Okay, Acts chapter 15, Acts chapter
15. One of my favorite verses in
the book of Acts is found in verse 18, Acts 15 verse 18. Known unto God, known unto God. How well does God know things?
How well does God know the decrees of God? Known unto God are all
His doings, all His doings, from the beginning of all ages, is
that word, world, as I pointed out, from ages, endless ages. God has always been God. GOD
HAS ALWAYS DECREED AND KNOWN ALL THINGS FROM WHENEVER THE
BEGINNING... THE BEGINNING HAS NO BEGINNING,
DOES IT? IT SAYS IN GENESIS 1-1, IN THE
BEGINNING, GOD. IT DOESN'T SAY GOD HAS A BEGINNING. IN THE BEGINNING, GOD. THOUGH
KNOWN UNDER GOD ARE ALL OF HIS WORKS, ALL OF HIS DOINGS, FROM
ENDLESS AGES, FROM ALL ETERNITY, INCLUDING THE REDEEMING WORK
OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. WE SEE THE LAMB WAS SLAIN IN
THE DECREE AND PURPOSE OF GOD BEFORE GOD EVEN CREATED MAN AND
PUT HIM UPON THE EARTH. EVEN BEFORE ADAM SINNED, THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST STOOD, RIGHT, AS A CHARITY, GUARANTOR, MEDIATOR
OF HIS COVENANT PEOPLE FROM THE BEGINNING. Now, notice it says
there His works. His works. Salvation from our
view as believers is by the free, sovereign grace of God, right?
Free grace, sovereign grace, the only kind of grace there
is. Justified freely by His grace. But now, salvation from God's
view is all according to His works. His priestly work as a
God-man mediator. Remember the Lord said, even
as a young man in the flesh, he said, I must be about my father's
business. And on the eve of the cross,
he prayed, Father, I've glorified thee on the earth. I've finished
the work you gave me to do. So really we can say, and I remember
a friend of mine one time came up to me one Sunday morning,
he said, I've come to the conclusion that salvation is all of works.
He caught me off guard. I said, what do you mean? All
his works. Salvation's of the Lord. It's
all his works. Lord willing, we're going to
study Psalm 111 on Wednesday night, and it's all about His
redeeming work. His redeeming work. Psalm 92
says this, I will triumph in the work of
thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works,
and thy thoughts are very deep. Now aren't you glad that our
salvation depends upon his doing and dying and not ours? I'd be in a pitiful state of
misery if I thought salvation depended upon this poor sinful
creature. That has to be a state of misery.
But thank God, we know that salvation of the Lord, known under God,
are all His works, works of grace, works of redemption, work of
salvation, from everlasting. Now, all things which God does
in the church and in the world, they're all foreknown, decreed,
predetermined by Him, from the beginning of all things, from
everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Even all of his works
of creation, providence, and redeeming grace, salvation, all
of God. God in eternity knew it would
be because God in eternity determined that it should be. According
as he has foretold it, and decreed it. He said, I've spoken it,
I'll bring it to pass, I've purposed it, I will do it. Psalm 33 says,
I spake and it was done. God said, I commanded and it
stood fast. God is the first cause. Now remember
reading this statement 40 years ago, 40 years ago, and I still
remember it. John Gill, which is one of the
foremost good commentaries that's left written back in the 1700s. He said, God is the first cause. Now think about this, known unto
God always works from the beginning. Known unto God, God is the first
cause and last end of all things. Now there may be second, third,
or fourth causes. God's first cause and last end
of all things and he takes that from Romans 11 36 where it says
of him and through him or to him of him through him and to
him are all things to whom be glory, both now and forever. God worketh all things after
the counsel of his own will and purpose. There is nothing out
of control. The chaos we see going on in
communities and in our nation and around the world, that's
all under the control of God's determinate counsel and end. It'll be okay. It'll be okay. He that sits in the heavens laughs
at the rebels' rebellion. We read in Isaiah 14, Surely
as I have thought, God says, so shall it come to pass. As
I have purposed, so shall it stand. known unto God all of
his works from the beginning. Now we'll come back to that in
just a moment. We learned in our study last
week the self-righteous Jews came to the Gentile church in
Antioch and demanded that the Gentiles who God had saved by
his grace be forced to keep the law of Moses. Remember verse
1, Acts 15 verse 1, certain men which came down from Judea and
taught their brethren and said, except ye be circumcised after
the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. Verse 5 of Acts 15,
but there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
believed, and here's what they believed, saying that it was
necessary, needful, to circumcise those Gentiles and command them
to keep the law of Moses. That was the debate. That was
the question. After much discussion, Peter
stood up and declared in verse 11, but we believe, Acts 15,
11, we believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
we shall be saved. By the grace of God, we shall
be saved. God's gonna save the religious
Jew exactly the way, the same way he saved the pagan Gentile.
