Gospel Assurance and Warnings Quotes

“Although all believers are subject to many failings and can fall before the smallest temptation, their determination to continue in the faith and their gradual and progressive sanctification are great evidences of salvation and provide a solid ground for assurance. 1”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“The New Testament leaves no room for the popular evangelical opinion that a person may be truly born again who is apathetic toward righteousness and lives a life of open sin and rebellion.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“The desire to be affirmed and appreciated is deadly venom to a man of God, yet it appears that many have been bitten.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“The person who professes faith in Christ and yet finds beauty and joy in the things that oppose the will of God should be concerned about the validity of his profession.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“the false convert is unmoved by Christ’s teaching because he is unmoved by Christ’s person.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“The validity of our confession of Jesus Christ’s lordship and of our conversion is evidenced by our obedience to the Father’s will.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Our growth in Christ and our fruit-bearing are dependent upon our volition; however, we must not fail to see that our volition is dependent upon our natures, which have been radically changed through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“the Scriptures are adamant, even relentless, in their striving to convince us that the evidence of having passed through the gate is that we have become pilgrims on the narrow way.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Those who choose the broad way boast that they have freed themselves from the Tyrant of heaven, but in doing so they have subjected themselves to the tyranny of their own depraved hearts.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“It is a comfort to know that we will not remain as we are, and yet it is sometimes frightening to think of the fires through which we must pass on the narrow way in order to be rid of what God will not tolerate in us.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“The question then is not whether a person wants to pray and ask Jesus into his heart but if God has so worked in his heart through the preaching of the gospel that he is now repenting of sin and believing in Jesus Christ for the salvation of his soul.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“However, a person’s singular and sincere desire to save his own skin does not prove a work of conversion in his heart.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“We must renounce the present-day methodologies that lead people to trust in a sinner’s prayer and bring them to a persevering “looking unto Christ” in faith.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Those who identify themselves with Christ but exhibit an ongoing disinterest in His Word are in as great danger as those who live in open defiance and shake a clenched fist in the face of God.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Contemporary evangelicalism has been grossly affected by a “once saved always saved” teaching that argues for the possibility of salvation apart from sanctification.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“First, whose company do you most enjoy? Do you seek fellowship with other believers and delight in conversations about Christ? Or do you prefer the company of the world and rarely speak about the things of God?”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“However, to the degree that the inclinations and aspirations of our lives bear a striking resemblance to those of the unbelieving world, we should be concerned. If we share the same goals with the world, and if our thoughts, time, and resources are spent on the pursuits of this age, we have cause for fear.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“one of the great lessons learned by any true pilgrim of the narrow way is that God will go to the greatest lengths and spare no expense to make His children holy.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“these teachings of Christ and the apostles are not denials of the essential Christian doctrine of justification by faith alone. They are simply affirming the universal truth that the inward reality of a thing is revealed by its accompanying character and deeds.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“If even the most emphatic and frequent confession of the lordship of Jesus Christ is not evidence of true conversion, then what is?”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Therefore, Christians are viewed as those who have merely changed their minds rather than those who have been transformed by the power of God into new creatures with new natures resulting in new and righteous affections.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“It seems that the evangelical community no longer views conversion primarily as a supernatural work of God wrought through the miracle of the new birth.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Few understand the concept of the new birth as a supernatural work of God that changes the nature of a person to such a degree that he can be referred to in the Scriptures as a new creature.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Christ warns us that there is a narrow path that “leads away” to eternal life and a broad path that “leads away” to eternal destruction.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“It is as real to him as the recovery of sight to the blind, the gift of hearing to the deaf, and the restoration of life to the dead.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Eternal life is not an undetectable positional standing before God or a theological conjecture. It is a present, experimental, and discernible reality in the earthly pilgrimage of the believer.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“The Scriptures and the great confessions of the church rank saving faith among the “deep things” of God, a doctrine of unfathomable profundity that should be examined and contemplated with the greatest concern and care.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“Such a ranking has allowed the church to be filled with men, women, and youth who have a form of godliness, but deny its power; who profess God, but deny Him with their deeds; and who emphatically confess Christ’s lordship, but do not do the will of the Father.”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings

“An erroneous three-tiered ranking of individuals within the evangelical community has existed for far too long:”
― Paul David Washer, Gospel Assurance and Warnings