Blessed Assurance

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Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine;  

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!  

Heir of salvation, purchase of God,  

Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.  

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Perfect submission, perfect delight,  

Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;  

Angels descending, bring from above  

Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.  

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Perfect submission, all is at rest,  

I in my Savior am happy and blest;  

Watching and waiting, looking above,  

Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.  

Refrain:  

This is my story, this is my song,  

Praising my Savior all the day long.  

This is my story, this is my song,  

Praising my Savior all the day long.   

 

Lyrics: Fanny Jane Crosby (1820-1915)

   

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men. ~Acts 17:31

"Heir of salvation"  

Romans 8:14-17 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.   

"Purchase of God"  

I Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

"Blessed assurance"

Hebrews 6:11

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

Hebrews 10:22

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Acts 17:31

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men.

Colossians 2:2

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;