A T Robertson explains that have written is "Not epistolary aorist, but refers to verses 1 to 12 (1Jn 5:1-12) of this Epistle as in 1Jn 2:26 to the preceding verses. ), And again, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” (1 John 5"13. And if the truth make us free, we shall be free indeed. He that never fears possesses nothing truly valuable. Online Parallel Study Bible . "-Robinson's Christian System. v. l0)-Fairclough’s Sermon in Morning Exercises. That is the way to examine ourselves whether we are the children of God. Redeemed sinners, justified sinners, and renewed sinners doubtless we must be,-but sinners, sinners, sinners, always to the very last. Let us examine some of them. “If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another.” (1 John 1:7). Now it seems as if there are three wiles of Satan against which we ought to be on our guard. If any one were to say that they had known a person for thirty years and yet doubted him, it would not be very creditable: and when we have known God for ten, twenty or thirty years does it not reflect on His veracity to doubt Him. Wim then showed the woman what 1 John 5:11-13 says. Justification is instantaneous; but sanctification is a life-work. Some go so far as to conjecture that the same person added chap. It puts out the eye of the soul, or dimmeth it and stupifies it, that it can neither see nor feel its own condition. I have written (1125)(grapho from root graph- = primarily means to scratch on or engrave as on an ornament, reports, letters, etc; English = graph, graphic, etc) means to engrave or inscribe with a pen or stylus characters or letters on a surface which can be wood, wax, metal, leather, stone, parchment, dirt (John ), paper, etc. ASSURANCE OF SALVATION - After John Wesley had been preaching for some time, some one said to him, "Are you sure, Mr. Wesley, of your salvation?" But also, as believers we are identified with Christ’s resurrection and because He lives we too shall live – eternally, for He has broken the power of sin and death. It is a positive gift of the Holy Ghost, bestowed without reference to men’s bodily frames or constitutions, and a gift which every believer in Christ ought to aim at and seek after. 4) Those who are saved, and they act like it. But let us not reject any doctrine of revelation through an over-anxious fear of consequences. Your salvation is a fixed and certain thing. All saints shall enjoy a heaven when they leave this earth; some saints enjoy a heaven while they are here on earth.”-Joseph Caryl. (Acts xxiv. How shall we draw the line about visiting? I would lay it down fully and broadly, that a true Christian, a converted man, may reach that comfortable degree of faith in Christ, that in general he shall feel entirely confident as to the pardon and safety of his soul,-shall seldom be troubled with doubts,-seldom be distracted with hesitation,-seldom be distressed by anxious questionings,-and, in short, though vexed by many an inward conflict with sin, shall look forward to death without trembling, and to judgment without dismay.1. Faith is that poor trembling woman who came behind Jesus in the press and touched the hem of His garment. Would you like to feel the everlasting arms around you, and to hear the voice of Jesus daily drawing nigh to your soul, and saying, “I am thy salvation”?-Would you like to be a useful labourer in the vineyard in your day and generation?-Would you be known of all men as a bold, firm, decided, single-eyed, uncompromising follower of Christ?-Would you be eminently spiritually-minded and holy?-I doubt not some readers will say, “These are the very things our hearts desire. Even so it is with a believer. “Him that cometh unto Me,” He says, “I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37. 26. A babe may be born, and yet not know it; so a man may be born again, and yet not be sure of it. It makes him always feel that he has something solid beneath his feet, and something firm under his hands,-a sure friend by the way, and a sure home at the end.9, Assurance will help a man to bear poverty and loss. Even at this, some would limit the referent of tauta (these things) (1) only to 1Jn 5:1–12 [As does A T Robertson] or even 1Jn 5:12, but more likely tauta (these things) in 1Jn 5:13 refers (2) to the entirety of the letter, for two reasons: (a) based on the structural analogy with the Gospel of John, where the conclusion refers to all that has preceded (Ed: Presumably they refer to Jn 20:31), it is probable that the conclusion to 1 John refers likewise to all that has preceded; and (b) the statement These things I have written to you in 1Jn 5:13 forms an inclusion with the statement these things we write (kai tauta graphomen hēmeis) at the end of the prologue (1Jn 1:4) and encompasses the entire body of the letter. It is health, strength, power, vigour, activity, energy, manliness, beauty. But when I am eclipsed in my comforts, I am of so fearful a spirit, that I could run into a very mouse-hole.”-Quoted by Christopher Love. In so far as God‘s will is not our will, we are not abiding in faith, and our prayers are not accepted. “The faith necessary and sufficient for our salvation is not assurance. Thomas Doolittle, of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and sometime Rector of St. Alphage, London, in the Morning Exercises, at Cripplegate. He, on the contrary, that carries gold and jewels will be a cautious traveller. He simply believed her word. He does not vex his soul with doubts about his own pardon and acceptance. Believe what the Bible says, and claim as your very own the new life that has been given you through faith in Christ. Enter in and share our privileges. Strive after it. Jesus is the Son of God. I. I pass on to the second thing I spoke of. There never has been, and never will be, a soul on this earth who has not sinned, or who will not sin, at some time of their Christian experience. I am at last in sight of the goal. And so, my dear reader, if God has forgiven us, never let us mention the past. Another origin of doubts is looking at ourselves. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 17The Westminster Confession of Faith gives an admirable account of justification. 1Col 10:13; James 4:7 ). Reader, you know as well as I do. )7, Yes, reader: though a man’s faith be no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, if it only brings him to Christ, and enables him to touch the hem of His garment, he shall be saved,-saved as surely as the oldest saint in paradise; saved as completely and eternally as Peter, or John, or Paul. - Moody's Anecdotes, pp. Lastly, as all men have reason, but all men are not learned; so all regenerate persons have faith to comply savingly with the gospel method of salvation, but all true believers have not assurance.”