2 Peter 1 — Pastor's Corner — Providence Presbyterian Church

The Morning Devotional: WCF 18.3 (Part Two)

The Morning Devotional for June 1, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 18.3 (Part Two)

III. This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker of it:a yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of ordinary means, attain thereunto.b And therefore it is the duty of everyone to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure;c that thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience,d the proper fruits of this assurance: so far is it from inclining men to looseness.e

The Morning Devotional: WCF 18.2

The Morning Devotional for May 30, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 18.2

II. This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope;a but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation,b the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made,c the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God:d which Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.e

The Morning Devotional: WCF 17.1

The Morning Devotional for May 23, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 17.1

I. They whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace; but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.a

The Morning Devotional: WCF 14.2

The Morning Devotional for May 2, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 14.2

II. By this faith a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority of God himself speaking therein;a and acteth differently upon that which each particular passage thereof containeth; yielding obedience to the commands,b trembling at the threatenings,c and embracing the promises of God for this life and that which is to come.d But the principal acts of saving faith are accepting, receiving, and resting upon Christ alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace.e

The Pastor’s Corner

The blog of Pastor William F. Hill, Jr.