Fri.-Sabbath, 10/18-20/13 Devotion

Yippee--Sunday's almost here. In order to help us believers get ready for the Lord's Day, here is Thomas Watson, from "A Body of Divinity":

"Justification is 'inamissibilis'; it is a fixed permanent thing, it can never be lost. The Arminians hold an apostasy from justification; today justi-fied, tomorrow unjustified; today a Peter, tomorrow a Judas; today a member of Christ, tomorrow a limb of Satan. This is a most uncomfort-able doctrine. Justified persons may fall from degrees of grace, they may leave their first love, they may lose God's favor for a time, but not lose their justification. If they are justified they are elected; and they can no more fall from their justification than from their election. If they are justified they have union with Christ; and can a member of Christ be broken off? If one justified person may fall away from Christ, all may; and so Christ would be a head without a body."