Returning to the LORD

Q: What does the Bible say about returning to the Lord?

The Bible emphasizes the necessity of returning to God through repentance and faith, as seen in Amos 4:6 and the parable of the prodigal son. Returning to the Lord is a central theme in Scripture, exemplified in passages like Amos 4:6, where God expresses His desire for His people to return despite their disobedience. This theme continues in the New Testament with the parable of the prodigal son, illustrating God's readiness to embrace all who turn back to Him. The act of returning signifies not just a physical turning but a heartfelt repentance, recognizing our need for His grace and mercy. The goal of salvation is ultimately to reconcile a fallen people to a holy God, restoring fellowship that was lost due to sin.

Q: How do we know the work of grace in conversion is true?

The authenticity of grace in conversion is evidenced by a sincere turning to God and a desire to live according to His will. The work of grace in conversion is marked by a genuine turning away from sin and a heartfelt return to God. As presented in the sermon, the Apostle Paul's conversion illustrates this change, transitioning from a life of disobedience to one of prayer and seeking God's will. This aligns with biblical principles, where repentance is a clear indicator of the Holy Spirit's transformative work within an individual. Moreover, the realization of God's love and grace, as well as the desire to be among His people, further affirms the authenticity of this work, leading to a life that seeks to honor God rather than merely conform to external rules.

Q: Why is the concept of God's judgment important for Christians?

God's judgment serves to remind Christians of His holiness and the need for repentance, ultimately leading to reconciliation. The concept of God's judgment is pivotal for Christians as it reflects His righteousness and the serious consequences of sin. Through various judgments presented in Scripture, such as those in Amos, we see that God’s aim is not merely to punish but to draw His people back to Himself. Judgment prompts believers to recognize their need for repentance and drives them to seek forgiveness and restoration in Christ. Understanding judgment as part of God’s plan reveals His desire for His people to return to Him, emphasizing the beautiful capacity for grace and redemption through faith in Jesus Christ.

Q: How can believers maintain their relationship with God?

Believers maintain their relationship with God through continual repentance, prayer, and by seeking to understand His will. Maintaining a relationship with God is essential for believers, requiring a posture of humility and a consistent desire for communion with Him. This involves daily repentance, recognizing areas of sin, and approaching God with a humble heart, as demonstrated in the parable of the prodigal son. Additionally, prayer is a vital means of communication, allowing believers to express their dependence on God and seek His guidance. The Spirit works through the Word of God, revealing God’s will and encouraging believers in their walk of faith. By fostering these practices—prayer, repentance, and engagement with Scripture—believers assure themselves of God's presence and strength in their lives.

Q: What is the ultimate plan of salvation in the Bible?

The ultimate plan of salvation is God's work to reconcile His chosen people to Himself through Jesus Christ. The ultimate plan of salvation is central to Christian theology, revolving around God’s sovereign purpose to reconcile a lost humanity to Himself. Before the foundation of the world, God chose His people and laid out a covenant of grace, establishing Jesus Christ as the focal point of this plan. Throughout Scripture, we see God's relentless pursuit to bring sinners back into fellowship with Him, fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. His sacrificial atonement serves as the means through which believers are redeemed, emphasizing that salvation is not based on human efforts but solely on God's grace and mercy. This plan also includes the assurance of eternal security through His intercessory work in believers' lives today.

Seeking for the help of the Lord, I direct your prayer for attention to Amos chapter 4, the passage that we read. And we read for our text verse 6. It is the latter part of that verse. The words, Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. The whole verse reads, And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord." Amos prophesied some 50 years before godly king Hezekiah. And Israel at this time was walking contrary to the Lord, far off from the Lord. And the Lord was sending things to them, of which we read in this chapter, those things that he was bringing in our text, the cleanness of teeth, they hadn't got their bread, their water, and yet the effect was not that they returned to the Lord.

Then we read how the Lord withheld rain from them. Rained on one city but not on the other city. So they got round it by two or three cities wandering to that other city. How easy it is for us as well. The Lord sends something upon us and we get round it because we got some money in the bank. Yes, it costs us a bit. but we get out from underneath the Lord's hand.

