Excerpt from Chosen of God
The Object of this book is to lead the child of God into the richer experiences of the life in Christ. Many Christians make little progress after conversion. One reason is that they think of salvation as the strength which God gives to help them save themselves. The Christian life is to them a human undertaking attended by divine aid. In these pages the life in Christ is presented as the work of God in the soul, and the believer is encouraged to commit himself entirely to God to be kept by Him.
In Part I it is shown that the Christian is one chosen of God unto eternal life. This fact is established from the teachings of our Lord and of Paul, and from the personal experience of the chosen one, and the Biblical explanation of the fact is unfolded.
In Part II the light from this fact of the believer's adoption is thrown upon other great truths of the Gospel and itself is illuminated by them.
Part III is given to the practical results of this fact when fully accepted by the believer and the church.
Thus the central thought of the book, the one truth about which all the chapters gather, is the blessed fact that God gives life to His beloved ones, and that all they have to do is to receive it. It is the prayer of the author that any Christian who reads these words, and who is conscious of being on a low plane of Christian living, may be led to realize his true standing with God as a chosen heir of grace, and that through the gate way of that new knowledge he may pass to a holier and happier stage of religious experience.
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