There will be no Christian Education Hour today, February 16. Our Worship Service will begin at 10:15AM.

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Towards the end of the blog titled “God’s Eternal Decree – Part 1”, I made the following assertion concerning the doctrine of election: “Once you see it in one text of Scripture, you begin to see it everywhere in the Old Testament as well as the New Testament.” Oh, how true is that statement!

Ask anyone who does not adhere to reformed theology what comes to mind when they hear the term “Calvinism”, and more often than not they will respond with, “predestination”. Predestination is certainly a vital component of the doctrines of grace, and as we began to touch on last week, it is part of God’s eternal decree.

It has been several years now since our church went through John Snyder’s “Behold Your God” series, but I still remember the study like it was yesterday. I remember studying the weightiness of God’s divine attributes and how perfect, beautiful, majestic, and inseparable they are. We considered and meditated on Scriptural truths concerning God’s holiness, eternality, immutability, wrath, righteousness, love, grace, patience, and so on.

The Christian faith is full of many wonderful doctrines that encapsulate what Scripture teaches us concerning who God is, who we are, why we are here, God’s plan of redemption, and where we are going when we die. Consider the doctrine of justification. We know from history that justification by faith was the battle cry of the Protestant reformation in the 16th century.