Unconditional Election refers to God choosing some men to salvation. This choosing is unconditional, that is, it is not based on anything that man could do. Those whom He chose deserve God's wrath as much as the others. This election was motivated by the sovereign, eternal love of God.

By total depravity we mean to refer to the fallen state of the natural man who inherits a sin nature at conception. Every sinner is spiritually dead, with no capacity or desire for spiritual things. He is incapable in and of himself to come to a saving knowledge of Christ apart from the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration. Every faculty of the sinner has been corrupted as a result of the fall of Adam. In short, man has been completely ruined by sin without any hope of restoration apart from the distinguishing grace of God.

Let us, then wonder at this fact, that the God of Heaven, the Holy Spirit may be grieved. Our great Comforter. Grieved. Why-

Continuing from last week, we are looking again at Romans 6-11, focusing on the importance of dying to sin and living to God.

In this sermon, we see what the Great Commission is not, and then we examine what the Great Commission is...all in the light of God's Word.

Only few will reach heaven.

It is important as we have been studying such a chapter as this one , that unless we keep in mind the truth that has been presented here that we are dead to sin and alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord, we cannot serve Him right. --It is a work that consists of two branches---1. Dying to sin-2. Living to God.

An encouraging look at Psalm 102

Brother James Hobbs preached this message in 1985.