All enameled and interwoven with free grace!

(Thomas Watson)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio

"Brothers, think of what you were when you were called.

 Not many of you were wise by human standards;
 not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.

 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;
 God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
 He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things,
 and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
 so that no one may boast before Him!" 1 Corinthians 1:26-29

Without this effectual call, there is no going to Heaven!

This effectual call, is a GRACIOUS call. It is the fruit and product of free grace! That God should call some, and not others; that some should be taken, and others left; that one should be called who is of a more wicked disposition, while another of a sweeter temper, is rejected! Here is free grace! That the poor should be rich in faith, and heirs of a kingdom (James 2:5); and the nobles and great ones of the world for the most part rejected—this is free and rich grace! "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight!" (Matthew 11:26)

That under the same sermon one should be effectually wrought upon, while another is no more moved than a dead man with the sound of music; that one should hear the Spirit's voice in the Word, while another does not hear it; that one should be softened and moistened with the influence of heaven, while another, like Gideon's dry fleece, has no dew upon him—behold here distinguishing, sovereign grace!

What is the cause of this, but the free grace of God! It is all enameled and interwoven with free grace! Those who are monuments of God's mercies, will be trumpets of His praise. "So that no one may boast before Him!" 1 Corinthians 1:29.