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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
John 10:16
‘Them also I must bring’
Read Isaiah 45:20-25
The purpose of God demands the salvation of all his elect. God has purposed to save some men, those whom he has chosen. If one of them should perish, God’s purpose would be defeated, his grace would be frustrated and he would cease to be God.
The purchase of Christ demands the salvation of every sinner for whom he died. The Lord Jesus Christ poured out his life’s blood unto death upon the cross to purchase his sheep, to satisfy the claims of justice against his sheep. Now if so much as one of those sheep, whom Christ purchased with his blood, were to perish, then the blood of Christ would be shed in vain and the blood of the cross would be a useless thing.
The Promise of God the Father to his Son and of God the Son to his Father in the covenant of grace demands the eternal salvation of some men. God the Father promised his Son that, as the reward of his life of righteousness and substitutionary death of atonement in the place of his people, he would give him a seed and generation to serve him. God said to his Son, ‘Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance’ (Psalms 2:8). Therefore our Lord spoke with confidence and said, ‘All that the Father giveth me shall come to me’ (John 6:37). God has given him power over all flesh for this specific purpose, ‘That he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him’ (John 17:2). And the Lord Jesus Christ promised God his Father that in the last day he would present all his chosen people before the presence of his glory, perfect, holy and without blemish, saying, ‘Behold I and the children which God hath given me’ (Hebrews 2:13). You see then, there are some sinners in this world, the elect of God, who must be saved. If even one of them were to perish, the promise of God would fall to the ground, be broken and become a lie.
What about you? Do you hear his voice? Do you follow him in faith? If so, you must be with him in glory. You must never perish.
