The Power Of God Unto Eternal Salvation by Elder J. H. Purefoy

• PREFACE
• The Power of God unto Eternal Salvation
• 1. THE SAVING POWER OF GOD’S CHOICE.
• 2. THE SAVING POWER OF GOD’S WILL.
• 3. THE SAVING POWER OF GOD’S PURPOSE.
• 4. THE SAYING POWER OF GOD’S MERCY.
• 5. THE SAVING POWER OF GOD’S LOVE.
• 6. THE SAVING POWER IN GOD’S PREDESTINATION.
• 7. GOD’S SAVING POWER IN THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST.
• 8. GOD’S SAVING POWER AS SEEN IN REGENERATION.
• 9. GOD’S SAVING POWER MADE MANIFEST IN THE EVERLASTING PRESERVATION OF THE SAINTS.
• 10. THE DISPLAY OF GOD’S SAVING POWER IN THE RESURREC¬TION FROM THE GRAVE.
• CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION

In presenting God’s power in this article in the eternal sal¬vation of sinners, I haven’t done so under ten heads or divisions; not meaning that God’s saving power in himself is divided, for it is not, but it is one grand oneness, as a unit of power, infinite, and is incomprehensible to the dead in sin. Nothing but the written Word and the preaching of it is gospel to those who are in nature’s night, even for eternal salvation of sinners. Preaching is teaching, and teaching has no life-giving power in it. It develops life and draws out the faculties of the mind, and saves from much ignorance, many errors and de¬lusions. No one for a moment thinks of sending his children to school to have life imparted to them by the teacher and thus become the children of the parents who sent them. The par¬ent has them taught because they are already his children, not to make them his. So with our heavenly Father. He has His children instructed by preaching, not to make them His, but to train them and teach them to observe all things what¬soever Jesus has commanded them to do, and save them from error and every false way. God gives his ministering servants to-day, as He once gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, “for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ; ‘till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doc¬trine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in weight to deceive.”—Eph. 4: 11: 14.

J. H. PUREFOY,
Furman, Ala.