REDEEMED! – part 5
Isaiah 43:1-44:5 (44:1-5)
March 24, 2024
This morning we return one more time to take a look at God’s redemption.
And what a glorious look it has been!
It is nothing short of comfort and delight to the soul to understand
• What God has done
• What God is doing
• What God will do for those whom He has redeemed.
And just to quickly pull your mind back into the conversation.
God has been laying out the realities of redemption to His people Israel.
This is important because the people He is addressing
Are people who have failed Him miserably.
• They fell into idolatry…
• The shed very much innocent blood…
• Their sin was so offensive to God that His glory departed from the temple…
• Their sin was so offensive that God gave them into the hands of Babylon…
• And now, they have been in slavery there for nearly 70 years.
It is a legitimate question to wonder
If God had totally and permanently abandoned His people.
And to that God here responds with a resounding No!
If you think that God would turn His back on those He has redeemed
Then it is clear that you do not understand God’s redemption.
So we have been taking a closer look at this very thing.
#1 A PARTICULAR REDEMPTION
Isaiah 43:1-7
Namely that God DID NOT redeem all men,
(clearly God gave up Egypt to save Israel.)
But those He did redeem are totally and perfectly redeemed.
• It is not a potential redemption it is an actual redemption.
• It is not a possible redemption it is a powerful redemption.
Those whom He redeems are His…all of them.
Isaiah 43:1 “But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!”
#2 A PURPOSED REDEMPTION
Isaiah 43:8-13
God redeems His people for His glory.
• He saves the otherwise unsavable to reveal that He alone is the Savior.
Isaiah 43:10-11 “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me. “I, even I, am the LORD, And there is no savior besides Me.”
No other god can do what our God does.
• He actually saves.
• He actually redeems.
• And it is the redeemed who are His evidence.
#3 A PROMISING REDEMPTION
Isaiah 43:14-21
We saw this last Sunday morning, namely that
The past benefits of redemption are not all there is.
Even in the N.Y. the salvation of God is spoken of in various tenses.
• Sometimes Scripture says “you have been saved”
• Sometimes Scripture says “you are being saved”
• Sometimes Scripture says “you will be saved”
And they are all true.
• We have been saved from our sin – JUSTIFICATION
• We are being saved from our sin – SANCTIFICATION
• We will be saved from our sin – GLORIFICATION
Redemption accomplishes all of these.
Therefore God told Israel,
• Not to simply think about what God did in the past (Exodus)
• But to start thinking about what God is doing (sending Cyrus)
• And what God will do (bring them home).
Isaiah 43:18-19 “Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. “Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.”
We as believers rejoice in what God has done.
We are grateful for what God is doing.
And we anticipate what He will yet do.
FOR US WHOM HE HAS REDEEMED
#4 A PERSISTENT REDEMPTION
Isaiah 43:22-28
THIS WAS LAST SUNDAY NIGHT
And for the first time we encountered a problem.
Jeremiah made it clear to us that one of the conditions of Israel returning from Babylon was their repentance and subsequent calling on the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:12-13 “Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
So it is assumed by many that what God did in sending them to Babylon was simply to “dial up the pressure”.
• They weren’t seeking God,
• They weren’t calling on God in their own land
• So God threw them into Babylon until they learned to seek.
And many think this is how it works.
• Sinners just need to be coerced.
• And if you apply enough pressure then they will respond.
But as we found last Sunday night, IT WASN’T WORKING.
Isaiah 43:22 “Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob; But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.”
Israel wasn’t calling.
• If you keep reading you find out they weren’t sacrificing or seeking or
interested in God at all.
AND SO WE RAN INTO A PROBLEM.
• How does God redeem a people who don’t want to be redeemed?
• How does God rescue a people who don’t want to be rescued?
• How does God save a people who don’t want to be saved?
And the answer is what we saw SUNDAY NIGHT
And we will discuss even more this morning.
Namely that God transforms their heart
And changes their disposition to cause them to want Him.
Today we have a saying:
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”
Theologically we would say:
“You can tell a sinner about God, but you can’t make him trust.”
WELL, GOD CAN.
See God made a promise to Israel.
Isaiah 43:25 “I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.”
• God had already determined to redeem Israel.
• God had already determined to bring glory to His name by forgiving their sin.
If they don’t call, then God gets no glory as a Savior.
So God will act for the sake of His name.
We learned then Sunday night that God’s redemption is PERSISTENT.
In short, we are not saved because we so persistently pursue God,
But rather because He so persistently pursued us.
It is Jesus who sought for sinners not the other way around.
WELL THIS MORNING
We want to look at one more aspect of God’s redemption
In some ways it merely goes deeper into the reality we looked at Sunday night.
