REDEMPTION
Redemption means "to buy back;" that is, to rescue from a fallen condition. Man’s fallen condition renders him far too weak and confused to effect his own salvation even in cooperation with God. The tremendous amount of labor and sacrifice needed to effect salvation is far too great for man even to attempt. Such hard work can be done by God alone. For these reasons, according to Romans 5:6 and II Corinthians 5:21, Christ literally took the sin and death that is the fallen condition of man upon Himself on the cross. All of the sin of man was laid on Him, and He suffered all of its destructive effects. Christ suffered the death of every man, but He is also the life of every believer. Colossians 3:1-4 clearly teaches that Christ is both the death and the life of the believer.
Therefore, in accordance with Romans 3:21-27, any man who receives Christ by faith will be cleansed from sin, forgiven of sin, and rescued from an everlasting death. Only when God has thoroughly cleansed a believer by the blood of Jesus, will that believer be qualified to receive the everlasting, resurrected, righteous life of Christ. Thus Christ is far more than the one who accomplished salvation. He is that very salvation itself. For these reasons, there can be no such thing as salvation by personal effort or by cooperation with God.
Revelation 1:5 reveals that the sole agent that washes away the sins of man is the shed blood of Jesus. This is the first great mystery of the cross that no doubt no one will ever completely understand. Why the blood of Jesus? How could the blood of Jesus cleanse all of that sin? As the shed blood of Jesus flowed from the cross, somehow it carried all of man’s sins away into absolute nothingness as water and soap carries dirt down a drain. Because Jesus is God in human form, God’s pure blood is the cleansing agent. The blood of God, being directly connected to the infinite holiness of God, can be nothing but absolutely pure, and must remain so after washing away sin. This absolute polarization proves that infinite God can negate a finite power, in this case those false combinations called sins, without corrupting Himself.
The second great mystery of the cross is that Christ, being God, died on it. How could the everlasting life of God ever die? Possibly, the answer lies in the fact that death never becomes annihilation. Absolute nothingness holds no power to negate a finite duality, much less an infinite one. Nevertheless, Satan wanted Christ dead, not because he thought that absolute nothingness could destroy Infinite Duality, but because Satan believed that when the Holy Spirit descended into hell, then God would be forever separated from Himself, and thus His powers would be forever negated. With God imprison in hell, Satan would then be free to fill absolute nothingness with whatever destructive pleasures that he desired.
When the lifeless body of Jesus hung on the cross, and His Holy Spirit descended into hell, then God was truly dead as if He were a finite, sinful duality. Death is eternal separation from God, and God was separated from Himself. God’s death on the cross was absolutely necessary because God had to take the place of sinful man completely in order to destroy sin and death. This necessity explains Christ’s cry from the cross as recorded in Matthew 27:46. Yet, another cry from the cross as recorded in Luke 23:46, demonstrated Christ’s absolute faith that the Father would resurrect Him to victory because although He knew that His Spirit would descend into hell, He nevertheless commended His Spirit into the hands of the Father. Similarly, repentant sinners must realize that they deserve hell on the one hand, but that they can also cry out to God, in faith, for His mercy and grace on the other hand, and be certain that God will grant them salvation.
The problem that developed for Satan and the other lords of absolute nothingness was that hell could not hold God. The holiness of God caused more anguish to Satan and his demons than they could endure. The prophecy of Genesis 3:15 had come true. The holiness of God had become mixed with evil, but this condition caused much more pain and anguish to evil than it did to God. As the evil powers were preoccupied with their suffering, God began again to reassert the absolute polarization of good and evil. The Holy Spirit began to ascend from hell, bringing all the Old Testament saints in paradise and paradise itself with Him. The Holy Spirit ascended to revitalize the body of Jesus, changing it into a spiritual-body, which all believers will receive upon resurrection. Jesus ascended to heaven and God was reunited with Himself. In this way, Christ destroyed sin and death, and He provided everlasting life to all who will believe.
Proverbs 8:35-36 clearly defines the difference between those who are alive and those who are dead. Those who refuse to repent and believe in Christ to everlasting life do so because they love their disconnection from God. They want their independence from God’s authority. In seeking to save their lives, they lose them, as Jesus made clear in Mark 8:34-36. Some of them may pay lip service to God, but secretly, they do not believe in Him. They may believe in some vague god, but they will not believe in the God of the Bible; the God of love but also of judgment.
