(2 Thessalonians) Things He Wants Them to Remember — Willie Mullan

Remembering the Deep Truths of Second Thessalonians

Read up the second letter of Paul to the Thessalonians, and read up the second chapter. And all the scholars are agreed that this chapter is one of the deepest and one of the most difficult chapters in the New Testament, so that we're at something that's really deep and difficult.

And I want to try to bring it over to you in a way that you'll never forget it. If you've been reading through this second chapter, or second Thessalonians, and you've looked at it carefully, I think that you'll find this out, that the key word for opening the whole chapter is the word, remember.

Do you see the fifth verse? Paul has said a few things in the first four verses, and then he comes in quickly with this, Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I told you these things. So that the things that he's bringing before the Thessalonians in this chapter are things that he has taught them before, but like many believers, they had forgotten some of the things they were taught.

And so he's reminding them, he's stirring up their pure minds by way of remembering. And he wants them to remember certain things that he had already told them when he was present with them. Now these things that he wants them to remember, they fall into three groups.

Dispensational Truths and the Lord’s Coming

First of all, Paul is reminding the believers here at Thessalonica in the first twelve verses of this chapter about some very precious and important dispensational truths. Dispensational truths that take off from the Lord's coming in the first verse.

Do you see the first verse? Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. These dispensational truths that take us from the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ for His saints, the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him.

Of course, that's the last two very plainly, isn't it? That's the Lord coming to the air for His saints, and our gathering together unto Him. Now these dispensational truths that he wants them to remember, they go from the coming of the Lord for His saints right through to the coming of the Lord to destroy the Antichrist.

Do you see verse eight? Then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall come through with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming. Now there are two comings mentioned.

The first one is the coming of the Lord for His saints and our gathering together unto Him. And the second one is the coming of the Lord to the earth to consume the Antichrist. And the dispensational truths that the Lord wants these believers to remember range from the coming to the air right through to the coming to the earth.

And there are many valuable truths in between, but we'll find them just in a moment. The things that he wanted them to remember, first of all they drop into the group that we call dispensational truths.

Evangelical Truths from Election to Glory

And then the second thing that he wanted them to remember begins at verse thirteen. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you by your gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Of course that's evangelical truth, isn't it? But you know, he wanted them to remember the great dispensational truths that he had taught them, and then secondly he wanted them to remember the great evangelical truths that he had taught them.

Evangelical truths that keep you from a point that Paul called the beginning. God hath chosen you from the beginning right through to a point that he called obtaining the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And if you can measure that, it comes from eternity to eternity. It's evangelical truth that spans that time. From before the foundation of the world to the time when every believer will obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So that's something to remember. And then the chapter ends like this. Verse sixteen. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

You know, that's devotional truth. And Paul wanted them to remember these things, things that he had told them when he was with them, and these things drop into three groups. Dispensational truths, evangelical truths, devotional truths.

You see, he's reminding them here at the end of the chapter of God's love in the past. God, which hath loved us, past love, and hath given to us everlasting consolation and good hope. You know, a way out in the future there, we have everlasting consolation and hope.

God's love in the past, God's hope and consolation for the future, and God's comfort for our hearts today at present comfort. God comfort your hearts. These are devotional truths. And so I think that you get the key to the chapter when you see Paul making this plea.

Remember! Remember the things that I told you? Dispensational truths, evangelical truths, devotional truths. So he's making a plea that they'll remember these things. Now, he had a very good purpose for making this plea, and for presenting these truths again in an epistle after he had offered them verbally to them when he had been with them.

False Teaching About the Day of the Lord

He had a very good purpose for doing so. You see, some people had come in behind Paul's back when he had left Thessalonica, and they had written to these unbelievers a letter, and they put Paul's name to it.

It was a false document. And the false document contained error. And the error had upset these unbelievers. And Paul's going to counteract this. You see, this letter that was supposed to come from Paul, that taught these young believers that they were in a great tribulation, the day of the Lord, because they were going through tribulation, my, it had upset them.

