Pastor Buster Mullins, of the Little Rock Baptist Church, Glade Spring, VA, preached this message there, on a Sunday morning, some time ago.
2 Peter 1:10 KJB: 10   Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2 Corinthians 5:14-21 KJB: 14   For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15   And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16   Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17   Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18   And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19   To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20   Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21   For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 13:5 KJB: 5   Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?