Question 40

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

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 Spirit, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.

Scripture references for paragraph 1

Berean Standard Bible. Public domain text and source credits.

Romans 5:1-5
1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
3Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
4perseverance, character; and character, hope.
5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

Romans 14:17
17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 4:18
18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

1 Peter 1:5
5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 John 5:13
13I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Source and edition

Keach's Catechism. NonlinearFruit/Creeds.json, Unlicense. Creeds.json, English transcription

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