6-14-2026 Looking for assurance

Q: What does the Bible say about assurance of salvation?

The Bible teaches that true assurance of salvation comes from trusting in Christ's completed work, not from our own actions. The Bible emphasizes that true assurance of being a child of God is found in the Word of God and not in our feelings or actions. For instance, in Acts 2, the crowd asked, 'What must we do to be saved?' highlighting a natural human tendency to seek assurance in personal actions. However, the assurance isn't in what we do—such as praying a prayer or being baptized—but in the promises that God makes about salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. He must go to the cross, suffer, and die, and it is on that foundation that believers can have confidence in their standing before God.

Q: How do we know we are children of God?

We know we are children of God by looking to Christ and His promises rather than our own deeds. Knowing we are children of God is tied to our understanding of God's attributes and His promises. The assurance stems from the fact that Jesus Christ must fulfill the will of God, which includes saving His people. In John 10:16, Christ assures us that He has other sheep, confirming His active role in our salvation. Additionally, Romans 9 reminds us of God's sovereignty and the purpose of election, which assures believers that they are indeed God's children chosen for salvation before the foundation of the world. This makes our identity secure, not based on our performance but on Christ's unchanging love and His completed work.

Q: Why is it important for Christians to understand the concept of 'must' in Scripture?

The concept of 'must' highlights God's sovereignty and the certainty of His promises. Understanding the concept of 'must' in Scripture is vital for Christians because it reveals God's sovereignty and the unbreakable nature of His promises. The word 'must' is used to show that certain events and actions are ordained by God and will inevitably come to pass, such as Jesus’ requirement to suffer and die for sin. This assurance reinforces our faith that nothing can thwart God's plan for salvation, and it instills hope in believers. When Christ says He must fulfill the Scriptures, it establishes a certainty that His promises regarding salvation and His people will come to fruition.

Our scripture reading for this morning is Psalms 119, verses 97 through 104, the 13th Hebrew letter of Mem. I'm not sure if I pronounced it correctly, but we'll find out more about that next week. 97, O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Is that thou or that?

Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way.

May the Holy Spirit grant us understanding of his words. Thank you, Brother. your Bibles to the 16th chapter of Matthew. By the nature of this flesh, We seek an assurance that I'm one of God's. It just comes to us naturally. Am I a child of God? Could God love someone who has rebelled against him all my life? Someone who gets out of bed every morning and knows that everything I think, do, is sinful, is tainted by the sin of this flesh. How could God love someone like this man who stands before you?

That's a natural question for us to ask. Isn't that what happened in Acts chapter 2? The crowd cried out, what must we do to be saved? There's got to be something. I've got to change my life. I've got to quit smoking. I've got to quit drinking. I've got to quit doing this, quit doing that. I need to start doing this, doing that. different things in religion that people use for what they think is their assurance of salvation.

Some are assured in their own hearts, their stony hearts, that they're one of God's children because they came down to the front of the church and prayed a prayer. I have family members who are assured that their homosexual children are saved because they were baptized as teenagers. Their assurance is nothing from the word of God. It's in what they did. It's in what their children did.

It's our nature to be looking for something in this flesh to give us some kind of assurance. Maybe you folks aren't one of those who struggle with that. I know many, many, many do. Some want to look to what they think is this new man that the Scripture tells us about. And they think that the works that we do in this flesh that are caused by the Holy Spirit, and those works are important.

I do not belittle them. They are part of God's instructions to us. But that's not the gospel. You say, well, John, what is the gospel then to God's instructions? Every single bit of it is fulfilled in our Savior, the Lord Jesus. What is the gospel in not being able to I get up and fail at things all day long, and it gets even worse as I get older. As I grow in age, I fail more and more, and God lets us know we fail. Through our weakness, His strength is made perfect. The Word of God has some things in it that gives us some really good assurance. Henry Mahan once presented this question. He says, does heaven, does God have boundaries? And as Henry Mahan normally does, and he does it so well, he goes about explaining using scripture to give us the answer. Does God have boundaries?

