'I' - Irresistible Grace

(Changed Around!)

Sermon by Rev S Bajema

on Canons of Dort III-IV:6-17

Scripture Reading: Matthew 13:1-23

Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You've heard me say this before. But its echo must be heard again! God does it! Article 6 cannot but remind us of this. It sums up the heart of the gospel. At the same time we are being confronted with our Total Depravity, we see something else. In fact, we wouldn't know it was our Total Depravity if we hadn't first met God's Irresistible Grace!

Here we come to the I in TULIP - Irresistible Grace. This is what Article 6 tells us: 'What, therefore, neither the light of nature nor the law could do, that God performs by the operation of the Holy Spirit through the word or ministry of reconciliation; which is the glad tidings concerning the Messiah, by means whereof it has pleased God to save such as believe, as well under the Old as under the New Testament.'