And so again in verse 8, we have, ye have not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Then in verse 9, we have again, the Lord smiting, blasting, and mildew, the same result, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Then he sends the pestilence just like in Egypt. Again the same effect. They still do not return. And then like Sodom and Gomorrah he overthrew some and still they did not return. Why did they not return?

What is the purpose? Is it the The thought that the Lord is not able to turn them at all, that He's helpless, He cannot do it. What is very evident in this is that the Lord is doing these things that they do return unto Him. That is His aim, that is the plan, what is here.

But it is not being effectual. And the message is here on its own. Afflictions and trials, however severe they are, they are not effectual on their own. One of our hymns, Hymn 76, we read, judgments nor mercies, air can sway their roving feet to wisdom's way. And we prove that we are just the same as Israel.

So it needs a divine work. Yes, God often does use these afflictions and these trials, but on their own, it doesn't work for good and often makes people even more hard and rebellious against the Lord. So it is A passage that again and again is highlighting here is a people that the Lord is visiting and visiting, but they are not turning. And yet it highlights here is the aim that there be a returning.

Now, if we go from Israel and we think of us all, as sons of Adam. We have, through our sins, been separated from God, alienated from God, sin entered into the world and death by sin. And we are far off from God, that communion, even Adam himself was driven from the garden, no more fellowship, no more communion at all with his maker. And yet here we have the Lord speaking to his ancient people.

And here we have in the word of God as well, what God is doing and what God has planned to bring about a reconciliation, to bring a people far off to be brought nigh again. to the Lord. So I want to look this morning at three points. Firstly, the whole plan of salvation is to return a people to the Lord. That is the plan of salvation. And then secondly, the work of grace in conversion is a returning to the Lord. And then thirdly, the work of God in keeping and in chastening His people to bring them to return to the Lord is an ongoing work, that they do not go away from Him, that they are kept close to Him. That work is God's work. as well.

I want to look firstly at the whole plan. Whatever we plan to do, we will have or should have an end in view. When I was a mechanical design engineer, we were given machines to design, there was always an end in view. What that machine was to be capable of, how much it cost, what its function was, you must not ever lose sight of that.

And so, with the plan of salvation, The end in view really is summed up with what is emphasized through this chapter, a people returning to the Lord. If we think of the people of God that were loved with an everlasting love, that were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world, And we see them before the world. And then we see in Revelation a number which no man can number of every nation, kindred, and tongue. And we see that it is the same people, the same people that were lost and ruined in the fall, the same that were alienated from God.

Those are with the Lord forever in eternity. Our Lord prays, Father, I will that they who thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory. And yet all that are with the Lord and will be with the Lord were all dead in trespasses and sins. They all said, we will not have this man to rule over me. We are all gone our own way. And he had laid on him the iniquity of us all.

And so we must think of that plan of the Lord, that purpose of the Lord to bring a people that should be His inheritance and they have the Lord for their inheritance to be partners of His throne. who were once enemies but are now friends, once were far off but now brought nigh. How will the Lord do that? How will he achieve that? Not as we have here, by bringing judgment upon judgment. That didn't work. None of it worked. There must be something more than that. He's not relying upon the response of man.

However much God brings a judgment, to bend man's own will of his own and to turn himself of his own. That is very evident that is here. So the plan must take that into account. It must not have a weak link that relies on man and leaves God as helpless. We could think, perhaps reading this chapter, that God is helpless, he hasn't achieved, he hasn't brought the people, he's relying on them to turn and they haven't turned. The Lord dealt further with them as a nation, eventually brought them into Babylon in captivity and then brought them out and brought them back to him again. But these things are written for our learning, they're written a four times Things that happened unto them, they are to teach us and to instruct us.

And we need then to look at that plan. Well, central to God's plan is our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He is the central part of God's plan of bringing a people together. God and sinners reconciled. And so, then there is a covenant. This is what David said. Allow my house be not so with God. Yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. And this is all my salvation and all my desire, though he make it not to grow.

