All who are chosen are called, and when they are called, they come. None who are chosen will fail to be called by God to himself.

It's the inseparable welding together of these different links in God's golden chain of salvation.

As Paul reminds us in Romans 3, no one seeks for God. No one does good, not even one.

Since no one seeks for God, how is it then that anyone is saved?

How is it that if you're a Christian, you now follow God and not the ways of the world?

That'll be our topic today on this Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

Stephen Lawson has been with us all week looking at the fall of humanity and God's gracious

and sovereign work of redeeming a people for himself, as revealed in the pages of the New Testament.

And it's from his series, Foundations of Grace.

And today is the final day to request both the New Testament and

Old Testament volumes of that series, 38 messages in total when you give a donation of any amount

at renewingyourmind.org. So don't delay as this offer ends at midnight. Well, finishing this

week in the Book of Romans, here's Dr. Lawson on the

calling and preserving grace of God. In this session, we want to continue to look at the doctrines

of grace in the Book of Romans. And as we begin to dig into some verses, just by way of introduction, I want to remind us

that the book of Romans is the first epistle placed into the canon of Scripture. It was not the

first epistle in the New Testament to be written, but it is intentionally placed here because

arguably it is the most important.

This was Paul's magnum opus. This was his theological masterpiece.

If we are to master any epistle in the New Testament, it has to be the book of Romans.

This is where Paul lays out his theological foundation for our understanding

of how salvation works. Now, we've already looked at total depravity. In this session, I want

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