Prophet’s Column . '■ -7 * >:". 7 7*| “Shall Come Will Brins You” By J. M. Little Special To The Post "AH that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37) John 6:37 is one of the greatest Scriptures in the Word of God embracing the doc trine of election. I t is cer tain that not everyone will be saved! There is a reason why not all will be saved. If mm were to conclude that; ’ salvation is teft up to the individual 4lnher, we would ‘totally despair because man by nature is dead (Eph 2:1) and cannot come to Christ. Man by nature does not and cannot know Christ. My Lord said "ALL” that the Father giveth Him shall come to Him. Before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4, II Tim. 1:9) God elected, or chose a number out of ' Adam’s fallen race and gave them to Christ. Christ came and died for that number. But how can a dead sinner come to Christ? He cannot. The elect are just as dead in their natural state as the non-elect. How then can they come to Christ? SHALL COME is the resur rection power of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the God of Resurrection. The Lord Jesus Christ through the blessed Holy Spirit gives the dead elect sinner the Effectual Call that awak ens him from the dead as Paul pointed out in Aph. 2:1. As I have said many times recently-only the Holy Spirit can make a sinner alive and bring him to Christ. The Holy Spirit does not awaken you to the fact you are saved. He awakens you to the fact you are LOST. How many of you know what it means to be lost? Very few of our church folks know what being list is all about. Just listen to the multitudes of our preachers, Bible teach ers, and deacons when they are bringing their messag es and you discern right ; away that they know absolutely nothing about being a lost sinner under Holy Spirit conviction i (John 16). I was kicked out . of a church not too long ago because I kept hammering me truth home to the hearts of those folks that you MUST be awakened to your LOST condition before you can be saved. SHALL COME is the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the God of resurrection, who makes the sinner a live , to the fact of his lost condition. I am helpless to • make you alive. I am help less to bring you to Christ. " That is the express work of the Holy Spirit. And when you tell me the pastor gave , an invitation and you went down and “accepted • Christ” as your Saviour, I weep and cry in my heart because I know Satan has slipped you a counterfeit. 2 You say you are saved but ' you are a total stranger to ; Holy Spirit conviction that reveals to the sinner his dead, totally depraved, ' helpless, hapless, vile, f wretched, hell-born, hell bent, hell-bound, and hell deserving condition. Then . again, you are a total stranger to the Lordship of Jesus Christ which every '. elect sinner learns under • Holy Spirit conviction - before the Lord saves him. Isa. 54:13 and John 6:45 Ml us that all God’s children are taught of the Lord. Then the Lord said, . “NO MAN CAN COME TO .ME, EXCEPT THE -FATHER WHICH HATH : SENT ME DRAW HIM.” ’(John6:44 - • - (John 6:44) You can come to church, L to a decision, to turning your so-called faith loose, to cleaning up your life, to quitting sins, and such like But none of that is salva ; tton Christ, Himself, is ■ salvation. He is the One that must be REVEALED to your heart or you will perish forever Now, the question is: Do you know Christ? Has He been re REDUCED RATES FOR ' SENIOR CITIZENS!? Call oar circulation department to find oat about reduced rate* for senior cltlten*. Yod'll be glad you did. . .and we’re glad you’ll eall. 37 MW The Charlotte Post J. M. Little ✓ vealed to your heart? “Well, I made a profession and accepted Christ as my Saviour.” That's not sal vation. The Lord is sove reign and He is not so foolish to stand before you for you to accept Him or reject Him as free-willers teach. You stand before the sovereign Lord for Him to accept you or damn your poor soul to Hell. In practically every church the damnable and hellish doctrine of “ACCEP TANCE” is taught and that hellish doctrine is going around the world like wild fire. Many will withdraw from the world, quitting gross sins. You think you are saved, but when I question you, you fall back on your accepting Christ as Saviour. What a tragedy! B,ut note that our Lord said “ALL” that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me. Every elect will be brought to Christ as a lost sinner because not one elect will be lost. It is so foolish, blind, and stupid to think that salvation, as great as it is, rests on the depraved will of man. But the reason you go astray on salvation in Christ is be cause you go astray on the 'total depravity of man. Once you learn total de pravity you see that if God hadn’t elected a number before the foundation of the world, no one would ever be saved. And you thank and praise the Lord for His election. Are you seeing these truths I am setting forth? So few are. But one day you are going to have to stand before God and He is going to ask you what you did | with His truths and His messages He sent to your heart. And you will answer that you despised His , truths. That group of women that rebelled over there near Lake Gaston, there was a recording angel that recorded all their thoughts and hard sentences against God’s servants and the truth. But they don’t know that. When I was under convic tion and heard the truth that an angel was record ing everythirig I thought as well as everything I did, I like to have died. I knew the Lord’s Eye was on me. When the Holy Spirit turns the search light on your heart and lets you see yourself as you are in the light of God’s Word, you drop dead at His feet. When God saves a sinner it's just a quiet revelation of Christ to your heart. Remember, you must come to Christ for salva tion. Yes, you are help less, but “SHALL COME” is all powerful and will bring you to Christ. The reason the converts in the average church today go back to the world is be cause they didn’t get to Christ. Did you get to Christ? In salvation, God breaks the power of sin in that heart. You are delivered or transported from the kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ Shall come brought you to Christ. Do you understand these things? Ask the Lord to reveal them to you so that you may flee to Him. CT.r .7 - ‘ . . .» • INVITATION FOR BIDS , The City of Charlotte will receive bids for Intersection Improvements - NC Highway 51 at Johnston Road and Carmel Road, Project Number 512-85-006 until 2:00 p.m. on the 24th day of June in the fourth floor conference room of the Cameron Brown Building, 301 South McDowell Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28204, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids are invited upon the several items and quantities of work as follows: Bituminous Concrete Surface Course 1-2 Bituminous Concrete Binder Course H Bituminous Concrete Base Course HB Contract Documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications are on file at the office of the City Engineer at 301 South McDowell Street, the local A.G.C. office, and the Dodge Plan Room. Copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained by paying $25.00 to the City of Charlotte for each set of documents obtained. A certified check or bank draft, payable to the order of the City of Charlotte, negotiable U S. Government bonds (at par value), or a satisfactory Bid Bond executed by the Bidder and an acceptable surety, in an amount equal to five per cent (5 per cent) of the total bid shall be submitted with each bid. Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the Contract Documents must be paid on this project, and that the contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin Attention is also called to the fact that federal and-or state funds are partially funding this project. Only bidders who are eligible to do work for these agencies shall be eligible to bid on this project. The City of Charlotte reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding. 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