“The Sovereignty Of God In Salvation ”
The Scripture is very plain
that God appointed some to
eternal salvation in Christ and
some to eternal damnation.
Listen to the Word of God,
"For there are certain men
crept in unawares, who were
before of old ordained to this
condemnation...” (Jude 4)
Note those words “ORDAIN
ED TO THIS CONDEMNA
TION." Free will jumps up
and says, "It isn't right , for
God to save one and damn
another" Paul answers your
argument in Rom 9:20.21“Nay
but, O man, who art thou that
repliest against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that
formed it. Why hast thou
made me thus? Hath not the
potter power over the clay, of
the same lump to make one
vessel unto honor, and another
to dishonor?”
Now that settles all your
arguing against God choosing
one and leaving the other in
his sins. God is sovereign and
is the Potter and you and I are
the clay. You may argue
again, "Well I don't think it is
fair for God to choose one and
predestinate the means of his
salvation and leave another
out.” Yes you do think it is
fair. Alright, you are a man,
there may and probably were
several girls you courted be
fore you married. The day
came when you chose one out
of the group as your bride. Can
the other girls say you were
unfair in not choosing them?
Of course not. You had the
right to choose your own
bride. God has the right to
choose His bride (the elect).
Before the foundation of the
world He chose a certain
number.
Before you are ever saved,
if you ever are to be saved,
you are going to know that
God is sovereign and does not
have to save you. The only
thing God has to do for a
sinner to go to Hell is just
leave him alone. If God leaves
- you alone you’ll go to Hell just
as straight as a martin to his
gourd.
When a sinner is brought
under Holy Spirit Conviction
the Holy Spirit grows in his
heart a hunger and thirst after
Christ. Have you ever hunger
ed and thirsted after Christ?
You may answer, I wanted to
go to church. That's not what
I'm talking about friends. You
can go to church all your life
and still go to Hell. I’m talking
about a sinner being awaken
ed to his lost condition, seeing
that you have missed Christ,
seeing that you must get to
Christ or perish eternally. In
John 16:7-11 we see the Holy
Spirit working on all the elect
sinners who will ever be saved
or who have ever been saved.
Listen as for eternity my
friends, for to miss this is to
miss Christ and go to Hell
without warning. “Neverthe
less I (Christ) tell you the
truth; It is expedient (neces
sary) for you that I go away:
for if I go not away, the
Comforter (Holy Spirit) will
not come unto you; but if I
depart, I will send Him unto
you. And when He is come, He
will reprove (convince, con
vict) the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judg
ment: Of sin, because they
believe not on me; Of right
eousness. because I eo to mv
Father, and ye see Me no
more; Of judgment, because
the prince (Satgn) of this
world is judged.”
There we see the conviction
of the Holy Spirit in the life of
every sinner who ever gets
saved. Of Sin, that is your
nature and your hard heart of
unbelief. Under conviction I
tried to believe the Word of
God but I found that I could
not. f tried to believe certain
promises and could not.
I'd sit there before a Scrip
ture and try to make that
Scripture real to my heart. At
first I didn't know I had a hard
heart of unbelief. But when the
Holy Spirit revealed to me
that I did I realized I could not
believe the Word. I burned my
brains trying to believe but
could not I found my unbelief
to be so strong I often said it
could not be dented with a
knife. Before I could know
Christ I found that I had to
know myself.
Of Righteousness, the Holy
Spirit showed me all my right
eousness came before God as
filthy rags according to Isa
64:5. But we are all as an
unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy
rags. . Do you know the literal
meaning of that expression
"Filthy rags”? In another
place in the Scripture the
literal meaning is used, it
means monstrous rags That's
how every sinner comes be
fore God. You have nothing to
commend you to God. .Some of
you are so proud of yourself
That's because you have ne
ver been under Holy Spirit
Conviction and made to see
yourself as Go<) sees you If
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you ever see yourself as God
sees you, never again will you
be proud of yourself. Accord
ing to Job 33 all pride has to be
hidden from you before you
can be saved. Under convic
tion you come to see just how
vile and wretched you are.
You cry out; how could I be so
wicked? You come to see that
you in your very nature are
opposed to God. You come to
see according to John 8; 44 that
you are a child of the devil.
You come to see that you are
in the snare of the devil, he has
you bound. Before, you
thought you were a free man
or free woman, but now you
see you are bound to your
depraved nature and Satan
and you cannot free yourself.
Of Judgment you come to
see that you, like your father
the devil, are under condem
nation and must spend eterni
ty in Hell unless God saves you
for Christ’s sake. You not only
see that you are under con
aemnauon, dui you see mat
all the world around you is
"also under the same condem
nation. You die to all your
great plans, all your family,
all your friends so-called. You
see that all your life timeJias
been spent in vain. You loved
the world and its orders and
didn’t know Christ who alone
can be your salvation. You
stand literally amazed at all
the Spirit is revealing to you.
You see things you never
dreamed of.
You see your great distance
from a thrice holy God. There
is a great gulf there and you
find that you cannot bridge the
gulf. As the Holy Spirit shows
you more and more about your
true ruined state out of Christ
you begin to cry: Lord, is
there no way out? How can I
get out of the awful ruined and
depraved state I know I am
in? You also cry: Lord I’m the
sinner you say I am in your
Word...My sinner friend, if I
am speaking to such a one as
that today I say to you: Look
to Christ. Look to Christ.