God rules as absolutely necessary that He forever separate unbelievers from His presence, because if He did not, they would forever exert a corrupting influence on His continuous efforts to eliminate absolute nothingness from His creations. Indeed, unbelievers themselves prefer such a separation because they truly hate God and all that is pure and holy.
On the other hand, God has equally determined that He will forever include believers in His presence. Another of the simple true ideas contained within the true combination called "faith" is the one called "repentance." Repentance means to change one’s mind about one’s relationship to God. In contrition, the repentant sinner turns from his sin, comes to hate it, and cries out to Christ for salvation. He does not try to save or reform himself. He knows that that would be the sin of self-righteousness. He simply humbly begs God for mercy and grace, believing that Christ has already done all that he needs for his salvation. Therefore, repentance is a necessary part of faith. God has determined that believers will live with Him forever, as Psalms 34:18 and Isaiah 57:15 clearly teach.
For a person to believe that he can add to God’s salvation is to commit the sin of unbelief in God’s Word, for Jesus has already said that self-salvation is impossible in Mark 10:26-27, and the Holy Spirit said the same in Romans 5:6. Those whom God saves are those who cry out to Him for grace, realizing their completely helpless condition, as Romans 10:8-13 declares. To do anything less than this is to commit the sins of pride and self-righteousness.
In John 3:3-8, Jesus teaches that to be "born again" or "born from above" is absolutely necessary for one to enter the kingdom of God. Being "born again" is wholly a creative, miraculous act of God which is directly connected to the sacrificial work of Chris, as Jesus made clear in verses 14-21.
When one turns from one’s sins and calls out to God for grace, then the Holy Spirit takes control of that person. The person himself does not have to do anything. As I Corinthians 6:11 teaches, the Holy Spirit washes, sanctifies, and justifies the believer. Then in accordance with Ephesians 1:12-14, the Holy Spirit forever seals the believer to God, and in accordance with Galatians 6:8, the Spirit imparts to the believer the everlasting life of Christ. Galatians 5:22 states that the Holy Spirit even gives the faith that is needed. Not only that, Jesus taught in John 16:8-9 that the Spirit causes sinners to realize that they need God in the first place! Through the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ, given by the Holy Spirit, God reconnects the broken spiritual condition of unbelievers to Himself. To have one’s spirit reconnected to God’s infinite Spirit is to be "born again."
Ephesians 1:12-13 clearly demonstrates that salvation from the Holy Spirit immediately follows faith. Also, Ephesians 2:1-13 describes the "born again" experience of salvation.
The Holy Spirit uses the accomplished work of Christ to restore the finite spirits of believers to a reconnection to the infinite Spirit of God. Yet, how do weak, finite minds ever come to realize that they need this "born again" reconnection? Again, God takes the initiative. In the parable of the lost sheep in Matthew 18:11-14, Jesus explains that He seeks and saves the lost sheep.
The Spirit of Christ, who is also the Holy Spirit, uses the Word of God to cause the lost to realize that they are disconnected from God and that they need to call upon God for salvation. This is clearly taught in Romans 10, verses 8 and 17.
Then Romans 10:9-13 describes exactly what follows from this realization of being lost. Anyone who calls upon God for grace, desiring to have faith, freely receives from God the salvation that Christ has provided for them.
In John 16:7-11, Jesus describes the work of the Holy Spirit in relation to the world; that is, to the lost. The Holy Spirit causes those who hear God’s Word to realize that they are sinners; that is, that they are spiritually disconnected from the source of life, God, and that, therefore, they need to have faith in Christ. The Holy Spirit causes the lost to realize that Christ and His righteousness are real even though they have not seen His life, death, and resurrection. The lost are made to realize that the love of God demonstrated in the righteous work of Christ has already provided all they need for salvation. The lost are also made to realize that God will one day judge the world and destroy all evil, beginning with the prince of this world, the Devil. As surely as God will judge Satan, God will judge all unbelievers. Those who refused to believe in Christ will be destroyed. However, since unrepentant sinners actually love death more than God, strange as it may seem, their destruction will be exactly that which they want. Like the demons, unbelievers would suffer more in the presence of a Holy God than they will in the fires of hell.
