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Jesus talked more about hell than he did about heaven,

and he frequently warned his hears that on that last day,

every idle word would come into judgment.

But if there's anything that we want to repress psychologically,

it's that threat because none of us wants to be held accountable for our sins.

That's a sober reality, isn't it? People can try to suppress it, we ignore it, but that day will come.

That's why we want to have assurance of our salvation.

For the rest of this week on Renewing Your Mind, R.C. Sprole addresses the topic of assurance, and today he examines a vital

aspect of that doctrine, false assurance.

What I want to do in this segment is to ask the question, how can it be possible, or what

different ways are there, that lead to a false sense of assurance.

I'm going to look at several different problems that we encounter, but they all reduce basically

to two things.

The first one is people have a false sense of assurance of salvation because they don't

understand the requirements for salvation.

They have a misunderstanding of what salvation entails.

And so if you have a bad theology of salvation, that can lead you to a false assurance.

And then the second big problem is that if you have a correct

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