David himself had sinned in murder, in departing from the Lord. The Lord had brought him back, his own house, the sword shall not depart from thy house. And even when he was called and converted, he was still a sinner. He was not made so that he could walk as he really wanted to walk.

But his whole hope was in this covenant or agreement And that covenant is between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, with the people of God as the subject of it. The most beautiful illustration of this is the covenant between David and Jonathan. That David promised Jonathan that he would not destroy his seed, that he would show mercy to his seed. And when David was established as a king, he asked, is there any of the seed of Saul, the seed of Jonathan, that I might show favor unto him?

And there was Mephibosheth, and he was lame in both his feet. There was nothing in him to recommend that he should be brought to the king, brought to the king's table, and be blessed. In fact, he may not even have been born when that covenant was made, but he was the subject of it. He wasn't involved in making that, but he was the subject of it.

Might be like, perhaps, a father, a mother, or grandparents, and they make an agreement. They make a trust. They make provision for grandchildren. The grandchildren might not yet be born, but at the time appointed, they get the funds, they get the benefit, not because of anything good in them, but because they were written in that trustee or that covenant.

And so this is what David was looking for before time. And Paul takes this up when he writes to the Ephesians that we are chosen in Him, that is chosen in Christ, before the foundation of the world. Jeremiah 31 verse 3, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, and therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. It all goes back before time, before the fall even.

Some people struggle with this, they say, Did God ordain the Fall then? Yes, He did. Did God ordain that His Son should suffer, bleed and die? Yes, delivered according to the full knowledge of God the Father. Ye have taken Him by wicked hands, crucified and slain. The amazing thing with God's covenant is that He actually uses sinners. He uses Satan to bring about his plan. Amazing that he should do that. We can make our plans.

We've made them in this last week. And because things don't go according to plan, we are not where we thought we would be at a certain time. Everything goes wrong because we're dependent on so many different people, mechanical things. We can never say we've made this plan. And it's all going to go according to plan. It's going to happen. It doesn't happen, because we haven't got control.

But God has control. And that's a great, comforting thing. Last night, when I was over 300 miles away, sitting at a station, and having the train cancelled, and going to be quite an hour or so or more, and I felt to really be comforted in this. These trains and these people, they are all in God's hand. He knows exactly what He's doing. There's a reason why I shouldn't be in London yet.

It must be in the Lord's purpose. And it's a wonderful thing to realize that, that God is using all sorts of things. to bring about his purpose. And we are in that. We don't need to fear or get anxious and agitated and wonder what's going to happen when we realize that God is in control. And it is a real comfort when we feel that.

And of course, we realize that the Lord said at Calvary, this is your hour. This is the time when the serpent his head will be bruised, but he shall bruise the heel of our Lord. We think of the time when David numbered Israel. We get two accounts of that. One, it is that Israel had sinned and God moved David to number Israel. The other is that Satan stood up against Israel and he caused David to number Israel and David numbered Israel through the pride of his heart and didn't take the sum according to the sanctuary. It was a redemption money and so he came to pass what was said in Exodus, the plague came upon the people. Well did Satan get his way? Was it Satan? Was it the Lord? It was the Lord but Satan thought he was destroying Israel. But David said, I have sinned. So there's David taking, he should have walked according to the light of the revealed will of God.

And we ought to always do that. Never sin, never consciously go against the word of God, thinking, well, the Lord will make it work for good. It must be the Lord's will, even if I go against his will. Yes, it may be, but we will suffer for it. We should do as we are commanded. And so David said, I have sinned. He doesn't blame the Lord. He doesn't blame Satan. But the Lord worked it for good.

David had been planning the temple. He'd been getting all of the stones and the nails and all of the goods for the temple. But where was it going to be built? And through that numbering of Israel, when the Lord showed that he answered in the floor of Verona the Jebusite, the Lord showed David where that temple was to be built. That was necessary.

And so Satan, rather than hindering the work of God, he brought it about further. And in God's plan, he takes into account Satan's activities. He takes into account our sins. He takes into account the nations of the world, the decisions of governments, and all things that affect us. God is over all. He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and that cannot change God's plan, but rather bring it about.