Absolutely. What? What did you just say, John? Hear me. Hear me for just a moment. Does God have boundaries? Absolutely. He is bound by himself. He can't go against what he says. As Brother White brought out so elegantly in, I know I didn't say that word right, but you know what I mean. As he brought out so well in the Bible study, Jesus Christ is the word of God, folks. God is bound by his own word. If he could go outside of his word, then he wouldn't be God, would he? So is there boundaries to God?

Absolutely. He's bound by himself. He's bound by his holiness. If he could go anywhere outside of his holiness, he wouldn't be holy. Can you get any more perfect than perfection? He is bound by his truth. I have family members who say that God saved Catholic religion, or this other religion, the Seventh-day Adventist religion, or any of those who deny the power of God. Well, if he was to save under somebody who denies his power, then he wouldn't be speaking truth, would he? He's bound by his truth. But he's also bound by his oaths, his promises. the things he says in his words about his people. He's bound by his word.

The word boundary means it's something that one cannot cross. Remember that big gulf that the Lord spoke of between Lazarus who was in hell, not the Lazarus he raised from the dead, the other one. And he said, go and tell my brothers And the Lord said, people have been telling people all the time about who the Lord Jesus is, and they wouldn't believe anyway. There was a huge gulf. He couldn't cross that boundary. You cannot cross the boundary between hell and heaven. This boundary is something you cannot cross, you cannot go to the other side of, and God is bound by who He is. and points us to the boundaries of God in his own word.

But this morning, I want to look at just one word. I opened by talking about assurances. Where else are we going to get true assurance of, are we children of God, but in God's word? And I want to look at the word must this morning. When the Lord God Almighty, as Brother Mike brought out, Jesus Christ says must, is there any chance? Is there any possibility that it might not happen?

In searching this word, I found a couple of interesting points I want to share with you quite quickly. The first one is this. The word must is used in Scripture 132 times. And when I find it most interesting about that is that all the times this word is used in the Old Testament, if you look that word up on the e-sword, which is what I use for my concordance, if you look it up, King James Concordance, you find that it's only used, the word must, when speaking about man. You must do this. You must do that in order to be saved. You must do this in order to be saved. Every single time in the Old Testament, it's talking about the actions of men. Every one of the 49 references that I looked at referred to the actions of men.

It's not until you get to the Gospel of Matthew Mark, Luke, and John, where you see the word must referring to God himself. 52 times in the New Testament, we see this word in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and in the book of Acts. Then we see it again 21 times in the letters of Paul, and then twice in the letters of Peter, and eight times in the book of Revelation. It's not until we get to the book of Matthew that we see the word used to speak of God, the Son, Jesus Christ, the Lord. Look with me at one verse, if you would, in Matthew chapter 16 at verse 21. From that time forth began Jesus. how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

That's the first mention of the word must when it's used with God. Now, there's all kinds of promises. And like I said, we could spend the rest of this year looking at all the promises in the Old Testament that God speaks of. And we know that those things must come to pass as well, don't we? But I want to consider this one word as our surety that we are children of God, that we belong to Christ, that he came to save a people is what the scripture declares. He came to save sinners, of whom I am chief. And every one of God's people in your own hearts, raise your hand and say, yep, of whom I am chief. In Mark, it reads this way.

Speaking of Christ and Him crucified, it says, and He began to teach them, speaking of His disciples, that the Son of Man He must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and the chief priests and scribes and be killed and after three days rise again. Now, the fact that he must be rejected, every child of God knows what that's talking about because we've all, we can all look back to that day before the Lord called us out of darkness by the preaching of his word and say, yeah, I rejected God.

I rejected Him with all my fiber, all my being. And then He convicted me of what I am. And in the process of convicting me, He showed me a Savior. One that I could hope in. One that I could place all of my assurance, all of my salvation, all of my good works One who I could stand upon, who would be the rock, the foundation of my salvation. Not anything that John could do. Not anything that John could think. But according to His Word.

