<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 And now, there's three classes of people, that always is in every congregation, made up everywhere, wherever you find them: that's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. You find those three classes of people in probably every church there is in the world. Is make-believers, and unbelievers, and believers.
Now, Abraham, called by grace... Now, God didn't say... And notice God, when He called Abraham, He didn't say, "Abraham, if you will do a certain thing, I will do a certain thing." He said, "Abraham, I have already done it. Not what you did, what I did," what God did. He said.
Now, when He made a covenant with Adam, "If you'll not touch that tree, you'll live forever." Adam broke it. Moses and them, "If you keep the commandments, I'll--I'll do so-and-so. If you break the commandments, I'll do so-and-so." When God makes a covenant with man, man breaks his covenant with God. But so that the elected, the church, the elected people, the called out, separated group of people would be sure to be saved, God called them by His grace. Not that God would say, "I choose you and condemn you." Never. But if He's infinite... How many believes He's infinite? Well, then He knowed from the beg... He knowed from the beginning what the end would be. That's what the Scriptures says. He's omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and infinite.

L-20 Now, if He's infinite, by His foreknowledge, He knew who would come to Him, and who would not come to Him. He knew who would be saved and who would not be saved. That would certainly clear up Romans 8 and 9 for you, if there's any question about God... whether He calls His children by election or not.
For there Paul's speaking of Esau and Jacob, before either child was born, not even knowing what was right or wrong, God said, "I love Jacob and--and hate Esau," before either child had a--a--a way to even make a choice. But God knew from the beginning what Esau was. He knowed what Jacob was. And God knowed in the beginning what you were and what you are not. So therefore, we can be nothing but what... If we cannot be like somebody else, let's just be what God made us; that's all we can do. Anything other from that, would be hypocrisy. We'd be a hypocrite. So we do not want to be that. It'd be better to be an infidel than to be a hypocrite. Let's be just what we are. And all these things has to--has to operate together to make the great wheels of God go on, and not one thing is going wrong. I'll guarantee you that. Everything... You think the devil could ever conquer God? My, certainly not. There, he cannot. God... Everything's making it work together for the good to them that love Him. He's just making everything pull right in exactly right. The only thing He has trouble with jerk us back in line, where we ought to be; that's where God has His trouble.

L-21 Now, He called Jacob, not--called Abraham, pardon me, by election and by grace, and give him Eternal Life, and told him He'd come to him in an old age. He didn't have to do one thing about it. Only thing, it was by grace, and that's exactly the way the church is called today. Is by grace are you saved through faith. And we know that's right.
God calls the church by His grace. If it wasn't today for the grace of God, you'd be out here in the rain watching the ball game somewhere. You'd be out here on the highways running around. You'd be in a barroom somewhere, be out with some man's wife, or some woman's husband. You'd be a--out in the world. But it's by the calling and grace of God, that He's changed your minds, and made you new creatures in Christ Jesus, and our soul looks up to Him today with expectations of His coming.


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