Divine Promises
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We do not gain assurance of salvation first by looking to ourselves. We must look to God’s Word and the multitude of promises within. Today, Joel Beeke explores the primary means God has given us to help our assurance thrive.
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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. He is also editor of Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | God has no second plan. He has no second thoughts. Salvation is in Jesus. He doesn't need |
| 0:06.8 | another Savior. He doesn't need Jesus to be 90% Savior and you to be 10%. All of salvation, |
| 0:13.8 | all of life for all eternity is in his glorious son. Christ is the affirmation of God's love for hell-worthy sinners. |
| 0:26.6 | Christians can sometimes struggle with assurance, doubting whether Christ has truly saved them. |
| 0:34.6 | Have you, after giving into some temptation, then began to wonder, why did I do that? |
| 0:40.9 | Was I ever truly a Christian? Perhaps dissatisfied with your spiritual growth, you've been plagued |
| 0:46.7 | with guilt or doubt. If that's you, then I'm glad you're listening today, as we'll be thinking |
| 0:52.3 | about assurance over the next three days, |
| 0:54.8 | and today considering the primary ground of the believer's assurance. |
| 0:59.9 | Our guest teacher today on renewing your mind is Joel Beakey, and his series on assurance is 11 messages. |
| 1:07.7 | You can own the entire series on this important and very practical topic when you give a |
| 1:12.4 | gift of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org. We'll send you the DVD and give you lifetime digital |
| 1:18.9 | access to all the messages and study guide. Thank you for supporting the daily outreach of |
| 1:24.8 | renewing your mind. Dr. Beakey serves as president and professor of systematic |
| 1:30.0 | theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| 1:35.9 | Here he is on God's promises and the primary ground of the Christian's assurance. |
| 1:44.1 | In this lecture on assurance of faith, |
| 1:48.1 | I want to look with you at 18.2 of the Westminster Confession, |
| 1:54.1 | which is the most important paragraph ever written on this subject. |
| 2:00.3 | So here it is. |
| 2:02.4 | This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion |
| 2:08.3 | grounded upon a fallible hope, |
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