Pastor Bordwine

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 18 Of Assurance of Grace and Salvation (Part 1) I. Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor of God, and estate of salvation (which hope of theirs shall perish): yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love Him in sincerity, endeavouring to walk in all good conscience before Him, may, in this life, be certainly ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 17 Of the Perseverance of the Saints (Part  3) III. Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins; and, for a time, continue therein: whereby they incur God's displeasure, and grieve His Holy Spirit, come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts, have their ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 17 Of the Perseverance of the Saints (Part  2) II. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ, the abiding of the Spirit, and of the seed of God within them, and the nature of the covenant ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 17 Of the Perseverance of the Saints (Part  1) This chapter on the perseverance of the saints falls between chapters dealing with the order of salvation and chapters concerned with living the Christian life. In summary, we can say that this chapter teaches that the elect, due to the immutability of God's decree, will persevere, or be preserved in a state of grace, to the end of their lives and be eternally ...

Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 16 Of Good Works (Part  2) V. We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin, or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come; and the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom, by them, we can neither profit, nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins, but when we have done all ...