Our election is a mathematical certainty.

St. Paul in Romans 11 looks at salvation from the heavenly perspective: a hardening has come over part of Israel, that the Gentiles might be grafted in. This suggests that there is a perfect number of the elect to be filled up, in Christ. And this ought not trouble us but comfort us; for it means that our salvation in Christ, who is himself the only true Israelite, is secure. It is a mathematical certainty.  Sermon for Monday Vespers at Oktoberfest.