Dear Pilgrim:

And I am in full agreement with what you wrote also <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />. Part of which was:

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I would say that the churches today are full of people with assurance. However, once again, this assurance is not that which flows from a regenerate heart by from a fatal deception of the Evil One. The assurance that has permeated so many churches today is one which comes from without; i.e., because some pastor, evangelist, some so-called "soul-winner" has said so, or from what some tract.

Amen to that brother. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/BigThumbUp.gif" alt="" /> The phenomena you describe is, I believe, what is called false assurance, the only true antidote to which is true assurance. May we be blessed to know it and to proclaim it, to His Glory, both now and forever.

In Him,

Gerry