In I Corinthians 15:10, the Apostle Paul attributes all that he is, and ever will be, to the grace of God. He described the gospel he preached in verses 1-4. This gospel is the grace of God that was freely bestowed upon him by the Holy Spirit at the time that he was born again. Paul refers to his born again experience with Christ in verse 8.
The born again experience starts the sanctification process. Sanctification means that God, by His grace, elects believers and recreates them to conform to the image of Christ, as recorded in II Corinthians 3:17-18 and II Corinthians 5:17.
In the sanctification process, the Holy Spirit imparts certain gifts to believers. Those gifts that directly pertain to that which God has already done for man through Christ are immediately and irrevocably effective at the time that believers are born again. These gifts can not fail because God can not fail. God never fails to finish whatever He starts, as recorded in Philippians 1:6.
God never fails to cleanse believers in the blood of Christ as recorded in Revelation 1:5. God never fails to take residence in the hearts of believers, forever sealing them with the unbreakable seal of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in Ephesians 1:13 and 4:30. God never fails to forgive sinners completely, as recorded in Ephesians 4:32. God can forever forgive believing sinners because Christ has forever cleansed them. God never fails to give everlasting life to believers because the infinite Christ is their life, as recorded in Colossians 3:4. God never fails to justify believers, as recorded in Romans 4:25 through Romans 5:1-2. Justification means that God declares believers to be "not guilty" because Christ has already suffered in their places as if He were the one who was guilty. God never fails to impart the righteousness of Christ to believers, as recorded in Romans 5:17-21. The only possible righteousness that believers can possess is the righteousness of Christ. Only through His righteousness can believing sinners become acceptable to God. God never fails to impart these gifts and more because these are directly connected to the perfect life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. These gifts can not fail because Christ did not fail. In other words, the believing sinner can rest in the finished work of Christ, as recorded in John 19:30 and Hebrews 10:9-18.
Although the love of God and the work of Christ can not fail to save and to perfect believers, nevertheless, believers can and do fail God. The Holy Spirit imparts certain gifts to believers to which they are expected to try to conform their lives. Most of these gifts are outlined in Galatians 5:22-26. These gifts are also part of the sanctification process.
Although God can not fail to save believing sinners completely, this fact does not mean that God completely removes their freedom. Believers retain their freedom, and thus at least a part of their old Adamic natures. The Apostle Paul discussed the constant warfare between these two natures in Romans 7:15-25. He called his spiritual side the "law of God," and his carnal side the "law of sin."
Some believers do a poor job of conforming their lives to the "law of God" within themselves. Too often they yield to the influence of the "law of sin" and thus fail God. However, this fact does not leave God powerless to help them. The Holy Spirit will always woo them and convict them in accordance with John 14:26. God will even punish them in accordance with Hebrews 12:5-7, but always because they are His children. In fact, in accordance with Hebrews 12:8, if a person commits sin and is not punished by God, this constitutes evidence that that person is not a child of God.
God also uses fellow believers to correct a sinning brother or sister. God expects their attitudes toward their sinning brother or sister to conform to Galatians 6:1-2. Believers should always treat each other with compassion and humility. Believers should never feel that they are above failure. To have this kind of pride in one’s sanctification is itself a sin, being a form of self-righteousness.
God never removes His Holy Spirit from believers even if they lose their faith as II Timothy 2:13 clearly teaches. Romans 8:5-8 teaches that those who are carnally minded; that is, the lost sinners, prefer death and spiritual separation from God over salvation. Romans 8:1-2 and verses 14-17 declare that those who have the Spirit of God are the children of God and are joint heirs with Christ. Particularly, verse 16 informs believers that God does not keep the knowledge of his salvation secret from His believers. Thus, God is the one who separates believers from unbelievers, and God guarantees the salvation of believers even if they cease to believe. Verse 16 clearly teaches that the children of God are joint heirs with Christ, which means that they can no more lose their inheritance than Christ can lose His.
