DAILY TRUTH - Blessed Assurance & The āFeelingsā Of Forgiveness
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When we confess our sins, we immediately are coming back into fellowship in the subjective sense of feeling reconciled with the Lord, and receive a fresh assurance of God's forgiveness. But there is a difference between being forgiven and having a confident, knowing assurance of that forgiveness.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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The reason why in our liturgy we have a portion that is called not just the forgiveness of sins,
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We say every Lord's Day, and now for an assurance of Christ's pardon.
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The reason why we say assurance is what we're saying is that if you are in Christ,
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And therefore, he will never have God ever again as his enemy or judge.
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But rather, God is, from now on, his adoptive father.
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Even for the Christian, who has God as his adoptive father,
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that Christian can still be, as the Puritans wrote,
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in a state of being under God's fatherly displeasure.
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Your hand of discipline was heavy upon me.
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by choosing to procrastinate in confession of sin, by choosing to hide sin like Achan.
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The Christian who, in the objective category, has already been forgiven past sins, present sins,
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future sins, in the objective sense has God as His heavenly Father. And there's nothing that He
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could ever do to lose that, not depths, not heights, not angels, nor demons. Nothing can
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separate him from the love of God. And yet, in the subjective sense, God's hand of discipline
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heavy upon him, my bones began to groan within me because I was in a state of hiding sin.
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Even though objectively I have been forgiven, subjectively I don't feel forgiven.
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And that is painful to be in a state, as a Christian, under God's fatherly, albeit, but fatherly displeasure.
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When we confess our sins, we immediately are coming back into fellowship in the subjective sense of feeling reconciled with the Lord.
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feeling and receiving a fresh assurance of God's forgiveness. The forgiveness that was
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already there, but now an assurance, a knowing, a confidence of that forgiveness.
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A closeness restored in our relationship with our heavenly Father. That happens in confession.
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And when we procrastinate in confessing sin, his hand of discipline will be heavy upon us.
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Although we objectively are forgiven, we will feel oftentimes as though we are not.
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We will begin in these states of unconfessed sins often to doubt the assurance of our salvation.
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Even as someone who's reformed in your theology, knowing that you can never lose your salvation,