The Old Schoolhouse - March 2012

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Mike Halpin

We enter the kingdom of God, not by our e;orts, but by His good pleasure and sovereign will. We respond to the Gospel by the outward calling of the Gospel and the inward calling of the Holy Spirit. ;e Gospel sign;has two sides: choose and chosen.

We choose Jesus only because He ;rst chose us before the foundations of the world. Whom God has chosen, He will bring to saving faith in His Son.

You cannot receive Jesus unless you ;rst have been chosen by God.;If you have received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, it is only because you ;rst were chosen by God.

Salvation is of God alone, for His glory alone, in Christ alone.

“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.; And 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. For 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.”—John 6: 37–40;