Three Assurances of the Believer

Do You Have Assurance of Salvation Verse 13

Truly believe

Believe has connotation of the Believing or you who are believing

A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. πιστεύω

to entrust oneself to an entity in complete confidence, believe (in), trust, w. implication of total commitment to the one who is trusted. In our lit. God and Christ are objects of this type of faith that relies on their power and nearness to help, in addition to being convinced that their revelations or disclosures are true.

1 John 2:19 NASB95

They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

James 2:19 NASB95

You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.

Do You Have Assurance in Prayer Verse 14-15

Conditional phrase: According to His will

John 15:7 NASB95

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

James 4:2–3 NASB95

You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Do You Have Assurance in Intercession Verse 16-17

Sin Not Leading to Death

James 5:14–15 NASB95

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

Matthew 9:5–6 NASB95

“Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk’? “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your bed and go home.”

In Church Discipline

1 Corinthians 5:5 NASB95

I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Sin Leading to Death

Physical Death

Acts 5:5 NASB95

And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.

Acts 5:10 NASB95

And immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

1 Corinthians 11:30 ESV

That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Spiritual Death or Second Death

Matthew 12:31–32 NASB95

“Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. “Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Mark 3:28–30 NASB95

“Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”

The difference between blaspheming the Son of Man and blaspheming the Spirit is that blasphemy of the Son of Man is an instant rejection, while blasphemy of the Spirit is a permanent decision of rejection.

Darrell L. Bock

Revelation 2:11 NASB95

‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.’

Revelation 20:6 NASB95

Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power...

Revelation 20:14 NASB95

Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8 NASB95

“But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

If the second birth hath no place in you, the second death shall have power over you.

William Dyer