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Introduction
We sang a hymn earlier in the service this morning called Blessed Assurance.
It was written by a lady named Fanny Crosby in 1873.
Ms. Crosby had over 8000 over her poems set to music, many of which we still use today.
What you may not know is that at the age of 6 weeks old, she became sick with slight cold in her eyes.
Her doctor was away so another country doctor was called in to treat her.
He chose to put a hot mustard mixture under her eyes which destroyed her eyes completely.
At the age of 5, she was taken by her mother to consult the best eye specialist in the country.
Neighbors and friends pulled together money to send her.
The dreaded answer came from the doctor: “Poor child, I am afraid that you will never see again.”
However, it was the loss her sight that bothered young Fanny Crosby, but the thought that she would not be able to have an education like other boys and girls.
Her attitude was reflected in the first piece of poetry she is known to have written.
At the age of eight, she wrote:
At the age of eight, she wrote her first recorded poetry:
0 what a happy soul am I!
Although I cannot see,
I am resolved that in this world, contented I will be.
How many blessings I enjoy, that other people don't.
To weep and sigh because I'm blind, I cannot and I won't!
She was greatly influenced by her grandmother who gave her a passion for the word of God.
Fanny memorized the first 5 books of the Bible, the Book of Ruth, many of the Psalms, Proverbs, the Song of Solomon and much of the New Testament.
This became the foundation for many of the hymns for which she wrote.
Around the age of 15, her mother gave her the announcement that she would finally attend a new school, the Institution For the Blind in New York City.
To which she replied, “Oh Thank God, He has answered my prayer, just as I know He would!”
She spent 23 years of her life there, 12 as a student and 11 more at as teacher.
She had the privilege to recite her works before congress and knew every President during her lifetime.
Assurance of Fellowship
Even though she was devoted to God and His ways, she did not become a Christian until she was 31.
She attended a revival service at the old John Street Methodist Church in New York.
She stated, “After a prayer was offered, they began to sing the grand old consecration hymn, ‘Alas!
Did My Savior Bleed!’ and when they reached the third line of the fifth stanza, ‘Here Lord, I give myself away,’ my very soul was flooded with celestial light!”
Ms. Crosby was married at the age of 37, had one child that died in infancy.
As a result, she wrote Safe in the Arms of Jesus, a song that has comforted thousands of people who have had loved ones pass.
Fanny Crosby wrote poems used for hymns right up to her death at the age of 94, just short of her 95th birthday.
On her last night, she dictated a letter of comfort to a friend whose daughter had died.
She had that Blessed Assurance right up into the moment she entered her Savior’s arms.
The Apostle Paul, though he lived 2000 years before Fanny Crosby, had a few things in common with her.
Both experienced blindness and both understood how the light of Christ penetrates the darkest of darkness.
Both had an understanding of Blessed Assurance.
In , we can see how Paul lived this out and how we can use his example in our lives.
Blessed Assurance of Sweet Fellowship
Notice first the blessed assurance of sweet fellowship.
There is a beautiful experience in the Christian when believers can fellowship with other believers.
Paul just moved into another city.
The Bible tells us that he met Aquila and his wife Priscilla.
They had a couple of things in common as they were believers and also tent makers.
The custom of the day was for the rabbi to offer his services and legal work free of charge.
In order to do this, he had to have a trade in which he could earn a living.
For Paul, it was being a tent maker.
They had the ability to work together and also enjoy Christian fellowship with each other.
We see in other passages of scripture that one of the mainstays of the early church was fellowship.
Acts 2:42
Paul writes in
In the passage we see not only fellowship with Aquila and Priscilla, but also with Silas and Timothy.
We see it also with Titius Justus, Crispus and his entire household.
There is blessed assurance in sweet fellowship.
Being part of a church is way more than just coming to a worship service every now and then.
It is getting involved in the lives of other believers and spending time in fellowship with each other.
If you are not participating in some type of fellowship group I want to encourage you to do so.
We become our best when we can interact with other Christians and allow through our fellowship for iron to sharpen iron.
Paul also experienced the blessed assurance of Sonship.
Blessed Assurance of Sonship
Paul encountered the Living Christ.
He knew Him well enough to know that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
we see in verse 5 that “Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.”
That understanding no doubt revealed the Sonship of Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:19
Romans
Romans 1:
As long as I have the ability to speak, I will always declare the Jesus is the Son of God.
There is no degree nor any amount of education that will change my mind.
There is no circumstance nor situation that can prove to me otherwise.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He saved my soul in order that I can be made right with a Holy God.
Blessed Assurance Jesus is Mine!
God lives in the person that acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God and by doing so, I can overcome the world.
Paul recognized that understanding and declaring that Jesus is the Son of God, acknowledging the Sonship of Jesus, you will have blessed assurance!
Paul also recognized the blessed assurance of the Spirit.
Blessed Assurance of the Spirit
Paul recognized through the prompting of the Holy Spirit when he needed to move and where he needed to move.
We see in verse 1 that Paul was led to go to Corinth.
We see in verses 6 and 7 that Paul was lead to go away from teaching the Jews in the synagogue because they opposed him.
We see in verses 7 and 8 that Paul was led to go next door to fellowship with a worshiper of God named Titius Justus.
Is it a coincidence that this led to the encounter of Crispus, the synagogue ruler whose whole household and many of the Corinthians to believe and be baptized?
Absolutely not.
It was the direct result of the Holy Spirit.
Oh the blessed assurance we have with the Holy Spirit!
We are so fortunate to be able to guided and directed from the Holy Spirit’s promptings.
The Holy Spirit will never contradict the Word of the Lord.
The Holy Spirit gives us comfort.
When Jesus first spoke of the Holy Spirit, He called the Holy Spirit the Counselor and Comforter.
Did you catch what Jesus said?
The Holy Spirit is sent by the Father, teaches us and reminds us of the very words of Jesus!
Paul got to experience the blessed assurance of the Holy Spirit.
Guess what?
So can you and I! If you have said yes to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, you have been given the Holy Spirit.
You can be guided by its promptings and you can live your life in a way that is led by the Holy Spirit.
In verse 9 of our text today, we see in a vision that Paul was reminded to not be afraid, keep on speaking, and not be silent.
Then comes the promise of the Lord’s presence and safety.
The blessed assurance of sweet fellowship is mentioned when the Lord says, “because I have MANY people in this city.”
One of the things we see in this passage that we get from the Holy Spirit, is whether to stay or go.
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