{"id":6578,"date":"2024-04-08T04:50:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T04:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2024-04-08T04:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T04:50:59","slug":"assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6578","title":{"rendered":"Assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assurance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one time or another, every believer struggles with assurance. Assurance of our salvation can never be found by looking at ourselves.&nbsp; Nothing about us can give any assurance of salvation.&nbsp; Nothing we do, or do not do, can give any assurance of salvation.&nbsp; Assurance can only be had by looking to Christ who is our salvation. Charles Spurgeon once said, \u201cI looked to Christ and the dove of peace flew into my heart.&nbsp; I looked into my heart and the dove flew away.\u201d &nbsp;Assurance is had through faith in Christ.&nbsp; Through faith in Christ a believer is given FULL assurance. &nbsp;\u201cLet 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\u201d (Hebrews 10:22).&nbsp; My conscience cannot destroy my assurance if I know that Christ shed His blood to pay for my sin.&nbsp; Faith in Christ also gives us the knowledge that Christ is our righteousness.&nbsp; A believer has complete assurance knowing that Christ is our righteousness. &nbsp;\u201cAnd the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever\u201d (Isaiah 32:17).&nbsp; Every child of God is assured of eternal life because Christ, who is our righteousness, died, was buried, and rose again for us. What sweet assurance! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assurance At one time or another, every believer struggles with assurance. Assurance of our salvation can never be found by looking at ourselves.&nbsp; Nothing about us can give any assurance of salvation.&nbsp; Nothing we do, or do not do, can give any assurance of salvation.&nbsp; Assurance can only be had by looking to Christ who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-frank-tate","category-believers-assurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}