Just south of the town of Bolivar, Tennessee, is the grave of Colonel Ezekiel Polk, grandfather of President James K. Polk. He died around 1815. He composed his own epitaph to appear on his gravestone. It was a kind of poetic commentary on the times. In it he took a pot shot at the Methodists whose enthusiasm he did not appreciate. He wrote: "Methodists with their camp bawling, will be the cause of our down falling." Often at Methodist camp-meetings or revivals, people would start bawling, literally, with tears of joy. It had to do with the doctrine of Christian assurance, or the witness of the spirit. That is our focus of the morning. Methodists have always preached that if one repents of sin and trusts in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, one can actually know that one has been saved, b…