The elect are stated to be holy and beloved in Colossians 3:12. This is significant. They are saved as set apart for God and liberated as loved by God. The common claim that all men without exception are objects of God's love is problematic and would evacuate this verse of its specific meaning and reassurance of God's sovereign choice in salvation manifested in the saints being set apart and beloved. What is the point of telling the Colossian Christians that they are beloved if all men are beloved of God? The love of God is efficacious. The love of God terminates on the elect alone and is savingly beneficial for the objects of that love. John puts it thus: "Behold what manner of the love the Father has given unto us: that we should be called the sons of God" (1 John 3:1). Love makes us children of God. God's love is saving, selective and sure. Indeed, the elect are holy and beloved. They are loved with an everlasting love.
Despite the varied attempts to argue for a Thursday, or even the old argument, revived by Lorraine Boettner, that Christ was crucified on a Wednesday, both historical scholarship and the tradition of the church affirms that on Good...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The pathway is broken And The signs are unclear And I don’t know the reason why You brought me here But just because You love me the way that You do I’m gonna walk through the valley If You want me to Chorus: Cause I’m not...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Why is it that every few years an ecumenical spirit rages like a wildfire in the realms of Christendom? The latest fad, which has almost 50,000 friends on facebook, is: The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience. See what it's about...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The suggestion that Christianity is about how one feels is so popular today, that any suggestion to the contrary is met with severe scorn. Christianity is not even about religion as such. Most people think that being a Christian is a matter of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
<!-- Why is it I constantly find myself enraged at Christian teachers? It is because what they are teaching is anything but true Christianity. I recall being in a bookstore when a young woman came browsing by the section I was in and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
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A Righteousness In Which Jehovah HimselfCannot Find A Flaw William Gadsby We must have a righteousness in which Jehovah Himself cannot find aflaw, a righteousness which Jehovah cannot mend, a righteousnesswhich neither sin nor Satan can mar; and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jehovah's graceDear brother,Out of Christ, God is a consuming fire; and we, sinners, can no more standbefore Him than dry stubble before a devouring flame. But in Christ all theglories of the Godhead shine in the bright form of love! God is the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Justified by Faith ?The classic protestant doctrine, rediscovered by the Reformers in the 1500’s is under serious attack today. This should not surprise us, as this truth of justification by faith alone, is the heart of the gospel. It is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