In Matthew 22:10, Jesus clearly explained that the guests at the marriage feast (which refers to the marriage of Christ with His church) are both good and bad. Romans 8:28-34 affirms that God absolutely predestines his children to be "conformed to the image of His son." God states in verse 30 that He alone predestines them, calls them, justifies them, and glorifies them; that is, He sanctifies them. God’s grace alone saves and sanctifies believers despite the inevitable failures that result from their retention of freedom. Believers are bound to fail because of the "law of sin" in their members which results from the weakness and confusion of their finite minds. God knows all of this better than humans. Yet, God saves repentant sinners anyway. When God reconnects a sinful mind to His infinite mind, He forms a bond that all of the powers of hell and humanity combined can never break. Jesus clearly stated this fact in John 10:27-30, and the Holy Spirit describes the believers’ security in Romans 8:35-39.
Does this guarantee mean that God condones sin or winks at it? The answer is absolutely not. Jesus instructed His followers to obey God’s commands. In Romans 6:14-18, Romans 12:1-2, and II Corinthians 6:14-18, the Holy Spirit expects and commands believers to separate themselves from sin and conform their lives to the gift of righteousness which they have received from God.
Although unbelievers possess a certain amount of freedom to do good or evil, nevertheless, they are never able to move beyond the bound of their separation from God. Jesus taught in John 8:34 that unrepentant sinners are the slaves of sin. Only the Son can liberate unbelievers from this slavery as verse 36 points out. Unbelievers retain a freedom that does not allow them to pass beyond the limits of their sin. Romans 5:6-11 teaches that unbelievers are completely helpless to save themselves. Christ alone can save them.
Since, in God’s liberty, Christ chose to come to the world to save sinners; this work of salvation is God’s alone. Jesus taught in John 6:37-40 that God always saves believers with a salvation which the freedom of the believer can never revoke. As Jesus declares in John 8:32 and the Holy Spirit in II Corinthians 3:17, believers are moved into God’s liberty. God’s liberty is the constant opportunity to create that which is good and true. Unbelievers possess a destructive form of liberty, being subject to the effects of absolute nothingness. As children of God, believers enjoy the liberty of God treating their sins as errors to be corrected, and not as destructive. In God’s salvation and sanctification efforts, He treats the absolute nothingness inherent in believers as an open field in which His creative powers can operate to recreate the believer into someone beautiful, good, and true. God’s project leaves nothing for the believer to do but believe. Indeed, Jesus points out in John 6:29 that the only work of believers is to believe.
Yet, within the sanctification process, God allows believers to retain their carnal freedom. This fact is clearly taught in Romans 7:15-25. Why does God allow this? Why does not God revoke believers’ carnal liberty so that they can not sin and thus become a perfect light of Christ to the sinful world?
The answer can be found in Romans 5:20 and I John 1:7-10. The freedom of God is that He knows the infinite set of simple true ideas and that He always creates true combinations. Absolute nothingness is finite. God is infinite creativity. God’s desire is to prove that infinite creativity will always, and in every circumstance, overpower absolute nothingness. Should God revoke believers’ carnal freedom, He could charge Himself with failure to meet the challenge of sin on every occasion. God is certainly no coward. Again and again, God proves His powers of love, grace, sacrifice, and forgiveness in this great truth from Romans 5:20: "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound."
Does this mean that God grants believers a license to sin? The answer is absolutely not. The residence of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of believers causes them to desire to conform their lives to God’s gift of righteousness. II Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 5: 13-16 teaches that believers are a new creation of God, and that their natural desire is changed to love goodness and to eschew evil.
Nevertheless, the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15, and the Apostle Paul’s discussion of the weakness of the flesh in Romans 7, clearly demonstrates that there are times when something goes terribly wrong in the lives of believers. The weaknesses inherent in man’s spirit and mind lead to the formations of false combinations. False combinations open the spirit to the influence of absolute nothingness which is always destructive.
Still, the abundant grace of God never shrinks from meeting and overpowering sin on every occasion in which it may arise in believers. Every time that absolute nothingness does not appear behind false combinations, God is there to fill it in with His creative actions. For this reason, believers may stray, sometimes for many years, but eventually God always wins. Jesus will never lose a single one of His sheep as John 10:26-30 and Romans 8:28-30 make clear.
Besides, when believers go astray, they certainly grieve the Holy Spirit in accordance with Ephesians 4:30, but their actions can never diminish God. In accordance with Galatians 6:7-8, a sinning believer really only hurts himself. God will make him feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and God will punish him to bring about his correction. God will allow him to reap the corruption and pain that sin always causes. Yet, God will always be there to help him. God will never leave him nor forsake him as He promised in Hebrews 13:5. Eventually, God will correct the sinning believer even if He has to kill him and bring him home to Himself in disgrace.
