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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 36

What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

Read, reflect, and return to the Scriptures.

The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.

Scripture proofs: Rom. 5:1-2, 5; Rom. 14:17; Prov. 4:18; 1 John 5:13; 1 Pet. 1:5.

Source: The Constitution of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, updated 2026, C-5.

Assurance of salvation

Assurance of salvation

Study Christian assurance, God’s promises, the Spirit’s work, and the difference between saving faith and an untroubled feeling of certainty.

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Westminster Confession of Faith · Chapter 18

Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation

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Westminster Larger Catechism · Question 79

May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace?

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