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One more week on this little
section and then we'll move on and try to finish up chapter
8. For we know Romans chapter 8 starting with verse 28. And we know that for those who
love God and all things work together for good, for those
who are called according to His purpose, for those whom He foreknew,
He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order
that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those
whom He predestined, He also called, and those whom He called,
He also justified, and those whom He justified, He also glorified. So on last week, we finished
up with this statement. I'm going to repeat it. The purpose
of God is not just to save us. His purpose is to change us,
to conform us to the image of his son, to give us a new life,
holy and acceptable to him. He foreknew us. He predestined
us for that confirmation, for that change. He called us to
come out of the world and come to him so that he might declare
us justified and ultimately bring us into glory with him forever.
Practically everyone receives the general call, and some even
play along for a while, but there is no mistaking those who have
received the effectual call. The power and purpose and glory
of God would never allow it to be so. So we're going to continue
this morning with some notes on what it means to be affectionately
called. And I did learn that Hannah's
doing a thesis on affectual calling, so if you want to... Oh well, okay. Some notes on
what it means to be affectionately called. Again, we know that all
men receive the universal call to repent and believe. We also
know from life experience and from scripture that very few
do come to repentance and belief. Apart from the work of the Holy
Spirit, in fact, no one comes. God, through His Spirit, makes
us alive who were dead in our trespasses and sins. The Holy
Spirit puts within us a new principle of life or a new disposition. He changes us from being natural
to being spiritual. As a result, we begin to see
the truth and we begin to desire that truth. That which we once
thought of as foolishness, we now regard as being most precious.
What was once offensive has now become our glory and delight
and we have a desire to know and understand it more and more.
This is how the Spirit acts within us to make the call effectual. Now, does this mean that our
wills are forced? Not quite. Our will is still
our will. It will always be our will. The
difference comes in what it is that controls our will. Our will
was once controlled by the world, the flesh, and the devil. And
we acted according to that will and desired what? The world,
the flesh, and the devil. But now the Holy Spirit reveals
those things that are spiritual to us and we desire those things
instead. No man is ever saved against
his will. We, again debatably, if you remember,
saw at the end of chapter 7 that a wretched man cannot be changed
unless and until that which drives his will has been changed. Regardless
of how much he desires it to be so, or how much outside force
or coercion is exerted on him, Nope. Through the Holy Spirit
we are given such a view of God and salvation that we want it
with the whole of our being. That is how the call becomes
effectual. That which you once loved, you
now hate. And that which you once hated,
you now love. Okay? You have been given new
affections, as Paul Washer says. The point being introduced here
is that it is God who brings this to pass. If we were left
to ourselves, none of us would ever desire it. Apart from God's
foreordination and predestination being worked in us, we would
still reject it as utter foolishness and would remain carnal and continue
in our hatred of God. Apart from the effectual call,
not one single human being would ever have believed the gospel.
Now, there are some who say, Well, that is just Paul. Now,
you ever notice that the reprobate and immoral somehow always get
around to discounting Paul as being somehow contrary to the
rest of the Bible, okay? That's the first thing you've
got to do. You've got to get Paul out of
the way before you can move into heresies and all sorts of stuff.
You've got to get him out of the way. Well, as a few points
of reference to the truth, Jesus said in John chapter 6 and verse
44, No one can come to me unless what? Unless the Father who sent
me draws him. Clearly meaning that a few with
really strong godly wills can still come, right? Not going to happen, okay? No
man can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.
