Category: Unconditional Election
He is Not a Weak Beggar, He is a Powerful Savior
The Gospel of Calvinism as was just described is not: "Well, maybe God doesn't love you." You see the apostolic proclamation was "repent and believe." It wasn't "this is what God has done for you." Maybe the problem here is that we're judging the Gospel by our emotions and experiences rather than by the infallible, unchanging, inspired Word of God. I've heard no response to John 6, Ephesians 1, Romans 8 and 9, 1 Timothy 2. I've heard ...
He is Not a Weak Beggar, He is a Powerful Savior
The Gospel of Calvinism as was just described is not: "Well, maybe God doesn't love you." You see the apostolic proclamation was "repent and believe." It wasn't "this is what God has done for you." Maybe the problem here is that we're judging the Gospel by our emotions and experiences rather than by the infallible, unchanging, inspired Word of God. I've heard no response to John 6, Ephesians 1, Romans 8 and 9, 1 Timothy 2. I've heard ...
I Know Whom I Have Believed
I know not why God’s wondrous grace To me He hath made known, Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love Redeemed me for His own. But I know Whom I have believed, And am persuaded that He is able To keep that which I’ve committed Unto Him against that day. I know not how this saving faith To me He did impart, Nor how believing in His Word Wrought peace within my heart. I know not how the Spirit moves, Convincing us of sin, Revealing Jesus through the Word, Creating faith ...
I Know Whom I Have Believed
I know not why God’s wondrous grace To me He hath made known, Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love Redeemed me for His own. But I know Whom I have believed, And am persuaded that He is able To keep that which I’ve committed Unto Him against that day. I know not how this saving faith To me He did impart, Nor how believing in His Word Wrought peace within my heart. I know not how the Spirit moves, Convincing us of sin, Revealing Jesus through the Word, Creating faith ...
All Glory of Our Salvation to Him it is Due!
When you were thus dead in trespasses and sins, he quickened, or made you alive. You lay, some of you a longer, and some a shorter time in the wretched state, which has been described, like the dry bones which the Prophet saw in the valley of vision, and there you had lain till now, had not sovereign grace interposed. But he, who had from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and ...
All Glory of Our Salvation to Him it is Due!
When you were thus dead in trespasses and sins, he quickened, or made you alive. You lay, some of you a longer, and some a shorter time in the wretched state, which has been described, like the dry bones which the Prophet saw in the valley of vision, and there you had lain till now, had not sovereign grace interposed. But he, who had from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and ...
The Right to be Saved? Ignorance and Foolishness.
"For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." (Romans 9:15) In these words the Lord in the plainest manner claims the right to give or to withhold His mercy according to His own sovereign will. As the prerogative of life and death is vested in the monarch, so the Judge of all the earth has a right to ...
The Right to be Saved? Ignorance and Foolishness.
"For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." (Romans 9:15) In these words the Lord in the plainest manner claims the right to give or to withhold His mercy according to His own sovereign will. As the prerogative of life and death is vested in the monarch, so the Judge of all the earth has a right to ...
But for the Grace of God.
How gracious that calling must have been since it came to you from God! It came to you irresistibly and came to you with such personal demonstration! What Grace was here! What was there in you to suggest a motive why God should call you? Oh, Beloved, we can hardly ask you that question without tears rising in our own eyes— “What was there in us that could merit esteem, Or give the Creator delight? ‘Twas even so, ...
But for the Grace of God.
How gracious that calling must have been since it came to you from God! It came to you irresistibly and came to you with such personal demonstration! What Grace was here! What was there in you to suggest a motive why God should call you? Oh, Beloved, we can hardly ask you that question without tears rising in our own eyes— “What was there in us that could merit esteem, Or give the Creator delight? ‘Twas even so, ...
The Election of Grace.
"Were it not that God had chosen some, heaven would have none." [audio: http://tinyurl.com/4j6ooo] - Elder D.J. Ward, 2007 Sovereign Grace Bible Conference. In memory of Elder D.J. Ward httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ZXwkt12ik
The Election of Grace.
"Were it not that God had chosen some, heaven would have none." [audio: http://tinyurl.com/4j6ooo] - Elder D.J. Ward, 2007 Sovereign Grace Bible Conference. In memory of Elder D.J. Ward httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ZXwkt12ik
You May Alter an Opinion, But You Cannot Alter a Fact.
C.H. Spurgeon: Jacob and Esau - HT "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Romans 9:15. There is a man up in the gallery there, that, work as hard as he likes, he cannot earn more than fifteen shillings a week. And here is another man that gets a thousand a year. What is the reason of this?
You May Alter an Opinion, But You Cannot Alter a Fact.
C.H. Spurgeon: Jacob and Esau - HT "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Romans 9:15. There is a man up in the gallery there, that, work as hard as he likes, he cannot earn more than fifteen shillings a week. And here is another man that gets a thousand a year. What is the reason of this?