His purpose is widening fast and folding every hour. The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower. And it is in this plan, then, that the Lord Jesus Christ was to be a substitute for his people. The plan was to be the eternal Son of God, one with the Father and with the Holy Spirit, was to be made flesh and dwell among us. God is a spirit.

He does not have parts. He's not contained to any place. But in the Lord Jesus Christ, he says, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father also. I and my Father, are one. Great is the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh, central to God's plan. I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. And there is the returning unto the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. How is it going to be done? Well, the Lord is going to be the offering. He is going to offer himself up as a sacrifice.

You know, before that, right through the Old Testament, we had the sacrifices then, the blood and the bulls and the goats, but Paul tells us in Hebrews, they could never put away sins. It's almost like what we have in this chapter. We have the law right through the Old Testament, the covenant of works. Can works bring us salvation? Can we obtain bring nigh to God through our own works. No, we can't. We need to prove that first. Many times through scripture, there is proof first, a way that doesn't work, and then the way that does work.

When Goliath was challenging Israel, we had 40 days where no one in Israel, not the king even, was found able to fight against Goliath. Then comes David. So David is exalted right above. But it needs to be exhausted first. We have Ruth in the Book of Ruth, and she desires that Boaz would redeem her. He's a next of kin. But Boaz, he said, there's one nearer than I. That must be found out first. And so he goes to him. Yes, he'll redeem it when it's land. But when it is Ruth, no, he says, I can't. I'll mar my own inheritance. So that is ruled out, and then Boaz can redeem her. And what the Lord does, he rules out that we cannot redeem ourselves. Man cannot redeem us. We cannot save ourselves by our own works. And when that is ruled out by the deeds of the law, no man living shall be justified.

Then he shows us the Lord Jesus Christ. Then he shows us the substitute, the real way, the only way, his plan of bringing us back to God. So our Lord comes and he offers himself a spotless sacrifice. He lived a perfect life, suffering the temptations of Satan, proving he was truly God, not of Adam's race. And the seed of the woman, yes, but not through Adam stained with sin. Taking on him the seed of Abraham, sin accepted. And so in that plan, the Lord comes as that substitute and he pays that payment and he rises again from the dead.

And then he ascends up into heaven and he is the mediator of that covenant. Has he settled the debt? Has he purchased his people? He redeemed his people? Now, in that plan, he is going to bring about a bringing of the people back to God through his intercession in heaven, through his mediation. In other words, he is the executor of his own will. When we die or someone else dies, they can't be an executor of their own will.

Someone else must do it. And they reach out to those that are written in that will. They make them known what is due to them. And they make sure they get what is due to them because of what's in that will. And our Lord is doing that. He knows for whom He stood. He knows whose sins He bore. He knows whom he has loved with an everlasting love. And so this is my second point.

The work of grace in conversion is a returning unto God. We might have many thoughts of what is a work of grace. How do I know whether I am born again of God? How do I know whether I am converted? How do I know whether I'm saved, whether I'm going to heaven or not? Well, when we focus it on this aspect, this one aspect, the work of grace in conversion is returning unto the Lord.

Ye that are sometime far off are made nigh. by the blood of Christ. We read the parable of the prodigal son. In that chapter, there is three parables there, speaking of repentance, returning. The gospel is to be preached repentance, which is a turning, turning from sin and turning to God, turning from our own way and turning to the Lord's way. Sometimes when we think of the Apostle Paul's conversion, we might think of what he said or what was said of him.

Behold, he prayeth. And that is a real mark of grace. Because what is prayer? It is a poor sinner calling upon the name of the Lord, one that has never taken any notice of the Lord, one who has never prayed to the Lord, one who didn't want the Lord in their lives, they're beginning to pray and beginning to call. Is not that returning unto the Lord? How many of you here have been brought from a prayerless state to a prayerful state, from being far off from the Lord that He never heard from you, and now He does hear from you?

