2LCF Chapter 18 - Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation

Cameron Porter

What does it mean to be assured of salvation, and is such assurance available to ordinary believers or only to a spiritual elite? Working through 2LCF Chapter 18, this lesson distinguishes true Christian assurance — an infallible certainty grounded in the blood and righteousness of Christ and the testimony of the Holy Spirit — from the carnal presumption of the unregenerate who rest on false hopes. The four paragraphs of the chapter are treated in turn: the doctrine stated, its pillars declared, the means by which it is attained, and the trials that may shake but never ultimately destroy it. Believers are urged to seek assurance through the ordinary means of grace, resting not on inward experience or extraordinary revelation but on the unchanging gospel of Christ crucified and risen.