God chose us!

 

God chose us!

Welcome again to my blog. I am delighted you have taken the time to visit. 

We have been examining the Christian life in more detail to see if we can uncover some of the potential underlying causes of the improved wellbeing. This week we cover biblical statements to those who do not believe in eternal security. 

The fourth point of our wonderful salvation is that God chose us for himself. Again, this was all God's doing and not from our own efforts and work. Although some think this doctrine is controversial, let's look at the scriptures and you can decide for yourself. 

    • God chose us - God elected us for salvation before all time to come to faith (Ephesians 1:4-5; Ephesians 1:11; Romans 8:28-30). 

    • The choice was individual - God did not choose a group, such as the church, but each of us distinctively (John 6:37,44,65; John 10:28-29; 2 John 1:1).  

    • God’s character - Choosing is consistent with God's character and past actions. To accomplish His magnificent work on earth He has always had to choose those that would serve Him (e.g., Noah, Abraham, Moses and Israel). 

    • God dragging and convicting - After choosing God had to convict and drag us to Himself or we would not have come (John 6:44; John 16:8). The Bible uses the imagery here of having to ‘drag’ fish into a boat by use of a net. The fish, like us, do not come willingly!

By our very nature we never would have chosen God, understood Him or desired Him because of our fallen nature into sin (Romans 3:10-18; Ephesians 2:1-3). As you know from last week, he causes us to persevere. He alone keeps us in His hand and brings us to our eternal glory (John 10:28-30; Romans 8:28-30).

Although some think that God's choosing is unfair there was no other way and scripture says it was done out of love and knowledge (Ephesians 1:4-7). If God had not intervened all would have perished! 

God's glorious salvation accomplished by first free gift on the cross that we can be saved by faith alone not our own work. Every aspect of salvation is God's, and all to His glory. 

To review, to date we have covered now four spectacular scriptural proofs of our eternal security: 

    • Direct statements (e.g., 1 Peter 1:4-5)

    • Unchangeable positions in Christ noted in our recent blogs especially our: spiritual baptism, justification, sealing by the Spirit and adoption (Romans 6:2-9; Romans 3:21-26; Ephesians 1:5; Ephesians 1:13-14)

    • Perseverance (2 Peter 1:12) 

    • God chose us to salvation (noted above)

Well, that is my blog for today. Thank you for visiting. Join me next week!

William C. Stewart, MD

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