You see, there's a must in there that fits each and every one of us. He must go to Jerusalem. Why? Because He's loved a people for Himself. And that people can't do anything God won't lose anyone for whom He loves. Not one for whom Christ shed His blood will see one day in hell, because they've already seen it in their Savior, the Lord Jesus, who went there for us.

This is the cornerstone the true gospel is built on. the Lord's purpose in becoming a man. What a word to measure our assurance upon. Listen to Hebrews 10 verse 5, Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me. That's Christ Jesus crying out through the prophet, I'm the one the book is written of. I'm the one who had a body prepared for me. lay it down for my children. Turn over to Ephesians chapter 2. All the musts that were listed in the Old Testament are as sure as the musts in the New, but man could not, man would not, fulfill the musts of the Old Testament Scripture. We would not. Folks, we were deep in sin and we loved it.

I know. I can look back and say absolutely I was. I was blind to the truth of Christ. I was blind to the truth of my sin. Our very nature is one of enmity, as our brother Mike brought out so well. I was just amazed at how many points you were hitting on for me on your Bible study. It's exactly the opposite of one thing to another. It's complete chaos to the other side, to what is not enmity, to love.

Our very nature is one of enmity with the things of God. Even our most honorable deeds in our natural state are an abomination to the Holy God. That's what Paul is talking about when he declares, O wretched man, I am. In Romans chapter 7, just before that, he says, even the good that I do, I see evil.

Why? Because it's nothing but sin from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet. Does that mean you're not a good person in our own natural way? Yeah, we've done some good things, haven't we? The Lord tells us, don't let the right hand know what the left hand is doing. Or maybe it's the other way around. Either way. Folks, we're so weak that if we start looking at any little drop of what we do in this flesh, our pride will raise up its ugly, ugly head. How many times have we spoken about that from this pulpit? Over and over and over and over again.

Oh, you know what the new man in us is? It's the man who looks to Christ. It's the very one that our brother brought out in his Bible study that stops looking, repents from the things that we do in this flesh, and looks to Christ. That's the new man. That's the good works. Here in Ephesians chapter 2, we read these words beginning at verse 1. And you hath he quickened.

That means gave life, made alive. We who were once dead and trespassers in sin. That's what it says next. Who were dead and trespassers in sin. This is talking to John Reeves. This is talking to those who God gives life to. As another point that he brought up in the Bible study. Another point. Folks, you're missing out on the Bible studies. You've got to count. who were dead in trespasses and sin, hath he quickened.

Wherein times past, verse 2, ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation. We all had our walk. Every single one of us. You can look back and see how we worshiped self above what we thought was God. How we turned to self for our assurance. We looked to the inside of this flesh. What are we doing in the flesh? You know how many people go to church every Saturday or Sunday and think, I'm saved just because I go to church. We walked in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

There's only one man who could fulfill all the musts of the Old Testament. Everyone else failed. Everyone throughout all the way down to Adam who failed the must God said, you must not eat of the fruit. You must not eat of the fruit in the middle of the garden. And Adam did anyway. Why? Because he couldn't. He couldn't keep from doing it. He had to do it. Only one who walked on this earth just a little over 2,000 years ago fulfilled all the musts of God.

And that is the Son of God, the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, the Lord. When the soldiers came to take Jesus, Peter had cut off the ear of one of the soldiers, and the Lord of Glory said this in Matthew 26, verse 52-54, Put up again thy sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" Folks, everything is at the beck and call of Christ. God, according to John chapter 17, has given Him all power, even all power over flesh, that He might give life to as many as God the Father has given Him. Because it's a must.

The whole covenant of God, the whole eternal covenant of God, is that God the Father shall have a people, and God the Son shall save those people, and God the Holy Spirit shall give them life and call them unto his people. Then, but how then, shall the Scriptures be That's what he was saying to Peter, put your sword away. Those who want to come to salvation through their deeds, through their fighting, through their efforts, through their own arm, they're going to die by the sword.

