Making Our Calling and Election Sure

Rev. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. II Peter 1:10 What we are here commanded to do is that which by God's grace we can do, because of what He does. We are not here commanded to make our calling and election sure in God's mind and will. In fact, the word here translated as "sure" means sure in the sense of firm and steadfast. We...