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Assurance for Living and Dying - John Piper
God Called Us into Life and Hope
"This series of messages was born in Hebrews 6:11 which says, “We desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope to the end.” In simpler words that means: God wants every one of you to be persistent and passionate in your pursuit of full assurance. He doesn’t want you to live with fear about the future. He doesn’t want you to be uncertain that you have eternal life.
Living and Dying with Full Assurance of Hope
He wants every one of his children to live and die with the full assurance of hope — like my father-in-law did as he approached his death a little over a week ago. A few days before he died, Dr. Henry wrote a letter to my father and said, “Pam and I recognize the sovereignty of God and are pleased to be used in whatever manner he sees fit for his greatest glory.” This is the way the saints talk when they enjoy the full assurance of hope.
“We ought not focus on ourselves, but on the invincible purpose of God.”
That’s what God says you can have. The way we have been pursuing it in these weeks together is to focus our attention not on ourselves and our emotional ups and downs, but on the invincible purpose of God. I have stressed the paradox that if we can redirect our attention away from the subjective sensations of assurance onto the objective foundations of assurance, the sensations themselves will be deeper and stronger..." from the article: God Called Us into Life and Hope