Christ was there for a reason. A body had been prepared for the Son of God, the eternal Son of God, to die in. to give of Himself, to shed His own perfect blood for His people. That was a must. It had to be done. There are those who say the way we talk, we talk like Christ didn't have to come to the cross and shed His blood. No, He had to. It was a must thing. This is our assurance, folks. I'm not asking you to look at anything within yourself for assurance. I'm telling you to look to Christ. That's our assurance.

You know, in John chapter 10, I think it is, he's speaking to some unbelieving Jews. And he says, you don't believe because you're not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. Do you hear the voice of Christ? Only God's people can hear His voice. Only His sheep. Why? Because He must come to save sinners. Mark 14, verse 49, I was daily with you in the temple teaching, he said, and you took me not. But the scriptures must be fulfilled. He came to do his Father's will, and that's exactly what he did.

There were no maybes about it. There were no maybe possibly. No. In John 6, 39, and this is the Father's will, which hath sent me, that of all which he hath I should lose nothing. That's a must. Folks, if it's not a must, then He's not God. If there was one chance that one of God's people, one for whom He shed His blood, could go to hell, then He wouldn't be God and we'd be wasting our time.

I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again the last day. without spot. Our Lord and Savior said, it is finished, and that's exactly what He meant. Every jot was fulfilled, every tittle was fulfilled, nothing was left undone. That's what the whole Sabbath day is about. Jesus Christ, our Sabbath day is we rest in Him. I don't want to work. I don't want to try to work. I want to rest in what my Savior has done."

The work of saving all for whom the Father had given Him was accomplished when the Son of Man suffered many things and was rejected of the elders and the chief priests and scribes and was killed and after three days rose again. Death could not hold the One who created all that is. He must be raised again that sin would be put away. Because of a covenant between the great three, God the Son and the Son of Man, He must suffer and die and rise again.

Now, I know there's many places that speak of things God has committed to throughout the Scriptures, but as far as this world is concerned, I mean, as far as His Word is concerned, a plain, simple statement How interesting it is to go through God's Word and see what He declares must come to pass. When He uses the word must, can there be any question of it? I think not. For these are the sureties that His people stand on. Listen to this, one of my favorite musts. Let me share this one with you.

John chapter 4, verses 3 through 7. He left Judea, speaking of our Savior Christ Jesus. and he departed again into Galilee. So he's going from Judea to Galilee here, but there's a space between the two. Catch this. And he must needs. This is the Word of God. He's telling us through these words on his way from here to here, point A to point B, there's something that he has to do in between. I must needs.

Go through Samaria. You know the story. Then cometh he to the city of Samaria, which is called Sychar. I don't know if I pronounced that correctly. Near the parcel of the ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph, now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being worried by his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. these verses right there.

I can hear him saying this, I must needs go through rescue. Why? Why would God must need go through rescue? The same reason he must go through Samaria. There's one for whom he died that There's one for whom He will supply all that they need for salvation right on through to that day-marked desk as they're escorted into heaven. A certain man and his wife will come through there, and their mind is what he's saying.

I took their sins into my grave, never to be seen again. They are as holy as I am, for I who knew no sin was made sin, that they would be made the righteousness of God in me. I must go to rescue. I have sent a man, a preacher, of my power I will give life to those too that my Father hath given me." Those words that our Lord says, I shall lose none, mean something to God's people.

We can have assurance that there is meaning to God's word about going through forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem. Pastor Fortner wrote this, he said, Our Lord told his disciples that he must go up to Jerusalem, suffer and die, and rise again the third day.

Why? Why must he go up there? It was because God the Father ordained it. Read the first part of John chapter 17 and see how many places it tells you He was sent. God the Father sent His Son. He came here with a purpose. He must go through Samaria. He must go through Jerusalem. He must go through every single place where anyone for whom the Father gave Him resides throughout time.