They didn't know where they were. And Paul is going to put things right. Do you see the second verse? He says, Thus ye be not whom shaken in mind are betrothed. See, these young believers were shaken in mind and troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us.

You see, somebody penned a letter and pretended that it was Paul, and said, this is a spiritual revelation given to Paul, and this is the word of the Lord, you are in the day of tribulation. And you know, saints would swallow that very quickly.

You know, almost every time we have a world war, you meet believers who say, we're in the tribulation. There's been a lot of tribulations according to them. And sometimes people, when they come up against thorns and trials and tests and troubles, they're in the tribulation.

Do you remember when we had the wet summer some time back? Well, you would hardly know which one it was, would you? If I'd said the good one, you could have picked this out. But we had a very wet one some years back, when the hay rocks were floating in the meadow.

And I met an old farmer one day, and he said to me, Mr. Mullen, we're in the depths of the tribulation. I said, how do you make it out? He said, look at the hay rocks floating in the meadow. If that's all that's going to happen, then the tribulation is all right.

The same old boy I was talking to had about 40 ,000 quid in the bank. It was just morning, you know. And so these Thessalonian believers were passing through persecutions. You remember, we saw that in the other chapter.

And they were passing through a time of real tribulation. And someone had come in behind Paul and penned him a letter and said, this is the word of the Lord, we've got it by the Spirit, you're in the jail of the Lord, you're in the great tribulation.

And so Paul says, that shook you, did it? You're shaking in mind, you're troubled. Well, you must have forgot the half of the teaching that I taught you. So I'll have to teach you over again. So he stopped, to put them over truths they had already heard.

The Anticipation of the Lord’s Return

So we'll stop where he stopped, at the beginning, verse 1. But here's a plea to them. Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind.

He said, you know, I want you fellows to get the hold of this, that for all believers down here, the first thing that you are to look out for is the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the return of the Lord.

That's the first thing. That's what you want to get the hold of. Don't be worried about tribulations, or storms, or tests, or trials, or wars, or peril, or thorns, or famine, or nakedness. The first thing that must happen of real importance to the believer is the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We're waiting still. And mind you, I think before I'm through with this chapter, I can bring to bear upon this meeting the real conviction that we're desperately near to meeting the Lord just now. This world is standing at a spot tonight, and I believe that we're on the verge of our Lord Jesus Christ's return to the earth, and our gathering together unto him.

What a moment, isn't it? The return of the Lord, the removal of the touch. Our gathering together unto him. He said, those are the first two things. If you get this thing all right now, get this confessional truth right, don't let anybody upset you, the first thing is the coming of the Lord, the second thing is the removal of the touch.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with his help, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. And we believers which are alive and remain, we shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the earth.

That's the truth that he had talked to me. He said, now you just get your eyes on these things, the first thing that will happen will be the coming of the Lord, and the removal of the touch. And so he's making a plea, don't let anybody upset you, we beseech you by this, we beseech you look out for that touch.

Why that must happen before the time of tribulation comes. Then he goes on in the third verse, and he said this, let no man deceive you by any means, for that day, that is the day of the Lord that these people were talking about.

In the second verse it's called the day of Christ, but all the Greek scholars are persuaded that the word Christ ought to have been Lord there. It's the day of the Lord, that is the day of tribulation.

You remember I dealt one night with the day of the Lord, who pointed out that it was the day of tribulation. Now he's saying in the third verse, let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away touch.

The Apostasy and Revelation of the Man of Sin

You know, the moment that Christ comes to the earth, and the removal of the professing touch of the believers, there will come a relapse in the professing touch that's left behind. Mind you, there will.

You know, I think that some of us are not too clear on this. You know, there are a whole lot of people stuck in churches, and they're not saved. And there are a whole lot of ministers stuck in pulpits, and they're on their way to hell.

They are, you know. My, they are. And you know, they'll carry on the business when we don't. But I'll tell you this, as soon as the true believers leave this thing, the touch will fall away from the doctrine of the professing touch that's left behind.