#5 A PERMANENT REDEMPTION
Isaiah 44:1-5
So we know that chapter 43 concluded
With a rather disconcerting announcement regarding Israel.
The people, whom God had redeemed, whom God promised to deliver,
Where still unwilling to call out to Him for salvation.
That had not changed God’s decision
To atone for their sin or to wipe out their transgressions,
But it is true that they were getting what they deserved.
In fact chapter 43 ended with this startling announcement.
Isaiah 43:28 “So I will pollute the princes of the sanctuary, And I will consign Jacob to the ban and Israel to revilement.”
It was a reference to the fact that Israel’s exile to Babylon was totally just.
• They were receiving what they deserved.
What they did not deserve was the mercy God was promising in verse 25.
Had God chosen to just walk away from Israel
• And leave them forever consigned to Babylon and slavery
• To abandon them and find someone else
• That God would have been just in making such a decision.
He was under no obligation to deliver them
Or to bring them back to the land of promise.
And if God were a man like you or I, that might have been what He did.
But thankfully, He is not.
As we have learned in the past couple of weeks,
HIS REDEMPTION IS WEIGHTY.
• It’s not a fickle redemption…
• It’s not a flimsy redemption…
We are talking about a people whom God purchased for Himself Nothing will keep Him from obtaining that which He purchased,
Not even their own stubbornness.
In short, we are talking about a PERMANENT REDEMPTION
Let’s look at that here in these 5 verses.
Let me break this down a little further as well.
1) UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION (1-2)
“But now listen, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, ‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.”
We have grown to love the word “But” in Scripture.
• It is that great transition word
• Which usually follows a discourse
• On how undeserving we are of salvation.
And that is exactly how it is used here.
• Israel deserved the exile.
• Israel deserved to stay in Babylon.
• Israel deserved to be abandoned by God.
“But…” That is NOT what is going to happen.
“But now listen, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, ‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.”
As God addresses this sinful people
(Who refuse to call and who don’t even seem to want deliverance)
God does not approach them with words of anger.
He speaks to them in terms of election.
• Twice He calls them “Jacob, My servant”
• Twice He says they are those “whom I have chosen”
• He reminds that He is the one who “made you And formed you from the womb”
• And He reminds again of His promise to “help you”
The entire feel of those two verses is simply that
God’s promise of redemption
Is not based upon the worth of the sinner who receives it.
God has chosen a people who didn’t choose Him.
And again WE ARE BLOWN AWAY
By this doctrine which we refer to as UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION.
That God chose people who didn’t deserve to be chosen.
We have already read recently the passage in Deuteronomy 7:7
• Where God revealed that He didn’t choose Israel because they were so great.
Many times we have read the passage in 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
• Reminding that there were not many wise, not many might, not many noble, but God chose us anyway.
We don’t have to revisit those texts this morning.
But consider a few other remarkable passages.
1 Timothy 1:12-16 “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus. It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.”
Paul reveals what he was at the time when Christ confronted him.
• “a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor.”
• In fact Paul says that he was “the foremost” of all sinners.
And our question is:
Should a persecutor and a blasphemer and a violent aggressor be chosen by God for salvation?
Of course not, but that is what God does.
HE CHOOSES THE UNWORTHY.
Think of this one:
Titus 3:3-7 “For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
And in like fashion we ask the question here:
Should a foolish and hateful person who lives only for the lusts of the flesh be chosen by God for salvation?
And again we say “No” but that’s what God does.
HE REACHES OUT AND SAVES THE UNWORTHY.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”
You are familiar with this famous list.
• It actually magnifies that passage in chapter 1 when Paul says that among the Corinthians there were not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble.
5 chapters later we find out that they were actually fornicators and idolators and adulterers and effeminate and homosexuals and thieves and covetous and drunkards and revilers and swindlers.
Notice the “such were some of you” part of that verse.
And again we ask:
Should God choose drunkards to be saved? Or homosexuals? Or thieves? Or the covetous?
And again the obvious answer is “NO” but that is what God does.
GOD CHOOSES TO SAVE SINNERS.
HIS ELECTION IS AN UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION.
So it is not surprising to us when we see here in Isaiah 44
• That God is still referring go Israel as His chosen
• Even though they are totally disinterested in being reconciled to Him.
• God never has chosen the worthy.
But here we are looking at more than just God’s initial choosing of Israel.
What we are looking at here is God’s faithfulness
TO CONTINUE TO CHOOSE THEM.
It is not just unconditional election,
It is UNCEASING COMMITMENT.
GOD DOESN’T GIVE UP.
• It is one thing to choose them when they were unworthy sinners.
• It is quite another thing to continue choosing them when they seem to never change.
But this is God too!
Remember this story?
John 21:15-17 “So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.” He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Tend My sheep.”
Should someone who denies the Lord 3 times be allowed to continue being a disciple?
• Should that person be allowed to preach to others?
• Should that person be entrusted with preaching the sermon of Pentecost?
And we’d say, “Of course not!”
But God didn’t back up on His calling.
Israel doesn’t deserve it, but God’s election stands.
It is an unconditional election and it is an unceasing commitment.
Do you understand that about your redemption church?
• It is not fickle.
• You were unworthy when He chose you.
• You remain unworthy, but that does not change His decision.
But that is only part of the glory here.
2) SUPERNATURAL REGENERATION (3-4)
“For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants; And they will spring up among the grass Like poplars by streams of water.”
This is what we spoke of some on Sunday night.
THE QUESTION IS, how do you get people who don’t want to call to actually call?
• How do you get blasphemous violent drunkards and homosexuals and covetous to decide to leave that sin and call on God for salvation?
And the answer is: REGENERATION
The verses we have here are Isaiah’s version of the New Covenant.
Jeremiah’s statement is by far the most famous.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Jeremiah spoke of a day when God would
No longer make the blessings of the covenant dependent upon Israel.
God said, “I will put My law with them and on their heart I will write it”
We see God promising to do for sinners
What they could not and would not do for themselves.
Ezekiel spoke of this work of God as well:
Ezekiel 36:24-28 “For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. “You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
Ezekiel actually gave us a little more information
In that he explained to us who the Agent would be that would cause us to love God and His word.
Ezekiel identified the Catalyst and that would be the Holy Spirit.
“I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes”
In the very next chapter
• God showed Ezekiel a living illustration in that valley of old dead dry bones
when God asked Ezekiel if it was possible for those old bones to live?
But that is precisely what God did.
He raised the dead to life through the power of His Spirit.
As you can see, that is PRECISELY WHAT ISAIAH SAW TOO.
He saw God pouring out “My Spirit on your offspring and My blessing on your descendants.”
Isaiah likened it to pouring “water on the thirsty land”
And that of course draws our minds to what Jesus said:
John 7:37-39 “Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”
Do you see how they are all talking about the same thing?
They are talking about God doing something inside the heart of the man who cannot and will not do anything for himself.
• Man is stubborn and will not respond.
• Man is dead and cannot respond.
• Man is a valley of old dry bones.
You can tell those old bones to seek God all you want,
But it is beyond their ability to do so.
So what does God do?
HE DOES IT FOR THEM.
It is called: REGENERATION
• It makes dead sinners alive enough to be able to respond.
• It changes the disposition of the stubborn to make them want to call.
• It grants faith to the faithless so that they will believe.
Think of Lazarus in the tomb.
• He was dead.
• He could not respond.
• And his sisters couldn’t get through to him.
• The objective of the day was to get Lazarus to come out of that tomb.
• But until Lazarus was made alive he could not make that decision.
God must do that supernatural work before a response is even possible.
This is what God is revealing that He will do for the descendants of Israel.
• Yes you are stubborn.
• Yes you are incapable.
• But far be it from Me to give up on you.
• I redeemed you.
• I chose you.
• You are Mine.
So I will do a regenerating work, pour out My Spirit upon you
And cause you live and respond to Me.
And think about what we know of Israel in THE END TIMES.
(Certainly today they are in a state of obstinance)
But what does the Bible say is coming?
Zechariah 12:10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.”
• Do you see that God does not give up on them?
• Do you see that God does whatever it takes to cause them to respond?
• He pours out His Spirit and causes them to look to and mourn over and cry out for Jesus.
IT IS HIS WORK OF REGENERATION.
I remind you that is precisely what God has done FOR US AS WELL.
Ephesians 2:1-7 “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
• We were dead in spirit
• We desired sin
• We were doomed to suffer
We were in just as bad a state as Israel.
• Not calling and not wanting to.
• Not even interested in reconciliation.
• We were dead.
So God intervened.
• He “made us alive”
• He “raised us up with Him”
• He “seated us with Him in the heavenly places”
We didn’t do that, God did that.
And that is what He is taking about doing here
With the descendants of Israel.
God says, “I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants; And they will spring up among the grass like poplars by streams of water.”
In other words, “I’m going to do it and it will be no small work.”
• When I awaken My people to come back to Me they’re going to be everywhere!
It is the very ESSENCE OF REVIVAL
Which is always caused by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.
God promises that He will do that.
But there is one more point to be made
3) EVIDENTIAL CONFESSION (5)
“This one will say, ‘I am the LORD’S’; And that one will call on the name of Jacob; And another will write on his hand, ‘Belonging to the LORD,’ And will name Israel’s name with honor.”
