Six Questions Answered

Q: What does the Bible say about God's purpose in our trials?

The Bible teaches that all things work together for good to those who love God (Romans 8:28). In Romans 8:28, we find a profound promise that God works all things together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. This means every event in our lives—good and bad—plays a role in God’s divine plan and ultimately contributes to our spiritual growth and eternal good. The clarity of this doctrine is essential for Christians as it reassures them that nothing is wasted in God's economy; even suffering serves a higher purpose. As believers, we can take comfort knowing God meticulously orchestrates our lives for His glory and our benefit, building us into the image of Christ.

Q: How do we know God's love for us is secure?

God's love for believers is secure because it is based on His eternal purpose and grace (Romans 8:38-39). The security of God's love is highlighted in Romans 8:38-39, which assures us that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. This love is not contingent on our actions or circumstances; it is rooted in God's eternal plan and unchanging nature. As believers, we are reminded that we are 'more than conquerors' through Him who loved us. This understanding is vital for Christians because it solidifies our identity in Christ, providing comfort and strength amidst trials, knowing that our relationship with God is secure regardless of our failures or hardships.

Q: What does it mean to be called according to God's purpose?

Being called according to God's purpose refers to God's sovereign initiation of salvation in the lives of His elect (Romans 8:30). In Romans 8:30, Paul outlines the golden chain of redemption, showing that whom God foreknew, He also predestined, called, justified, and glorified. To be 'called according to God's purpose' means that God has an intentional plan for each believer, leading them to salvation through Jesus Christ. This calling is not merely an invitation; it is an effectual summons that guarantees a response. Understanding this doctrine provides believers with assurance that their salvation is not dependent on their own efforts, but on God's sovereign grace, thus fostering a deeper reliance on His mercy and love.

Q: Why is the doctrine of election important for Christians?

The doctrine of election assures believers that their salvation is secure in God's divine will (Ephesians 1:4). The doctrine of election is crucial for Christians because it emphasizes that God, in His sovereignty, chooses whom He will save. Ephesians 1:4 states that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. This provides immense comfort to believers, as it ensures that our salvation is not based on our own merit but rather grounded in God's unchanging purpose. Embracing this doctrine helps to cultivate humility and gratitude in our hearts, as it reminds us that our faith is a gift from God, flowing out of His grace and love, rather than an achievement of our own.

Q: How can we be confident that God will not condemn us?

We are confident that God will not condemn us because Christ has justified us through His sacrifice (Romans 8:33-34). In Romans 8:33-34, we are assured that it is God who justifies us, and since Christ has died for our sins and is now interceding for us, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. This doctrine of justification underscores the complete work of Christ as our Savior, affirming that He has taken upon Himself the penalty for our sins. Therefore, we stand before God justified, not based on our righteousness but on Christ's. This confidence is vital for Christians, as it empowers us to live boldly in faith, knowing that our standing before God is secure regardless of our shortcomings or the accusations that may come from the world.

I believe that I can say that
I look forward to and enjoy all of the meetings
and services that we have here in this place. All of them, don't
you? I look forward to all of the
services. I look forward to the Bible conferences. There's a lot of work involved
in Bible conferences. And then I look forward to the
summer Bible school when we gather our children and adults and young
people, spend a week together. I look forward to the Sunday
morning Bible study. I enjoy my class. I thoroughly enjoy that. I get started teaching and start
preaching some down back there and keep them too long. And that's an indication that
I'm enjoying it. The Sunday morning and Sunday
evening worship services are just, as far as I'm concerned,
a must. A must. I was glad when they said to
me, let's go to the house of the Lord. I've never considered
it my duty to worship God, though it is. I consider it my privilege to sit at His feet and worship
Him. But there's something about Wednesday
night service that is just There's something
about this Wednesday night midweek prayer service and our time together
in the presence of the Lord that's different. Perhaps what makes it special,
Wednesday night service, I thought about some of the reasons why
it might be a little more special, a little more relaxed and enjoyable. One reason I came up with is
that most everyone here on Wednesday night is a believer in Christ. We don't have very many visitors
on Wednesday night. We don't have a larger crowd on Wednesday night
as we do on Sunday morning in Bible conferences, but I would
say most everyone here tonight is a believer in Christ, one
who loves the Savior. And secondly, we're right in
the middle of the work week, and you have come together as
a family to find some comfort, some strength for the day. some relief from the world, a blessing from the hand of God. We've come together in the middle
of the work week to hear him speak to us and encourage us. And then thirdly, I think another
reason why this is a special time together, the midweek service,
there are no battles to fight. I don't feel at all on Wednesday
night like I need to bring my shield and sword with me to the
service, that I'm here among friends, that everybody here believes
the gospel of God's redeeming grace, and there are no positions
to prove, are there? No battles to fight, no opposition
to the word, no one grimacing when you preach the gospel. No
one with an expression on his face as if he just bit into a
green persimmon. Everybody's happy and ready to
receive the word. And all have come, fourthly,
to be encouraged and to be comforted and to be taught and to be blessed. I get a lot of illustrations
from watching our birds out by the bird feeder. And one of the
things that is most interesting about the birds, those that are
still dependent upon the mama bird to feed them, You can always
see them. Always tell which ones are the
baby birds. And they say, well, they're the
smallest, but not necessarily. Some of them are pretty good-sized
fellas and still dependent on their mother to feed them. But
there's two things about them that always shows up. They'll
follow three things. One, they'll follow her. There'll
be two or three of them behind her. She'll be out here searching
for a worm or a sunflower seed or something, and there'll be
Three things about them. They'll be following her right
on her heels. Secondly, they'll be flapping
their wings just nervously, just waiting until she gives them
something to eat, just flapping them. And thirdly, their mouths
will be open. And that's the Wednesday night
crowd, isn't it? They're here and they're just
waiting to hear something. And they're right. Don't you
find that to be so, you fellas? that preach here on Wednesday
night, they're just waiting on you to give them something, because
they love the gospel, they love Christ, they love His word, and
every one of them is sitting there waiting to see what the
pastor or the elder has for them tonight. Well, I have something
that I need, I trust you need, Romans 8, the scripture Brother
Charlie read a moment ago. And when I was talking to him
this afternoon, I didn't call him to get him to read the scripture
tonight. I called him to talk to him and
fellowship with him. And he said, well, I'll see you
tonight. I said, well, if you see me tonight, I wish you'd
read for us and lead us in prayer. And I told him what I wanted
him to read. He said I could just about quote that. Well,
I could just about quote it myself. But perhaps we'll see something
here tonight that is encouraging and something that is enlightening
and something that will send us home with a blessing. I have
divided the message up into two parts. My message tonight begins
with something that we know. It begins with something that
we know, something every believer knows to be true. something every
believer knows to be a fact. And then following that are six,
six questions. Some preachers say they're four
questions, but they're really six. Following this are six questions
which are answered for us, once and for all, when we know what
we know. When we really know it, when
you really know this fact, first I say I'm going to present to
you a fact that we know. Now if you really know that,
beyond a shadow of a doubt, you know that to be true, then these
six questions are answered. Alright, what is it that we know?
Here it is in verse 28, and we know. That's the way Paul begins,
and we know. This is not a matter of opinion.
This is not a matter of uncertainty. This is something we know just
as surely as we know that God is God. Just as surely as we
