Blessed Assurance

"For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power,

and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.”

(1 Thessalonians 1:5)

No one is taken to Heaven in ignorance. The Holy Ghost in His complete work makes it clear in every vessel of Mercy before he passes out of time into eternity that he has part and lot in redemption by Jesus’ death. God's people die in the LORD. They live in the LORD and that Good Spirit forms the LORD Jesus Christ in their souls, the only hope of glory and this is done as the Spirit ministers the Gospel to the sinner. 0 what a blessed thing is the Gospel! It contains God's mind and will and method in the great matter of Salvation and He in His Infinite Mercy brings poor, needy people right into the bonds of the Gospel. They are bound up in it, sheltered in it, made to partake of its fulness, have seasons when they rejoice in it. Now then, do you believe you know the Gospel after that manner? Has it ever reached you? Have you been embraced in it? Has it been meat and drink to your very soul? If it has, then you possess a solemn seal that the love of God has been shed abroad in your heart and one says, 'The mark of that celestial seal, can never be erased’.