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gets out to as many people as possible. Thanks. All right, this is from Ben Q. How can I know God's promises are true for me?

Emphasis on for me, not one, but two asterisks. I appreciate that. I write like that sometimes.

How can I stop believing like a demon, but know the gospel is for me?

Well put, Ben, right?

Because I know, have no doubt you're referencing the book of James.

It says, you believe that God is one, good, but even demons believe that and shudder.

All right, so you're completely on it.

And I'm going to get to that, but let me set the framework real quick, Ben.

Okay, so reform theology and really just Christian tradition has always held that there are three primary components of faith, genuine, true, saving faith. All right? Number one is knowledge. Number two is

assent. And number three is trust.

Personal and implicit trust.

Now that third piece is what you're asking about then, right?

The personal aspect.

How can I believe that the gospel is not just a real objective historical fact, but that Jesus died for me. Right. So saving faith,

true faith, three primary components, knowledge, assent, and trust. Knowledge is, well,

that one hopefully we don't have to spend a lot of time on, but that's just, you know,

you have intellectual awareness that something in fact happened. The only reason I mention knowledge is because it almost seems like there would be two components, right? Knowledge and

trust. And so I think sometimes people get confused on that second piece, assent, which is

to agree. It's agreement. And the reason why assent and knowledge both need to be

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