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By God's grace, still presenting the same old message from the same old Book...

Regarding those to be saved: 
God Has Set Forth Christ To Be A Propitiation For Our Sins Through Faith In His Blood

The Lord Jesus Christ is still as offensive to the religious world as he was with the scribes and the Pharisees of His day. - D. P. Tuck Sr.

There are those that float along in the river of life, their having no bearing or compass, and that leads to destruction, but they pretend to believe while they will not grab the life line. They will not change their direction but instead they simply hate any that would not agree with them where they are. They will not submit themselves. The Lord knows them that are His (2Tim 2:19; 2Pet 2:1-3). 

We are not able to know where or when the Spirit of Truth goes and comes (John 3:8), but no matter if we did know (and we do not), the Spirit works immediately apart from any cooperation from men and wholly apart from any means, imparting new life, and that not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Truth is communicated when it is written on the heart by the Spirit of God, so there is a new creature. The new birth imparts Eternal Life and new desires (Ps 110:3; 37:31; 1John 3:6,9; 5:18; Ps 119:165; 2Cor 5:17; Eze 36:26; John 3:6; 10:28; Tit 1:2; 3:7; Rom 12:3). Where before, people being as they are as unsaved men (none righteous, none that understandeth, none that seeketh after God, all gone out of the way, unprofitable, none that doeth good, no, not one, their throat is an open sepulchre, they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips, mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, the way of peace have they not known, no fear of God before their eyes, when they see Jesus there is no beauty that we should desire Him, He is despised and rejected of men - Isa 53:2-3; Rom 3:10-18), they are clearly shown from Scripture that they will not seek after God and they have no desire toward God, but only go after their own lusts. As it is written, Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Salvation is of the Lord.

As it is written, Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. The new life is created by God apart from any means, ye must be born again, and the new life and immortality is revealed by the preaching of the gospel (2Tim 1:7-10). The distinction between regeneration and conversion is shown with that. 

As it is written, God makes one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour. Sin is the mark on the vessel made unto dishonour, it is sin that separates a man from God, and even as men see this, they hold fast their sin and will not repent. As it is written, Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. With the one made unto honour, it is the precious blood of Christ that makes the difference. 

Men of themselves refuse to turn to God. Men will brag of their own works, trampling under foot the blood of Christ, claiming it is their mind, their decision, something they have done, that has turned God’s wrath away. No, it is not man’s decision, but instead Christ is the propitiation for the sins of God’s people, those chosen in Christ from before the foundation of the earth, and for them the blood averts God’s wrath. To those God’s love is freely imparted (Isa 53:6; Rom 5:8-10; Rev 5:12; 13:8; Eph 1:6-8; 2:4-5; Tit 3:3-5; 1Joh 3:1, 16; 4:9-10). The unrighteousness is gone, and God’s wrath is averted. Salvation is the gift of God.

Consider these few thoughts about the Mercy Seat shown in the Old Testament, and how wonderfully it pictures Christ as the propitiation for the sins of the elect. The Mercy Seat is placed over the Ark of the Covenant, as a lid. On the top is two cherubim facing each other, their wings extended and coming together. In the Ark are the Tables of the Law (Ex 25:16). On the day of Atonement, blood is sprinkled on them, and so when God looks, the law is covered by the blood, taken out of the way, and so God’s wrath is turned away from the chosen people, the elect, for of the elect, it is written, According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Of those to be saved, the elect, it is said, He hath chosen us, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, for the wrath is averted and God’s love is freely bestowed on His chosen, for Christ is the propitiation for their sins. Salvation is of the Lord (2Cor 5:19; Rom 1:18; 3:25; 4:15; 7:6; Gal 3:11,13; 2Cor 3:13; Eph 2:15; Eph 1:4; Tit 1:2; 1Pet 1:19-20; Rev 5:12; Eph 2:8).

According as the Father hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world, Christ averts the wrath from us and we see that through faith in His blood, and we are granted faith by the operation of the Holy Ghost. The Father has chosen us, the Son dies for us, and by the Spirit we are born again. God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness, but how precious does grace appear when we first believe.

By grace,
Bob Krajcik
Mansfield, Ohio
June 1, 2005

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