ASSURANCE
If thou canst believe, thou art saved. I cannot help quoting my brother Hill’s
expression the other day: “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life” (John vi. 47)
You know how he put it: “H A T H spells got it.” So it does; it is a curious but a
perfectly correct way of spelling it. If you take Christ to yourself, He will never be
taken from you. Breathe the air, and the air is yours; receive Christ, and Christ
is yours, and you have attained to righteousness. BA108
I think it very convenient to come every day to Christ as a sinner—as I came at first.
“You are no saint,” says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, there I go—other hope I have
none. 510.287
If any man be not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until
he is so. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you
have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too
important to be left undecided. 1408.206
Nobody ever sings over uncertain blessings. I say again, nobody ever sings over an
uncertain pardon; a doubt as to our forgiveness is fatal to all joy, for it lets in the
dread fear of divine wrath. 1492.499
We count it no presumption to say that we are saved, for the word of God has told us
so in those places where salvation is promised to faith in Christ Jesus. The
presumption would lie in doubting the word of God; but in simply believing what he
says there is far greater humility than in questioning it. 1592.196
They are written—where? In the earth? No; the wicked are written in the earth, but
the names of the Lord’s people are written in heaven. In the divine decree that never
changes, in the divine heart that never alters, in the divine memory that never fails,
in the divine thought that never forgets, all the names of the godly are written. 1689.634
Full assurance is not essential to salvation, but it is essential to satisfaction. May you
get it—may you get it at once; at any rate, may you never be satisfied to live without
it. 2023.266
Thou must be in heaven, or else he will be bereaved. Thou must be in heaven, or else
he will be imperfect. Thou art a member of his body; and if he should lose one of his
members, then his body would not be perfect, nor the Head either. 2488.510
Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God. 3371.439
We prize full assurance beyond all price. We count it to be a gem beyond all earthly
values; but we think it is a distressing doctrine to some of the weak ones of the flock
to say that full assurance is necessary to salvation. We believe it to be necessary to
deep joy, necessary to edification, necessary to usefulness; but necessary to salvation
we do not believe it to be. 3384.590