know that God is in heaven and God reigns on the earth. We know
and we know. What do we know? We know that
all things, all things in heaven and all things in earth, We know
that all things, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit,
we know that all things, all angels, all principalities, all
powers, all rulers, all evil beings and good beings, all good
events and all bad events, all things, bar none, all things
past, present and future, we know this, all things, they work together for good.
They work together. God is working them together.
God is overriding and overruling and God is purposing everything
that takes place in our lives and in our world. All things
work together for good. Not the present good, not the
temporal good, not the fleshly good, the spiritual eternal good. Everything. I mean everything. I mean the worst thing that's
ever happened to you and the best thing that's ever happened
to you. Now that's not true of everybody.
It tells us, the people about whom he's speaking here, all
things do not work together for good to all people. There are
people in our town, people in our families, that cannot claim
this promise. There are people who are on their
way to the grave, they're on their way to the judgment, They're
on their way to eternal condemnation. But we know that all things,
everything works together for good to them that love God. Them that love God, those who
have been called, effectually called according to His will,
according to His divine purpose in Christ Jesus. Now you hold
that scripture there just a moment and turn with me to the book
of 2 Timothy. And this is a calling. It's a
heavenly calling, it's a holy calling, it's divine calling,
it's an effectual calling. In 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse
8, Paul says to young Timothy, Be not thou therefore ashamed
of the testimony of our Lord. nor of me his prisoner, but be
thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God, who hath saved us and called us. The same God
who chose us is the God who saved us, is the God who called us
with a holy calling. Not according to our works, But
he called us according to his own purpose and grace which was
given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. God has left
nothing in the matter of salvation to the will of man or to the
works of man. Look at verse 29. He says in verse 29, For whom
he foreknew, whom he did foreknow, Now, that word foreknow is in
the Bible really four times. Let me show you where it's found.
First here in Romans 8, 29, for whom he did foreknow. Over in
Romans 11, verse 2, you find it again. Romans 11, verse 2. It says, God hath not cast away
his people whom he foreknew. whom he foreknew." Alright, 1
Peter chapter 1, it occurs again. 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 2. 1 Peter 1, verse 2. It says, we are elect according
to the foreknowledge of God the Father. In 1 Peter 1, 20, it occurs again. in 1 Peter 1.20, and here it
is used for ordination, for ordained. Who verily was foreordained before
the foundation of the world, Christ was foreordained, but
manifest in these last times for you who by him do believe
in God. Now, if you have a concordance,
one of the complete concordances which we sell here in the bookstore,
You can look up this word. You don't have to learn the Greek
language. You don't have to go to school
and take a course in Greek. You can take this word, foreknow,
whom he did foreknow. And you take the same word in
chapter 11, verse 2, whom he foreknew. Take the same word
in 1 Peter 1, 2. elect according to the foreknowledge.
Take the same word in verse 20 of 1 Peter 1, foreordained. And
it's the same word in the Greek. You can look it up. 4267 is the
number, I think. I looked it up again today. And
the word means this. It means to know before. To know before. God knew us before
we formed us in the belly. He knew us before we were conceived. He knew us before the foundation
of the world. He knew us in Christ. To know
before. That's what the word means. It
occurs four times in the scripture. God knows me now because He's
always known me. And when He said to those people
in Matthew 7 at the judgment, I never knew you. That's what
He meant. I never knew you. Never knew
you. And you, if you're one of his
own, he's always known you. Now we know that all things work
together, everything works together in the purpose and plan and will
of God for the eternal spiritual good of everybody who loves him,
everybody whom he's called according to his purpose for. He's always
known them. See what he's saying? I've always
known you. I've drawn, I've loved you with
an everlasting love. Therefore with love and kindness
have I drawn you." That's what he says. Everything works together
for good to them who love God, who are called according to His
purpose because He's always known them. He's always loved them.
They've always been an object of His affection. They've always
been His sheep, always been His people, for whom He did pour
an over 29 reed on. He also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son. And whom that he might be,
Christ might be the firstborn among many brethren, that heaven
and earth might be populated with a people like Christ. Moreover,
whom he did foreknow, always known, known before and ordained,
and whom he did predestinate, then he called. Hold that right
there and turn to second Thessalonians chapter 2. 2 Thessalonians chapter
2. Listen to this. Those whom he
foreordained, whom he knew from all eternity, whom he predestinated
to be like Christ, he called them. In 2 Thessalonians 2.13. Now if I get with a bunch of
