[Alamo-Girl]

To underscore your point about blessed assurance in the present, I'd like to offer this:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. – John 5:24

And these:

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38-39

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. - John 10:3-5

My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand. – John 10:29

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:3

To God be the glory, not man, never man!

[the_conscience]

Amen to those verses!

[Quix]

Those verses are such TREASURES TO MY SOUL, SPIRIT, MIND, HEART.

PRAISE GOD.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.

BLESSED BE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD.

BLESSED IS THE PERSON WHOSE NAME IS IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE.

[annalex]

Yes, but this assurance is never independent of what we do, see, for example, how the saving faith of which Jesus speaks in John 5:24 coexists with the judgement by the works in verse 29.

Understand, no one who is Catholic disagrees that faith is central to our salvation, — the disagreement is that the faith without works is dead, as the Scripture teaches, and theat the judgement is by the works, as the Scripture also teaches.