PREFACE

Human beings are always looking for the selections of the highest quality whether it be: a 100% wool suit, a top designer dress, a registered thoroughbred animal, or some prize winner. Today, scientists are trying to provide new genes to assure one's selection of eye and hair color, etc.

Whenever God is panned for selecting the perfect way of human salvation and the people who are the VIPS of that way, the panning appears completely mindless.

A noted writer for Saturday Review once said he was absolutely certain of one thing, that people who are dogmatic are totally wrong. I note that it is all right for him to be dogmatic. So also anti-election people are themselves election-oriented people. As a matter of fact most of them overdo the use of their own elective process.

Average newborn believers want something more satisfying than a philosophically-theological discussion of the doctrine of election. They want to know where it is in the Bible. They want to know what God says. They want to know what God uses the teaching for--in its context.

The context provides the checks and balances needed wherever theologians who are philosophically-minded offer their opinions. For instance, reaching into Romans 9-11 for teaching on individual election shakes some of us to the roots. But knowing the context serves to deny the obsolete methods of proof-texting since the context was not first established.

In our brief treatment, for personal blessing based on solid divine doctrinal instruction, we call for readers to not only have election in their creed, but to have it as well in their practice. In the latter is where great assurance is discovered.

Therefore my brothers, be diligent to make your calling and election matters out of which you get great assurance. For if you practice these things you will never stumble, 2 Peter 1:10.

Douglas B. MacCorkle, Th. D. 1987

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Summum Bonum of Bible Exposition

Chapter 2 - How God Works His Foreknowledge for Our Good

Chapter 3 - How God Works Predestination for Our Good

Chapter 4 - How God Works His Calling for Our Good

Chapter 5 - How God Works Justification for Our Good

Chapter 6 - How God Works Glorification for Our Good

Chapter 7 - Christ in the Program of Election
Chapter 8 - Corporate Election

Dust jacket and book dedication information:

GOD'S OWN VIPS

Douglas B. MacCorkle, TH. D.

Basically an Exposition of Romans 8:26-32

The exposition in Chapters 1-6 was given at Philadelphia College of Bible in the Dean, Stoll, Torrey Memorial Bible Conference on Expository Preaching [Where the author was President 1963-1979]

Douglas B. MacCorkle, TH. D., 1987

To

two of God's Own VIPS:

Myron and Gerry Ferrin

for

their radiant testimony, their constant encouragement, their fragrant fellowship, and their strong support.

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