How? By the grace of God, the sovereign
grace of God. WE BELIEVE THROUGH GRACE. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY A SINNER
WILL EVER BELIEVE THE GOSPEL IS BY THE SOVEREIGN GRACE OF
GOD. BY GRACE ARE YOU SAVED THROUGH FAITH. THAT AND NOT OF YOURSELF,
IT IS A GIFT OF GOD. NOT BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW,
BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD. THE LAW OF GOD NEVER REMOVES
SIN, IT REVEALS IT, EXPOSES IT, AND THEN IT DRIVES US TO THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW.
WHEN PETER HAD DECLARED THE SALVATIONS OF THE LORD, VERSE 12, ALL THE
MULTITUDE PAID ATTENTION, GAVE AUDIENCE, BARNABAS AND PAUL,
THEY DECLARED WHAT MIRACLES AND WONDERS GOD HAD WROUGHT AMONG
THE GENTILES. WE'VE SEEN THAT STATEMENT THREE
TIMES. YOU REMEMBER BACK IN CHAPTER 14? Verse 27, and when they were
come and gathered the church together, they rehearsed all
that God had done with them, how he opened the door of faith
to the Gentiles, and there they abode a long time. Again, he
says that in verse four of Acts 15, when they were come to Jerusalem,
they were received with the church and the apostles and elders,
and they declared all things that God had done with them. So they're very careful. But
very careful to give God all the honor and glory for the conversion
of these Gentiles. I love what Paul writes in 1
Corinthians 3, when they were debating about who is the best
preacher. Remember, he said, we're just planters. I planted
the tallest water, but it's God who gives the increase. We are
nothing. It's God who gives the increase,
the increase, SALVATION BY GRACE. IN PSALM 118, WE READ THESE WORDS
ABOUT GOD'S SAVING PURPOSE IN CHRIST. THIS IS THE LORD'S DOING
AND IT'S MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES. GOD EVER SAVES YOU OR ANY SINNER,
IT WILL BE ALL GOD'S DOING. ALL HIS DOING. NOW, After Peter had said and
declared salvations of the Lord after Paul and Barnabas had said
salvations of the Lord verse 13 and following James the Apostle Answered and said men and brethren.
I have a message for you Simeon had declared how God at first
did visit the Gentiles and take out out of them a people, a people,
for his name." We have the words of James, who was the pastor
of the church in Jerusalem. He was one of the chosen apostles. He was a half-brother of the
Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh. James, in his message, declares
the same message as Peter Paul in Barnabas declaring that salvation
is by the eternal purpose, sovereign grace of God, not by the deeds
of the law. You remember we read a moment
ago, Acts 15 verse 24, for as much as we have heard that certain
which went out from us and have troubled you with words subverting
your soul saying, that you must be circumcised and keep the law,
we gave no such commandment. These were false brethren, as
Paul calls them in Galatians chapter two. We believe that
salvation is by the grace of God alone, not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy. God saved us and
called us, not according to our works, God's own purpose and
grace given us in Christ before the foundation of the world.
See, knowing unto God always works from the beginning, from
the beginning. James declared, verse 14, how
God did visit God did visit sinners and God did take of them a people
for his name. So James declares and emphasizes
the same thing that Peter had declared that God has a people
according to the election of grace, grace alone. God is going to claim His people
who He has chosen in that eternal covenant of grace as we read
back in Acts chapter 13 verse 48, as many as were ordained
to eternal life believe the gospel of God's grace in Christ Jesus. You see, everything that God
does in time, God did visit these people in time, right? BUT GOD
DID VISIT THEM IN TIME BECAUSE GOD HAD DECREED FROM THE BEGINNING
THAT HE WOULD DO THIS, THAT HE WOULD TAKE A PEOPLE UNTO HIS
NAME OUT OF EVERY KINDRED, TRIBE, NATION, AND TONGUE, AND WASH
THEM, AND MAKE THEM WHOLE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,
AND JUSTIFY THEM BY HIS GRACE. VERSE 15 IN ACTS 15, 15, AND
TO THIS AGREE THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS. Not only did Peter
and Paul say the same thing, declared the same message, but
all the prophets, all the prophets, they declared the same message. Remember, turn back to Acts chapter
10. Remember when Peter went to the
house of Cornelius? In Acts chapter 10 verse 42,
he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that
it was he which was ordained of God to be ORDAINED OF GOD? HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? ORDAINED
OF GOD TO BE THE JUDGE OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD? TO HIM GIVE
ALL THE PROPHETS WITNESS THAT THROUGH HIS NAME WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH
