Salvation is of God, by God, & for God's Purpose!

"Let me take this moment to be very frank and honest with you at
this very point. Salvation is of God, by God and for God’s greater
pleasure. It serves the purposes and good pleasure of our Sovereign
God to preserve a certain people for all eternity to worship and glorify
Him. All throughout the Bible the gospel is recorded. Weaved
throughout each story, like a quilt, is God’s love story for His people.
God in His infinite wisdom designed the human race to serve His
greater pleasure and worship and glory Himself. His greatest joy is in
Himself. From this design, God chose a certain people to fulfill this
greater joy. As a people born into the family of sin starting with Adam,
we are at birth the enemy of God, totally depraved and unable to save
or revive ourselves apart from the new birth initiated by the Holy Spirit
doing the inner workings of each He has chosen to be with Him in all
eternity. God designed from before time that His Son, Jesus, would be
at the center of this love story and require His sacrificial death in a
horrible event that took place on the cross at Calvary. His love for His
people had no end as observed through His Son Jesus from a virgin
birth to the spreading of this good news of the salvation of God and the
fulfillment of God’s law in His own life on earth."