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The reason why in our liturgy we have a portion that is called not just the forgiveness of sins, but the assurance of forgiveness.

We say every Lord's Day, and now for an assurance of Christ's pardon. The reason why we say

assurance is what we're saying is that if you are in Christ by grace through faith and him alone,

then you've already been forgiven. You walked in the room forgiven. You'll leave the room

forgiven. You'll be forgiven on the way home. You'll be forgiven when you go to bed,

when you rise in the morning.

You're forgiven.

But there is a difference in being forgiven and having a confident, knowing, assurance of that forgiveness.

Even for the Christian, although biblically speaking, he can never lose his salvation.

And therefore, he will never have God ever again as his enemy or judge.

But rather, God is, from now on, his adoptive father, even for the Christian,

who has God as his adoptive father, that Christian can still be, as the Puritans wrote,

in a state of being under God's fatherly displeasure.

Still father, in the objective sense, but displeasure.

As we saw even in our confession of sin today, which I believe comes from

Psalm 32, yep, your hand of discipline was heavy upon me.

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