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of His Son, we must know that the gospel in cludes the selection of grace. The gospel is wholly a matter of God's sovereign mercy. Many years ago, I had some realization of this, but my reali zation is much stronger today. Through many years of experience, I have become strongly and deeply convinced that everything that happens to us is of God. All is a matter of God's mercy. The more we see this, the more we shall sponta neously bear our responsibility before the Lord.
However, even the bearing of responsibil ity is of God's mercy. Why is it that some believ ers are willing to bear their responsibility and that others are not? The answer lies in God's mercy. In Romans 9:15 Paul quotes the Lord's words, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy." Because of God's mercy in His selection of grace, we responded to the gospel when oth ers did not respond; we received a word about Christ as our life when others refused to receive it; and we took the way of the Lord's recovery today when others drew back from taking this way. Some can testify that although they are in the Lord's recovery today, those who brought them to this way did not come this way them selves.
Regarding His recovery, God has mercy on