Things New and Old: Lo, I come to do thy will, O God

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Monday, March 19, 2018

Lo, I come to do thy will, O God

Then said I, Lo, I come... to do thy will, O God.

John 6:38,39

38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

Jesus came, not even to do his own will; and most assuredly, not the whims and fancies of sincere but misguided theologians, preachers and their disciples. How many there are who teach and believe that Jesus came to do their will, that is, to die for, and to save the whole world.

What is the Father's will that Jesus said He was sent to do?

It is to save all them that God has given to Him before the foundation of the world; He will save each and every single one of them to the uttermost.

"I should lose nothing" He declares emphatically. Why?

The salvation of all those given to Him is solely, wholly, and completely dependent upon Him and His work alone, and He finished it. It is by His righteousness and blood, PLUS NOTHING.

Based upon His finished work of redemption, eternal salvation is freely bestowed to each and every one of those given to Christ, at God's approved and accepted time, making each one of them fit for eternal glory, as well as ENABLING them to respond to the gospel call when it comes to them.

However, their eternal salvation - ministered to them when they were still in their native state of sin and death, by the direct and immediate activities of the Triune God - is PRIOR TO and INDEPENDENT OF the temporal salvation that is ministered through the instrumentality of the gospel ministry.

If the eternal salvation of God's elect is conditioned upon any instrumentality of man's activity, as many imagined, then the promised salvation is no longer sure unto all the elect.

The gospel ministry is to proclaim the good news of what has been happened - i.e. the eternal salvation that has been purposed, accomplished and applied - calling those recipients to believe the truth of their eternal salvation by God's free grace.