For the Elect's Sake

Recently, I read the excerpt from a religious group’s plea for Christmas money and kudos from the community.  Someone wrote:

"Dear ______,

I have two young children, ages 3 and 16-months. Without your help I don't think they would have a Christmas. God gave me a Christmas miracle this year and it was you! Thanks again. May God Bless you!"

If this is your desire, then you have the reward of men, but no saved person wants to be another person’s miracle at Christmas; we want you and others to have Jesus Christ and see Him, so we preach the gospel with, “God save” on our minds, obeying Christ, so that you can be saved - “Therefore I endure all things for the elect‘s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory“ (2 Tim 2:10). This starts with the person PREACHING Christ to you, and it moves into you preaching, supporting, living for, and DYING so that others know Him too.  Our love to God by the forgiveness He gives is ALWAYS expressed by our love to men.  Find a HOT church for the gospel, and you’ve found people who love God, not in word, but in deed and truth. And, without this zealous love, the profession, for whatever is not of faith will not produce love, is a sham, and it is not to be taken seriously.  God gives us SUCH warm views of inability and wickedness, and yet such cooling and calming knowledge of Jesus Christ, that by pardon, we DO His will, not from human power and guilt, but from the Spirit by the forgiveness He gives, so that trusting Christ FOR our lack of love is how love is increased in us (1 John 4:19; 1 John 1:9). Those who have no love, who don’t LIVE to save others, also have no faith, say what they will.