ON HIM SHALL RECEIVE THE REMISSION OF SIN. ALL THE PROPHETS HAVE
BUT ONE MESSAGE. TURN BACK TO, YOU REMEMBER, IN
LUKE 24. TURN BACK THERE. LORD PREACHED TO THOSE MEN, BEGINNING
AT MOSES AND ALL THE PROPHETS. HE EXPOUNDED UNTO THEM IN ALL
THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF. LOOP 24 NOW, I WANT
YOU TO LOOK AT VERSE 44. REMEMBER WHAT JAMES SAYS OVER
HERE? AND TO THIS AGREE THE WORDS OF
THE PROPHET AS IT IS WRITTEN. So here's what the Lord says,
this is the risen Lord appearing to his apostles, and he said
unto them, verse 44, these are the words which I spake unto
you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled,
which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets,
and in the song concerning me. Then he opened their understanding
that they might understand the scriptures. All the scriptures
have but one message. That one message is Jesus Christ,
his person, his work, and salvation by his grace alone. His grace alone. Now, I want
you to turn to another scripture on that point behind the book
of Ephesians. Ephesians chapter two. Now therefore, verse 19, you
are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints, and the household of God are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets. What is the foundation of the
apostles and prophets? They're not the foundation, but
what's the foundation of the apostles and prophets? Jesus
Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. So James and Peter
both point sinners back to the Lord Jesus Christ who fulfilled
all things written in the word of the Lord. Our Lord said to
those Pharisees, you do search the scriptures and in them you
think you have eternal life, John chapter five. And he said,
those scriptures, they testify of me. AND HE SAID, YOU WON'T
COME TO ME THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE LIFE. HAD YOU BELIEVED MOSES,
YOU WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME BECAUSE MOSES WROTE ABOUT THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST. NOW BACK TO ACTS 15. TO THIS
AGREE THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS. AND THEN JAMES IS GOING TO QUOTE
FOR US FROM THE BOOK OF AMOS, THE PROPHET AMOS, CHAPTER 9,
VERSE 11 AND VERSE 12. AFTER THIS, GOD SAID, I WILL
RETURN. WILL RETURN AND I WILL BUILD
AGAIN THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID. THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID IS THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT A PHYSICAL
BUILDING. THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH AND TABERNACLED
AMONG US, JOHN 1, 14. I WILL RETURN, KNOWING THAT THE
GOD ALWAYS WORKS FROM THE BEGINNING, I WILL RETURN, I WILL BUILD AGAIN,
the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down. I will build
again the ruins thereof. I will set it up." Now, it sounds
like somebody has a will that's going to be done, right? Now,
I can say, I will do this and I will do that. That may not
come to pass if it's not the Lord's will. But when he says,
I will, it's done. It done. He said, I've spoken
it. I bring it to pass. I've purposed
it. I will do it. Now, again, this
is not talking about the physical kingdom of David. Some people
think that that will be restored in the latter days. That's not
so. This is talking about the greater
David, the Lord Jesus Christ, establishing a spiritual kingdom,
the church of the Lord Jesus Christ that he bought with his
own blood, established upon one foundation, purchased with his
blood. Behold, I lay in Zion, Isaiah
28. Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
of stone, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, he that believes
on that foundation will never be forced out, never be confounded,
never be ashamed. Now, remember the words of our
Lord when he said to Peter, when Peter made that confession, that
you're the Christ. And the Lord said, you're blessed
because flesh and blood didn't teach you that. My father has
revealed that to you. And then he says upon this rock,
Christ crucified, I'll build my church and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it. I will return. I will build my
church. I will set up my kingdom. It sounds to me, I'm not the
sharpest knife in the drawer, but it sounds to me like salvation
is of his will. Now, what did we read in James
chapter one just a moment ago? James 1, 18, where James said
the same thing he says right here. Of his own will begat he
us with the word of truth. So Paul writes this in Romans
nine, if not in Willeth, NOR OF HIM THAT RUNNETH, BUT OF GOD
THAT SHOWS MERCY. SALVATION IS BY THE SOVEREIGN
GRACE OF GOD. I WILL RETURN, I WILL BUILD AGAIN,
I WILL SET IT UP, I WILL DO IT,
I WILL GET IT DONE. Verse 17, THAT, IN ORDER THAT
THE RESIDUES Now, residue is just a small portion, right?
