THE CONSTITUTION OF CHRIST

WHOM did God PREDESTINATE? -- those whom he FOREKNEW.

WHOM did God FOREKNOW? -- those who were CHOSEN IN JESUS CHRIST.

WHEN did God CHOOSE in Jesus Christ those whom he FOREKNEW? -- the Father CHOSE them in Jesus Christ FROM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, at the exact same moment when he SET UP Christ the Mediator. [Proverbs 8:22-31]

The ELECT were CHOSEN in Jesus Christ when CHRIST THE MEDIATOR was CONSTITUTED in eternity past, as ALL the Scriptures and the Holy Ghost do testify, which is why the Holy Ghost is careful to tell us that the ELECT were CHOSEN IN HIM -- IN CHRIST -- "BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD." All who belong to Jesus Christ were chosen IN HIM before the foundation of the world, even all the vessels of mercy which "HE HAD AFORE PREPARED UNTO GLORY, EVEN US WHOM HE HATH CALLED", and no one else. When CHRIST THE MEDIATOR was CONSTITUTED as the MEDIATOR between God and men, all of his ELECT were CHOSEN IN HIM. Who were chosen? Those whom he had AFORE PREPARED unto glory. Verily, the Son of God, upon his CONSTITUTION as CHRIST THE MEDIATOR between God and men, even before the world was, even then the Son of God could call all of his ELECT by NAME. Nor will one ever be missing. Not in this world; not in the world to come. [Excursus]

Indeed, ALL who Jesus Christ would one day die for were CHOSEN IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. When Christ was SET UP, his ELECT were SET UP with him, were CHOSEN IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, and any man who denies that is the offspring of Satan. Not one single soul who denies this PLAIN TRUTH has any inheritance in Jesus Christ whatsoever. None. Not unless he is given grace to repent and become born again, which will NEVER happen until he bows before SOVEREIGN GRACE and begins to take Jesus Christ at his PLAIN word, which means forfeiting his pompous pride and will-worship, and instead begging Jesus Christ for SAVING FAITH, for SUPERNATURAL FAITH, for apart from SUPERNATURAL FAITH, no man will ever come to heaven. Wait and see.

He who thinks he has the power to believe in Jesus Christ out of his own NATURAL stock, or out of his own NATURAL reservoir of faith -- which is to say, his FLESH -- is he who INFALLIBLY has never been born again, and unless that changes, he will never set foot in the kingdom of Jesus Christ, no matter how long he may have been preaching and professing Jesus, no matter how many missionary trips he may have engineered and participated in, no matter how many people he thinks may have believed in Jesus Christ because of him, and so on ad nauseam. There are NO exceptions. None whatsoever.

Accordingly, those who propagate the foul doctrine of "faith foreseen", which is to say, those who propagate that foul, unregenerate doctrine which asserts that God elects an individual because he FORESAW that that individual would believe, as opposed to God GIVING him SAVING FAITH, SUPERNATURAL FAITH, indeed, he who propagates such a blatantly Satanic gospel openly blasphemes Jesus Christ and his glory, and such a man has no portion in Jesus' kingdom. None, for these false prophets assert by their insidious doctrine that an individual's faith originated with himself, and there is no higher blasphemy than that, than to exalt the will of man over the glory of God. No higher blasphemy at all, for such a doctrine is the very ROOT of pride and rebellion, and he who propagates it is the tool of Satan, who has taken this blinded Judas captive at his will. Such a man will NEVER undergo the EXPERIENCE of the SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH. Never. He will repent and bow at the feet of SOVEREIGN GRACE based on the ELECTION of the Father, or he will NEVER be saved, will never EXPERIENCE the SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH, but will die in his sins. Wait and see.

