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EPHESIANS 3:8




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Sep 03, 2017
Preacher: John Jewel
Passage: 2 Thessalonians 2:13 & 1 Peter 1:3-5

Chosen To Salvation

…we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth

(2 THESSALONIANS 2:13)

[Beloved], God hath chosen you from the beginning. His election is sure for ever [2 SAMUEL 23:5]. The Lord knoweth who are his. You shall not be deceived with the power and subtilty of antichrist. You shall not fall from grace: You shall not perish. This is the comfort which abideth with the faithful, when they behold the fall of the wicked; when they see them forsake the truth, and delight in fables [lies]; when they see them return to their vomit, and wallow again in the mire. When we see these things in others, we must say, alas! they are examples for me, and lamentable examples. Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed that he fall not. But God hath loved me and chosen me to salvation. His mercy shall go before me, and his mercy shall follow in me. His mercy shall guide my feet, and stay me from falling. If I stay by myself, I stay by nothing; I must needs come to the ground.—He hath loved me; he hath chosen me; he will keep me. Neither the example, nor the company of others, nor the enticing of the devil, nor my own sensual imaginations, nor sword, nor fire, [nor flood], is able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. This is the comfort of the faithful.—Whatsoever falleth upon others, though others fall and perish, although they forsake Christ, and follow after antichrist, yet God hath loved you, and given his Son for you, He hath chosen you, and prepared you unto salvation, and hath written your name in the book of life. But how may we know that God hath chosen us? How may we see this ELECTION? Or, how may we feel it? The Apostle saith, through sanctification and the faith of truth. These are tokens of God’s election. This [namely the Holy Spirit] comforteth us in all temptations, and beareth witness with our spirit, that we be the children of God; that God hath chosen us, and doth love us, and hath prepared us to salvation; that we are the heirs of his glory; that God will keep us as the apple of his eye; and he will defend us, and we shall not perish. [1 PETER 1:3-5] [AMEN!]



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