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The Holy Spirit bears witness with believers that they are God's children, showing that true assurance comes through His work in applying Christ, Scripture, and the evidences of grace. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Genuine believers can confidently affirm their salvation by examining the inward evidence of the Spirit at work in them. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Christian assurance is not a guess, a mood, or confidence in our own spiritual performance, but faith resting on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the gospel. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

The 1689 Baptist Confession rejects both false presumption and despair, teaching that sincere believers may gain real assurance through true faith in Christ, sincere love for him, and a conscientious pursuit of obedience. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

While true believers may possess genuine assurance of salvation, Scripture repeatedly warns that many religious people deceive themselves with false assurance, making careful self-examination and faith in Christ alone essential. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Believers may know they belong to Christ through the promises of the gospel, the witness of the Spirit, and the evidences of grace, while avoiding both false assurance and needless despair. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Bible translation is a providential necessity for the church’s mission, rooted in Scripture itself, shaped by costly history, and sustained by God through imperfect yet faithful human labor. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

The most significant textual variants in the New Testament reveal both the complexity of the Bible’s transmission and the remarkable preservation of Christian doctrine throughout the manuscript tradition. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

The New Testament has been preserved through thousands of manuscripts containing many textual variants, yet careful comparison shows that these differences are largely insignificant and do not affect the reliability of Scripture. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

God providentially preserved Scripture through scribes, manuscripts, and textual transmission, demonstrating the reliability of the Bible despite ordinary human means and minor textual variations. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

God’s people recognized the Old and New Testament books as Scripture, resulting in the completed and closed biblical canon. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

God inspired Scripture by working through human authors, using the written word as his chosen medium, and preserving his Word through providential means rather than a flawless chain of copies. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

A biblical examination of musical instruments, the Lord’s Supper, baptism, and the benediction as elements or circumstances of worship. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

The public reading of Scripture, congregational singing, and the spoken “Amen” are essential elements of corporate worship, grounded in biblical command, pattern, and purpose. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Revelation 19 shows how God’s just judgment of evil leads to the salvation, joy, and final union of his people with Christ. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Scripture, through both explicit commands and apostolic example, establishes preaching, giving, and prayer as essential elements of corporate worship, guiding us to seek what God desires rather than what he merely permits. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Jesus warns that material prosperity can quietly lead believers into self-reliance and spiritual blindness, leaving them outwardly secure yet dangerously distant from the only true source of life and salvation. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Acts 2:42 reveals that the early church devoted itself to four central elements of corporate worship—the apostles’ teaching, fellowship through giving, the Lord’s Supper, and prayers—offered with sincere hearts in spirit and truth. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

If God alone determines who he is, should he not also determine how he is worshiped? Scripture offers eleven reasons the church must worship according to what God has revealed rather than our own preferences. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Because the church is a holy people set apart by God and because Scripture is both authoritative and sufficient, the gathered church must regulate its corporate worship according to what God has revealed in his Word rather than human invention. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

In both the Old and New Testaments, the Bible shows that God alone defines how he is to be worshiped, and therefore, the church must worship according to his revealed Word rather than human invention. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

God has always prescribed how he is to be worshiped and continues to care deeply that his people worship him according to his revealed will rather than human preference. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

From the granting of religious liberty onward, Reformed Baptists navigated decline, controversy, and renewal while preserving confessional theology, recommitting to evangelism and missions, and seeking to hold together God’s sovereignty with human responsibility. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

American Baptists emerged from persecution, forged a distinct theological identity, and played a decisive role in securing religious liberty for all. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe

Persecution, political upheaval, and brief seasons of freedom shaped the growth, theological clarity, and confessional identity of the English Baptists. Get full access to On Life & Scripture at www.jeremysarber.com/subscribe