Thoughts on the Doctrine of Election (13)

Its Evidences, Cont’d. When it is proclaimed in the Gospel that Christ Jesus died on the cross to save sinners, it is not the first logical step on the basis of that premise for me to lay it down that He died for me in particular. That would be to confuse the order of God’s salvation.  The burden of the Gospel is that God sent His Son into the world, and there He was manifested to take away the sins of His people.  That is, He came into a world of woe to make a way of escape out of the midst...