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Psalms 37:39

‘The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord’

Read Exodus 15:20-27

God sovereignty seeks those whom he has chosen. The sinner is not seeking after God. ‘There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God’ (Romans 3:11). God seeks the sinner whom he loved with an everlasting love and determined to save. In all the works of providence God is seeking his own. He so arranges things that the sinner whom he intends to save is brought to the place where God will be gracious to him. He sends a preacher to preach the gospel of his grace to that sinner. And he sends forth his Spirit in sovereign, irresistible power and grace to give that sinner life and faith in Christ and fetch his chosen ones to himself. The Lord God is not seeking to save all men. He seeks his own elect. The Good Shepherd seeks his own sheep. And he always finds them. What does the Scripture say? He seeks his sheep ‘until he find it’. And when he finds his sheep, he always brings it home.

God sovereignty saves his own elect. Did you know that the Word of God never talks about God ‘trying’ to do anything? God does not try to rule the world; he rules the world. God does not try to redeem; he has redeemed. God does not try to put away sin; he has put away sin. God does not try to justify; he justifies. God does not try to save; God saves. Every person who was chosen of God in eternity, every person who was redeemed by Christ at Calvary, every person who is called by the effectual, irresistible grace of God the Holy Spirit will be saved, without exception. This is what God says: ‘I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy’ (Romans 9:15-16). O Lord God, we rejoice to know and to declare that ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power’ (Psalms 110:3). ‘Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee’ (Psalms 65:4). ‘It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing’ (John 6:63).

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