Let's take another look tonight
at 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 2. 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 2. Are you a sinner trusting the
Redeemer? Do you know the Lord Jesus? Has God by his grace made you
a stranger scattered among his sheep in this world in the midst
of wolves who would devour and destroy your soul? If so, hear these words by which
God the Holy Spirit inspired his servant Peter to describe
you. Elect, according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience
and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, grace unto you
and peace be multiplied. What a blessed description of
every heaven-born soul. With those sweet, sweet words,
the Spirit of God inspired Peter to describe all who trust Christ. These are things, these are the
things that rejoice the hearts of God's elect when they feel
that they have heavy loads like a millstone crushing them down
to the grave. You who believe in Christ, are
elect that'll make the burden bearable.
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification
of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. In this one sentence, in this
one verse of scripture, the Spirit of God gives us a volume of instruction. God's Word is just that way. It is that which states things
in brief words that stretch massively with meaning. Here the Spirit
of God declares to us that salvation is something that involves constantly
the work of the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Salvation
is God's work. It is the work of God the Father,
the work of God the Son, and the work of God the Holy Spirit.
There are three that bear record in heaven, John tells us. The
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one. We worship one God in the trinity
of his sacred persons. Well, explain that to me. If
I could explain God, he wouldn't be God. He's bigger than I am
and you too. Bigger than the theologians.
God Almighty, the triune Jehovah, is God our Savior. Salvation
was planned, purposed, and predestined by God the Father. Our salvation
was earned and purchased by God the Son. And salvation is brought
to us in the experience of grace by God the Holy Spirit in regeneration,
sealing to us all the blessings of the covenant. In the Old Testament,
circumcision was the seal of the covenant. That is, when the
child was circumcised as the son of Abraham, there was a visible,
manifest declaration, this child is a covenant child. And that
circumcision was a picture and a type not of baptism, but of
the new birth, the circumcising of the heart, the seal of God's
spirit. When God the Holy Spirit comes
in regenerating grace, he makes manifest to us and in us what
God has done for us by his free grace in Jesus Christ the Lord. So salvation is the work of God
and of God alone. It is the work of the triune
God. It is an effectual work of God,
unconditional and free. It is a work that God performs
without our aid or our assistance in any way. I remind you again,
salvation is a big, big, big, big word. We think about salvation,
we like to compartmentalize things. I have no idea how many volumes
of theology books I have in my office, and I appreciate reading
them and learning from them, but the theologians have a section
on the Trinity, and they have a section on the purpose of God,
and they have a section on justification, and they have a section on redemption,
and they have a section on sanctification, and they have a section on the
new birth, they have a section on perseverance, and the section
on the second coming. Listen, I got news for you. It's all God's salvation. All God's salvation. The whole
of God's work is the salvation of His people. The whole of God's
work. Salvation includes everything
involved in bringing chosen sinners from the depths of human depravity
to the glory of the Son of God in everlasting life when the
world is dissolved. Salvation takes in all the work
of God by which we are saved at last. And this doesn't depend
on you, doesn't depend on me. These days people talk about
salvation saying, Well, I made my decision for Jesus. I came
to the right. I decided to start living for
the Lord. I decided I'd start serving the
Lord. I gave my heart to the Lord last
night. Wonder what he want with that
thing? Wonder what he want with you?
No, no. That's the way religion is. It always emphasizes me. I, I. what I did, what I felt,
what I experienced. When was the last time you heard
someone use Bible terms? God saved me. When was the last
time you heard somebody talk about neighbor, family, friend,
anybody? When was the last time you heard
somebody outside this congregation and the congregations of believers
around the world who worship God in spirit and truth? When
was the last time you heard some religious babbling? We're a worshiper. Talk about God's salvation. Salvation
is something God does in any way, whatever. It always, they
talk about seeing amazing grace and they're actually seeing an
amazing me. It comes out to amaze me, look what I've done. This
is how God describes salvation, by grace are you saved. When
it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and
called me by his grace, he revealed his son in me. Salvation is a
revelation. Salvation comes by God revealing
himself in you. Christ comes in you and makes
himself known. Christ comes in you and sets
up his kingdom. And the first time you know he's
around, he's already on the throne in your heart. He comes in you
and cast out the strong man whom he has bound and he cleans the
house and he takes possession of it. My friend, brother Harry
Graham, he used to say, he doesn't knock at your heart's door, he
knocks the door down and he comes in and brings his welcome with
him. That's a pretty good way of putting it. Christ comes in
and brings his welcome. Christ is revealed within and
causes us to believe. Revealed by God the Holy Spirit. Read the text again. Elect, according
to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification
of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ, Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Now, remember four words and
you've got my message. I've given you the outline before.