Now, how many does he say can come? Only the ones who the Father
draws, okay? Jesus tells these Pharisees, in essence, he's talking
to the Pharisees, he's telling them, you are where you are and
you are what you are because you have not been drawn to me. When you see all of the stuff
going on in the world around you, that's the one thing that
you can remember. Those people are where they are
and they are what they are because the Father has not drawn them
to him, okay? To which he immediately adds,
Jesus says, all those who are drawn to me, I will raise them
up on the last day. Preservation of the saints and
ultimate glorification, right there. Everybody who the Father
draws, I will raise them up on the last day and they will be
glorified. Acts 13, 48. And when the Gentiles
heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the
Lord. and as many as were appointed
to eternal life believed. So Paul's preaching in Antioch,
same gospel to everybody that was there. All heard the same
thing. Some believed, others rejected
it. Difference being what? Some were
appointed to eternal life. Now, some translations say ordained,
others say marked out. Here it says appointed. All the
same meaning. The ones that God foreknew and
predestined for eternal life are the ones that believed. God
is the one who did this. Acts 16-14 One who heard us was
a woman named Lydia from the city of Thyatira, a seller of
purple goods who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart
to pay attention to what was said by Paul. So a couple of
things here. Lydia was already a worshipper
of God. That's going to get her into
heaven, right? Not going to happen, okay? That will not get you into
heaven. Only repentance and faith in
Jesus Christ will get you into heaven. Otherwise, there would
have been no need for God to do what he said he did to her
right here, which was open her heart and open it so that she
could hear what she needed to hear in order to be saved. Had God not opened her heart,
she would have continued on her merry way thinking that being
a worshipper of God was good enough. God is the one who did
this. Acts chapter 11 verses 17 and
18. Peter's in trouble for baptizing certain Gentiles. The Jews did
not like that because they did not like the Gentiles. But Peter
tells them, he says, if then God gave the same gift to them
as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who
was I that I could stand in God's way? And when they heard these
things, they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying,
then to the Gentiles also, God has granted repentance that leads
to life. God granted them repentance. They would not have come to that
on their own, no matter what. God is the one who did this.
2 Timothy 1.9, who saved us and called us to a holy calling,
not because of our works, but because of his own purpose and
grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. God's foreknowledge, God's predestination,
God's calling, and God's purpose. God is the one who did this. Finally, Saul of Tarsus, who
was foreordained to become who? The Apostle Paul. Hated Jesus
Christ with a passion unmatched. Hated Christ's followers with
a passion unmatched. And then one day Saul, in the
midst of breathing out threatenings and slaughter, that's what scripture
says that he was doing, breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against Christians, Saul woke up one morning and suddenly decided
that this was not right and so after four courses of I have
decided to follow Jesus, Saul decided to believe in Jesus Christ.
Is that how that happened? Did he just wake up one morning
and decide to accept the message that he had been attempting so
violently to try to trample out? We know what happened. Jesus
Christ appeared to him. The Holy Spirit revealed Christ
to him in all his glory. Saul's will, there's the will
again, Saul's will was no longer driven by self-righteousness. That's what was driving him through
all of his threatenings and slaughter. That's what was driving him was
his own self-righteousness. His will was no longer being
driven by self-righteousness. It was now driven by a desire
to know Jesus Christ and to fulfill God's purpose. So what was God's
purpose for Paul? Acts 9 15. He says, He is a chosen
instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and
kings and the children of Israel. for I will show him how must
he much suffer for the sake of my name. It is God who did that. Such is the relationship between
the foreknowledge and the predestination on the one hand and the calling
on the other hand. God's plan for his people in
eternity becoming reality to them in time, in God's good time. Galatians 1 15 Paul speaking
says but when he who had set me apart before I was born Long
before he was born and who called me by his grace Was pleased to
reveal his son to me in order that I might preach him among
the Gentiles Foreknown predestined and then in God's timing called
at a particular moment and in time on the road to Damascus
to preach Christ among the Gentiles. It is God who did this. All the same goes for us. God
foreknew us, God predestined us to be conformed to the image
of His Son, and then at some particular point in time, He
called us effectually to come to repentance and faith in order
that we might be justified in His sight. in order that we might
have peace with god and in order that we might want that we would
one day be glorified both body and spirit in heaven we see these
as steps we have to see these as steps because we are bound
in time but all of this already happened at once at one all of
us in time page got called a long time before i did Okay? But it happened all at the same
time. Alright? We see it as steps, but it's
already happened. Before the foundation of the
world. This is Paul's goal. To make us understand that all
of these blessings are not dependent on us. Again, we're talking about
assurance. Have been since chapter 5. Okay? This is his way of saying, this
is your assurance. None of this has anything to
do is not dependent on you, not upon what we may or may not do.
They are according to His good pleasure and purpose, God's good
pleasure and purpose. We are fallible. In my case,
that's an understatement. We fall into sin. We are prone
to error, always ready to complain and grumble in our troubles.
