Does John Piper Deny Personal Assurance?

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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God gives believers warnings not to strip us of our assurance, but to keep us clinging to Christ and killing sin by the Spirit.

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0:00.0	Does John Piper deny personal assurance?
0:08.1	Today we need to address a quote that's found his way all over the internet attributed
0:11.4	to you, Pastor John.
0:13.1	It was brought to my attention by two listeners, the first tailor, Hello Pastor John.
0:16.9	I recently read a critique of you saying that you deny assurance of salvation.
0:20.8	Here's the exact quote attributed to you.
0:23.7	No Christian can be sure that he is a true believer in quote.
0:27.3	Is this true?
0:28.3	Did you say this?
0:29.5	The second email comes from a listener named Willis, Dr. Piper Hello, and thank you
0:33.1	for your sermons in a recent sermon.
0:35.4	Our teaching pastor used the following quote attributed to you.
0:38.5	According to him, you wrote this quote, no Christian can be sure that he is a true believer.
0:43.6	Hence, there is an ongoing need to be dedicated to the Lord and to deny ourselves so that
0:48.3	we might make it.
0:50.0	In quote.
0:51.0	I can't find this quote in your books.
0:53.0	I can't find it online in D.G.
0:54.8	The best I can tell this quote came from a booklet published in 1997 by you and the
0:59.6	BBC Pastoral Staff titled Tulip, what we believe about the five points of Calvinism position
1:05.7	paper of the Pastoral Staff page 25.
1:09.3	I can't find the original document anywhere.
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