A Baptist Catechism Question 24

I am getting A Baptist Catechism from Desiring God website. I am trying to hang in there and to learn from this too. I see this is a very long one to learn from. I am learning a lot through this but not memorizing it like I would like to do so.

Question 24: Did God leave all mankind to perish in the condition of sin and misery?

Answer: God, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, having chosen a people to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the condition of sin and misery, and to bring them into a condition of salvation, by a Redeemer.

Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-4; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Romans 5:21; Romans 8:29-30; Romans 9:11-12; Romans 11:5-7; Acts 13:48; Jeremiah 31:33. (Instead of posting each scriptures below, I would encourage you all to look it up or click on the link above. All the link will be English Standard Version "ESV".)

Comment: The term "covenant of grace" is filled with sweet and precious hope. It refers to the free decision, commitment and oath of God to employ all his omnipotence and wisdom and love to rescue and glorify his people from sin and misery. It is wholly initiated and carried through by God. It cannot fail.

It is valid for all who believe. WHOSOEVER WILL MAY COME AND ENJOY THIS GRACE! And, since this "believing" and this "willing" is a work of God’s sovereign grace, those who believe and come are the elect, "chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world" (Ephesians 1:4). Thus the covenant was sealed in the heart of God before the world was.

This "covenant of grace" is the cry of victory over all the battle strife in missions. THE GRACE OF GOD WILL TRIUMPH! He is covenant-bound, oath-bound to save all those who are foreordained to eternal life (Acts 13:48)! "Jesus died for the nation (of Jews), and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad" (John 11:52).

The battle cry of missions is, "The Lord has other sheep that are not of this fold: He MUST (covenant-bound!!) bring them also. They WILL (sovereign grace!!) heed his voice!" John 10:16.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion