Assurance of Salvation (2)

Greetings Brethren,

Last Lord's Day we began to address the very important subject of our personal assurance of salvation. If we were to reflect on the issues of greatest importance to each of us, grading them from the most important to the least, surely knowledge of the eternal state of our soul would top the list. In order to stress the importance of the soul's salvation, our Lord posed the question, "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" (Mark 8:36). No more important matter could be before us than to secure our personal knowledge that we are the objects of God's saving grace in salvation. Today we continue to address our assurance of salvation by showing that sound assurance is obtained and attained in part by how we live as Christians.