None of that changes the end, says Paul. In spite of you, God
is going to bring his great purpose to pass. You cannot see it now,
but you will see it ultimately. Now, did you ever look back on
your life? Now, some of you grew up in good
Christian homes and maybe didn't have to endure all of this. But
for others, it's a different story. Did you ever look back
on your life and see God's intervention? Maybe through some trial or some
affliction. Maybe not even your own trial
or affliction, but somebody else's that still had an impact on the
direction your life was heading. I remember the first time that
I ever heard the word Calvinist. I had no idea that there was
even such a person. Okay? I was having a discussion
with a youth pastor who had been to seminary and he was pretty
well educated in religion. And we were discussing this very
thing as to why some people receive the call and some never do. Why some people, it seems like
they hear it and accept it and then they don't do anything with
it. So I made the statement that I knew of certain things that
had happened in my life. Certain people that had been
placed in my life at crucial moments. uh... and that had that not happened
had those things not happened i would most certainly have been
lost his response was he says well
that's very calvinistic of you never heard of that before had
no idea what it even meant uh... later on as a pastor i
would begin a wednesday night teaching through romans And while
studying for that, I came upon people like John Calvin and Martin
Luther. And I've got to tell you, I hated
those guys with a passion. Just being just as upfront and
honest as I could be. Hated those guys with a passion.
Hated everything about what they taught. Wrote Paul off as being
misinformed. Contradicted everything that
would leave God more in charge than I. with regards to my salvation. There is nothing that proves
this doctrine of foreknowledge and predestination more clearly
than people like myself who do not believe these doctrines.
In spite of my stupidity, I was still saved by the grace of God
and would eventually come to see the truth. In spite of myself,
there is no greater proof of the doctrine that I once denied. And there is also no greater
proof, as we've already said, that understanding this doctrine
is not necessary for salvation. Are you not glad that we are
not saved by our understanding of every doctrine in the Scripture?
If understanding were a requirement for salvation, then we would
all pretty soon be lost again. The reason we are saved is because
God purposed it to be so in eternity past. It is not dependent on
us. God's purpose guarantees our
ultimate glorification. God foreknew, God predestined,
God called, God justified, God glorified. All of those are written
in Aris tense. All of them. That means that
they all already happened. We've already been glorified.
We have already been seated in heaven. No one can take that
from us. Our own actions did not place
us there. Therefore, our own actions cannot
remove us from there. Our actions do offer proof of
our effectual calling. Okay, you get that? Our actions do offer proof of
our effectual calling. They do show forth the power
and the glory of God in our confirmation and transformation, but they
are not a benefit nor a hindrance to that which has already taken
place. It is God who did this, it is
God who is doing this, and it is God who will do this. The only thing that matters then,
from our standpoint, is to be sure that we are in the purpose
of God. Do you know that you have been
called? We went over a few tests in one
of our past lessons, but the most important of all is this
one. Do you accept God's verdict, and this is basically the pledge
you make when you join the church, okay? Do you accept God's verdict
on yourself that you are a sinner, vile, unworthy, and deserving
of nothing but hell? Do you see that if you worked
around the clock for the rest of your life in an attempt to
live a godly life, you would still be as lost as you are now?
And that your only hope whatsoever is that Christ died for you and
your sins and that God clothed you with his righteousness and
gives you a new life. If you do believe this, if you
do believe this, then what? You are called. It's as simple
as that. It is only the called who accept
God's verdict. The natural man hates the very
idea of it all. If you believe what the Bible
tells you about yourself and about the only way to be reconciled
to God and to come to a knowledge of God, you can rest assured. Again, this entire thing from
Romans 5, from chapter 5 on, is about assurance. You can rest
assured that you are called. And if you are called, you are
justified. And if you are justified, you
are glorified. No matter what may come, no matter
what the world, the flesh, and the devil may do to you, nothing
can change your position. Now, for a most interesting fact,
founder should I say not found here, Did you notice a word missing
from this list, as it were? Predestined, called, justified,
glorified. What is missing? 1 Corinthians
1 and 30. And because of him you are in
Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness,
meaning justification, and sanctification, and redemption, meaning glorification. So what supposedly comes between
justification and glorification? Sanctification. So why does Paul
omit sanctification here? Is there a reason? Well, surely
there must be. The explanation is that sanctification
is not a vital step in what Paul has in mind at this point. It's
not a step at all. It is a process. If it were a
step, it would be included here. Our sanctification makes no vital
difference at all with regards to our status or standing. Justification
