Author: old man joeold man joe
Date: Jan 12, 2007 09:09
" For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know
God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who
believe." 1 Cor. 1:21
the power of God found in the gospel is aimed at only " those who
believe " and those who believe constitute just one group of people;
that is, those who are appointed to receive Jesus Christ as their
Redeemer since only " as many as had been appointed to eternal life,
believed. " Acts 13:48
that God should so design that the darkness in man towards the
things of God causes him to reject the Savior in every case, as in
Luke 4;14-29; Acts 13:14-48, God is pleased to save from eternal
death a people chosen by Himself, without any merit being found in
them, to be given His grace unto salvation. Eph. 1:3-14
everyone without exception, is an enemy of Jesus Christ ( Ro. 8:7 )
unless God intervenes by gracing them with the belief unto salvation
as in Acts 13:48. man is otherwise dead in trespasses and sins and
will remain so, seeing that there is no salvation by the will of man.
Joh. 1:12,13
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