False Assurance
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Countless people profess to have faith in Christ. But Jesus warned that He will turn many away on the last day. Today, R.C. Sproul warns about having a false assurance of salvation.
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| 0:00.0 | Some people believe that by doing something, |
| 0:02.6 | they'll be saved from their sins. |
| 0:04.6 | Here's the way they think. |
| 0:05.9 | What you have to do to get into heaven |
| 0:08.5 | is to obey the law of God and to live a good life. |
| 0:12.7 | And so people think that they have met the standard. |
| 0:15.9 | They have a confidence that they're going to pass the exam. |
| 0:19.4 | That they will meet the requirements |
| 0:21.7 | and meet the standards for entrance into heaven. |
| 0:25.1 | But that's what's referred to as works righteousness, |
| 0:31.4 | the idea that our behavior influences God's decision |
| 0:34.6 | to let us into heaven. |
| 0:36.4 | There are scores of people who profess faith in Christ, |
| 0:39.6 | but Jesus warns us on the last day |
| 0:42.0 | that he will turn many of them away. |
| 0:45.2 | Here's our cease-fire. |
| 0:46.2 | Again, we're going to continue with our series of events. |
| 0:52.1 | Again, we're going to continue with our series |
| 0:55.1 | on the assurance of salvation. |
| 0:58.0 | In our last segment, we looked at the four different groups |
| 1:02.1 | of people in the world, those who were not saved |
| 1:05.4 | and know that they're not saved. |
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