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A Life Insurance Policy for You, May 31
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never
fall.
2 Peter 1:10
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In the council of heaven, provision was made that men, though
transgressors, should not perish in their disobedience, but, through faith
in Christ as their substitute and surety, might become the elect of God,
predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself
according to the good pleasure of His will. God wills that all men
should be saved; for ample provision has been made, in giving His
only-begotten Son to pay man’s ransom. Those who perish will perish
because they refuse to be adopted as children of God through Christ
Jesus
There is no such thing in the Word of God as unconditional election—
once in grace, always in grace. In the second chapter of Second Peter
the subject is made plain and distinct. After a history of some who
followed an evil course, the explanation is given: “Which have forsaken
the right way, ... following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who
loved the wages of unrighteousness.”
2 Peter 2:15
.... Here is a class of
whom the apostle warns, “For it had been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn
from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”
2 Peter 2:21
....
There is truth to be received if souls are saved. The keeping of the
commandments of God is life eternal to the receiver. But the Scriptures
make it plain that those who once knew the way of life and rejoiced
in the truth are in danger of falling through apostasy, and being lost.
Therefore there is need of a decided, daily conversion to God.
All who seek to sustain the doctrine of election, once in grace,
always in grace, do this against a plain, “Thus saith the Lord.”
It depends upon
your
course of action as to whether or not you
will secure the benefits bestowed upon those who, as the elect of God,
receive an eternal life-insurance policy.
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