his coffee down, I could tell that he was holding back in an effort to allow me to process what I was thinking.
  3. As much as the devil and doubts may assail me, God has revealed Himself to me in His Word and answered these pesky questions.
  4. The devil isn’t a popular subject nowadays. The argument is made that we’ve progressed as a culture.
  5. I visited a senior man at his home the other day. I'll refer to him as “Jim.”
  6. Today’s world has replaced Anfechtung with an entirely new sort of despair.
  7. “The lack of assurance of one’s standing before God causes a person to do anything to make things right in a vain attempt to gain eternal certitude. ”
  8. Assurance of salvation may be the single greatest struggle people have confessed to me. It isn't surprising.
  9. Jesus tears down every “but” that people try to build between us and God. He died and rose for us, and—not but—He makes Himself our Lord and Savior.
  10. “Obey God and he will bless you,” says the wind and the reed is bent over and bruised throughout. “God will never stop loving you but you can disappoint him,” says the wind and the once lit candle is now a sad smoldering wick.
  11. We’re by nature counters. So long as we can add, subtract, multiply and divide something, anything, we have some measure of control and comparison.
  12. If you’re looking for a book of the Bible to blow apart works righteousness and justification by adherence to the Law, Galatians is the book for you.
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