You are found at His throne. This is the Lord working out that plan. But there's another thing with the Apostle Paul as well. And this is what he said, Lord, what will thou have me to do? Again, it's returning instead of I'm going my own way. This is what I want to do. This is my plan. This is my intention. Immediately, there's what is thy plan. God has a plan.

But a sinner in nature's darkness, he doesn't interest it in that land. He doesn't want a part of it. Who is the Lord that I should obey him, he takes into the words of Pharaoh. But Paul, for the first time, he wants to know, what will thou have me to do?

Does that find an echo in your heart, in my life as well? Your desire that you might do the will of God, you want to know that will, and it's your concern that you do that will, and you think, that wasn't always the case with me. That wasn't always my way.

What has made the difference? This is what the Lord does in the work of grace in conversion. It is a returning to the Lord. There's another aspect as well. One thing that Ruth said, thy people shall be my people, thy God, my God. The apostles, being let go, went unto their own company. By nature, we have a company.

It is those that like the things that we like, the things of the world, the language of the world, the ways of the world. But when the Lord begins, then there is a desire to be with the people of God. Those who are being taught in the same way, those who are gathering with him, this is where the Lord says, unto him shall a gathering of the people be. Not just one, but a gathering of them. Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst.

And it's important to realize this aspect, this work of God, not just disjointed evidences and signs, but a work that is bringing those far off, like that prodigal son, far off, gone his own way, asked his own way, and now he's in want, and he immediately wants to return. That is God's work.

He is exalted to give repentance and remission of sins unto Israel. The two of them go together, turning and remission of sins. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It's God's work then to bring this about. How does he bring this about? Well primarily it is through the word of God. The Lord gave the word, great was the company of them that published it.

Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of the Lord. He gives his people life, I give unto them eternal life, and that gives them ears to hear. what the Spirit saith unto the churches. How shall they hear, except they have a preacher? How shall they preach, except they be sent? How beautiful are the feet of those that bring good tidings of good things.

In preaching the gospel, we preach the law, and we preach the gospel. We preach the way that we are under by nature, under condemnation, under a broken law. that we cannot fulfill that law, but then point to Christ who has fulfilled that law on our behalf.

And that work is in the finished work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and is to be brought to trust in what he has done. He has promised, I, if I be lifted up above the earth, will draw all men unto me. Same plan, isn't it? returning unto Christ, drawn unto Christ, drawn unto God, reconciled by the blood of Christ. And it's as this is preached, as it is set forth, that the Holy Spirit then opens the eyes, see God's plan, see what the Lord is doing, sees His purposes, and the Spirit will bear witness in our own hearts as to our own like here judgments nor mercy's neck and rove but then when the lord works with his spirit then there is a softening then there is a drawing then there is that done and he's god's work the salvation of god is from the decree of heaven because christ has died it is through his work Those that He blesses through His Word, they are blessed. Those that are drawn to Him are drawn. Those that are changed and returned, they return because He has done it. And this is done through the means of grace, through the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe.

This is God's work, a work of grace in conversion, is returning unto the Lord. And eventually, that will be returning to the church on earth, returning through the ordinances of the Lord's house, and at last returning and to be with the Lord forever in heaven. But for that to be, There's another provision of the covenant that we need to know and to be a comfort and a help to us. I want to look at that in our third point. And that is the work of God in keeping and chastening his people to bring them to return to the Lord.

We said that God has taken into account in his plan that we are sinners. And even when we're born again, we're still sinners. And we're in a fallen world, and we have an active Satan. And many, like David, prove that they fall. And they grow cold, and they grow far off from the Lord. What kind of a salvation would it be if it had any weak link that the Lord Converted first and brought a people back to him and now says now it's up to you You don't go from me evermore You don't fall And if you do you're lost forever But the lord says in john 10 I give unto them eternal life and no man is able to pluck them out of mine hand My father that gave them me is greater than I, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand."

He goes back to that covenant. He goes back to this people is God's people. It is his possession. He's purchased them, and so he will keep them. And he will chasten them, and he will correct them. You have a beautiful Word in Isaiah, Isaiah 13. And if we look at verse 15, the Lord says, For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved. In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength, and ye would not. But ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses. Therefore shall ye flee, and we will ride upon the swift. Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. But then we come to this word, verse 18.

Therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you. And therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you. For the Lord is a God of judgment, blessed are all they that wait for Him. Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

We have in Hebrews 12 that God chastens every one of his people, that he corrects them as a father would correct his son. When a son, a daughter, when the children disobey their parents, they're not cast out the door, they're not disowned as children, but they're lovingly corrected. that there be a reconciling of the love between the parent and the child. The love is there, but sin, it makes a difference. Transgression makes there to be a separation.

And the Lord will have his people then turn from their wicked ways, turn from their wrong ways, repent of them, sorry for them, mourn over them, and come back to him. And so you use things like we have here in Amos, but instead of it being ineffectual, and yes, it may be ineffectual for quite a while to highlight how we of ourselves cannot turn, but the Lord can turn us, and the Lord does turn us.

I proved this in my own life. And we naturally think, well, we think, well, this has happened. This judgment and this trial and this affliction, what will the Lord have to bring? But I proved it again and again. The thing that has brought me has actually been a blessing, a mercy, not the judgment, that has just softened my heart. That is what has done it.

Our natural thought is of such a hard rebellious spirit Though the Lord is going to crush me, is going to deal so hardly with me, because I feel my heart won't end, it won't obey. Sometimes I make resolutions, but I break them. But sometimes I don't feel even if I want to turn. But the Lord knows how to do it.

He knows every one of his children. Those of us who've had children, we might only have had two. But they've got very different natures. And you deal differently with the other, because you know their nature, and you know what is effectual with them. And the Lord knows his children.

And that itself is a very comforting thing for the people of God. Peter, all the time, when the Lord says, love us, thou may, Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee. The greatest comfort is when we persuaded through God's dealings in providence, by suiting his word to our case, that he actually knows us and that that which he's done is because he has known where we are, what we are, what our nature is. He's brought that word, just what we want. To feel then that we have a God that sees and knows us and is working to bring us back. We have in Peter Those that are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

And he uses those trials, uses those fiery trials, the trial of your faith being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, shall be found unto praise and honor and glory at that last day. All things work together for good. to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. And that working together, on one hand, proves how sinful we are, how bent to backsliding, how far off we go from him.

And on the other hand, he will not let us go, but he'll bring us back, and he'll work in our hearts. We don't sin that grace might abound, but what a comfort for a people that painfully aware of their sinnership their fallen nature, that they have a God that has a plan that has taken that into account and He works it in their lives and we can see it working in our lives. It confirms that love that the Lord has to us that shall bring us safely to our journey's end. He which has helped us hitherto will help us all our journey through. He will bring us safely home to God.

Not one shall be left out, because it is the Lord's work. Jonah could say in the whale's belly, and while he got there, because of his rebellion, running away, the Lord preserved him there. He said, salvation is of the Lord. And every one of God's people has to prove that. Salvation is of the Lord. If ever my poor soul be saved, says the hymn writer, tis Christ must be the way. It is His work. The crown is on His head, the blessing upon Him. But the work that He is doing, and the work that is before us here this morning, is a work that brings us to return unto the Lord.

And you see in that parable of the prodigal son, how lovingly the father received the child. What a welcome He gave him. What an encouragement to return. how unworthy he felt, but how the Father would have nothing of it but would have him blessed. One was lost and now he's found. One was dead and he's now alive. This is the heart of God in the plan that he has, gathering his people from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, bringing them to himself, bringing them to be with Him in glory. Well may we be amongst them. May we know just some of those things mentioned this morning. The Spirit bear witness we are not strangers to that. We know something of that Word in our own soul. May the Lord bless it and bless you each. Amen.

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How can believers maintain their relationship with God?

What is the ultimate plan of salvation in the Bible?

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Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about returning to the Lord?

How do we know the work of grace in conversion is true?

Why is the concept of God's judgment important for Christians?

How can believers maintain their relationship with God?

What is the ultimate plan of salvation in the Bible?

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About Rowland Wheatley

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