Confessing the Faith

1689 18:4 Assurance of Salvation is Variable | Confessing the Faith "General negligence may vitiate assurance. Failure to use the means of grace may cause one’s assurance of salvation to decline. This is a warning to...

1689 18:3 Assurance of Salvation is Attainable | Confessing the Faith "There are three points in this paragraph: the difficulty of attaining assurance, the provision for attaining assurance and the duty of attaining...

"The Confession is asserting that there is an assurance of salvation which will not deceive us, about which we cannot be mistaken, which goes beyond mere probability. This should reassure the one who says, “I want to...

"The burden of the Confession in its first paragraph is to assert the reality that true believers may have assurance in this life." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"The historical background of this chapter grows out of controversy. God overrules controversy for the purpose of clarifying the truth for his church." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"Modern easy-believism has objected to the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints and taught in its place the doctrine which has become popularly known as “eternal security.” While the Confession does in a sense...

"Paragraph 3 speaks of the difficulties which attend perseverance in the Christian life and the reality that grievous sin may still be committed by authentic believers. Having spoken of the various causes of...

"The central assertion of this qualifying paragraph may be stated as follows: True Christians may and do fall into grievous sins and continue in them for a time." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"God’s covenant of grace does not fail to save those in covenant with Him. It actually and unfailingly saves all those in the covenant." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

Chapter 17, Paragraph 2, traces the certainty of perseverance to five solid grounds in God’s work of salvation. For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"Interestingly, this paragraph on the grounds or causes of the preservation of the saints begins by telling us what that cause is not. It is not our free will." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

Having stated and explained this wonderful doctrine in the opening sentence of its first paragraph, the same paragraph expands and explains the doctrine by speaking of: 1. The cause of perseverance 2. The obstacles to...

"Today we consider Chapter 17 of the Confession which takes up the great, biblical and Reformed doctrine Of the Perseverance of the Saints. That is also the title of the chapter. Because of the amalgamation of the...

A good work must meet or confirm to four criteria. It must have the right matter (it must be a thing which God commands); the right root (it must proceed from a heart purified by faith); the right manner (God’s work...

The good works of believers are accepted by God. They are not all rejected as filthy and unworthy. This is a great encouragement. But how can it be? For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org