The Faith of God’s Elect

“…according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging

of the truth which is after godliness.”

(Titus 1:1)

The Faith of God’s elect is the Faith once delivered to the saints, Jude 1:3. It is the Gospel message of Christ and Him crucified, that the Spirit of God reveals in those elect sinners that God chosen in His Son before the foundation of the world. This Faith is the content of the Gospel message by which God directs the souls of His elect to the one righteousness that the LORD Jesus came in the flesh to earn and establish in His perfect life, then shed His blood unto death that God the Father should be just to justify each one for whom He died.

There is ONE Faith for all of God’s elect from the beginning to the end of time. Those who lived before the cross were given eyes to look to Christ the only TrueLamb Whom God the Father would bring into the world to accomplish their redemption and simultaneous justification, Romans 8:29-30.

The cross declares God’s righteousness. God must be just; He must be righteous. If He deals with any in mercy, His justice must have satisfaction. If He deals with any in love, it must be in complete agreement with His holiness. If He deals with any in grace, He requires a just sacrifice for the sins of those that He has purposed to save. That’s what the LORD Jesus accomplished at the cross that enabled God the Father to be just and justify, forgive and pardon every sin of His elect, there and then, Romans 3:26.

The previous verse in Romans 3:25 tells us that in Christ’s death He declared God’s righteousness for the remission of sins that were past. He died on the cross sometime between A.D. 30 to A.D. 33. The death of Christ not only put away the sins of the elect since the cross but those in the past who lived before the cross such as Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, etc. How were they saved? At the same time, in the same place and by the same Sacrifice, once for all at the cross, Hebrews 9:15-28. God was forbearing with their sins until Christ came and put them away in His death. The sacrificial lambs could not put away their sin or justify them, Hebrews 10:4. However, those sacrifices foreshadowed the One Sacrifice of the LORD Jesus that He would come and accomplish for them. Those since the cross look to the same Lamb Who came and accomplished their justification, pardon and salvation, Heb. 9:15. Where the Spirit reveals Christ and Him crucified, there will be the acknowledging of the Truth. That is the Spirit-given perception and discernment of Christ as the fulfillment and end of the law, in contrast to mere types, shadows and ceremonies. The LORD Jesus did not come to merely secure the salvation of the elect until they believe, in order to make it effectual. NO! He died to save each one that the Father gave Him and did save them in His death on the cross! How do we know? Romans 4:25 tells us that He was delivered for [because of] our sins and then was raised for [because of] our justification. His rising is the proof that His death actually justified each one for whom He died.

The Gospel is ‘after godliness’ or ‘according to godliness’. When revealed in the heart by the Spirit, it brings those sinners to worship God in Truth and reverence and walk before Him in the righteousness that Christ established and the Father accepted and imputed to them in His sacrificial death. It is not the sinner initiating that agreement but rather the Spirit of God revealing it because of the full and free pardon, forgiveness and righteousness of God accomplished already by Christ. That’s the only Way that any sinner may be considered Godly (God-like), in the perfect righteousness imputed by the Father to them at the cross.