has changed our position already and that position is assured. That's one thought. Secondly,
Paul feels no need to mention sanctification here simply because
sanctification is inevitable because of justification. As
we have said, the moment a man is justified, the process of
sanctification begins. Justification implies sanctification. God's glory and honor would not
allow it to be otherwise. The very fact that we now have
a new nature, that we have a new outlook, that we have new affections,
that we are dead to sin and alive to Christ, guarantees sanctification. It's the proof or the evidence
of who and what we claim to be. Proof for ourselves and proof
for those who would question us. Thirdly, glorification guarantees
sanctification. Sanctification is our preparation
for glorification. As John says, all who have it
have hope in him, purifies himself even as he is pure. purifies
himself, that's sanctification, even as he is pure. Any person
who truly believes in ultimate glorification is going to be
of necessity concerned with sanctification. He wants to be sanctified. He
strives to be sanctified. He strives to cleanse his mind
and body from impurity. He kills the sin in the members
of his body, as we studied at length in lessons past. Belief in glorification and desire
for sanctification are implicitly tied together. They cannot be
separated. So, fourthly, it would be quite
unscriptural to make sanctification a separate step in and of itself,
as if it could happen without the others. Sanctification can't
happen without the others. Or worse, that the others could
take place and leave it behind. If you are in Christ, then Christ
is in you and he cannot be only partly in you. Christ cannot
be divided just as you cannot divide or separate sanctification
from justification and glorification. It would be the same as the heinous
thought that Christ has the power to save me and bring me to heaven
So this is what the majority of your friends believe, whether
you know it or not, that Christ has the power to save you and
bring you to heaven, but he doesn't have the power to change your
life. As Paul warned Timothy about certain people, 2 Timothy
3, 5, he says, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its
power. you live in translation without
which I have often confessed upon this for put it this way
it says they will act religious but they will reject the power
that could make them godly that's the majority of Christian America
acted religious reject the power that could make them godly so
the addition here sanctification is quite unnecessary especially
to the audience that Paul is talking to. These that have proven
their sanctification by their lives. He already commended them
for it at the very beginning of this letter. If justification
and glorification have occurred, then sanctification is a given. If sanctification is absent,
I knew I was going to say that one too many times, If sanctification
is absent, then justification and glorification are absent
as well. Whoever has hope in Christ purifies
himself even as he is pure. Now, all of that being said, we would
be remiss if we did not at least mention some of the arguments
put forth against the things that we have been discussing.
There are those who hate the thoughts of foreknowledge, predestination,
calling, and election, and even the final perseverance of the
saints. I should know that there are people who hate that because
I have said often enough that I was one of them. Well, where
does that hatred come from? Mostly from a prideful heart,
at least in my case. It stems from a wrong philosophical
view of God that cannot be reconciled with what paul is teaching here
not to make excuses for myself but there are many such that
reject this teaching those people outnumber us by a huge margin
huge margin and that margin is ever widening vast majority of
the modern commentaries if you get a commentary of anything
after nineteen Thirty-five, I think it is. Nobody mentions what we believe,
okay? The vast majority of the modern commentaries are against
what we as Reformed believers hold to. They do not believe
in the unique inspiration of the Bible, even though they claim
to do so. So here's how they approach Scripture,
and I can attest to this from experience. So what you all don't
appreciate is the amazing intellect that sits in front of you this
morning. You didn't know that I was, you
have no idea how amazing I am, all right? You wouldn't believe me if I
told you. Because I used to know it all. All that mattered anyway. I knew
everything that mattered. So do these people. And so we
would approach the Bible with our intellect and our knowledge
and our philosophy. And if there is anything in the
Bible that agrees with what I think, that is what I accept. If there
is anything that disagrees, then I, of course, have to reject
that. For instance, how do you reconcile this teaching with
the idea that God is love? Therefore, this teaching has
to be wrong. can't god is love this is not
love this has to be wrong so that means i must declare war
against it and so i did and so have uh... they in commentary
after commentary uh... they've declared war against
what we believe okay the fundamental problem is not the idea of predestination
or of perseverance it is a wrong view of the Bible and it is a
wrong view of God and both of those being something that a
prideful heart is not readily prone to giving up. There is
nothing more dangerous than a Bible teacher who believes that he
has it all figured out. Y'all get that? There is nothing
more dangerous than a Bible teacher who believes that he has it all
figured out. Always ready to give an answer
for the hope that lies within you. I was good at that. It didn't have to be the right answer.
