What kind of assurance does God provide for his people to know God will restore their lives to the fullness of life he desires?
God’s assurance of salvation…
I. Rests on his gracious life-giving provision through substitutionary atonement: what is on your policy? Are you in good hands? (Lev. 1-7)
a. Commitment: voluntary burnt offering – faithful (Lev. 1); grain offering – fruitful (Lev. 2).
b. Communion: peace offering (Lev. 3).
c. Cleansing: sin offering (Lev. 4-5:13); guilt offering (Lev. 5:14-6:7).
II. Requires our willingness to trust his promises and live accordingly: Faith – into your hands I commit my Spirit (Luke 23:46, Heb. 9:11-26).
a. Burnt offering: total surrender – faithful.
b. Grain offering: good works, fruit of gratitude.
c. Peace Offering: wholeness, the best, reconciliation.
d. Sin offering: purification sins of commission or omission. e. Guilt offering: restitution.
Human nature’s way of salvation is “do, do, do.”
But God’s way of salvation is “done, done; it is all done.”
You have but to rely by faith on the atonement
which Christ accomplished on the cross. – C. H. Spurgeon
1. Are you trying to earn your way into God’s presence by your own efforts? If that is the case, you will never make it. Stop trying to earn your way and trust Jesus to be the way.
2. What fuels your worship and living for God? God does not want you to live motivated by fear or uncertainty but in the assurance of faith and gratitude of the consummated work of God. Read Romans 8:28-38 to remind you where your security is and thank God for the gift of his Son.