-Sermon by B. Fairclough, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the Morning Exercises, preached at Southwark. This one thing now remains for me to look forward to, and nothing more. Now, why is this so?-Why is a thing which two Apostles have strongly enjoined us to seek after, a thing of which few believers have any experimental knowledge? Instead, assurance in God provides an anchor of confidence and hope (Hebrews 6:18 ) in the midst of pain and sorrow, because the believer has learned the secret of casting all worries and cares on God, who is genuinely concerned for people (1 Peter 5:7 ). It needs daily, hourly watching, watering, tending, cherishing. “Presumption is joined with looseness of life; persuasion with a tender conscience: this dares sin because it is sure, this dares not for fear of losing assurance. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. You and the world must part, or else assurance and your souls will never meet.”-Thomas Brooks. But he had a still livelier feeling that Christ’s promise, “My sheep shall never perish” (John x. It is an utter mistake to suppose that the believer who feels assurance is resting on anything he sees in himself. 4. Assurance is Stephen standing calmly in the midst of his murderers, and saying, ‘I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God’ (Acts 7:56+). Speaking of the Lord Jesus, Isaiah says: “I will fasten Him as a nail in a sure place; and He shall be for a glorious throne to His Father’s house: and they shall hang upon Him all the glory of His father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons” (Isaiah 22:23, 24). My answer, lastly, is, it cannot be wrong to feel confidently in a matter where God speaks unconditionally,-to believe decidedly when God promises decidedly,-to have a sure persuasion of pardon and peace when we rest on the word and oath of Him that never changes. And the word ‘Christ’ reminds us that, even in this world, Jesus was full of God’s Holy Spirit. “Our hope is not hung upon such an untwisted thread as, “I imagine so,” or “It is likely;” but the cable, the strong rope of our fastened anchor, is the oath and promise of Him who is eternal verity. (1 Jn 3:24+) We can tell what kind of Spirit we have if we possess the Spirit of Christ—a Christ-like spirit—not the same in degree, but the same in kind. 1612. 6 Extracts from English divines, showing that there is a difference between faith and assurance,-that a believer may be justified and accepted with God, and yet not enjoy a comfortable knowledge and persuasion of his own safety,-and that the weakest faith in Christ, if it be true, will save a man as surely as the strongest. Happy is that soul who can look where Paul looked, and then speak as Paul spoke! Romans 10:17, "These have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name." This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Reason is the foundation of learning; so, as there can be no learning if reason be wanting (as in beasts), in like manner there can be no assurance where there is no faith of adherence. ), Does not Paul say to the Romans, “I am persuaded that neither life, nor death, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, not height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord”? Heir of salvation, purchase of God, When men are loose from Christ, they are loose in point of duty, and their floating belief is soon discovered in their inconstancy and unevenness of walking. God has not only adopted us, but we are His by birth: we have been born into His kingdom. viii. 101-102. My answer to all who deny the existence of real, well-grounded assurance is simply this,-What saith the Scripture? • "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers" (1 Jn 3:14). - Too Busy Not To Pray, IVP, p. 113. They said that he was not always the Christ. “The secret of the Lord,” says David, “is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.” (Psalm 24:14. (A Believer's Assurance- A Practical Guide to Victory over Doubt), MacArthur adds "Assurance is an inextricable part of saving faith. That assurance can be yours as you take God at His word. And perhaps when he has done that, he will be able to say, “There is a cause why I have no assured hope.”. So the least grain of faith is as true faith, and as saving as the greatest faith in the world. ), Faith is the penitent thief, crying, “Lord, remember me.” (Luke 23:42.) 4. Psalm 32:3. For some men would fain have the feeling of faith, but they cannot attain unto it; and yet they must not despair, but go forward in calling upon God, and it will come at the length: God will open their hearts, and let them feel His goodness.”-Bishop Latimer’s Sermons. "But are you sure, Wesley, that you are saved?" Do not do me the injustice to say, I told you none were saved except such as could say with Paul, “I know and am persuaded,-there is a crown laid up for me.” I do not say so. And so long as a believer cannot get beyond “I hope” and “I trust,” he manifestly feels a degree of uncertainty about his spiritual state. (1-3 John- MacArthur New Testament Commentary). H. A. Ironside - An elderly man said to H. A. Ironside, "I will not go on unless I know I'm saved, or else know it's hopeless to seek to be sure of it. 24. It is not the result of high animal spirits, or a sanguine temperament of body. Then the 27th verse, “My sheep hear my voice; and I know them, and they follow Me. That they cannot receive it is certainly no marvel. 20 “They are doubly miserable that have neither Heaven nor earth, temporals nor eternals, made sure to them in changing times.”-Thomas Brooks. Can you think it a strange thing that your graces are faint and languishing, when faith, the root and mother of them all, is allowed to remain feeble and weak? “Personal assurance of salvation is not necessarily connected with faith. The son walks at perfect liberty all over the house; he is at home. 1660. No man is fit for God’s service who is filled with doubts. 2:3; 1 Jn. Peace rules the day when Christ rules the heart. John is thinking of the love which naturally … My father which gave them is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” (Jn 10:27) Think of that! Bible teacher H. A. Ironside related a personal experience that helps us understand the importance of believing the Word of God. The only way to get the fruit is to have the Spirit. 17. 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