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Knowing Where We Stand: The Message of John’s Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Assurance is not essential to salvation, but it is essential to the joy of salvation,” as Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said. John, who was by this time probably the last surviving apostle, wrote his first epistle to those who believed in the name of the Son of God in order that they might know that they possessed eternal life. In these days of spiritual and moral decline we stand in particular need...

when the believer falls into sin? He loses his firm conviction that he belongs to God. After David committed adultery with Bathsheba and virtually murdered her husband Uriah, he was forgiven when he confessed his sin to Nathan the prophet (2 Sam. 12:13), but he did not have much peace for a time. Hence he prayed, Do not cast me away from your presence, And do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation (Ps. 51:11–12). Assurance is not something we receive simply by
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