ELECTION UNTO SALVATION

God’s election of a people to save is a doctrine clearly proclaimed and dogmatically insisted upon in God’s Word. All of God’s purpose of salvation begins with God electing a people to save. Everything God has ever done has been for the redemption of His people by His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God created the world and put man in it so men could be redeemed by Christ. God allowed Adam to fall so there would be sinners saved by Christ. God preserves people who are yet in their sin so His elect will be saved when Christ is revealed to them and in them. God will allow this world of sin and rebellion to continue until all of His elect have been brought to faith in Christ. None of that would be possible without God’s election of a people. Thank God for His electing love!

To those who did great things for God, our Lord said, “depart from Me, ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you (Matt 7:21-23),” yet to those who gave a glass of water to the least of His saints, He says, “come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (Matt 25:34-40).” Without faith in Christ it is impossible to please God, yet if Christ is our righteousness, God is well pleased with us.

Pastor Chris Cunningham

CHRIST IS ALL I NEED

“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.”

(I Corinthians 1:30)

Christ has not only provided everything I need, Christ IS everything I need. An ignorant sinner like me needs wisdom; Christ is my wisdom. A guilty sinner like me needs righteousness; Christ is my righteousness. A vile sinner like me needs sanctification; Christ is my sanctification. A sinner like me, sold under sin, needs redemption; Christ is my redemption. Christ really is all I need.

Jesus Christ is made to me all I need, all I need.

He alone is all my plea. He is all I need.

Wisdom, righteousness and power, holiness forever more.

My redemption full and sure. He is all I need.

“But by the grace of God I am what I am…” (1 Corinthians 15:10)

There is no room for pride of face, place, race, or grace; not in the kingdom of God, and not in the heart of a believer. In Christ all are one, without distinction; there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female (Gal. 3:28).

I know pride is as natural as breathing in lost men, but it’s also so deeply rooted in the human heart believers are not immune from the struggle. Here are some Scriptures which may help us keep these tendencies in check:

“For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? (I Cor. 4:7).

“The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass” (Is. 40:6-7).

“For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him” (Rom. 10:12).

Everything we have God gave us, everything we know God revealed to us, and where we are God put us. Let us never forget this.