pastors in Russia, this is the way I'm going to teach. This
is where I'm going to talk to them. This is where I talk to
pastors. You don't talk to pastors. You
don't teach a pastor, especially one that doesn't know the gospel
of grace, by talking to him about soteriology and eschatology and
ecclesiology and all the other ologies. You just take him to
the scriptures and say, this is what it says here, fellow.
Preach it. You see? So it says here, fellow,
you listen to it, 2 Thessalonians 2.13. But we're 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, not apart from the Holy Spirit,
not apart from effectual call, not apart from awakening and
quickening, but through the quickening and through belief of the truth.
Look at the next verse. When to He call you? He called you out by our gospel. That's why we preach the gospel
to every creature. That's why we send missionaries
to Africa, Mexico, and books to Russia and other places, because
God has a sheep. And He calls them. He calls them
by His gospel. To what? To the obtaining of
the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved." But how are they going to call
on Him whom they've not believed? And how are they going to believe
in Him of whom they've not heard? And how are they going to hear
without a preacher? How are they going to preach
except they be saved? So whom? This is what he said. This is
a fact. This is something I know. That
Almighty God has a people whom He has always known, upon whom
He has set His love. He's known them in Christ. He's
given them to Christ. He's predestinated that they'll
be like Christ. And whom He foreknew, He predestinated
to be like Christ. And whom He predestinated, He
called. And listen, whom He called, He
justified. Oh, He said, He named the folks
that are not going to enter the kingdom of heaven, and then He
said, such were some of you, such were some of you, but you're
washed. The difference between those folks and you is you're
washed. You're sanctified. You're justified from all things
in the blood of Christ. He justified you, and He glorified
you. Now, look at verse 30, the last
line. Whom He justified, He glorified. And so therefore God's working
everything out for their good. Now, do you know this? I can say emphatically, I know
this. I know this. This is so. This
is so. The very character of God tells
me this is so. This has to be true if God is
God. Has to be. The Word of God tells
me that this is true. The works of God tell me this
is true. And then the servants of God
of the past years have told me this is true. So therefore these
six questions are answered. Now here's the first one, verse
31. What shall we say to these things? What shall we say against these
things? You've got, is anybody here? I should question it this
way. No one here has anything against
this, do you? A lot of people do. A lot of
people, when you preach these blessed things, wrath rises up
in their faces, but not us. You know, almost every time the
Apostle Paul mentions election, election, predestination. He mentions it with a song of
praise, blessing God. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in the heavenlies according as he chose us in Christ before
the foundation of the world. Paul waxes eloquent when he talks
about election. Or he says, I'm bound to give
thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because
God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation. Peter does
the same thing in 1 Peter. He said, elect according to the
poor knowledge of God through sanctification of the Spirit,
belief of the truth, to an inheritance incorruptible that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power
of God. They seem to get excited. What
do you say against these things? I don't have anything to say
against them. Well, what do you say in addition to these things?
Well, I don't have anything to add to it. What can you add? We're complete in Him. It's all
finished. The poor knew he predestinated
to be like Christ. Whom he predestinated, he called.
Whom he called, he justified. Whom he justified, he glorified.
I can't add anything to it. Well, what do you say about them?
Oh, I don't have anything to say against them. I don't have
anything to say in addition. But I've got something to say
about them. And I hope that I have My mind
and my consciousness, when I come like David to die, and I can
say this, the Lord hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, and this
is all my salvation and my desire, although he make it not to grow.
That's what I say about him. This is all my hope. People say,
well, you're talking about the doctrines of grace. That's something
we learn after we're saved. I don't know about that. I believe the doctrines of grace
are the gospel. I really do. I believe what we
call, for lack of a better word, Calvinism, I believe that is
the gospel. I believe it is. I believe that's
the gospel. I believe it's very difficult
for anybody to preach any gospel who does not preach a sovereign
God, an electing God, an almighty God, a victorious
God, a keeping God. Do you? Or what should we say
to these things? But I'm just saying it's all
my salvation and all my desire and all my hope. That's what
I say. All right, the second question. If God be for us, who
can be against us? And if God be for us in eternal
love, if He's always known me to know before and He's always
ordained me, then who can be against me? If God is for me
in eternal grace, in eternal election, if God is for me in
divine call, if God is for me in the person of his Son in full
and free and complete justification, if God is for me and Christ has