Okay? I gave you an answer. It didn't
have to be a biblical answer. But always ready to give an answer.
It doesn't have to be the correct answer. It just has to be one
that sounds good and matches what I already believe. Pride will not allow a person
like that to even begin to accept an alternative viewpoint. And so we have to start on the
common basis that the Bible is the divinely inspired and inerrant
Word of God. Apart from that, there is no
basis for a discussion. If you are confronted with a
person who does not believe that the Bible is inspired and inerrant,
you just need to wipe your feet and move on. Okay? Because there's
no use in talking to that person. These teachers, as I did, they
do grant that Paul clearly teaches the doctrines that we have been
studying. No doubt about it. There is no
doubt about it. I knew that Paul taught these
doctrines. Paul was mistaken. He wasn't as smart as I was.
He was, after all, still a Jew and still under the influence
of that Jewish teaching. And so he brought much of his
old legalistic notions with him into Christianity. Or my favorite
one, the one that I used most often, was the Apostle Peter,
2 Peter 3.15. Peter says that Paul was sometimes
hard to understand. Y'all remember that scripture?
Peter says, Paul is sometimes hard to understand, and so the
ignorant and unstable people took his teaching and twisted
it to their own destruction. That was my workaround. For anything that Paul said that
did not match up with my own presuppositions, just declare
anyone or anything that disagrees with you as ignorant and unstable
and headed for destruction and then you can go home with your
pride still completely intact see how that works anything that I didn't agree
with those people are ignorant and unstable and they're headed
for destruction so that's my confessional now moving on there are those
that have legitimate difficulties and with these there needs to
be patience. Most of these stem from humanistic
philosophies. My biggest concern, apart from
my own pride, was that this teaching was going to lead people into
antinomianism. Being a legalist, I for sure
did not want people to be taught that they could repent and be
baptized and that whatever they did thereafter did not matter.
So from a legalistic standpoint, that is what this doctrine sounds
like. Y'all get that? That you can
repent and be baptized and then it doesn't matter what you do
after that. Actually, about 90% of the churches in this county,
that's what they preach. That's what they believe. And
they're not even Calvinist. that their final destination
was guaranteed no matter what. Once saved, always saved was
the most blasphemous idea and one that I could not wrap my
mind around. As Jude says, are they not just going to take God's
marvelous grace and use it as a license to live like the devil? Are they going to do that? not
if they are effectually called. Therein lies the difference. They won't. They can't. The divine
seed is in them. They cannot do such a thing.
On the other hand, those who have decided to follow Jesus
after four courses of just as I am or whatever, done so of
their own volition, will do exactly that. That's
exactly what they will do. They will take God's marvelous
grace and use it as a license to live like the devil. That's
exactly what they will do. Why? Because the problem is not
the doctrine. The problem is entirely in the
people who love their sin and have no desire to leave it. They
are not in Christ. They do not have God's Spirit
dwelling within them. They have not been given a new
heart and a new life. They have no choice but to continue
in the sin that still holds them captive. They have no choice. Their will is still being driven
by the world, the flesh, and the devil. And there are others. Some people
ask, well, doesn't this teaching imply that God has also predestined
some people to damnation? This is known as double predestination. It's a heinous thought to some
people that God would do such a thing. Martin Lloyd-Jones teaches
against it vehemently. So here is your question. We
mentioned it a couple of lessons ago. Did God predestine some
to be conformed to the image of His Son and the rest predestined
to damnation? Or did God just allow the rest
to continue on the path that they were already on? having
been born in adam and headed for destruction anyway that's the two sides me personally
i believe they're the same thing some people don't believe that
i think it's semantics i think it's the same thing my opinion
i also know that if they are not the same thing i don't have
the understanding to make a determination one way or the other because
to me they're the same thing, and I'm okay with not understanding.
That's something the old me would never have said. The Bible does
not come out and tell me for certain, so any position I might
take would hinge on my own thoughts and my own feelings, and those
are not reliable in any situation. The secret things belong to who?
Don't remember that verse? Deuteronomy 29, 29. The secret
things belong to God, but the revealed things belong to us
and to our children forever. We are revealed what happens
to the predestined for being conformed to the image of his
son. We're not revealed about the other. That belongs to God. The secret things belong to God.
