The assurance of hope is what we want to think about this morning. This line of assurance builds off of the assurance of faith to confirm the reality of the believer’s faith in Christ, as being a genuine faith because of the evidences of Christ’s life having been implanted in them in regeneration, and the Spirit continuing to abide in them and work in them so that the believer may bring forth fruit unto God. It is the believer’s looking inside himself to attempt to perceive what the grace of God is doing in him by the power of the Holy Spirit, which proves to them, and to others looking at their life, the reality of having Christ in them, the hope of glory. It is seeing if there is the evidence of grace being manifested in good works. It is looking to see if these works are done from the good motivation of love to God and thankfulness for all that He has done in salvation. This assurance of hope has both the aspect of the believer’s looking to see if they have the fruit of the Spirit, and their looking to experience the witness of the Holy Spirit with their spirit that they are a child of God, and that they are doing the right things. It is because they have been given the Spirit as a downpayment of the inheritance which they shall receive when they die and go to be with the Lord, that they come forth with these evidences of life and grace in their works.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