already entered within the veil and been seated within the veil
as my forerunner, then It's not who can be against me, it's who
can succeed against me. There's a lot of folks against
me. Satan's against me. He hasn't changed his mind. He's
against me. But he's been defeated. He can't
succeed. Now you get a hold of this right
here. It says, if God be for me, who can? A lot of folks can, but it won't
do them any good. Isn't that right? That's what
it's saying, Bob. Sin's against me, but it's been
paid for. The law's against me, but it's
been satisfied. Death is against me. D'Arcy and I went again. I just,
I never, this really tears your heartstrings. dear friend of
ours at the hospital in Huntington, Monday night, and this dear lady is in her
80s, and she comes to church here, and we went in the room, and she
thought she knew us, but she couldn't call our names at all. She just, her mind's so far gone
that she couldn't call our names. And she didn't know where she
was. She said, let me fix you a meal. Lying there in intensive
care, you know, breaks your heart. And then she said, who are these
people around here? And where's my husband? You know, the age is against us, boy. It's going to take its toll.
It's against us. Death's against us, but it's
not going to succeed. No, sir. He's taken the sting
out. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be unto God who gives
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Judgment's against
me. But what this is saying is, if
God be for me, if God be for me, not if I be for God, but
if God be for me, Then who, what, can be against you? It'll try. It'll fly at you. It'll come
at you. It'll meet you head on. But you
just say, like old Gabriel, was it Gabriel or Michael that said,
Lord, rebuke the Lucifer. You know, the devil came against,
who was that? Was that Gabriel or Michael?
One up, came against him. And he wouldn't rebuke? He said,
Lord will handle you. The Lord will handle you. And
let's just use that. This old age and this mind and
this disease and death and these things that are against us, they're
going to take their toll. But you just turn them over to
the Lord Jesus. He'll handle them. He'll handle
them. Alright, I've got to hurry. The
third question is verse 32. He spared not his own son. You
see, our God's purpose to have a people, heaven and earth is
going to be populated. He's going to fulfill His purpose.
There's going to be a holy people like Christ. Our Lord has made
Christ their surety and their Savior and their sin offering
and their sacrifice and their atonement. It says, He didn't
spare him, verse 32, He spared not His own Son, but delivered
Him up. He delivered him into the hands
of Satan, into the hands of men, delivered him into the hands
of a broken law and justice to execute him in our place instead. All right, if he did that, the
question is, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things? How could you even entertain
for a moment, even for a moment, the thought
that God Almighty would change his purpose, that he would change
his mind, that he would fail in his work, that he would not
give his son what he rightfully purchased. Does that ever enter
your mind? Don't ever let that. How shall
he not? With Christ freely, without charge,
give us everything our Lord. What he came to do, he did. And what He bought is His. What He redeemed is His. Don't
you ever let that... Now, that goes back to the verse,
if you know these things, then that answers that question.
Whom He foreknew, He called. Whom He called, He justified.
Whom He justified, He glorified. That dear little lady up there
in the hospital who doesn't know her name or mine either one,
You reckon Christ still knows her name? You reckon it makes
any difference if she doesn't know my name? Or her name? I don't reckon it
does. I don't reckon it doesn't. Because
He knows her name. That's it. If God be for me,
if God spared not His own Son, that's the answer. How shall
He not with Him freely give us all things? Here's the next question.
It's answered by this fact. Well, who can lay anything to
the charge of God's elect? Who are God's elect? Well, He
just told you whom He foreknew, whom He justified, whom He called,
whom He glorified. Well, are they chargeable? Oh,
yes. Well, they're charged with Adam's
sin, their own sin, their sins of omission. They've got a lot
of charges that could be brought. Well, does anyone charge them?
Oh, yeah. Satan's the accuser of the brethren.
Their fellow man charges them. Their fellow man says, well,
I'm as good as he is. I'll tell you, they charge themselves.
Oh, wretched man that I am. But here again is the question.
It says, who can succeed in laying anything to that charge? You see what I'm saying, Ronnie?
If God be for me, who can succeed against me? Let them roar. Let the kings of the earth rage. He said, let them rage. He that
sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. They will rage, Tom. When David wrote Psalm 23, he
didn't say there'd be no evil. He said, I fear no evil. Thy
rod and thy staff that comfort me. Though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, there'll be no evil. Oh, yes,
there will. But I fear no evil. If God be
for me, who can succeed? And there it is, who can succeed
in laying anything to the charge of God's elect? No, sir, He won't
allow it. Because it's God that justifies. You know, we've got a We got
a court system in this country that you have a trial down here
in Kattlesburg and then you can appeal, appeal to a higher court,
and you keep appealing until you get up to the last one, the