Let's see, how does the Lord put it? every tribe, every nation, every tongue. And in some places, he calls it the world. For God so loved the world. God's justice demanded it. And the appointed time for it had come. Folks, our Savior was clear when he told his parents. He said, I must He became flesh for this very reason, to suffer and to die for His chosen.

Listen to Luke 22, verse 7. Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed. This message is the very message that our Savior uses to bring His chosen into life. Listen to Luke 4, verse 43. And He said unto them, I must preach. the kingdom of God to other cities also. For therefore am I sent." Romans 10, verses 12-15, 15 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. 16 For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 17 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? But who can believe, John? If we go off of what you've been saying so far, who can believe if everyone comes into this world dead spiritually? How can you hear the gospel preached if you're deaf to the truths of God?

Here we go. Listen to this. John chapter 3 verse 5 to 8. Jesus answered. He said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Oh, how can we hear if we're dead spiritually? You must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but cannotst tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit. It's through the preaching of God's Word, as we just read in Romans, that this is brought to effect, that we are born again. through the preaching of God's Word, through the preaching of Christ and Him crucified.

That's the message. You see, I have to tell you about who it is that saves us, Mike. I have to tell you about what He's done. He's done it perfectly. The perfect righteous blood of God was shed in our stead. That's what God the Father is looking for, for the accomplishment of His justice. It's done. We're justified in Christ. That means just as if we've never sinned. I know it's hard to wrap our minds around it. Folks, don't be offended, but our minds are puny. We don't think the way God does. We think the way the world does. We might be wise in this world, but that's nothing. That's nothing to God.

Oh, only God can speak to the hearts of men. Election is a point of the gospel that cannot be put aside or smoothed over or sugar watered. Only God can speak to the hearts of men and He only speaks to His people. My sheep hear my voice. A people that He has loved with an everlasting love as we read in Ephesians chapter 1. a love He has had before the foundation of the world.

This is a truth that must be told. God is Spirit, and they that worship Him must. Well, if I can't do any must, I'm going to fail here. Not in Christ, I'm not. You see how we look to Him for everything? We must worship Him in spirit and in truth. People want to talk about the love of God as though he loves everyone. They reject the truth of God's hatred towards sin. Listen to Malachi 1, verses 2 through 3.

I have loved you, saith the Lord, yet ye say wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? Saith the Lord, yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. The love of God was for Jacob. It was not because of anything that was found in Jacob, but founded in his son, the Lord Jesus. Jacob had to be born again as well. Did you know that? Every child of God, all the way to Adam, had to be born again. They had to put away the flesh and worship God in spirit and in truth. Romans 9-11 says this, for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works, but of him that calleth.

Who is a man? Who is man to question what is right? Who is man to ask what doest thou to the Creator? Hath not the potter power over the clay, the same lump, to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured the longsuffering with much longsuffering? of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had aforeprepared unto glory even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles."

The teaching of universal love for all mankind takes away the meaning of this word, must. If God loved everybody, first, the scripture we just read in Malachi would be a lie. Secondly, the must we have been reading about would mean God is a failure. But that's just it. The God of all things does not fail. When the Lord says in John 6, 37-40, all its father giving shall come to me, guess what? They must come to Him. Folks, this is our surety. Christ came to save sinners. In Matthew 1, 21, and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt from their sins. There is no turning with Him. He is either God or He is not anything at all. He's nothing more than a figment of man's imagination. As God, though, He must be sovereign. And when He says must, it must be.

Aren't you thankful for that? Doesn't that grab ahold of you just thinking to yourself, God must save His people? That helps me. That helps me when I get up in the morning and see the mirror and see this flesh that gets out of bed every day. That helps me when I'm driving down the freeway and I think to myself, this guy just cut me off. I know, it's part of the truck driver.

Listen to these words, John 10 verse 16, and I'll try not to go much longer than this. And other sheep I have. which are not of this folk. How many of you have family that don't believe? I'm seeing hands and heads shaking up and down, all of us. We all do, don't we? I was thinking about this.

