Comments on: Thoughts on Election (Part 3): Christians and Non-Christians http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2007/11/07/thoughts-on-election-part-3-christians-and-non-christians/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:25:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: charlie http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2007/11/07/thoughts-on-election-part-3-christians-and-non-christians/#comment-44345 charlie Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:58:07 +0000 http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2007/11/07/thoughts-on-election-part-3-christians-and-non-christians/#comment-44345 it is amazing to think that even for those who as spurgeon says "acknowledge that you prefer drunkenness to sobriety, dishonesty to honesty", there is still a chance to be part of God's elected people for eternal salvation...if election is not based on any part of our character (whether good or bad), then even those who have not lived a holy life can still come to a genuine saving faith...no one is so bad or has done such evil things to blot their name out of the "book of life"... john 6:35-40 35Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." sam, are you working on a part 4: election and sanctification? :) it is amazing to think that even for those who as spurgeon says “acknowledge that you prefer drunkenness to sobriety, dishonesty to honesty”, there is still a chance to be part of God’s elected people for eternal salvation…if election is not based on any part of our character (whether good or bad), then even those who have not lived a holy life can still come to a genuine saving faith…no one is so bad or has done such evil things to blot their name out of the “book of life”…

john 6:35-40
35Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

sam, are you working on a part 4: election and sanctification? :)

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