Question 39 – 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

  • Romans 5:1-2, 5

  • Romans 5:5, 17

  • Proverbs 4:18

    18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

  • 1 John 5:13

    13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

  • 1 Peter 1:5

    5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.