What's being revealed here? What is being revealed here is
that God works all things together for good for those who love God
and are called according to his purpose. That is who and what
is being addressed here. Not the natural man. He has no
place here. He's not even mentioned. This
is assurance given to believers. This is assurance given to believers. This is a small tidbit. of the mind of God given to those
that desire to know more and more about the one they love.
This is a tiny glimpse, so tiny, a tiny glimpse into God's purpose
and how he has worked out that purpose from the foundation of
the world. The revelation that I see here
is not predestination versus double predestination. What I
take from this is that I am thankful that I am one of the called.
And I pray to God that my children and my grandchildren and all
those that I love are also among the foreknown of God. That's
what is revealed to me here. Okay. So we all know this one,
the biggest difficulty in accepting this doctrine. How do we reconcile
this doctrine with the love of God? How can God set his affection
on some people and not on others? Anybody heard that question?
Anybody had that question posed to you? How many thousand times? How can God set his affection
on some people and not on others? So, my carefully reasoned answer,
after many hours of study, and with all the scriptures to back
it up, is simply this. I don't know. I do not understand it. I do
know that I'm not called to understand it. If I were called to understand
it, it would be given to me in this book. It is not given to
me in this book. Okay? This is the mind and the heart. there are the background I came
from use NOAA use Abraham also use NOAA because they were obedient
that's not what the book says obedient yes that's not that's
not what this book says NOAA found what? grace okay Somewhere,
according to biblical scholars, somewhere between 5 and 7 billion
people that were on the earth at that time. We see these, you
know, y'all remember Sunday School and the flannel graphs and Noah's
Ark and like seven people standing over here getting ready to be
drowned and seven people on the ark. Biblical scholars say there
was somewhere between 5 and 7 billion people on the planet at that
time. 5 and 7 billion, OK? take a that many generations with that
kind of lifespans and with a command the only command you have from
God is to be fruitful and multiply it's not hard to go along with
that five to seven billion people out of that many people Noah
found grace didn't say that Noah was better than any of How does that work? I don't know.
Why did it work? I don't know. This is the mind and heart of
the eternal God. He is infinite and He is absolute
and the Lord of all the earth will always do right. Okay? We are not in a position
to understand the ways of God that are as far above hours as
the heavens are above the earth. This is where faith shines through.
This is what faith is all about. Faith meaning that we are content
in not knowing all things and yet still believing. Can you
be content in not knowing all things and yet still believing?
After all, if we had all the answers, where would faith find
a place? These things are high and infinite
and absolute and eternal. I am small and I am finite and
I am sinful. All we can know for certain is
that we are, is what we are told in God's Word. That's the only
thing that is 100% true, what we are told in God's Word. And
simply to accept that as fact because it is God's Word. There
are so many things that I do not understand and yet Believe
it or not, I am far happier now than when I knew it all. Did God elect some and not others? Yes, the Bible tells me so. Why? I don't know. But I also don't know why He
elected to save the some. Why would He save anyone? All
have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. There is
none righteous, no, not one. All are at enmity with God. Not
a single person has ever in all of history deserved to be saved. God would have been perfectly
justified to consign every soul ever born to eternity in hell. What about so-and-so? They did
this. Anybody here ever knew a good person? What about them?
No, not one. What about those really good
people? No, not one. The thought that
ought to be at the forefront of our minds always is not, why
were certain people not saved? Our thought should be, why is
anyone saved? Especially me. Let's pray. Father God, I thank you for your
purpose. Lord, I thank you that I am included
in your purpose. I thank you that these, my brothers
and sisters, are included in your purpose. Lord, I pray for my family, for
my upcoming generations, that they are also included in your
purpose. Lord, I thank you for the assurance
that you've given us in your word. that this is all on you. It's not dependent on me. Never
has been, never will be. This is all on you. Therefore,
we have the assurance that it's going to be fulfilled. Lord,
be with us as we commune with you this morning. Draw us near
to you. In Christ's name, amen.
Effectual Calling
Series Romans study
Effectual calling and ultimate assurance of salvation as it pertains to the final preservation of the saints.
| Sermon ID | 414250981680 |
| Duration | 46:31 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday School |
| Bible Text | Romans 8:28-30 |
| Language | English |
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