{"id":5780,"date":"2020-08-03T01:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T01:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5780"},"modified":"2020-08-03T01:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T01:31:38","slug":"they-shall-be-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5780","title":{"rendered":"THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Don Fortner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Jeremiah 24:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some men and women in this world whom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God has chosen to salvation from eternity, who must<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and shall be saved (John 15:16; 2 Thess. 2:13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a multitude, scattered among the fallen sons of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam, in every age, in every nation who must be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of God\u2019s elect is so great that no man can<\/p>\n\n\n\n

calculate it, though it always appears as only a remnant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

at any given time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number is unalterably fixed by God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the elect must be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing can prevent their salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lord Jesus Christ has made atonement for the sins of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s elect and redeemed them from the curse of the law by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his own precious blood (Gal. 3:13). Contrary to popular<\/p>\n\n\n\n

opinion, Christ did not die for all men. He refused to even<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pray for all men (John 17:9, 20). All his work was and is for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his elect alone. To say otherwise is to declare that his work,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his atonement, his intercession, all his work as the sinner\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Substitute was and is futile, meaningless, and vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The death of Christ was for his particular, chosen, elect people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Isa. 53:8; John 10:11) for the satisfaction of justice on their behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All God\u2019s elect, having been redeemed by the blood of Christ, shall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

be called from death to life by the irresistible power and almighty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

grace of God the Holy Spirit (Gal. 3:13-14; Psa. 65:4; 110:3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repentance toward God, faith in Christ, and eternal life are the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

results of the Spirit\u2019s call. Theses are things effectually wrought<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in God\u2019s elect (not offered to them) by his almighty grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is specific day appointed by God in which each of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his elect will be called to life and faith in Christ by the gospel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Psa. 110:3; Ezek. 16:68). God will see to it that the sinner whom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he has chosen will be in the place he has ordained, with his heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

thoroughly prepared to receive the gospel, at the appointed time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he will send his Word to that sinner in the irresistible power<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and grace of the Holy Spirit. In that day, God says, regarding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

every chosen, redeemed sinner, \u201cThey shall be my people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE by Don Fortner \u201cAnd I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.\u201d \u2014 Jeremiah 24:7 There are some men and women in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-don-fortner","category-christ-and-his-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}