Introduction 

• A Certain Kind of Experience (v13-16a). 
  • The inner testimony of the Holy Spirit (v13). 
• • The eyewitness testimony of the Apostles (v14). 

• • Your own personal testimony of Christ (v15). 

• A Certain Kind of Hope (v16b-19). 

• A Certain Kind of Love (v20-21). 

Conclusion 

• Christian assurance is an outworking of the love that God has shown us in Jesus Christ. 
• It rests upon the testimony of God’s Spirit within us, the testimony of the Apostolic witness, and the outworking of God’s love in our lives. 
• ‘I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day!’ (1 Tim 1:14). 
• ‘Well done, good and faithful servant!’ Enter into your master’s happiness.’ (Matthew 25:23).