Blessed Assurance

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Blessed Assurance

• Hebrews 1016-23

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Blessed Assurance

• We should be confident! Heb 1016-23
• Paul knew his fate 2 Tim 47-8
• I have fought the good fight, I have finished
  the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there
  is laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
  which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to
  me on that Day, and not to me only but also to
  all who have loved His appearing.

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Blessed Assurance

• We should be confident! Heb 1016-23
• Paul knew his fate 2 Tim 47-8
• Hold fast the confidence Heb 35-6
• Hold on to it until the end Heb 314-15

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• Full assurance of faith Heb 1022
• let us draw near with a true heart in full
  assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
  from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
  with pure water

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• Full assurance of faith Heb 1022
• Anything done without confidence is sin Rom 1423
• But he who doubts is condemned if he eats,
  because he does not eat from faith for whatever
  is not from faith is sin.

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• Full assurance of faith Heb 1022
• Anything done without confidence is sin Rom 1423
• Paul was not ashamed of his faith
  1 Tim 18-12
• Confident access to God Eph 310-12

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Blessed Assurance

• Full assurance of faith Heb 1022
• Anything done without confidence is sin Rom 1423
• Paul was not ashamed of his faith
  1 Tim 18-12
• Confident access to God John 146
• I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
  comes to the Father except through Me.

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Blessed Assurance

• Full assurance of faith Heb 1022
• Anything done without confidence is sin Rom 1423
• Paul was not ashamed of his faith
  1 Tim 18-12
• Confident access to God Eph 310-12, John 146

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Blessed Assurance

• Full assurance of understanding Col 21-3
• No need for doubt John 1247-48
• And if anyone hears My words and does not
  believe, I do not judge him for I did not come
  to judge the world but to save the world. "He who
  rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has
  that which judges him--the word that I have
  spoken will judge him in the last day.

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Blessed Assurance

• Full assurance of understanding Col 21-3
• No need for doubt John 1247-48
• God has given us all that we need
  2 Tim 316-17
• All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,
  and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
  correction, for instruction in righteousness,
  that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly
  equipped for every good work.

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Blessed Assurance

• Full assurance of understanding Col 21-3
• No need for doubt John 1247-48
• God has given us all that we need
  2 Tim 316-17
• All can know the will of God John 831-32
• If you abide in My word, you are My disciples
  indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the
  truth shall make you free.

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Blessed Assurance

• Full assurance of understanding Col 21-3
• No need for doubt John 1247-48
• God has given us all that we need
  2 Tim 316-17
• All can know the will of God John 831-32

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Blessed Assurance

• Assurance through obedience
• If we keep His commandments
  1 John 23-5
• Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep
  His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and
  does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and
  the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His
  word, truly the love of God is perfected in him.
  By this we know that we are in Him.

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Blessed Assurance

• Assurance through obedience
• If we keep His commandments
  1 John 23-5
• Must not cast it away Heb 1032-36

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• Being close to God
• Abiding in Him 1 John 228-29
• And now, little children, abide in Him, that
  when He appears, we may have confidence and not
  be ashamed before Him at His coming. If you know
  that He is righteous, you know that everyone who
  practices righteousness is born of Him.

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• Being close to God
• Abiding in Him 1 John 228-29
• God helps us Heb 135-6
• Let your conduct be without covetousness be
  content with such things as you have. For He
  Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor
  forsake you." So we may boldly say "The LORD is
  my helper I will not fear. What can man do to
  me?"

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Blessed Assurance

• Being close to God
• Abiding in Him 1 John 228-29
• God helps us Heb 135-6
• Confidence does not come from ourselves
• The Pharisee trusted in himself
  Luke 189-14
• Will lead to failure 1 Cor 1012

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Blessed Assurance

• Confidence in God gives us boldness to speak 1
  Thess 22
• But even after we had suffered before and were
  spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we
  were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel
  of God in much conflict.

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• Confidence in God gives us boldness to speak 1
  Thess 22
• Peter and John spoke with boldness Acts
  47-13
• Paul spoke boldly Acts 929 1346
  143 198
• Paul spoke boldly against error 2 Cor 101-6

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Blessed Assurance

• Confidence in our prayers
• Confidence to ask of God 1 John 514
• Now this is the confidence that we have in Him,
  that if we ask anything according to His will, He
  hears us.

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• Confidence in our prayers
• Confidence to ask of God Jam 16
• But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for
  he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven
  and tossed by the wind.

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Blessed Assurance

• Confidence in our prayers
• Confidence to ask of God 1 John 514, Jam
  16
• Confident we will receive 1 John 318-22
• Confident in our salvation

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• God has given us every reason to be confident!
• Boldness at judgment 1 John 417-19
• Love has been perfected among us in this that
  we may have boldness in the day of judgment
  because as He is, so are we in this world. There
  is no fear in love but perfect love casts out
  fear, because fear involves torment. But he who
  fears has not been made perfect in love. We love
  Him because He first loved us.

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• God has given us every reason to be confident!
• Boldness at judgment 1 John 417-19
• Jesus understands Heb 414-16
• God wants us to be saved 1 Tim 23-4
• For this is good and acceptable in the sight of
  God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved
  and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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• God has given us every reason to be confident!
• Boldness at judgment 1 John 417-19
• Jesus understands Heb 414-16
• God wants us to be saved 1 Tim 23-4
  2 Peter 38-9, 15