"Righteousness Delivered"

"I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, Thou knowest." (Psalms 40:9) His righteousness was delivered to us; what a glorious way for God to make us new, yet still keeping freewill and choice as part of our condition to be established in His kingdom. When it comes to predestination or election into God's kingdom, there are some things that are only known by God, and by Him alone; who has been elected into His grace is something completely between God and those that have been elected, and no one knows whether or not they are until they make the choice to receive His grace. For that reason, the gospel message must be preached, because it is God's will that everyone comes to the be one of the "Whosoever"; for God Himself has said, "Whosoever believeth will have everlasting life"; He did not say, whosoever I determine to have life shall have life. We that have our election sure are now put into a very peculiar place of having something that must be shared; whether you know it or not, the gift that we have been given is not our own, it belongs to Jesus Christ; the righteousness is His, not ours, therefore we can not just hold onto it as if it were our own. And yet, there are those who do not share what they have been given because they believe that those who are elected have already been elected, and those that have not been will never be; "No Choice" is what they proclaim, as if God has stopped moving in the hearts of the lost. Everyone has a choice as to whether or not they will ask Jesus into their heart; God has not taken away man's ability to choose, nor has He taken away our freewill to love Him or not; I don't even believe that the choice will end after the rapture of the church, because there will still be those that get saved during the great tribulation. As a matter of fact, there will be "witnesses" preaching the gospel message during the tribulation; so if they are preaching, then there must be those that are receiving, because God's word does not return void! The point that David is making has more to do with what God knows we do with what we have been given, because we have been given something that is not meant to be horded, but must be shared; it is not our gift to hold onto, but it is our gift to share: you can only keep what you give away... "Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strewed: and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own money with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 25:24-30)