Hear and understand -- it is NOT POSSIBLE for a GENUINELY born again Christian to DENY that his faith, his SAVING FAITH, which means his SUPERNATURAL FAITH, was a GIFT from God, that his SAVING FAITH was WHOLLY a GIFT from God, and he who declares otherwise is not only INFALLIBLY UNREGENERATE, but is likewise the very MOUTHPIECE OF SATAN. That's why you won't find the Reformers and Puritans and Great Awakeners cutting the "free-willers" any slack, for unlike the unregenerates of our day, they knew by the Word of God and by their own SUPERNATURAL NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE that it is UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE for ANY MAN to assert that his OWN NATURAL FAITH played any role WHATSOEVER in his salvation. That's why Bunyan righteously stated under the manifest unction of the Holy Spirit --

Because Bunyan knew, as ALL who are born of the Spirit know, that it is utterly IMPOSSIBLE for a GENUINELY born again Christian to resist the truth of the sovereign will of God in election. Indeed, every man who has actually EXPERIENCED the SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH -- I say, EVERY MAN who has actually EXPERIENCED the RESURRECTION POWER of Jesus Christ in the SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH -- knows INFALLIBLY that it is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for ANY man to assert that his own natural faith brought him to God. I say, and the Holy Spirit HIMSELF so testifies -- I say again, THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF TESTIFIES -- that it is UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE for ANY man born of the Spirit to deny that his faith was WHOLLY a GIFT FROM GOD, exactly as it is written --

There are no exceptions whatsoever. None.

Mark it -- there is not a SINGLE, SOLITARY GENUINELY born again soul on this planet who doesn't acknowledge that his faith, his SAVING FAITH, was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT the GIFT of God, determined by the ELECTION of the Father, purchased by the BLOOD of the Son, and bestowed by the POWER of the Holy Spirit. There is not a GENUINELY born again Christian on this planet who would deny that. Not one. Wait and see, for the day WILL declare it. I say, wait and see.

Or, as Whitefield so accurately put it when describing the EXPERIENCE of EVERY MAN who is born of the Spirit --

There is not a GENUINELY born again soul on this planet who can't testify to this VERY SAME EXPERIENCE. Not one. Once again, to the willfully unregenerate, I say, to him who denies the MANIFEST SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH as a RESULT of the Father's ELECTION -- again indeed, I say, wait and see.

Bunyan also described the EXPERIENCE of EVERY MAN who is born of the Spirit (there are NO exceptions), when, once again under the manifest unction of the Holy Ghost, he wrote --

Indeed, if you are truly born again, if ever the Holy Spirit ever came to you, then there was a time when you saw your own faith as nothing but dung, when you saw your own faith as nothing but a damning faith, when you saw your own faith as nothing but a millstone about your neck to sink you into the lowest hell, and that you needed SUPERNATURAL FAITH to be saved, that you needed SUPERNATURAL FAITH to see Jesus Christ in the Spirit, that you needed SUPERNATURAL FAITH to make you a son to the Father. But alas, you had not this SUPERNATURAL FAITH, and you knew, if the Holy Spirit ever came to you, that SAVING FAITH, SUPERNATURAL FAITH, must be given from above, from Jesus Christ, and that unless Jesus Christ HIMSELF bestowed this SUPERNATURAL FAITH upon you, you were eternally doomed.

Friend, there isn't a GENUINELY born again Christian on this planet who hasn't had this VERY SAME EXPERIENCE as described by Bunyan and Whitefield above. Not one. Nor will there ever be one, for faith, SUPERNATURAL FAITH, SAVING FAITH, is WHOLLY the GIFT OF GOD, and any man who tells you differently and doesn't soon repent of it will spend eternity in everlasting damnation with his brother, Judas Iscariot. Wait and see.

Believe it, friend, it takes SUPERNATURAL FAITH to be saved, it takes SUPERNATURAL FAITH to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ, it takes SUPERNATURAL FAITH to be translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son, even that blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ the Righteous. If you don't believe this, if you are too prideful to admit that your own faith is nothing but a damning faith, that your own faith is nothing but dung, that your own faith will sink you into the lowest hell, then go your way, for the Holy Spirit has NEVER visited you, and you are too foolish to be reckoned with, and you have no part in the kingdom of Jesus Christ. None at all. Wait and see.

On the other hand, friend, if you would receive SAVING FAITH, if you would receive SUPERNATURAL FAITH, then heed these warnings, and follow these words. If you would be born again, GENUINELY born again...