You will never never never in this life have any mark of grace as much as you desire to have it

The moment you have enough of any mark of grace in your own eyes you've just turned into a Pharisee.

But you see God keeps the poor and the needy people. They cannot deny that he's

worked something of these marks in their lives, but they grieve that they don't have more of all of them.

Jeremiah 17-9 tells us that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.

The devil is also our accuser, so it can be challenging to look inward as we seek to have assurance that we truly are Christians.

But inward reflection is part of our assurance.

So how do we do that biblically? This is the Wednesday edition of renewing your mind

and we're spending a few days exploring how a Christian can have assurance and

practically what that looks like day to day.

Doubting your salvation can be debilitating.

And if you've not experienced that, talk with someone who has guilt, restless nights.

That's why it's important, as Paul says,

to make our calling an election sure.

And why we invited Joel Beaky to record this series for us

on the assurance of faith.

Yesterday, Joel Beekie looked to the promises of God.

Today, he will help us navigate looking inward

for evidences of God's grace.

Here's Dr. Biki.

Well, in this lecture, we want to look at the evidences of grace within us. And we turn then to 1st John 2

versus 1 through 5. My little children these things right unto you that you sin not and if any man sin we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins.

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