Assurance

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Isaiah 32: 17- 19

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Colossians 2: 2

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

1 Thess. 1: 5

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

Blessed Assurance - My Anchor Holds

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: -Hebrews 6: 11

The full and blessed assurance of faith relates to present pardon; the full assurance of hope, to future glory. The highest degree of divine evidence that God is reconciled to me in the Son of his love.
The hope is looking for good things promised. Hope has its degrees, as faith also. The promise of blessedness God has made to believers, is from God's eternal purpose, settled between the eternal Father, Son, and Spirit. These promises of God may safely be depended upon.

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. -Hebrews 10" 22

....but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house-- whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. -Hebrews 3:6

My Anchor Holds

" A sailor in Gloucester, Mass., had been wounded in a wreck and was brought around him in a little fishing house, and the physician said : "He won't live long.' The sailor was out of his mind until near the close. But within a few minutes of his death he he looked around, and calling one comrade after another, bade them good-by, and then sank off to sleep. Finally as it was time for the medicine again, one o f the sailors rousing him, said, "Mate, how are you now>' He looked up to the face of his friend and said, "My anchor holds!' These were his last words. And when they called the funeral service, how powerful was the impression made upon his hearers when he quoted the dying words: "My anchor holds!

REST SECURE

On Christ salvation rests secure,

The rock of Ages must endure

Nor can that faith be overthrown

Which rests upon the "Living Stone.:

No other hope shall intervene,

To Him we look, on Him we lean;

Other foundation we disown,

And build on Christ, the "Living Stone.'

In Him it is ordained to raise

A temple to Jehovah's praise,

Composed of all the saints who own

No Saviour but the Living stone.

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