Joel R. Beeke starts the article with a description of the contemporary discussion of the doctrine of personal assurance, which is minimal. Today, many people believe it irrelevant to discuss this question of personal assurance of salvation because people believe that Christians have such assurance to a satisfactory degree. Beeke argues that contemporary Christians tend to live in minimal assurance.
Personal assurance of salvation is manifest in a Christian’s fruit such as:
1. Close fellowship with God
2. Relationship with God of childlike obedience
3. Desiring God and spiritual exercises that bring Him glory
4. Wanting to fulfill the Great Commission to glorify God
5. Other attributes in 2 Timothy 4:6-8 Read the rest of this entry »
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