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TRUST CHRIST's IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS!

" And the acknowledging of the truth, which is after godliness; according to the faith of God's elect." —Titus 1:1 [KJV] St. Paul, though an eminently distinguished apostle of Jesus, yet, in regard to the salvation of his own soul, his extraordinary gifts procured it not; nor could his former hatred and persecution of Jesus and his members frustrate the electing love of God, or obstruct the sovereign operations of the Holy Spirit. But being chosen of God in Christ Jesus, his heart must partake of the precious faith of God's elect. Love, almighty, wonderful love, seized him; Jesus challenged him as one of His redeemed souls; stopped him in his mad career; touched his heart, and brought him trembling and astonished to His feet: and the power of faith in his heart was manifested by the obedient cry of his lips, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" —A cts 9:6. Thus election is a doctrine according to godliness. Faith in the heart is an evidence of...