My dear friends, did you see this supposed-to-be Reverend Young talking in the paper the other day, did you? Pulling the Bible to pieces, trying to make a fool out of the Lord Jesus, pooh-poohing America, and then back out of it when he got a slap or two.

Well, when there's nobody here to slap him, he'll go on with it. There'll be a few of them left behind, and he'll be one of them. Super will be another. And all who deny the virgin birth, to think that a man with a coil around his neck would call Mary a bad woman, and Jesus Christ a bastard.

Why, I know where there's a minister who stood up not so long ago and said that the Lord slithered with Mary and Martha all the days of his life. The headlock. They should blow them out, but there's a whole lot to support them now.

Oh, there'll be some of you stuck here tonight to support them, and maybe you'll be left behind all of them. And when the true touch is taken out, the professing body that's left behind, they'll get away from everything that that touch has stood for.

They'll be out falling away then. That's what the apostle called the apostasy. My, you can see the meaning of it today, only they can't get off of it. Thank God for men like Paisley who stand up and shout.

Thank God for the two evangelists in the land, who stand fast and fearless. It means the last of the last days. Thank God for everyone. Ah yes, when the true touch goes, there'll be a falling away down here, and then something will happen.

Watch it. Well, that's the third verse. Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day, that is the day of tribulation, shall not come except there come a falling away first, and the man of him be revealed.

That's one of perdition. So, are you getting these texts through this Dispensational Speech? The return of the Lord, the removal of the church, the relapse of prophet Christianity, and then the revelation of the Antichrist.

My, you needn't look round you for the Antichrist these days. You believers will never see him. He'll not be revealed until we're gone, and the professing church has gone to hell upon us. That'll be a right ground to reveal him then, won't it?

It'll be right for us. But what a character he'll be. Have a look at him. Paul takes his time to describe him for us. Here he is, in fact, Paul, the man of faith, who opposes and exalteth himself above all that is called God.

All that is worshipped, so that he of God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. You know, there's a tremendous lot in that little verse that reveals this man. This is the person.

You see, first of all, you'll notice this, that this character will oppose and exalt himself above everything that's called God or that's worshipped. He doesn't want any God. He's not going to have any God.

But he will eventually come to the place where he'll be as God. You know, that's desperately like the way communism goes on. You know, years back, when they'd begun, they didn't want any overlord, and they didn't want any king, or they didn't want any emperor.

Let's throw this upper ten crowd down, and let's have everything common. But tonight, the thing that began by having everything common is the boss of everything. They boss your home. They boss your children.

They'll dictate what you eat, what you drink, what you say. They are your boss of everything. He doesn't want God, but he finishes up being God. Tremendous thing, isn't it? How easily deceived we are.

But watch this man. I'm only illustrating communism there. You know, he's not a communist. Not by any means he's not. But he's walking along the same principle, beginning by opposing God, and ending up that he himself is God.

The Antichrist’s Power and Deceptive Wonders

But we go on to see not only the person, but let's go down the chapter a little bit, till you see his power. Verse 9, even him, whose coming is after the working of kittens, with all power and signs and lying wonders.

You know, this fellow has power. You know, the moment the true church was out, and the apostasy begins, this man will step in and take command of everything. And you know, friends, while he opposes everything that's called worship, by lying wonders and signs, he'll make the world worship him.

For he'll oppose power, mighty power, the power of Satan. You see, Satan tries to eat God and everything. Our Lord Jesus Christ was God incarnate. He was God manifest and flesh. Yes, he was perfectly human.

He could weep, he could eat, he could sleep, and yet through him all the fullness of the Godhead body was demonstrated. All the power of God. Well, so Satan, I'll get a man, and he'll be Satan incarnate.

I'll fill him with my power, and everything I have I'll give to him, and he'll be able to do wonders. But mind you, there'll be lying wonders. It'll be wonders done to deceive, done to deceive. There's a great lot of deception going on even tonight in the support Christian church.

You know, I read some time ago, and I mean to expose it, that in one of these great healing campaigns in America, the healer was known to do this. He was known to send his right-hand man in an aeroplane 200 miles across the state one morning, and to pick up certain men, give them 20 pounds each for the day.

