Assurance of Salvation – Grace Evangelical Society

Believing That Jesus Is the Christ, the Son of God (John 20:31)

July 13, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - assurance and OCD, Assurance of Salvation, John 11:25-27, John 20:31

A fan of the GES blogs and daily radio program writes: Thank you so much for the work you do, for the GES website, the blog, and the radio program. It has meant a great deal to me. I’m hoping you can help put my mind at ease as I have really been struggling with

God Allows Confusion to Exist Regarding the Saving Message

July 9, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance of Salvation, Interpretation, Lordship Salvation

A friend, Paul, wondered at a comment I made that I use commentaries by people who hold to Lordship Salvation: I was reading your most recent blog Recommended Bible Study Tools, and at the conclusion of listing several lexicons, concordances, Bible dictionaries and commentaries, you indicated that many of these resources do not come from

Six Questions Regarding Assurance of Salvation, Part 2

October 14, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 John 5:13, Assurance of Salvation, Assurance of the essence of saving faith

In this blog I will discuss the first two objections to assurance being of the essence of saving faith as stated in Part 1. Those two objections are that when a person believes in Christ, he has objective assurance, even if he is not sure he is eternally secure, and that 1 John 5:13 proves

Questions Regarding Assurance of Salvation, Part 1

October 11, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 John 5:13, Assurance of Salvation, John 20:31, saving faith

I received the following email from a Free Grace friend I haven’t seen in maybe twenty years. My friend asks some tough questions, so hang with me. I hope I can answer his questions clearly. It’s been a while since we’ve been in touch, but I’d like to interact with you on the concept of

John Mueller on Works Salvation and Assurance

October 17, 2016 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Assurance of Salvation, Sanctification, Shawn Lazar, Works

By Shawn Lazar The Greatest Certainty I was recently referencing John Mueller’s Christian Dogmatics (St Louis, MO: Concordia, 1955), when I came across some excellent quotes on assurance being part of faith, and not something extra in addition to it. “Since saving faith is the believer’s trust in the perfect righteousness which Christ has secured

False Assurance

Posted on October 4, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Video - Assurance of Salvation

Is there a false basis of assurance of salvation? Are works a valid basis?

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