Questions and Truths on Assurance of Faith
A Quiz About Assurance
Here’s a quick quiz all about assurance of faith! Which are true, and which are false?
1. If you are assured of your salvation, you are definitely saved.
2. To be assured of your salvation is arrogant and offensive to God.
3. God doesn’t really care if you’re assured or not.
4. Once you become a Christian, you will never struggle to believe.
5. If you are only 99% sure of your own salvation, you are 100% certainly going to hell.
6. Doubting your own salvation is always a temptation from the devil.
7. You do not truly believe if you still struggle with doubts.
8. The surest cure to doubt is self-examination.
9. You can reach assurance of faith by sheer will power alone.
10. Egregious sin should never cause you to doubt your salvation.
11. Assurance of salvation doesn’t really matter in the Christian life.
12. Assurance is something only younger or weaker believers struggle with.
13. People in the Bible never struggled with their assurance of salvation.
14. Only mature and godly Christians deserve to be assured of their faith.
15. Assurance is only given by God miraculously and cannot be grown by everyday means.
The answer to all of these is false! If you got any wrong, you might want to read my series on assurance here! In those posts, you’ll learn these wonderful truths:
Truths About Assurance
True assurance is built upon both true knowledge and true experience.
True assurance is rooted primarily in the objective—God’s character, promises, and works—rather than in the subjective—your obedience, holiness, or zeal. Yet both are necessary.
As the perfect Heavenly Father, God desires all of His children to be confident (assured!) of His love.
God is a Savior by nature and swears to save every sinner who comes to Him.
God secures your salvation; your assurance does not secure your salvation.
True Christians have true faith and yet sometimes lack assurance. (E.g., John the Baptist in Luke 7:18-23.)
For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Self-examination is necessary, but Christ alone is primary.
Like anything that grows, growing in assurance takes time. The means of that growth are the ordinary means of grace: Scripture, prayer, holiness, love, church life.
Assurance belongs to the health of saving faith not to the essence of saving faith.
Those who have never doubted their faith probably are not believers; but those who doubt their faith may truly be believers. repeat