Faith and Assurance
"Faith is the root....assurance is the flower" - J.C RYLE "All Christians have Faith but not all have assurance..." - J.C RYLE If a man has faith, Saving Faith; the minutest form of it, it will justify him before God. God treasures even the smallest fragment of Faith (true faith). Faith in the substitionary work of Christ will take a man to Heaven. But if it doesn't evolve into Assurance, he will arrive there "weather-beaten and tempest-tossed" never realizing the comfort that his divine being offers here on earth. A man might have grace yet never know it in experience here on earth. He might his take his earthly walk torn and distracted by internal conflicts, never arriving at the whistling confidence of hope. It is not the difference between the Streets and the High School, I mean the difference between Faith and Assurance. It is rather the difference within the School; that of the first grade and the Last grade. It is not the difference between P...