I have every right right now, this very moment, to be full of anger and hatred. When it comes to the things of this world, I was lied to. And it cost me a lot of money. It hurts so badly that I actually had to go lay down yesterday because my heart began to pump real fast. And you know I've got a little bit of a heart problem.

I have to keep an eye on it. And sometimes when I get excited, it can really start working up. I mean, you can feel it. I can feel it inside of me, just pumping real hard. It's called AFib. I take a medication for it, and you know it's been working real well.

But there's occasionally when things happen, like what's happened to me recently, and I have every right of this world to be very, very angry, to reach out and do things. to be hurtful to someone because of what they've done to me. But I think to myself, and this is God's word. This is not John Reed's. In the past, I would have jumped all over the occasion to do something about it.

But this is God's working in me to say, no, what if he is a child of God? What if he is one for whom God must? Who am I to make that distinction? You ever been so mad at somebody that they've done you, they've wronged you so badly, and you've stopped yourself? Or let me state this better. God has stopped you and given you a piece of his word to think about.

Scripture tells us other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Who do we know? How do we know who is God's sheep? We don't. We can't read the hearts of men. Is it not the hope that we have for our loved ones that maybe they are one of God's sheep?

Well, listen to this. Them also I must claim. That grabs a hold of my heart and just, am I a child of God? If I am, it's because He must come to rescue so that one of His children could hear the gospel. Because of the musts of Scripture, we can trust all therein. We can stand on the truths of God with surety. Without the musts of Christ the Lord, we could not stand in the presence of a thrice-holy God. I don't have time for that this morning. It was 34 verses over in John chapter 9. Turn over here real quick. We'll do a brief look at it. And then I'll wrap this up. John chapter 9, if you would. The Pool of Siloam. You remember there was a blind man there.

And they had asked down in verse 2, and his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered and said, neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents. Now, we know that that's speaking of something different, because every man has come into this world a sinner. Nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

While it is day, the night cometh when no man can work. As long as I am the world, I am the light of the world." Now, think of this, folks. Is this not the way of the religious world? Look over at verse 34. Look at verse 34. Speaking to that man when they come to him and said, who did this to thee? And he said, I don't know. He says, I knew this. born in sins, and dost thou teach us?" And they cast him out. Isn't that what the world of religion does with those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and rest in Him alone?

They want to come in and change the way. If you'll just start looking and doing this. That's what they did in Corinth. They snuck in. Or was it Galatia? One of those two. that came in unaware, as it's spoken of in the book of Jude, and brought in lasciviousness, which is turning people from Christ, and turning to look at yourself. They sneak in pretty quick about that, pretty quiet like. Remember when we first, remember when Pastor Gene first retired, and two men from the church down the street came here? You guys remember that? Some of you may, some of you, I don't know. I don't know if you two might have not been here by then. Two men from the church came from down the street and wanted to teach and preach here. Oh, they got a new pastor. Let's go see if we can talk them into letting us help them. We just want to help you.

This is what it means. When we see His mercy and grace towards us, sinners condemned, unclean, we raise our voice in praise and adoration for His love towards us. And then we do this. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. As He lifts Himself up in our hearts through the preaching of His Word, We come to experience these words.

He must increase, but I must decrease. That's in John 3, verse 30. One thing I know, just as that man at the pool of Siloam said this, he said, one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see. To God be the glory. Great things he hath done. Would you stand with me, please? What a better... You folks know this. You know this. Kathy picks out the hymns. Sometimes I pay attention to what she's picked out, sometimes I don't. Look at what she's picked out for us today. Blessed assurance. Are you seeking assurance? Quit looking in the flesh. Look in the Spirit to our Savior, the Lord Jesus.

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What does the Bible say about assurance of salvation?

How do we know we are children of God?

Why is it important for Christians to understand the concept of 'must' in Scripture?

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What does the Bible say about assurance of salvation?

How do we know we are children of God?

Why is it important for Christians to understand the concept of 'must' in Scripture?

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