Revelation Assurance

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Ladies, when a man says he’ll fix something, he will. There’s no need to nag him about it every six months.

OK, well, maybe some promises should be met with a healthy dose of skepticism. But what about God’s promises?

If God says that as a believer, you have everlasting life, do you believe Him or doubt Him?

If you doubt His promise, then what are you basing your assurance on? Broadly speaking: on your performance, or on God’s promises. The Free Grace position, which is the Biblical position, is that assurance is based on God’s faithfulness to His promises. Assurance is a matter of revelation:

“The evidence underlying a positive conviction, or assurance as to personal salvation, is primarily the fact of the faithfulness of God as revealed in His Word” (Lewis Sperry Chafer, Salvation, chap. 8, p. 58).

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Shawn Lazar

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Shawn Lazar is the Editor of Grace in Focus magazine and Director of Publications for Grace Evangelical Society. He and his wife Abby have three feral children. He is an ordained Baptist pastor. He has a BTh from McGill University and an MA from the Free University of Amsterdam. He has written two books: Beyond Doubt: How to Be Sure of Your Salvation and Chosen to Serve: Why Divine Election Is to Service, Not to Eternal Life.

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