Christ and Christ alone can
save you.
The reason many of you are
marvelling after reading our
messages on The Sovereignty
of God in Salvation is because
the god you know (note that
I used a little “g”) is not the
Sovereign Eternal God of the
Bible and of the universe. The
god you know is a little “effim
inate” god you can manuever
any way you please. And the
Jesus you know is not the Lord
Jesus Christ of God but a
figment of your blind and
depraved imagination.
The average church mem
ber today has never dreamed
of salvation. It would be fun
ny, if it weren’t so tragical,
the mud flat on which you live
and stake the eternal destiny
of your soul. The god of the
average pulpit today (I’m
quoting Pink) no more resem
bles the God of the Bible than
a dim flickering taper resem
bles the mid-day July sun!
Now you think about that.
The average church mem
ber lives as he pleases and
does as he pleases. You cannot
tell the difference between a
church member and the world
today. It is because there
never has come the separation
that will come in your life if
you are ever to be saved.
Wherefore come out from
among them, and be ye sepa
rate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing: and I
will receive you. And will be a
Father unto you, and ye shall
be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty (II
Cor. 6:17-18) Here we see the
sovereign God of the univrse
giving His elect the effectual
call to come out of the world
unto Himself. Have you re
ceived the effectual call? If
not, you are still in the world
and on the road to hell even
though you are very religious.
You may be a preacher, or
teacher, or trustee, but if you
have not received the effect
ual call that is drawing you to
Christ, you are dead God's
people are a separated people
The Father separates them
Of what use would you be to
God if you run the course 61
this world? You couldn't testi
fy of His saving grace to a
dying world. The call separat
es some for salvation and
’ leaves others to go on to
dternal ruin. Are you being
called?
God's people are a persecu
ted people. The religious
crowd always persecutes the
believers There is no fellow
ship between righteousness
and unrighteousness. You say
you are saved but you find
pleasure in the things of this
world just as the unbeliever
does. The believer's pleasure
is Christ. The believer rejoices
with joy unspeakable and full
of glory (I Pet. 1:8) You don't
get joy unspeakable from a
man, a church, a set of rules,
being baptized, etc. Christ is
the believer’s joy. This un
speakable joy comes as a
result of Christ being revealed
to your heart.
I’ll never forget that Satur
day early noon that God saved
me. For several weeks I was
under deep Holy Spirit Convic
non. i Knew 1 was coming
down for the last time. That
Saturday noon 1 sat down to
listen to a message by Bro
Guebo. I thought surely I’d get
a blessing by listening. Not
very long after I had been
listening the Holy Spirit open
ed my heart and let me see the
utter unbelief there, it was so
strong it nearly choked me. He
opened my heart more, I saw
how I hated God, His Word,
and His servants. I cried out:
there’s no hope for me, I hate
God. I had been denying that I
hated God as the blessed Holy
Spirit was now showing me.
The bottom dropped out. See
ing the pit on the back side of
my heart made me give up all
hope of ever being saved. I
further cried out: I’m not
going to try to be saved any
more, nothing I’ve done has
helped. I’m not going to read,
pray, listen to any more
tapes. I’ll just go on to Hell
where I belong. I meant that
thing friend, I was willing 100
percent to go to Hell. Much
to my surprise a few minutes
later there came a revelation
to my heart; “Blessed are
they which are called to the
marriage supper of the
Lamb.” (Hev. 19:9) I saw that
Christ had blessed me from
eternity to eternity and I could
never perish. He made me
rejoice in Him with joy un
speakable, with a joy I had
never known before. Before I
could not believe Him, now I
could Then a few minutes
after that I was unspeakably
sad, I cried: Lord how could I
have mistrusted You, thinking
You weren’t going to save me?
I praise the Lord for so great
salvation in Christ. Christ plus
nothing, Christ minus nothing
is my salvation. The greatest
thing in this world is just to
know Christ as your Lord and
your Saviour. Do you know
Him? It is when a sinner is at
the end of his way that the
Holy Spirit reveals Christ to
his heart through the Word.
Christ is always revealed
through the Word. I couldn’t
tell you to save my life what
Bro Gueho was preaching on.
You see, I wasn't looking to
the pastor, I was enabled by
the Holy Spirit to look to
Christ, and when I looked to
Christ all my sin burden rolled
away. Salvation comes by a
look (Isa .45:22). The pit of
noise was gone I was broken
at His feet and it was there in
repentence He was revealed to
me. You are going to be so
broken before you are saved
you will be willing for God to
send you on to hell where you
deserve to go. You are not
seeing that in the churches
today, no, you are not. Any
hard-hearted sinner, proud of
himself can walk down the
aisle and give the preacher his
hand, but that is not salvation.
You may say that any sinner
can be saved if he wants to,
yes but only the grace of God
can give the sinner the "want
to" to be saved No sinner by
nature wants to be saved. I
praise the Lord. He is sover
eign in the salvation of every
sinner I praise Him, it was
not left up to me to be saved, if
that were so I never would
have been saved and neither
would you have been saved
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