Recent NCC Blogs
-Love Being Yourself – 4/29/22
-Faithful Are the Wounds of a Friend – 4/22/22
The Elect
Believers and God’s elect are indeed one and the same group from God’s perspective. However, from man’s perspective, there may be an elected person that isn’t yet a believer (they will believe before they die, though, guaranteed).
Placing Your Hope
You have to make a decision, you know. It's either one or the other. Are you trusting in yourself to be saved, or are you trusting in Christ alone to be saved?
If you're trusting in yourself and your own goodness to get you to heaven, that means you're NOT trusting in Christ alone; the one and only Savior from sin. So, in your heart, who are you trusting in??? It’s between you and the Lord.
Placing Your Hope
Stop making yourself miserable and just surrender to the Lord! For everything!! For your whole life!!
The Elect
Believers and God’s elect are indeed one and the same group from God’s perspective. However, from man’s perspective, there may be an elected person that isn’t yet a believer (they will believe before they die, though, guaranteed).
Hope
When you place your unfettered trust in God, you have true hope. If you only say you will, but whenever your trust (aka faith) is tested, you shrink away from exercising it, your hope is lost.
Ro 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Learn the Difference
Eph 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Col 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Pr 21:1
The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
Righteous Hope
Your freedom is in knowing that it is by the Word of God and the Spirit of God alone that people are saved. Your hope is that God is just and righteous in His decision to save.
Don’t just SAY you trust in God - PLACE your trust in Him.
God’s Call to Salvation
When God calls one of His children to salvation (those whom He foreknows), they respond affirmatively, making this call effective every time (ref: Jn 10:1-18). This is different than the “general call” of the Gospel, which many reject (ref: Mt 22:1-14).
Jn 10:3, 9
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
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I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.God’s Call to Salvation
When God calls one of His children to salvation (those whom He foreknows), they respond affirmatively, making this call effective every time (ref: Jn 10:1-18). This is different than the “general call” of the Gospel, which many reject (ref: Mt 22:1-14).
