If Some Are Elect, Why Preach?
Captious and caviling persons will object, "You say that God loves His people, and therefore they will be saved; then what is the good of preaching?"
What is the good of preaching? When I say that God loves a multitude that no man can number, a countless host of the race of men, do you ask me what is the good of preaching? What is the good of preaching?
To fetch these diamonds of the Lord out of the dunghill; to go down to the depths, as the diver does, to fetch up God’s pearls from the place where they are.
What is the good of preaching? To fetch out God’s elect from the ruins of the fall, and make them stand on the rock Christ Jesus, and see their standing sure.
Ah, ye who ask what is the good of preaching; because God has ordained some to salvation, we ask you whether it would not be a most foolish thing to say, because there is to be a harvest, what is the use of sowing? There is to be a harvest, what is the use of reaping?
The very reason why we do sow and reap is, because we feel assured that there is to be a harvest.
The Apostle Paul says in II Timothy 2:10, "I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory."
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