Chosen to Choose
- By Dr. Ted Traylor
- $25 | Set of 5 CDs
- Call 850.476.1932 to Purchase
This world is filled with broken things... broken lives, broken families, broken faith. Based on Jesus' words in Luke 4:18, this series of messages shows how God carries us through our brokenness. Because Christ's body was broken for us, our hurt can be changed to hope through Him.
- The "S" Word
Chances are if you asked the question of any group, "Would all the sinners please raise your hand," you would see only a very few hands go up. Why? Because we just don't talk about it. Nonetheless we are all sinners - humans who have missed the mark of perfection and are in need of a Savior. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
- Election
No topic in the Bible causes man to rebel more than the teaching of the sovereignty of God. We want to be God, in control of all of our choices. Just as God was sovreign in creation, He is sovreign in salvation. In time eternal past, God chose us before the foundation of the world and elected us to come unto Christ.
- Atonement
The longest bridge ever built was from the glory of heaven to the sinfulness of man's heart. God's bridge of reconciliation was built with the beams of the cross of Christ. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Man does not initiate salvation, nor can he attain it. Nevertheless, he can and must receive it.
- A Diving Drawing
Coerced love is a contradiction. Christ does not rudely bludgeon His way into the human heart. He beckons and woos. He pleads and pursues. This drawing awakens within man a sense of need. It creates hunger pangs for the Bread of Life. When man believes, God renews the human heart, giving life in place of deadness and changes the nature of our souls, inclining our hearts to Him.
- Eternal Security
Biblical salvation is instantaneous, individual, inscrutable and irreversible. When you come to faith in Christ, your eternity is secure. The Holy Spirit of God dwells in us to continually work in us and continues that work to completion, which occurs only when we enter Heaven. Our security is based on His perserverance, not ours. Salvation started with God. For that reason, it ends with God and we can depend on His faithfulness.