Say, you come on the plane, and you come on the plane, and you come on the plane, and you walk into the meeting tonight pretending to be a blind man. And you come in in a wheeler chair, and you come in somewhere else.

And you know, this blind man was led onto the platform, stood there, asked a few questions, and before a great crowded auditorium, this healer raised his hand upon him, and immediately he could see the lie.

But if you were in the audience, you wouldn't know a thing about it. You'd be bluffed. For you would come out and say, Mr. Moon, but I saw it. I saw the blind man. I saw the fellow in the wheelchair. I saw.

See and believe in it, but very careful. The devil will bluff you if you're not careful. Now, don't go out and say that I said all the healers did that. I didn't say any such thing. And don't go out and say that I don't believe in divine healing, for there's nobody in here believes more.

But I'm just warning you, so very careful about the devil. We're just at the end of the age, and he's preparing for a tremendous thing. And mind you, in the not-too-far-distant future, we're going to see lying wonders.

We're going to see signs. I'll tell you this, we're going to see miracles. And this man, indwelt with the power of Chisholm, will be able to do miracles, real miracles. And of course, it's all to deceive the crowd that's left behind.

And there's some of them wouldn't be hard to deceive. When you see the minister standing tearing pages out of the Bible before his congregation, and the Sunday morning, he's holding the pages down, and they all sit and swallow him.

It wouldn't be hard to deceive, would it? I don't know what some of you do under these emissaries of hell at all. There's just one thing that I can never understand. How real, born-again, blood-bought believers put up with it.

I can never understand that. I can understand a whole lot of things, but I can't understand us. Now we've seen the passion. We've seen the power. Let's have a look at the people that's under him just for a moment.

Those Who Reject the Love of the Truth

Now watch, we'll go over verse nine again. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, in them the place.

Now that's the crowd that will be on of the believers a lot for that. Not a bit of them. You don't get one of them there. You know the crowd that's left behind in the great apostasy, the crowd in the midst of whom is revealed the Antichrist, the crowd that will see these demonstrations and lying wonders, is a crowd that's perishing.

Perishing. And I'll tell you why they're perishing. The book tells you. Did you read it? Look, verse ten again. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth that the might receive.

You know, there are two dispensations here. You see, this dispensation that we're in tonight, we're preaching God's truth. And in Sunday night after Sunday night, I try to bring this meeting the truth of the gospel.

And of course, the truth of the gospel uplifts a person who is called the truth. I am the way, the truth. We're uplifting the truth. But you know, when you go to a meeting and you begin to tell the congregation that there's just one sacrifice for sin, just one, it was offered a thousand.

When you begin to tell the congregation that nothing can force sin upon nothing but the blood of Jesus. When you begin to tell the congregation, neither is there salvation in any other, for there's none other name unto heaven given among men whereby you must perceive.

When you begin to close the congregation into the cross, and the blood, and the Christ, they don't like it. They don't love the truth that the might receive. You see, when I go to some churches and I teach the old gospel just like I've outlined it now, I know right well that I'll never be back again.

You know, I can sense this at times. I'm not very long preaching, sometimes I hear the old minister behind me coughing. Sometimes, you know, ignorantly I turn around and say, what's up with you? You've got the cold.

If you don't sit back a bit, I'll jump in your tomb. They don't like it. There's a whole lot of people and they don't love the truth. You love the truth. And you know, the child in this dispensation that doesn't love the truth, tell me what they do love.

You know the opposite of truth, don't you? The lie. Well, this book declares that there's one coming in the not too far distant future, and he's going to be indwelt by the power of Satan, and his name is the lie.

He's just the opposite to the truth. And if you don't believe the truth now, you'll believe the lie then. God will speak of that. So what's this working out, do you see? We'll read verse 10 again, preaches for itself.

And with all deceivableness upon righteousness and them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe, and the two words there should be, the lie, capital T, capital L, in your Greek New Testament.

