Election Come To Jesus ay 14

 

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

Come To Jesus day 14: “But I Fear I Am Not One of the Elect!  Thoughts prompted from the Neuman Hall Devotional booklet “Come To Jesus”  published in 1848!

 

As you delve deeper and deeper into the Word of God (and I pray you will do this as you seek to ever grow in your knowledge of God), inevitably you will come across the matter of election.

 

 

It’s a deep and often divisive theological issue, and as Neuman gives heading to this chapter, it often causes one to say, “I fear I am not one of the elect!”

 

This is what Neuman has to say about it and I pray it will help you in your struggles.

 

You have no cause for this fear but your own fancy. Has God, or an angel, or the Bible told you so? Election, whatever it means is God’s work, not yours. Do not perplex yourself with His secret counsels, but attend to your own plain  duties.

 

De 29:29 "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

 

This verse tells us that we must leave the secret things and attend to the revealed. Our duty is to do according to God’s Law. And this Law is most clear.

 

You are nowhere told you are not  the elect, but you are told that Jesus died for you and you are invited to come to Him. Vex your mind then no longer about such difficult subjects as election, but promptly obey what God commands.

Repent and believe the gospel. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened. Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you. Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out.

 

Do what God says and your salvation will be sure.

 

Suppose that you were very poor, and a rich man were to announce that he would give a pound to a hundred persons whose names no one knew but himself but at the same time promised that he would give it to everyone who applied for it, would you say, “I am afraid I am not among the favored number, therefore I will not ask for the money?” No; you would rather say, “whether I am among the hundred or not, everyone is invited, and therefore I will go.’ Do the same respecting eternal life. Do not sit still teasing yourself with useless inquiries whether your name is in God’s book.

 

Are you a sinner? “Oh yes!” Well then, you are invited for it is a faithful saying, and worthy to be accepted by ALL, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save SINNERS, of whom I am CHIEF.”

 

The invitation is universal. “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” Jesus said not, “Come unto Me ye whose names are in the Book of Life”, but, “Come unto Me all ye that are heavy laden.” Come to Jesus and your salvation is certain. Come to Jesus and then you may be sure you will be found in the Book of Life. Come to Jesus and you will be received among the elect, but if you stay away you will perish.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word