This is THE OUTCOME of the outpouring of God’s Spirit.
In chapter 43 we saw that they were totally unwilling to call.
• We saw that they would not sacrifice.
• We saw that they would not bring offerings.
• We saw that they basically had no interest in affiliation with God at all.
Well verse 5 is certainly a U-Turn.
Because all of a sudden we have a veritable competition.
They are all trying to outdo each other.
It reminds us of Corinth where one was saying, “I am of Paul” and another “I am of Apollos” and another “I am of Cephas” and another “I am Christ”.
Except here they are all after the same title,
Only to prove that they are the most devoted to it.
• They all want to be known as God’s people.
• They all want the banner on their forehead.
• They all want the T-shirt that says it.
• They all want the bumper sticker.
• And they all seem to want to out-do each other.
One commentator wrote,
“Notorious sinners become notorious believers.”
Peter wrote:
1 Peter 4:15-16 “Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler; but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be ashamed, but is to glorify God in this name.”
And you see that very thing here.
They are all shouting over the top of one another.
Right after Carrie and I moved here we went with the youth to a “Hot Hearts” conference at the Coliseum in Lubbock.
We hadn’t been there long before the stadium started a chant.
• One side would scream, “We love Jesus, yes we do, we love Jesus, how
about you?”
• And then the other side would respond.
Obviously, we’re a little skeptical of stuff like that at a youth rally
Because it’s popular and expected.
But here, they’re doing everywhere, not just at the youth camp.
• They go to basketball camp and start talking about how much they love Jesus.
• They go to a football game and start cheering for Jesus.
• They are in the supermarket and their conversations are all about Jesus.
And this, incidentally, is
One of the consequences of being filled with the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has tunnel vision.
• He is consumed with the person and work of Jesus.
• That is all He wants to talk about.
• And when you are filled with Him, then your passions will match His.
And you see that here.
Everyone in this crowd is trying to be more devoted than the other.
And this is where God says it is all headed for Israel.
NOW LET’S STOP HERE AND RECOGNIZE THE OBVIOUS POINT
1) We have a people whom God says He redeemed.
• He called them His.
• Because He redeemed them He promised to bring them home back to Himself.
2) However, they weren’t interested, they loved their sin.
3) So God did in them what they would not do for themselves.
• God promised to send His Spirit and to cause them to want Him.
• And by the time the Spirit does His work that’s exactly what happens.
SO WHAT IS THE POINT?
There is no chance that God’s redemption will fail.
We call it a PERMANENT REDEMPTION.
No amount of obstinance…
No amount of unbelief…
No amount of resistance…
No circumstance too difficult…
Can stop the redemptive work of God.
When Jesus said it was easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven,
The disciples asked, “Then who can be saved?”
Jesus said:
Matthew 19:26 “And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
And that is not only true for rich men, that is true for all men.
Salvation is impossible for all people, only God can do it.
DEAD MEN CAN’T SAVE THEMSELVES.
We think of Abraham when God promised that Isaac would be the heir.
Hebrews 11:17-19 “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; it was he to whom it was said, “IN ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE CALLED.” He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.”
Abraham knew that only God could accomplish such things
And that God could and certainly would do them.
AND THEN WE COME TO ISRAEL.
Stubborn and obstinate down to this very day.
They have rejected Christ and at the present only a remnant believe.
There would be some who say that it is all over for Israel.
• This belief fails to understand the heart of God.
• This belief fails to understand the work of redemption.
• This belief fails to understand the testimony of Scripture.
Romans 11:25-29 “For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.” “THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.” From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”
That is about Israel,
But it is a priceless passage for the Gentile church as well.
WHY?
• Because it reminds us that the redemption of God is permanent.
• If it is permanent for Israel then it is permanent for us as well.
• If God was willing to pass them off, then what assurances do we have?
Well praise God His redemption is permanent!
• Those whom He redeems He will have.
• They are His and He will have them.
• And no one can undo that.
He will take His Spirit and turn the heart of even the vilest sinner
If that is what it takes to bring His redeemed home to Him.
He will change their disposition
He will not let them go.
HE WILL NOT GIVE THEM UP.
THOSE HE REDEEMS, HE PERMANENTLY REDEEMS.
2 Timothy 2:13 “If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.”
1 Thessalonians 5:24 “Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.”
Philippians 1:6 “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”
These are the promises we rest upon.
• That those whom God has chosen to redeem, He will redeem.
• That those whom God has chosen to save, He will save.
• That those whom God has chosen to bring home to Him, He will bring home.
AND NOTHING CAN STOP THAT.
AND NOTHING CAN UNDO IT.
IT IS PERMANENT.
Our God will have those whom He has purchased.
If you have been redeemed, you always will be.
