"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye art washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."–1 Col. 6:9-11
For such were the some of you. The case was just so with you as you have heard; you had such a wicked heart, you lived such a wicked life, and it would have been most just with God for ever to have cast you off; but He has had mercy upon; he hath made his glorious grace appear in your everlasting salvation. You had no love to God; But yet He exercised unspeakable love to you. You have contemned (or scorned) God, and set light by Him; but so great a value has God's grace set on you and your happiness that you have been redeemed at the price of the blood of His own Son. You chose to be with Satan in his service; but yet God bath made you a joint heir with Christ of His glory. You were ungrateful for past mercies; yet God not only continued those mercies, but bestowed unspeakaby greater mercies upon you. You refused to hear when God called; yet God has manifested the infiniteness of that mercy in the exercises of it towards you. You have rejected Christ, and set Him at nought; and yet He is become your Saviour. You have neglected your own salvation; but God has not neglected it. You have destroyed yourself but yet in God has been your help. God has magnified His free grace towards you, and not to others: because He has chosen you, and it hath pleased Him to set His love upon you.