Jesus will declare the doctrine of sovereign grace in short, easy to understand, and comforting terms. This is not the doctrine of Calvin nor even of Paul for it did not have its origins from either of those men. This doctrine came straight from the Son of God Himself!
Let us compare what we believe and do to what the word of God says because it is our only rule of faith and practice.
Rather than focusing on a doctrine that we do not like, we need to embrace that doctrine in the full scheme of God’s design. We need to rejoice in the glory of God just like God does!
Most of us do not want to admit how horrible we truly are. We want to be in control of our destiny. The problem is we would choose wrong every time if not for God’s mercy acting on us.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. 1st Timothy 1:5-7 The command to…
Paul chose the lowest term on the scale of servitude to describe his role as an apostle of Jesus Christ. A Servant
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by…