Fully Persuaded

It is not in the intellectualism of this thing.  It’s in the commitment.  Being fully persuaded and being God’s.  Belonging to Him.  Capital G-O-D.  God’s.  That’s right.  Therefore, the primary prerequisite is believe.  And a small individual is as small as the capacity of his believing. We must become fully persuaded. 

 

And II Timothy has this fantastic record in it that I’d like to share.  II Timothy chapter one, verse 12.  The apostle Paul wrote by divine revelation, in verse 11, “Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.”  Verse 12, “For the which cause,” the cause of the Gospel, which relates back to He’s calling us before the foundations of the world in verses eight and nine.  “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know [I know] whom I have believed….”  I know.  There’s no question about it.  I’m fully convinced, fully persuaded.  “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded [fully persuaded beyond a shadow of a doubt] that He [God] is able to keep that [my deposit] which He has committed unto us against that day.”  What a tremendous record in God’s Word.