Cultivating Assurance

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Meditating on the Bible is the primary road God provides for our pursuit of holiness, spiritual growth, and assurance of faith. Today, Joel Beeke looks at four spiritual disciplines that help us cultivate our assurance.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

Joel Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and a pastor at Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, MI.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	To say it as simple as possible, if you spend little time alone with God and little time alone with His Word,
0:07.0	you shouldn't expect large dosages of growth in assurance, because you're not using the book that the Holy Spirit uses to grow you.
0:22.6	For every believer, there are times we can feel distant from God.
0:27.6	We begin to lag in our spiritual life.
0:30.7	We start to lose interest in spiritual things,
0:33.6	and if it goes on too long,
0:35.5	we can even wonder if we were ever saved to begin with.
0:39.3	This week on Renewing Your Mind, Joel Beakey joins us to help us think through the question of assurance.
0:46.3	How can I truly know that I'm saved?
0:50.3	These messages are from his practical and theological series, Assurance of Faith,
0:56.2	and we'll send you the entire series on DVD, along with digital access to the messages
1:01.5	and study guide when you make a donation today at renewingyourmind.org.
1:07.9	So how can we cultivate assurance in our lives? Here's the Chancellor and a Professor at Puritan
1:14.5	Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Joel Beakey. I'm reading from the Westminster
1:23.0	Confession of Faith, Chapter 18.3, this infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence
1:33.9	of faith, but that a true believer may wait long and conflict with many difficulties before he
1:40.9	be partaker of it. Yet being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God,
1:48.0	he may, without extraordinary revelation,
1:52.1	in the right use of ordinary means, attain thereunto.
1:57.6	And therefore it is the duty of everyone to give all diligence to make his calling in election sure
2:05.2	that thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, in love and thankfulness to God,
2:13.8	and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, the proper fruits of this assurance.
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