Spirit Jesus

There is no doctrine more truly humbling than the doctrine of election; and it was for this reason that the Apostle Paul refers to it, — that the disciples at Corinth might be quite content to follow the humble and despised cross-bearing Savior, because the election of grace consists of the humble and despised, who therefore cannot be ashamed to follow One who, like themselves, was despised and rejected of men.

The three major movements in this profound unveiling are captured in 1:19: “the things which you have seen” (1); “the things which are” (2 and 3); and “the things which will take place after this” (4-22).