Always, as soon as a sinning believer confesses and repents of his sin, God is willing to cleanse, to forgive, and to restore him to His fellowship. This truth is taught in I John 1:3-10 and 2:1-3.
The Spirit of Christ is always with believers, and Christ also always sits at the right hand of the Father as the believers’ intercessor. This great truth is taught in Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25, and I John 2:1. Christ constantly watches over believes, talks to the Father on their behalf, and asks Him for patience and mercy. Because of their carnal freedom, believers constantly struggle with weakness and confusion. They do not know how to separate goodness from evil, but they do have confidence that Jesus knows how, and that despite their sins, He is always able to bring them out of sin. Believers can rest in faith that God has provided His Word for their guidance, and the advocacy of Christ for their weakness. Believers will lose battles, but be absolutely certain that they will win the war.
As Colossians 1:12-14 indicates, God alone redeems and sanctifies. For this reason, unbelievers have no excuse for not believing. Since God promised to provide, and has provided, the salvation that everyone needs, and since God can be the only source of goodness and safety, then the unbelievers’ own pride and futile self-reliance must be that which causes their refusal to repent and leads to their self-destruction. Unbelievers need only repent and put their trust in the power and grace of Christ to find eternal salvation. This salvation becomes effective the moment the believer experiences a spiritual reconnection to God’s infinity.
Salvation does not mean that believers attain instantaneous perfection. God allows them to retain their freedom. Repentance simply means that what unbelievers once loved; as believers, they now hate. Faith means that believers put their complete trust in Christ alone for their salvation and eventual perfection. For these reasons, believers should certainly strive mightily to avoid sin, but at the same time, believers should not become discouraged when they fall into sin because sin is inevitable for weak-minded dualities with freedom, but then so is forgiveness and perfection.
It is true that when believers are "born again," an instantaneous and miraculous transformation takes place within them. God recreates them through the presence of His Holy Spirit. At once, they begin to hate sin and to shun it. They begin to love Christ. They cling to Him, and they desire to be like Him. Nevertheless, their retention of freedom and the weakness of their flesh make it inevitable that at some time in their future, they will fail and sin again. In fact, in accordance with I John 1:8 and 10, it is a sin for believers to claim that they have no sin. God knows all this better than believers do. God does not get discouraged in the face of sin, so why should believers. God, for the sake of Christ, never fails to correct and to perfect believers. Unbelievers truly have no excuse for not believing because as Philippians 1:6 and Ecclesiastes 3:14 clearly indicate, God always finishes whatever He starts. He has already provided for every contingency.
Yet, what keeps unbelievers from repentance and faith? It is simply pride. Most people will cling to false combinations even when they strongly suspect that something is wrong. People simply hate to admit that they could be wrong. For this reason, Proverbs 8:36 is one of the most profound statements in the Bible. Unbelievers love their sin and death because they falsely believe that their individuality and ultimate freedom are defined and preserved in this way. In other words, in seeking to save themselves, they lose themselves. They should heed what Jesus said in Luke 9:23-26 and in Matthew 16:24-26.
Being under deep conviction from the Holy Spirit, Judas Iscariot killed himself because he was afraid he would repent. The Apostle Peter also betrayed Jesus, but he needed only to repent in order to receive forgiveness and reconciliation.
As Proverbs 6:16-19 teaches, God hates pride more than any other sin. Pride keeps more unbelievers from repenting than any other sin. Of all false combinations, pride lies closest to absolute nothingness. It is no accident that pride is also called vanity, which means "emptiness." This emptiness can only be filled by God. Unbelievers really have no excuse for not believing because God has assumed all responsibility for their salvation and eventual perfection. Unbelievers need only have faith, and God will even give them that if they would only humbly ask for it! No one should doubt that unbelievers love sin and death instead of God. Sometimes, an unbeliever will commit suicide knowing full well that he will go to hell when he does it.
Absolute nothingness does have some powers. Yet, believers can be confident that these powers are finite. There can be but one infinite, and that undefined by "one;" that is, Infinite Duality. If absolute nothingness were not finite, then it would be infinite, in which case everything would be equal to it. Yet, because creativity, love, grace, and the infinite set of simple true ideas possess real existence, both in inner and outer duality, then one can be sure that Infinite Duality is real.
