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Assurance continued:

• Assurance of union with God and Christ — 1 Cor.6:   ¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.   2Cor.13:⁵ Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?    Eph. 5:³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.  Also look at 1 John 2:5; 4:13.
• Assurance of peace with God by Christ.  Romans 5:Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
•  Assurance of preservation.     Psalms 3:⁶ I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.⁷ Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.⁸ Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.   Ps.27:³ Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

  ⁴ One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

  ⁵ For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.   Ps.46: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

  ² Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

  ³ Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

• Assurance of answers of prayers.    1 John 3:²² And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.   1 John 5:¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:¹⁵ And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.      [ to be continued ]