Supreme Court. And when that's handed down,
that's it. That's all she wrote. That's
it. Well, there's a court a little
higher than that. And that's the court of God Almighty,
the supreme tribunal. And it says, you can't charge
me because He justified me. I've been justified by Christ.
He entered not into the holy place made with hands, but into
heaven itself. There, to make intercession. All right, 34. The fifth question,
well, who can condemn us? Who can condemn us? Well, here's
the reasons why we can't be condemned. It's Christ that died. It's Christ
that died. One old writer says, the apostle
just seems to keep climbing here. He says, who can condemn us?
It's Christ that died, and then he goes a step further. He says,
yeah, rather He's risen again. If he be not risen, you're yet
in your sins, but he is risen. And God has appointed a day in
which he'll judge the world by that man Christ Jesus, in that
he's given every man this evidence, in that he raised him from the
dead. But now wait a minute, he's not only risen, but he's
at the right hand of God. We have an advocate at the right
hand of God, Jesus Christ the righteous, But he goes to his
stepfather and says, wait a minute, what's he doing at the right
hand of God? He's making intercession for us. Now that, my goodness,
he just keeps rising there. Hey, who can condemn me? Christ
died. Yeah, but Christ also is risen.
Yeah, but Christ also has ascended to the right hand of God. And
he calls our names. He intercedes for us. He's there
as our representative, actually. He is our intercession. He doesn't
have to say a word. I never will forget when it finally
dawned on me years ago that we talk about Christ said to Peter,
I prayed for you. But actually, you see, Christ
is us. We are Christ. We're in Him.
And when He was on this earth in the flesh and obeyed the law,
we obeyed. And when He died on the cross,
we died. And when He was buried, every believer was buried in
Him. And when He was raised, every believer was raised. And
when God took Him to glory and accepted Him and sat Him down
on His right hand, He accepted every believer. And we're seated
in Christ. So He doesn't have to say a word.
He's got our names on His breastplate like the twelve tribes. My name, from the palm of his
hands, eternity will never erase. Impressed on his heart, my name
remains in marks of indelible grace. Yes, out to the end shall
endure, as sure as the earnest of promises given. More happy,
but not more secure, are the glorified saints in heaven. The
people in heaven right now are no more secure or safe than you
are sitting right here in this pier. That's right. Because if we can ever, ever
understand that our no condemnation is based not upon what we are
or what we've done, but on what He is and what He's done and
where He is now. Now, if you believe this fact,
I know that all things work together for good to them who love God,
who are called according to His purpose. I believe that. And while I say these things,
I say, it's my only hope. And I say, if God be for me,
who can be against me? Who can succeed? And I say, who can lay
a name to my charge? They can, but it won't work.
And who can condemn me? I'm already in glory. And then who can separate me
from the love of Christ? Now, can tribulation, verse 35,
I have to keep thinking of, that's
Clarice Johnson I'm talking about up in the hospital, Clarice.
The fact that she doesn't know where she is or who she is or
who we are, would that separate her from the love of Christ? Distress, that's distress. Mental
distress, emotional distress, persecution, famine, nakedness,
peril, sorrow. Somebody wrote, I jotted it down,
somebody wrote this. Actually, these trials and troubles
and distresses not only do not separate me from the love of
God, But by God's grace, I'm made better by them. I can't
explain that, but I just know it so. I'm made better by them. Without them, I'd lack something I need. Verse 37, For he says,
Nay, in all these things we're more than conquerors to him that
loved us. For I am persuaded that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the
love of God." And Charlie brought this out so beautifully. Where
is it? In Christ our Lord. And I'll
tell you, not for sake of argument, I'm tired of arguing. But that's the only way God can
love me is in Christ. That's the only way. I know that. I am not lovable by nature. And
you're not either. We're sinners, we're changeable,
we're frail, fleshly manners. That states vanity. You think
God can love vanity? He remembers our frame. He knows
that we're dust. Do you love dust? I wash it off,
don't you have? I don't roll in it, I wash it
off. I hate dust. But the love of God's in Christ.
It's because of Christ. That's not being fanatical or
narrow-minded, that's being honest. And nothing can separate me from
the love of God if I'm in Christ. And that's where I want to be,
in Him, don't you? Alright, Mike, come lead us in
a hymn, if you will. you.

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How do we know God's love for us is secure?

What does it mean to be called according to God's purpose?

Why is the doctrine of election important for Christians?

How can we be confident that God will not condemn us?

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What does the Bible say about God's purpose in our trials?

How do we know God's love for us is secure?

What does it mean to be called according to God's purpose?

Why is the doctrine of election important for Christians?

How can we be confident that God will not condemn us?

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