We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.