Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Do YOU RECEIVE The Mercy of God?

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion” (Rom. 9:14, ESV throughout).

Because God is Merciful, we tend to believe that He will lavish all human beings the same amount of His Mercy.

Because He is Merciful, there are those who believe that He will save every person in every generation. They believe that the word “all” in Romans 11:26 refers to every person and not to every class or group of persons.

Because He is Merciful and Loving, there are those who even believe that He will not allow the sinners to suffer in pain in hell for eternity!

But in the early chapter of Romans, we read that there are persons who are NOT the objects of His Love and Mercy – but the objects of HIS WRATH (Romans 1:18).

God’s children were once like them (Eph. 2:3), but because of His Sovereign Choice – He shows Mercy to whom He has Mercy – instead of giving them up (Rom. 1:24, 26 & 28), He gives them His Holy Spirit to enable them to desire and to perform what is according to His Holy Will.

Are you able this time to repent, to seek, call and follow God? It’s not because you have .0001% goodness in your heart.

It’s not because you deserve 1,000% of God’s Mercy.

It’s because of His Sovereign Choice – choosing you from among the rest to bask in the Richness of His Mercy!

“Blessed is the man against WHOM the Lord will NOT count his sin” (Rom. 4:8). “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, MADE US alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved” (Eph. 2:4-5).

7 comments:

Orton said...

It’s because of His Sovereign Choice – choosing you from among the rest to bask in the Richness of His Mercy!
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Sabi po sa bible, God is not willing that any should perish but that everyone should come to repentance.

With this, it is not His will that any should die forever. The man, underserving as he is, must come to God and acknowledge Him as his God.

Is it thinkable that one comes repentant to God and God shoves him away - because God has already made His list as to who He will save - and too bad, he is not in the list?

Orton said...

what do you say po?

Orton said...

You mean po ba na kahit anong pagpapakumbaba ng isang tao, kapag ayaw sa kanya ang Dios, wala siyang pag-asa talaga?

At yun namang bahagya lang nagsisi, dahil sa nasa listahan na siya agad ng Dios, pasok na siya agad sa Kaharian?

Ganon po ba yun?

Orton said...

Hindi po ba nakakahina ng loob kung ituturo ninyo na wala nang magagawa ang tao, kung wala siya sa listahan ng Dios!

Fort said...

Hi Orton,

I think you cannot be understood by the owner. Please post in English and not in a foreign language. Thank you Sir.

Fort

Fort said...

Is it thinkable that one comes repentant to God and God shoves him away - because God has already made His list as to who He will save - and too bad, he is not in the list?

This is an interesting question. Mr. Efren, does on who is not in the lest unwelcome by God?

Fort said...

Mr EN, please comment also on the comment of Orton, as far as you can understand him or her.