A residue. A residue of men. He's talking here about the remnant
according to the election of grace. He's talking about a remnant
of God's people that's purchased with the blood of Christ, that
the residue of men. I will set up my kingdom that
the residue of men Sinners called out of darkness into his marvelous
light the residue of many doesn't say all mankind But the residue
of men might seek after who? Now wouldn't it be right and
well to seek salvation where it's found? Wouldn't it be right
and well to seek mercy where mercy is found? And all the Gentiles,
upon whom my name is called, sayeth the Lord, who doeth all
these things. James again is emphasizing that
salvation is all of grace. The Lord Jesus Christ didn't
come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. There is a remnant according
to the election of grace that by the sovereign will of God
will seek THE LORD, AND CALL UPON HIS NAME." NOW, IN ISAIAH
64, IT SAYS THERE'S ALL OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES ARE FILTHY RAGS,
REMEMBER? AND THEN IT SAYS, NONE OR NO
MAN STIRRETH UP HIMSELF TO SEEK AFTER THE LORD. NONE. OUR LORD
SAID, NO MAN CAN COME TO ME, EXCEPT THE FATHER WHICH SENT
ME, DRAW HIM. SO IF ANY MAN DOES TRULY SEEK
THE LORD, It's because God first sought him out. We only love
the Lord because he first loved us. No man left to himself will
ever seek the Lord. We only do so, he says, thy people
shall be willing in the day of his power. Now sinners do seek
the Lord, they do. We read in Psalm 40, let all
those that seek me rejoice and be glad in thee. LET SUCH AS
LOVE THY SALVATION SAY CONTINUALLY, THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED. REMEMBER
FROM ISAIAH 55, HE SAYS, SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE WAS NEAR.
BUT ANY SINNER TRULY SEEKS THE LORD IS BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN
HIM LIFE AND SALVATION IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S THE
ONLY REASON. THE FIRST CAUSE OF ALL THINGS
IS WHAT? You only seek the Lord, you only
choose and love him because he's chosen you and loved you, known
unto God all of his works from the beginning. Who says so? Saith the Lord. Saith the Lord. I should put an end to all questions,
shouldn't it? Sayeth the Lord, he has the final
word. Sayeth the Lord, who doeth all
these things. Salvation is performance of his
doing for us. And we seek salvation in him. Now let's end this message by
taking a good look at verse 18. Known. How well does God know his own
decrees? Known unto almighty God who is
God are all his doings from the beginning when God said, let
there be light, when God created the heavens and the earth before
all things. Known unto God are all of his
doings from eternity TO ETERNITY, ENDLESS AGES, INFINITE TIME. GOD'S FOREKNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS
IS BASED UPON HIS... What? THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD
IS BASED UPON HIS DECREE. Foreknowledge is not God foreseeing
what the creature would do. That's not what God's foreknowledge
is all about. He does know that, but this is
talking about his knowledge of all things. He knows all things
because God has decreed all things, and all things that he has decreed,
or we might say that he has written down, he'll do them, he'll do
them, he'll do them. Not one will pass. God's foreknowledge
is a blessed thing. All things which God does in
the church and in the world, they are foreknown, decreed,
and predetermined by Him. From the beginning of the world
or from eternity, even all of His works of creation, providence,
and salvation, God in eternity knew it would be because God
determined it should be according as He foretold it and decreed
it from eternity. Now, Hold your place there, and
let's find Isaiah. Isaiah 46. You're all familiar with this
scripture, but let's read it again. Isaiah 46, nine. Remember
the former things of old. I am God, there is none else. I am God, there is none like
me. He declares the end from the
beginning. How can he do that? How can he
declare the end of all things before all things even begin
or exist? Declaring the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, eternal time, to things that are not yet even
done, not even come to pass, saying, my counsel shall stand.
I'll do all my pleasure. Calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that would execute my counsel from a far
country. I've spoken it. I will also bring
it to pass. I've purposed it. I will do it. I will do it. Known unto God
are all of his works from the beginning. So, God foreknows what will be. because he decreed what shall
be. There is no middle ground here.
