Better assurance
How do we know God’s heart toward us? How do we know His posture toward us? How do we know we are His elect, holy and beloved? We know these things only by hearing and resting on His covenant promises in Christ. To look within to what has happened in our own hearts or experience yields no better assurance than looking to a minister of the gospel (1 Cor 4:1) – in both cases the source of true knowledge and assurance, the Word of God Himself, has been confounded with an instrument or organ by which that Word is received. Assurance cannot be grounded in the intellect, heart, conscience, or experience; it can be grounded only in Christ as He is revealed in the Word of the covenant.
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