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How Does Love Teach Us About Assurance?

How Does Love Teach Us About Assurance?. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction?. God wants us to know that He is trustworthy and merciful. (Micah 7:18-20 ). How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction?.

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How Does Love Teach Us About Assurance?

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  1. How Does Love Teach Us About Assurance?

  2. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • God wants us to know that He is trustworthy and merciful. (Micah 7:18-20)

  3. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • Micah 7:18-20 - Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. 19 He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.

  4. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • 20 You will give truth to Jacob And mercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers From days of old.

  5. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • Because men have not looked carefully at the character of God they have failed to see the strongest assurance possible of the salvation God gives.

  6. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • When men do not trust in God then their salvation becomes some form of trusting and boasting in men. (Eph 2:8-9)

  7. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • Ephesians 2:8-9 - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

  8. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • Many who have been raised in religious homes do not have this assurance. • Let us learn to think as God does. How can we know that we are saved? • We are saved by a living faith that works! (1 Jn 5:11-13)

  9. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • 1 John 5:11-13 - And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

  10. How can one be sure that another is serious about a transaction? • When we stand before God on what basis will He let us in?

  11. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • What is “salvation?” - salvation, deliverance; (1) physically, as rescue from danger deliverance, preservation, safety (HE 11.7); (2) as a religious technical term safety of the soul in a spiritual sense salvation (2C 7.10); (3) of the messianic deliverance at the end of the present age salvation (RO 13.11)

  12. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Why did Jesus have to shed His blood? (1 Pt 1:18-19; 2 Cor 5:20-21)

  13. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • 1 Peter 1:18-19 - knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

  14. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 - Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

  15. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • We must understand that salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ. • The love of God is extended to us unconditionally. (Rom 5:6-8)

  16. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Romans 5:6-8 - For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  17. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • How much further away from God can you get than being an enemy? • The love of God is also individual, He died for me. • Much of the efforts Satan makes are in the area of distorting God’s character or distorting God’s plan. How many have turned away from God because they had too bad of a past?

  18. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Paul often tells others the vivid example of his salvation and the implications this has for all men. (1 Tim 1:12-16)

  19. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • 1 Timothy 1:12-16 - And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, 13 although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  20. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

  21. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • 16 However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.

  22. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Would God do these things and then make it impossible for men to be saved? • When people come up with hypotheticals, doubts about the transmission of the Bible, questions about division in the religious world to create doubt in you, think again of the message of the cross. (Rom 8:31-35)

  23. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Romans 8:31-35 - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

  24. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

  25. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Please do not think that others or even God has more to do before you can be saved. (Rom 10:6-10; Acts 22:16)

  26. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Romans 10:6-10 - But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ down from above) 7 or, " 'Who will descend into the abyss?' " (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach

  27. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

  28. The Cross of Christ gives assurance • Acts 22:16- 'And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

  29. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • There are actions God takes after we are saved that give us assurance. (Eph 1:13-14; 2 Cor 1:21-22)

  30. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • Ephesians 1:13-14 - In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

  31. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 - Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, 22 who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

  32. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • The sealing of the Holy Spirit is described as an “earnest” (guarantee –NKJ).

  33. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • Earnest- transliterated from the Hebrew; literally, as a legal and commercial technical term, an advance transaction that guarantees the validity of a contract or a full purchase price down payment, first installment, pledge; figuratively in the NT, of the gift of the Holy Spirit to believers (2C 1.22)

  34. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • What is “earnest money” compared to the full value? (Eph 3:20-21)

  35. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • Ephesians 3:20-21 - Now to Him who is able to do exceedinglyabundantlyabove all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

  36. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • The longer you serve God the more you will see His promises blessing your life. • As we see this we are reminded that this is simply a small taste of heaven. • We as Christians should be the most thankful, optimistic people on earth. • As we abound in this thanksgiving we are motivated to serve. (Phil 2:1-4)

  37. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • Philippians 2:1-4 - Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, 2 fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

  38. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • 3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

  39. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • These blessings from the Spirit come from the sword of the spirit. (Eph 6:17)

  40. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • Ephesians 6:17 - And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

  41. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • The covenant we have from God gives us great privileges and most of all the presence and care of God Himself. • It is so important that we understand the exceedingly great promises of God. (2 Pt 1:3-4)

  42. God has given Christians the “earnest” of the Spirit for our assurance • 2 Peter 1:3-4 - as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

  43. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • 1 John 3:1-4 - Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

  44. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

  45. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • “What manner of love,” this is something we will never fully comprehend. • God does want us to often meditate on this. (Eph 3:17-19)

  46. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • Ephesians 3:17-19 - that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height -- 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

  47. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • Manner - an adjective referring to quality of what sort or kind? (LU 7.39); what sort of people (2P 3.11); in exclamations expressing admiration how great, how wonderful (1J 3.1) – Freiberg Lexicon

  48. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • We are “children of God.” What does this mean?

  49. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • What is the Christian’s hope?

  50. We have a purifying hope that comes from the love of God. (1 John 3:1-4) • Hope- (1) as an expected and awaited good hope, expectation, prospect (AC 27.20)… (3) as expectation of a divinely provided future (the) hope(CO 1.27); (4) as a Christian attitude of patient waiting… hope (1C 13.13); (5) …in (the) expectation of something (RO 5.2); - Freiberg

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