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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

John Calvin

The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
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Beyond God Greatness Human Understand
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
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God Hope Ourselves Strength Weakness
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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Enjoyment Forever Glory Goal Ourselves
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
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Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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God Humility Men Pride Spirit
There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
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Desire Exception People Religious World
Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.
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Busy Enjoyment Present Quick Time
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Believe Faith Perfection
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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Experience Joy Meditation Recognition Sorrow Suffering
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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Existence God Mistake Purity See Word
Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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Believe God Idol Men Mindset

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

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