Today's Sermon: Yes, Virginia, It is That Simple

I. Celebrate the Victory of Salvation

Delight in Immediate Assurance of Salvation

"Howsoever Edinburgh has cast me off, rejected and banished me out of their parts, I leapt no sooner on my horse but the gates of heaven were cast open to me; I got such applause in my heart, with such floods of tears, with such real and constant approbation, that my heart could not wish for greater access..the Spirit testifying to my spirit so audibly, as it were, that I admired how His Majesty could make so much of so little doings and so mean service." -Robert Bruce

III. Daily Persevere in Salvation

IV. Fix Your Hope on Our Future Salvation

"Our future - who we are becoming, where we are going - matters more than our past - where and who we have been. Our future has more power to name us and define us than our past. Consummation swallows origins. Destiny, not history, is the ultimate ground of our identity. How does a prostitute named Rahab, a Moabite outsider named Ruth, an incestuous schemer named Tamar, and adulteress named Bathsheba, end up in the birth line of Jesus? Because in God's economy the person we become, not the person we have been, is the person we truly are." -Mark Buchanan, Things Unseen