Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. John tells us that the
Word was in the beginning and then defines the Word as being
both with God and being God. He who is the Word is he who
alone hath immortality, yet by his grace he has revealed himself
to unthankful and unworthy creatures. The Word of God cannot be captured
upon any page which men have been enabled to craft and write,
since He is eternal. Yet it has pleased Him to give
us the very essence of the Word in written form, that we might
be edified thereby and instructed concerning His purpose and His
person. He has been mindful that we are
dust, knowing our frame and limitations, and in His mercy has revealed
Himself in the pages of the Holy Scriptures. How could we have
known Him apart from the declaration of Himself by those which were
sent with the Gospel of Jesus Christ? who has saved us and
called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but
according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us
in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest
by the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who hath abolished
death and hath brought life and immortality to light through
the gospel. The same scriptures which tell
us of Christ also tell us that He has a particular people which
He has loved from the beginning. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as He has
chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before Him in love. having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself according
to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of
His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved. Hall
we this glorious truth unto every discourse about the Savior of
sinners. But we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you
by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus
Christ. It is impossible to have a right
understanding of that which Christ has done without a clear knowledge
of who it was that he finished his work for. How could his work
be finished if there are some who yet perish in spite of his
best attempt to save them? The scriptures are abundantly
clear that he is content with that which he has accomplished.
He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.
By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he
shall bear their iniquities. For whom he did foreknow, that
is, he knew intimately from the beginning, he also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be
the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate
them he also called, and whom he called them he also justified,
and whom he justified them he also glorified. We understand
that what he came to do he did completely. All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven,
not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all
which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise
it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on
him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the
last day. The very faith by which they
believe is both of Him and in Him. My sheep hear my voice,
and I know them, and they follow me. And I give unto them eternal
life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. So we can safely say that those
who believe are one and the same with those for whom He has given
Himself as an offering for sin. which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God. His unfailing love for all of those who are called according
to His purpose is demonstrated for us by His determination to
uphold His disciples to the very end, having loved His own which
were in the world. They had no option as to where
they would be, for He created them to occupy this world until
He comes again, whether in the light of daily life or the sleep
of death. He will not forsake His own. He loved them to the
end. This is the absolute and unequivocal
love bestowed upon those whom He has loved from the beginning
and will never leave them behind for any reason. I go to prepare
a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I
am, there ye may be also. Do you believe in Him? He is
the Son of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. For a free CD containing 15 of
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