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Romans 11:33-36 Pastor Ralph Ovadal 62 minutes When it comes to election, it is a dangerous mistake to create scenarios based on human reason, couple several proof texts to your argument, and then pretend there are no hard-to-comprehend aspects to your doctrine. Rather, we must humble ourselves, study the Scriptures, and draw our conclusion on election based on the Scriptures alone, not on all sorts of 'what ifs.' Today we will look at 'what is' as revealed by the Scriptures. All we know about the unseen work of God in the salvation of souls is what we read about in His revealed Word. The question before us is this: Are God's people chosen and then saved, or are we saved and then chosen? Are we chosen to salvation, or are we the unchosen chosen? 
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Romans 1:1-7 Pastor Ralph Ovadal 51 minutes Can a sinner resist God's grace? Sinners are by nature at enmity with God. They are by nature children of wrath, dead in their trespasses and sin with hearts deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Natural man naturally resists the grace of God daily in a myriad of ways because natural man is in a corrupt, fallen state. The natural man does not even recognize the grace of God! I believe the only way a sinner can be saved is by God's irresistible grace and sovereign will overruling the sinner's corrupted will and rebellious nature. There was certainly no free will involved in Paul being called to salvation through faith in Jesus; that is a matter of record.
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Psalm 116:15 Pastor Ralph Ovadal 29 minutes Many an old Christian who has neglected the things above has all but said, 'Let me stay; let me stay,' when it was his time to go to glory and be forever with the Lord. Contrast that to young Margaret Wilson, drowned in the cold waters of the Solway, who said, 'Let me go; let me go. I am Christ's child!' when offered life at the price of denying the crown rights of Christ.
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1 Peter 4:12-16 Pastor Ralph Ovadal 60 minutes The history of Christ's church is a glorious history of glorious deeds done for the glory of God by His people by His grace. It is a history of trial and triumph, suffering and overcoming, reproach and glory. However, in every generation of Christians, there have always been those claiming to belong to Christ who claimed to be persecuted for Christ when in reality they were bonafide rebels and lawbreakers who cloaked their lawlessness with Christ's name.
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Galatians 6:11-18 Pastor Ralph Ovadal 44 minutes As I said when I began this series on Galatians, the Apostle Paul is fierce in his defense of the gospel. All Christians should be zealous in a like manner. And God forbid that we should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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