Chosen, redeemed, sanctified, blessed. That describes every
child of God in this world. Chosen, redeemed, sanctified,
blessed. Number one, chosen. Elect according
to the foreknowledge of God the Father. Election. You want to cause a stir in churches,
go preach election. You want to see folks start to
get agitated, go preach election. You want to get something going,
Just go across the street and talk to those folks about election.
Talk about right there at that goat barn, right across the street
or beyond it. Just talk about election. I mean, they're ready to hang
you. They're ready to hang you. Election. You mean God chooses
some and not others? Well, let me think. I think that's what election
is, isn't it? You choose something and you don't choose something
else. And God did some choosing before the world was. Election
is but God's determination to save a people whom he loved with
an everlasting love before the world began. I don't like that. If you ever get in on it, you'll
be tickled to death with it. God chose me. Imagine that. I've never been chosen for anything
in my life. Nobody ever wanted me for anything.
But God Almighty who knew me better than anybody else. God
Almighty who knew what I would be when I came forth from my
mother's womb. God Almighty, who knew the direction
I would choose and all the path of my rebellion. God Almighty
said before the world was Don Fortner, I shall be his God and
he shall be mine and made me his in free sovereign election. And the day I'm ashamed to acknowledge
that God let me perish from off the face of the earth. God chose
me and I rejoiced in it. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest and causes to approach unto thee. The reason you're
sitting right here, God chose you and fixed it so you had to
hear the gospel and stuck his finger of grace in your heart
and pulled you to himself. It's just that simple. Well, Brother Donald, if that's
the case, what does man have to do with salvation? You understood
that, didn't you? You understand, if salvation
is by divine election, then it's not by man's choice. If salvation
is by divine election, then it's not by man's works. If salvation
is by divine election, then it's not by something men do. God
chose me. My wife called my attention to
1 Thessalonians 5 verse 9 a few weeks ago, two weeks ago. She
had read this passage, and the Lord Jesus, speaking by His Spirit,
says to the saints at Thessalonica, God hath not appointed us to
wrath. God has appointed us to salvation. There are some before of old
ordained to this condemnation. Is that what the book says? Is
that what the book says? Not me. When David realized that as he
saw that ark of God coming up into Jerusalem and he saw God's
salvation pictured in that ark, he clicked his heels in midair
and danced all the way home. God didn't appoint me to wrath,
but to salvation, to salvation. The Lord Jesus says concerning
the world, I pray not for the world. I pray not for the world,
but for them which thou hast given me. for they are thine. Oh, how blessed we are. Paul
says, we're bound to give thanks always to you, brethren, beloved
of the Lord, because God had from the beginning chosen you
to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the
truth. Turn to that. Hold your hands
here in first Peter. Turn to Ephesians 1. Ephesians
1. As many as were ordained to eternal
life believe. Acts 13, 48. Lord, who hath believed
our report, the prophet ask. And then he answered, he said,
to as many as the arm of the Lord has been revealed. It's
just that simple. Who is going to believe this
message? Who's going to believe this message? Hear what we say.
Older, younger. Who's going to believe the message?
Who's going to go out that door tonight believing God? As many
as were ordained of God from eternity to believe this message
tonight. That's who's going to believe.
If you believe, it's because God chose you. You see, faith
is the gift of God's grace. It is a spiritual blessing that
was bestowed on us in Christ before the world began. Look
at Ephesians 1 verse 3. Blessed be the God and father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us. If you haven't done it, I'm sure
you have. Maybe you have a new Bible and you haven't yet. Underscore
that word hath three or four times. H-A-T-H. It's already done. Not God who
shall bless us, though certainly that was so. Not God who in time
will bless us, though certainly that's the case. But God hath
blessed us with all. You spell that A-L-L. All spiritual blessings. All of them. Spiritual blessings. All spiritual blessings. Life
and faith. and all the gifts of grace, and
salvation, and sanctification, and justification, and glorification,
and redemption. We are redeemed and accepted
in Christ before the world began. You see this? He hath blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. He did it according as he hath
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before him. Now, sadly, the commentators,
most of the good commentaries, will tell you that this is saying
that God chose us to lead a holy life. Now, don't misunderstand
me, children of God. I urge you Glorify God in all
things. Live blamelessly in this world
before men. I mean by that, endeavor to live
in such a way that no man has basis upon which to charge you
with any evil. Walk before men in patience and
peace. Don't lose your temper at the
service station and grocery store and cuss a fellow out. And don't
cheat folks. Behave properly. Is that clear
enough? Seek to glorify God in thought,
word, and deed. But that's not what this is talking
about. That's not what it's talking about. He's chosen us, Larry,
that we should be holy and without blame before him. Now, you can't do that. You can't
do that. He said, walk before me and be
perfect, for I am perfect. Be ye holy, for I am holy. Well, how's that going to be?
In the last day, when he's finished, he's going to present us, Bobby,
spotless and blameless and unreprovable in his sight. And he's going
to laugh all the time he does it with exceeding joy. God shall with joy present me
before him wholly and without blame. Watch it now. In love,
having predestinated us. Predestination is a hard doctrine. No. In love, having predestinated
us. That's not hard. That means God,
before the world began, committed himself to you who are his in
sovereign predestination. predestinated us under the adoption
of children. That is predestinated us at last
under resurrection glory when the adoption is complete. We
know 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 in Christ Jesus accepted. Highly favored, honored, and
accepted of God. Made us His delight. His delight. His delight. Imagine that. God made me His
delight in Christ Jesus. Not because of something in me.
Not because of something he foresaw would be in me, but because he
made me one with Christ before the world was, in whom we have
obtained, have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace. How come? For God hath not appointed us
to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. But
Peter describes this election in a way that confuses a lot
of people. It's not normally described like
this. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. I'm going to tell you something.
You say, well, I wonder why the word of God puts things in there
like that, that folks can use so readily to pervert the gospel. because God gives goats cans
to chew on. Did you get that? God gives goats
cans to chew on. This book is written in such
a way deliberately, that is, by divine inspiration, written
in such a way on purpose as to cause those who will not believe
not to believe. as to cause those who will not
believe to be confused. People read this book, well,
I don't understand election. I understand you're not understanding.
I didn't expect you to. I didn't expect you to. I don't
understand how you can believe that. I didn't expect you to
understand that. I didn't expect, I don't expect
anybody to understand it. I really don't. I've almost quit
getting mad at folks who Send me notes and letters and emails
and threats and all that stuff. I didn't expect any better How
come because you can't understand it unless God gives you understanding
Now if God gives you understanding you won't have trouble with this
elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father well the will
worshiping Arminian The babbling free willer. The fellow who worships
his own will rather than God. That's what God describes them
as in Colossians 2, 23. Will worshipers. Will worshipers. Well, I believe, I believe the
fellow is saved. He just, he just doesn't know
the gospel. Well, I don't believe he's saved
yet. I don't believe he's saved. I believe he's saved. He just,
he just, he doesn't like what the Bible says about election.
Doesn't like what the Bible says? Oh, but he's a fine Christian.
No, he's just religious. He's just religious. Paul calls
them will-worshippers. And it's time we do the same
thing. They'll snarl and spit. There you see. Elections like
this. God looked out in eternity and
he saw that the time would come when he'd offer you the opportunity
to be saved, and you'd take it, and when he saw that you'd choose
him, he chose you. Well, doesn't that make God something? How pathetic! How sad! How ridiculous! No. This word, foreknowledge, carries
with it throughout the scriptures these four distinct meanings. Number one, for ordination. The scripture never speaks of
God for knowing things. You won't find it in this book.