The set of simple true ideas can not be finite because if they were finite, then there would have been a time when they did not exist. At such a time, everything would have been equal to absolute nothingness, making it all-powerful. In such a condition, neither consciousness nor objectivity would ever be able to raise themselves above their level with nothingness. The evolution of duality would be rendered impossible. Reality could never exist. Therefore, the set of true simple ideas must be infinite.
Two questions remain. The first is: Why did God choose to deal with absolute nothingness in a history for the sake of freedom? Why did God deal with the totality of sin on the cross, and on a case by case basis in the sanctification process, while allowing freedom to operate as requiring a history? Then there is the opposite question long pondered by man: Why did not God simply eradicate all evil from this and all other universes when He created them? Such an action would have eliminated all pain and suffering caused by sin from the beginning. God could have made the whole universe a heaven. What is so special about freedom?
One must remember that God is absolute freedom itself. The infinite set of true simple ideas were not created by God. In a real sense, they are God Himself. They are the uncreated Word of God; that is, the Logos. John 1:1-5 teaches that the Word is God, and that the Word created everything including life. Verse 14 teaches that the Word became flesh; that is, the Lord Jesus Christ. Being that necessary infinite set of simple true ideas, the Word defines the being and character of God. Being the objects of the inner duality of God, the Word is absolutely necessary to His real existence. All that the Word has created in material objective form; that is, our universe, is patterned on some of these true simple ideas.
John 1:18 relates that no man can see God; that is, the invisible infinite consciousness who is the Father. Jesus also made this clear in John 5:37. However, men have seen the Logos, the incarnate Word of God. Jesus possesses absolute freedom to combine the true simple ideas into all true combinations. God can not misuse His freedom and remain God. The Word of God always chooses to create that which is true and good and holy.
However, if God had created our universe as a heaven, having eliminated all possible evil from it, then our universe could be but absolutely determined; that is, no freedom whatsoever within it. Therefore, carnal freedom must precede spiritual freedom for finite dualities. Otherwise, spiritual freedom would be equal to mere determinism. Carnal freedom involves a real choice between good and evil. Thus spiritual freedom becomes a reality to finite dualities when they choose it.
Spiritual freedom means that one should always desire to know the true simple ideas and how to put them into true combinations. This is the same as a desire to be like Jesus. Believers are those whom God has restored to this desire for spiritual freedom. If there were no carnal freedom, there could be no such desire, and the meaningfulness and value of the true simple ideas in finite duality would be greatly diminished, being the products of determinism.
The value and meaning of the simple true ideas and their true combinations are made real when they are chosen. In other words, to choose to love and serve God is far more valuable than to be compelled to do so by determinism. This constitutes the truth and value of the simple idea called "freedom." For these reasons, freedom requires a history so that true choices can be made, and their values made real.
The value of freedom over determinism subsists in the chosen desire to love and to serve God. This fact presupposes all of the opposite simple ideas. That is, good is the opposite of evil, love of hate, faith of fear, and so forth. These opposite true simple ideas have useful purposes if used in true combinations. For example, those who love God should hate evil. Those who have faith in God should also fear Him.
If all creation were determined, the love, faith, truth, and all other good simple ideas would be real merely in a trivial sense. All of the true simple ideas would be so taken for granted that they would be reduced to mere formalities. Mere formality was one of the things that Jesus detested.
Truth can not be real without its opposite; that is, falsehood. All opposites must exist for freedom to exist, and truth is the value of usefulness of the simple ideas and their true combinations. Truth must be chosen over falsity for truth to be real. Otherwise, truth becomes a mere necessity. For these reasons, John 8:32 is one of Jesus’ most profound statements.
One final question remains: What then is the purpose of God’s grace and love and of all of the true simple ideas, and of all of the good creations which are patterned on them. The simple answer is revealed in Revelation 4:11 and in I Corinthians 1:26-31. God alone deserves glory and honor.
If God chooses to prove the value of His love by always being able to turn wayward believers back to Himself by reproof or discipline, then that demonstrates His power and glory. If God chooses to save lost sinners through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, then that manifests the power of His love. God’s creations belong to Him. They were, and are, created for God’s pleasure and glory. For precisely these reasons, God’s grace can never fail.
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