God is God over all, or he's not God at all. God not only knew the end from
the beginning, but he planned, fixed, predestinated everything
from the beginning according to his sovereign purpose and
will. Now, so when we talk about the
foreknowledge of God, I want us to turn to three references
here, and I'll let you go. Three references where it mentions
the foreknowledge of God, or the foreordination of God. The
first one I want us to look at, in his election of grace, it's
according to foreknowledge. In his election of grace. Now,
we read 1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1. Now, here's a big mistake most
freewill works preachers make. 1 Peter 1, verse 1, Peter, an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus,
Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, elect according to the for knowledge
of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience
and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. That's according
to the full ordination of God, the Lamb slain before the foundation
of the world. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy
has begotten us into a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that
fades not away, that's reserved in heaven for you who are kept
by the power of God through faith unto salvation, revealed at the
last time. So election is according to God's
foreknowledge. Here's where most preachers,
especially the freewill preacher, makes a mistake. They say, oh,
I believe in election. I believe that God's election
is based upon his foreseeing or his foreknowledge of what
the creature would do. In other words, they say God
looked down through time and saw that so-and-so, Joe or John,
would believe the gospel and then predestinated them unto
eternal life based upon what the creature did. Now that sounds
pretty plausible to a fool, but that makes predestination based
upon the will of the creature, doesn't it? So for knowledge,
that's not what it's talking about here. And I point that
out because I've had that pulled on me. Oh, we believe in election. You know, it's by God's foreseeing
what the creature would do. Oh, no. God knows His elect because
God has decreed them and ordained them and predestinated them according
to His full ordination by the will and purpose of God. YOU
SEE, GOD CHOSE FROM ETERNITY WHO WOULD BE SAVED. SO, ELECTION IS ACCORDING TO
FOREKNOWLEDGE, AND THEN WE'VE SEEN THIS ALREADY, BUT LET'S
READ IT AGAIN IN ACTS CHAPTER 2. HERE'S THE SECOND PLACE THAT'S
USED WHEN WE TALK ABOUT GOD'S FOREKNOWLEDGE, TALKING ABOUT
THE DEATH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. DID HE JUST GET CAUGHT IN A HARD
PLACE? by a bunch of wicked men who
were determined to take his life because it interrupted their
religious doings. Was he just a victim of their
circumstances? No, my friend. Look what it says,
Acts chapter 2. You're already there, right?
You already knew where to turn, didn't you? Acts 2, 23, him being
delivered, talking about the Lord Jesus Christ dying in a
sinner's place as a substitute, him being delivered by the determinate
counsel." That sounds wishy-washy, doesn't
it? Determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. The foreordination of
God. You have taken and you have by
wicked hand at crucified and slain. Oh, those wicked men. They did what they wanted to
do, but we learned over here in chapter 4 of the book of Acts,
they did, we gather together, verse 28, for to do whatsoever
thy hand, thy counsel determined before to be done. GOD CHOSE
THE PEOPLE IN ETERNITY BY HIS DETERMINANT DECREE AND FORKNOWLEDGE.
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR THOSE SINNERS GIVEN TO CHRIST
IN THAT COVENANT OF GRACE, AGAIN BY THE FORORDINATION DECREE OF
ALMIGHTY GOD. THAT'S JUST PLAIN TO THE MAN
WHO'S BEEN GIVEN EYES TO SEE. HERE'S THE THIRD THING. I'LL
LET YOU GO WITH THIS. ROMANS CHAPTER 8. WE TALK ABOUT THE
SALVATION OF SINNERS. So God elected the people in
eternity. Christ came in the fullness of
time and died for them. Now, are they gonna be saved?
Will they be saved? What if they don't believe? What
if they just don't like Jesus? What if they don't want him to
be my co-pilot? God has so fixed salvation that
everyone for whom he's chosen, everyone for whom he died, they
are predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Romans 8, 28, and we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are called
according to his purpose. Purpose and grace given us in
Christ before the foundation of the world, for whom he did
foreknow. Oh, there's that foreknowledge.
For whom he did foreknow, he 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 called. And whom he called, notice past
tense. He justified, and whom he justified,
he glorified. And some sinner will say, well,
that's not fair. I thought every man had a chance. My friend, we're all dead in
sin. Salvation has to be by the grace of God. If he doesn't choose
a people unto salvation, nobody's going to be saved. If the Lord
Jesus Christ didn't die for those people, nobody's going to be
justified. If the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't
predestinate a people to be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus
Christ, no one will be saved. What shall we say to these things?
What have God before us? Who can be against us? He that
spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely, freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the
charge of, oh, there's that, who are those people? God's elect. How are they elected? According
to God's coordination. FOR KNOWLEDGE. IT IS GOD THAT
JUSTIFIETH, WHO IS HE THAT CONDEMNETH AS CHRIST THAT DIED, YET A BROTHER
IS RISEN AGAIN, WHO IS EVEN LIKE THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHO ALSO
MAKES INTERCESSION FOR US. NOW, WHO'S GOING TO SEPARATE
US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD WHICH IS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?
I'LL LET YOU READ THE REST OF IT. HE MENTIONS EVERYTHING IN
HEAVEN, EARTH, AND HELL. HE SAID HE COMES TO THE CONCLUSION
NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD WHICH IS IN THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. Now aren't you glad, known of
the God of all his works from the beginning? Oh man, that means
this sinner is saved by the grace of God.