You won't find it. It speaks of God for knowing
people. Always, wherever it's used, it
speaks of God knowing beforehand people. Omniscience is not for
knowledge. Foreknowledge is an act of God. Omniscience is an attribute of
God. Omniscience, that is all knowing. That's what the word means. All
knowing. That's God's attribute. He's God. He knows everything.
He knows everything. Foreknowledge is an act of God. And here he's speaking about
us being elect according to God's foreordination. How do you know? Write down in verse 20, the same
chapter, 1 Peter 1, he speaks of Christ, who is a lamb, who
verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world.
Very same word. Very same word. Foreknowledge
not only speaks of foreordination, but it speaks of love. I said
to you this morning, love is commitment. commitment. In the Septuagint translation,
the Greek translation of the Old Testament for which our Lord
constantly quoted in the New Testament during his life on
this earth, Adam knew his wife Eve. He knew her. Well, Adam knew
she had Blonde hair, auburn hair, Adam knew she was five feet tall,
Adam knew she was this, that. No, no, that's not what we're
talking about. Merle, Adam went into his wife
and declared himself committed to her in an act of love. That's the word. That's the word. So the Lord God before the world
began. knew me. He said, I've loved
you with an everlasting love before the world began, committed
himself to his people. Hold your hands here and turn
to John 17, John chapter 17 and verse 23. Our Lord's prayer. He comes to the end of this prayer
and he says, I in them and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent
me. And I'm determined, Lord God,
that the world knows something else, that thou hast loved them
as thou hast loved me. Frank, God Almighty loves us
as He loves His Son. Can you get hold of that? God
Almighty loves us as He loves Christ our Mediator. That can't
be! I would never believe it! But
God said it, and I delight to believe it. How can that be? We're one with His Son. You can't
separate God's elect from his son, not in time and not in eternity. He loved his son before the foundation
of the world. He loved us before the foundation
of the world. He loves his son without measure. He loves us without measure because
we are one with his son. Look at Psalm 1. Psalm 1, verse 6. Foreknowledge means foreordination.
Foreknowledge means love. Foreknowledge is divine approval. Psalm 1 verse 6, the Lord knoweth
the way of the righteous. The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous. That's not the Lord knows which
way we're taking. That's not it. I know that's
not what it means because the next line says, but the way of
the ungodly shall perish. He knows the way of the righteous.
He doesn't know the way of the ungodly. He knows the way of
the righteous. He doesn't know the way of the
ungodly. You mean he doesn't know which way they take? Yes.
He ordained every step for them just like he did every step of
the righteous. He ordained every breath they take just as your
brain ordained every breath you take. All things are of God. But what does this mean then?
The Lord approves of the way of the righteous. The way of
the ungodly shall perish. Our way is Christ. And the Lord
approves of that way. Our way is faith in His Son.
The Lord approves of that way. Our way is His Son's sacrifice. The Lord approves of that way.
Our way is the way of obedience. He approves of that way. The
way of the ungodly shall perish. So we are elect according to
the everlasting purpose. The everlasting foreordination. The everlasting love. and the
everlasting approval of God. Ooh, it gets even richer. This word foreknowledge speaks
of infallible safety and security. Elect according to the foreordination
of God the Father. according to the eternal love
of God, the father elect according to everlasting approval of God,
the father, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved and
elect according to the infallible security of God's purpose. First Timothy chapter two, you
don't have to turn to listen. Second Timothy, I'm sorry. Nevertheless,
The foundation of God standeth sure, no matter how bad things
appear, no matter what upheavals take place in this world, no
matter what darkness seems to overwhelm you, the Lord knoweth
them that are his. This is the seal. The foundation
of God standeth sure, having this seal, this unbreakable seal
of security. The Lord knows that there is.
He knows, he keeps them. He knows. He knows. When my daughter was a little
girl, she had something troubling her.
Do you know what it took to calm her? I don't mean it took away
all the fear, but do you know what it took to calm her? What it took to
calm her down? Honey, it's all right. Daddy knows. Daddy knows. Calm that little girl's fears.
Shake them in. You can see the anxiety's gone
from her face. Children of God, will you hear
me? Whatever it is that crushes your soul, your father knows. He knows you, and he knows the
way you take. He approves of you and he foreordained
you in love to everlasting salvation in his darling son. It is not
that I did choose thee, for Lord, that could not be. This heart
would still refuse thee, but thou has chosen me. My heart
owes none before thee, for thy rich grace I thirst, this knowing
if I love thee, thou must have loved me first. All right, look
back at our text. That's the first thing chosen.
But election's not the first thing we know. Election's not
the first thing we experience. There's no point in beating folks
over the head with election. No point in doing it. Not going
to help them in it. No point in trying to convince
somebody about election who doesn't believe God. There's no point
in trying to convince somebody that this is a true doctrine
who hasn't experienced it. It's not going to happen. It's
not going to happen. You'll never know your election
by God. You will never know that God's
chosen you by his grace until you have been sanctified by God
the Holy Spirit. Elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit. Sanctification
in its essence means to set apart for God, to set apart for holy
use. Most people think about sanctification
and they think, well, the Lord begins a new birth. He begins
this work of grace, makes you a new creature, and he gets you
started off right. Gets you started off right. Gives
you some holy desires and holy aspirations. And if you will
exercise spiritually and read your Bible enough and pray enough
and give enough and Go to church enough and sacrifice enough and
be nice enough. Then after a while, you'll get
gooder and gooder and gooder until you're holier and holier
and holier. And finally, you're right for heaven and your sanctification
just buds forth in glorification. Nobody honest, nobody honest
would declare such thing to be so. Because Bobby Estes, your
experience says otherwise. I just met you, Donald, this
morning. Your experience says otherwise. There's not one thing
in your flesh any better than it was when God first called
you by his grace. Oh, but I'm more holy now. You're
a liar. You're a bald-faced liar. That's all there is to it. You
know better. Now it may be your theology has
got you all confused and you think I've got to say this whether
I really believe it or not. You know better. You know better. I don't mind telling you flat
to your face, you're lying. You're lying through your heart.
You know better. But what is sanctification? Sanctification
is God setting us apart. The plates that were used to
hold the showbread in the tabernacle were just ordinary plates. That's
all they were. Now, they were nice, expensive
plates that were made out of gold, but they were just ordinary
plates. Some time ago, I bought my wife
some of those gold plates. I really did. Hers are just painted
that way. They're plastic, but they're
painted gold. We ate on them today called chargers. But we use those things all the
time. They're just plastic. If they
were gold, it'd be all right. We use them all the time. But
not those plates that were made for the tabernacle. You didn't
dare put your biscuits and gravy on those plates. They were sanctified. They were to be used for nothing
but holding showbread on the table. Well, what's so special
about those plates? Nothing. Nothing. What makes them different from
other plates? Nothing. They're just sanctified. That's
all. God, the father before the world was sanctified us. Jude verse one in Christ Jesus
and preserved us for nothing but himself and holy use. That's all. That's all. Christ
came into this world. He lived and died, and with his
own blood, he obtained for us eternal redemption, and he sanctified
us with his blood. Hebrews chapter 10, verses 9
through 14. We're sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. How's that? He set us apart from everybody
else. from everybody else. He set apart
his elect by blood redemption from all the rest of the world.
He redeemed his people from their sins, redeemed us for God, for
holy purposes. We're sanctified by God the Spirit
in regeneration. He comes in regeneration and
causes the sinner to live. It gives us life and faith in
Christ. And when it comes, you find something
happening. Do you remember when you tried
to believe? Do you remember what it was to
try to believe God? Oh, I tried to believe. I wanted to believe. I tried
to trust Christ. I wanted to trust Christ and
I couldn't trust Christ. And then one day, I couldn't not trust Him. I just,
I found myself believing Him. I found myself believing God.
