2Corinthians 13:3-8 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you, for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God’s power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God’s power towards you,) examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates? Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates. But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Plainly, uncertainty is part of reprobation –not piety and not new birth in Jesus Christ.

1John 4:17,18 Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we* also are in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

1John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Without certainty of our own election, we cannot know of the election of others and God very plainly Says we do know of the election of others such that some are tried by those of us in the Church and found elect and others tried and found to be false apostles and liars.

Found to be elect and declared to be elect by God thorugh the apostles:

I Thess 1:4,5 knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election. For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

2John 1:1,2 The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom *I* love in truth, and not *I* only but also all who have known the truth, for the truth’s sake which abides in us and shall be with us to eternity.

Found to be liars and false apostels and false Jews:

Rev 2:2 I know thy works and thy labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men ; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars;

Rev 2:9 I know thy tribulation and thy poverty; but thou art rich; and the railing of those who say that they themselves are Jews, and are not, but a synagogue of Satan.

It is God who knows and tells us. No one “figures it out” on their own. The Only God who made everything and is Life itself genuinely dwells in us and Speaks to us in His living Presence and as His Spirit and Word.

Romans 8:8-11 and they that are in flesh cannot please God. But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him: but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen