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AC,

Let us not forget the ultimate focus of God's love and of those who have been recipients of that love... THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. It was and is HIS vicarious, substitutionary atonement that satisfied all the demands of the law. It was HIS ransom that paid the infinite debt of those who the Father gave Him to die for. It was HIS propitiation which appeased the wrath of God. It was HIS sacrifice that endured the punishment due to the elect of God. And, it was HE who reconciled those who were born enemies and haters of God to God.

Because the Lord Christ, through His perfect righteousness and substitutionary death, provides the perfect holiness demanded and the receiving of the punishment due for not having it, there is NOT ONE for whom He died that will be lost. Additionally, to 'seal the deal', having lived that perfect life and having died that perfect death, He also sends the Holy Spirit to apply all that He merited for His own and to preserve them, indwelling within them, to the end appointed for them.

Hear the very words of God given through the apostle Paul:

Romans 8:29-39 (ASV) "For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."