What happened? God the Holy Spirit came in an
almighty sovereign power and gave me what wasn't there before,
a new nature. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Christ in you! And now I believe
on the Son of God, sanctified by the Spirit. He called me out
of all the rest of the world, made me His. Now will you hear
me, children of God? being sanctified, being sanctified
by our God, we are His. His. Lock, stock, and barrel, His. His. You're not your own. You're not your own. Helen Kidby,
not one breath you have is yours. Not one power you have is yours. Not one dollar you have is yours. You're not your own. You're bought
with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your
body and in your spirits, which are God's. Let us now deliberately
live under God our Savior. Peter declares here, we are elect
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification
of the Spirit. And then he says, we're redeemed
unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Well, Peter, you've got this
thing messed up. You got messed up. We're redeemed
and then we're sanctified. Yeah, that's exactly right. That's
how it took place. But that's not how you experience
it. And Peter's here describing the experience of God's grace.
We who are gods who have been sanctified are all those who
are redeemed through the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Christ. The obedience talking about here, the sprinkling of
the blood, I'm convinced can only be interpreted with a twofold
interpretation. It's intended to be interpreted
that way. First, it has reference to the Paschal Lamb, who every
year on the Day of Atonement was sacrificed and the blood
taken in and sprinkled on the mercy seat, picturing Christ,
our Redeemer, Christ, our Passover sacrifice for us, who obtained
eternal redemption for us by his accomplishment of redemption. And then it speaks not only of
redemption accomplished, but of redemption applied. When God
the Holy Spirit gives the sinner faith in Christ, the blood is
sprinkled on your conscience. So that you find yourself not
guilty before God. Oh, Sam, there's no joy, no peace,
no serenity, nothing to compare with that. Not guilty before
God. Not guilty. Not guilty. Bunyan pictures it in his Pilgrim's
Progress, that pilgrim's got that heavy burden on his back
and he's going everywhere he can to try to ease himself of
that horrible heavy load crushing him down to hell with guilt.
and finally goes up to Mount Calvary and saw Christ dying
in his stead. And he said, as soon as I saw
him, the burden fell off my back. Not guilty, not guilty. Faith
looks where God looks for satisfaction. Faith looks where God looks for
satisfaction. God looks to his side. And you
know what God says? Enough. Enough. Faith looks to Christ. Faith says enough. I tried to
muster righteousness and I couldn't. I looked to Christ and my conscience
says that's righteousness enough. I tried to make up to God for
my sins and I couldn't. And I looked to Christ and God
says to my conscience, that's enough. I tried to be holy and
I couldn't. And I looked to Christ and God
says to my conscience, that's enough. And I had peace with
God. I had peace with God. Well, we
can't talk like that. That'll make folks careless.
No, no. Preachers and religion use judgment
and law and threats and promises in order to keep folks in line
who don't know God. They use threats and law and
judgment and promises, try to keep folks doing things they
ought to do. They know they wouldn't otherwise do because they know
they filled the churches with mercenaries like themselves.
God's people aren't mercenaries. God's people are not mercenaries.
We don't serve God for what we can get from him. And we don't
serve God because we're afraid of him. We serve God because
he's created in us a love for him that only he can create,
willingly being constrained by the love of Christ. We have peace with him. Now,
here's the last thing. Chosen, sanctified, redeemed,
and blessed. What did Peter say? Grace and
peace be multiplied. Grace and peace be multiplied. This is not a wish. It's not
even a prayer. Brother Ponce, this is God's
promise to you, who are elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, through sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience
and sprinkling of the blood of Christ. You're blessed. with
grace and peace, all grace, eternal grace, daily grace, pardoning
grace, prevenient grace, sufficient grace, blessed with grace, peace,
peace of conscience, peace of heart, peace with God, peace
that passeth understanding, peace that only God can give. And these
blessings of grace are multiplied, multiplied. When you get up tomorrow
morning, try to wake up thinking about
what I've just told you. God today shall multiply to me
grace and peace. God today has multiplied to me
grace and peace. Multiplied. Never subtracted. Never diminished. Only multiplied. Multiplied grace. Multiplied
peace. Unceasing. How long? For as long as you need it. As
long as you live in this body of flesh. God of our fathers,
the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, God, our father
has chosen you. He's chosen you through sanctification
and has chosen you through redemption unto countless, unceasing, multiplied
grace and peace in Christ Jesus. Amen.