It's a person. This person, this antichrist, this man of sin, this son of perdition, is the lie. He'll be in the other dispensation, and the boys who don't like the truth now will love the lie then. And you know, I know that when I preach to a congregation like this, there's always somebody in the crowd that's got a thought like this at the back of their mind.

They say, you know, my mother was saved, and my father was saved, and I knew the gospel, and if Christ came now and I was left behind, I would never bow to the antichrist. I know too much. You've just left, haven't you, we say, that in that dispensation, God will send you strong delusion that you should believe the lie.

You say, that's quite good. My, you'll just be the fellow little dog, and you'll be found at the feet of the antichrist in a day to come if you don't watch. Now, I want to get that wee bit further to you.

Watch this. We'll read verse 10 again. And with all deceivable nets of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie, that they all might be found.

That's hard zipping, isn't it? Mind you, I didn't print this. This is your Bible, I didn't know. You know, I remember, I wasn't very long in this country side, and I stopped with the old road man one day, and leaned over the chair and had a yarn whistle.

And we got round to these things, and I told him that there was a day coming when God would send people strong delusion that they all might be damned. He said, that's a lie. I said, can you read? And I bring this out and let him read it.

I can see his face, you know, he looks at it. He says, my God, I didn't think that was in the book. No, he didn't. Did you think it was in the book? Ah, well, it happens to be that it is in the book. And my dear, you might be one of those folks tonight, and you don't love the truth.

You don't want it. Oh, no, you say, I'll put my name on a church roll, and I'll just go a few Sundays, and I'll pay in, and I'll do this. You'll go to hell, that's what you'll do. You don't love the truth.

You don't want to burn Calvary, that's your trouble. You don't want to come to the cleanse in the blood of Christ. You don't want to accept the personal failure, that's your trouble. You don't love the truth.

Well, you love the lie, and you'll get it. And mind you, we're just on the verge of this dispensation changing. Now, are you following the notes? Have a look at the notes on the dispensation. The first thing that we look for is the return of our Lord for His saints.

The second thing is the removal of the believer. The third thing is the reluctance of the professing church. The fourth thing is the revelation of the man of sin. And the fifth one I've just underlined for you is the rejection of the sinner by his God.

God’s Rejection of Those Who Reject Him

My, the tables are going to turn on you. Tonight you're rejecting God. Well, maybe tomorrow night God will be rejecting you. You don't laugh forever at God, you know. Some of you think you can wiggle about with God.

My God will close the door in your face and send you strong delusion and let you go to hell. Tremendous truth in this chapter. My, they should make you tremble. You'll not fool around with God forever.

You'll think He was a wee lad on the side of the street to see somebody. He's the almighty maker of heaven and earth. And in great grace and love and mercy, He has come and pleaded with some of your souls, and you just laugh in His face.

Well, maybe tomorrow night the tables will return to me, to you. Tremendous. Now, I want you to notice this. Verse seven, we're back off the chapter. For the mystery of iniquity, God already works. You know, the devil longs for a day and the hour and the moment when he'll be able to put this man of sin on the platform of this world and have everything his own way.

He longs for that. You see, the mystery of godliness, great is the mystery of godliness. Do you remember the verse? God manifests in flesh. Well, great is the mystery of iniquity. Satan working through a man, and he longs for the day when he'll be able to put the man on the platform of this world.

Only there's somebody keeping him back. There's somebody keeping him back. Do you see that little verse? It says in verse seven, he who now let us will let, until he be taken out of the way. Now, it's a great pity that that word let us and left, they have lost their original meaning.

This is one of the English words that has lost its original meaning. Hundreds of years ago, the word left meant to handle, and the passage can read like this, only he who now handles will handle, until he be taken out of the way.

There's somebody hindering the devil tonight from doing it. So I could put this question to the smallest believer in this meeting. Who is the person that's bigger and stronger than the devil down here tonight?

You think it's the Archbishop of Canterbury? You're a fool if you do. You think it's the president of the Baptist Union of Ireland? You're still a bigger fool. Look, we could put all the presidents and all the leaders of all the churches into the arena with the devil, and they wouldn't last the first round.

