Subject: Show in the Bible once saved always |
Bible Note: Dear New Creature, God in His mercy has chosen to save some. The rest are left to follow the wicked desires of their fallen natures. Yes, those who are not predestined unto salvation are predestined to damnation. Rom 9:22-24 "What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles." It is necessary to bear in mind the terrible conequence of the fall. Adam was the federal head of all mankind. When he fell the entire race of man fell. We were born sinful and rebellious creatures without love for God, but rather with hatred for Him. The spiritual nature which should have been our birthright was lost. Rom 5:12 "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--" Eph 2:1-5 "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" The contemplation of our election by God should fill us with awe. Why has God chosen me instead of my neigbor? Certainly not because of anything in me! To God be the Glory, John Reformed |