Friday, April 18, 2014

Fri.-Sabbath, 4/18-20/14 Devotion

Yippee—Sunday (Easter Sunday!) is almost here! In order to help us believ-ers get ready for the Lord's Day, here is Thomas Watson, from "A Body of Di-vinity":

"Justification is 'inamissibilis'; it is a fixed permanent thing; it can never be lost. The Arminians hold an apostasy from justification; today justified, tomor-row unjustified; today a Peter, tomorrow a Judas; today a member of Christ, tomorrow a limb of Satan. This is a most uncomfortable 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 jus-tification 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."