Mark Vestal Supporter Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!

I cannot answer as a Calvinist (as I am not one), but I can answer as an ambassador for Christ (as all believers have the privilege and responsibility of being).

The good news is the same for young and old alike: God loves us so much that He gave the world His Son Jesus Christ, who gave His life as the payment for the world's sins. He was buried, but rose from the grave on the third day, so that whosoever will believe in Him shall not perish for eternity, but rather have life everlasting.

Taken from the verses cited, Christ and Him crucified was the foreordained choice of "the determinate counsel" that salvation would be made possible. It was chosen that believers would be placed "in Christ" upon the moment of belief, and whereby they are "sealed" with this promise "unto the day of redemption". It is "the purpose of His will":

1 Tim 2:3-6
"For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."

2 Cor 5:17-19
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."

Acts 16:29-31
"Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."

Rom 1:16
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."

Eph 1:12-13
"That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,"

Eph 4:30
"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."

Rom 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Eph 2:8-9
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast."

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

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