It's too big for them. But there's one person down here tonight bigger than him, the Holy Ghost, the third person of the Trinity. And every move the devil makes down here to flood this world with this evil tide of wickedness, the Holy Ghost lifts up a standard against them.

He does. But the day the church goes out, and the day the believers go out, is the day the Holy Ghost goes out, and the devil has the platform to himself. And only he who now hindereth will hinder, until he be taken out of the way.

He's gone out of the way. You know, as we've got to the end of the age, you're bound to know that things have got worse. I wouldn't like to go into this too deep, but I think that I should just say a little word here.

You know, I'm just thirsty. I was thirsty last week. I didn't get a card from one of you. And when I was just a lad of twelve, thirteen, fourteen, we used to play games at the corner of the street in the winter's night.

Kick the tin. Do you remember that, some of you older ones? We used to play kick the tin. You know, we could play this at night, and run into the shadows and hide, but sometimes the lasses would play with us too.

But you know, a lass could have hidden in those days with three or four boys in the dark, and there was never anything wrong. It was just fun. They don't play kick the tin at the street corner now at twelve and thirteen, they're cuddling them round the corner.

Am I right? Well, I shock you when I say this, that at one of the secondary schools in America just last year, 1959, where a thousand boys and girls assembled every day, forty girls under fourteen were found pregnant.

Yes, that's the age we live in. Oh, you don't need to blush about it. You know all about it. That's the age we live in. It's going downhill as fast as it can go. I talked to a teacher from a secondary school not so very far from here, and here's what she told me.

She said, there's not a shaft girl at the school. She said, I'll pop them all. We're living in a terrible age. Do you know, the devil would flood the earth with wickedness tonight, if it wasn't for the Holy Ghost.

Oh, they're getting nearer to it. Just you take the believers out. Just you take the men who rattle the modern as such. Just you take the steadfast, unmovable defenders of the theatre. Just you take the real cats out.

Take the Holy Ghost out, and you'll see your world will go to hell and forever. Yes, it will. Thank God for the Holy Ghost been down here. Thank God. Because when we go, the man of sin, the son of perdition, will be revealed.

And although he'll be mighty and powerful, here's what will happen to him. Verse eight. Then shall not wicked one, the wording should be, see the capital W there, there should be wicked one. Then shall not wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.

You see, the Lord Jesus Christ will come and destroy him. Now, look down the notes in dispensation, and you'll find what Paul was trying to get over to. He said, don't you fellows be worried or troubled.

The first thing you look for is the return of the Lord for a change. The second thing you look for is the removal of the believers. The moment we're gone, there's a lot will come in the professing church.

Then there will be the revelation of the man of sin. Then there will be the rejection of the sinner by his God. He reminded them of the mystery that was already working. He pointed out the reliability of the spirit who would keep it fast.

And then he underlined the reappearance of the Lord to consume the antichrist. Why, he touched some clues, didn't he? You know, Paul must have been a great preacher because when he went into Thessalonica and preached the gospel, why, he went on just in a few weeks to outline all these clues to them.

And he said, you know, when I was with you, I told you these things. How often I've preached these things from this platform, and then I meet a young believer on the street and he wants to know something that I've said a hundred times.

He doesn't seem to be able to get it. And if he did get it, he seems to forget. And they were just the same up there for the night. Now, he turns from dispensational truth to evangelical truth to assure them.

Election, Responsibility, and Human Choice

And I think this is very lovely. Can't you see the difference he makes in verse 13? But, oh, that's one of these buts that come in. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord.

Doesn't he make a difference between the boys that perish and the boys that are saved? Oh, we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord. So can the saved ones now. Changing the subject.

Something to say to them. And here's the first thing that he said. He said, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation. Now, that's a big subject. That's election now we're on. And that's something that puzzled the young believers and the old ones and the middle ones too.

Election. You know, some people can't understand that. They wonder why and how God can choose a man to be saved before the foundation of the world and yet at the same time leave him responsible for the choice.