Predestination

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Predestination

• What does Scripture say?

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Verses Supporting Predestination
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Matthew 2214

• For many are called, but few are chosen.

Jesus says God calls many people. Why are some
not chosen? Is there something on an individuals
part that must be done to be chosen?
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Luke 1020-22

• 20"Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the
  spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your
  names are recorded in heaven."
• 21At that very time He rejoiced greatly in the
  Holy Spirit, and said, "I praise You, O Father,
  Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden
  these things from the wise and intelligent and
  have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for
  this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.
• 22"All things have been handed over to Me by My
  Father, and no one knows who the Son is except
  the Father, and who the Father is except the Son,
  and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

We can only know God if Jesus chooses to reveal
Him to us. Who does the Bible indicate that Jesus
will reveal the Father to?
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Romans 916-18

• 16It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire
  or effort, but on God's mercy. 17For the
  Scripture says to Pharaoh "I raised you up for
  this very purpose, that I might display my power
  in you and that my name might be proclaimed in
  all the earth. 18Therefore God has mercy on whom
  he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he
  wants to harden.

God is sovereign. He hardened Pharaoh and others.
Does the Bible indicate who God wants to have
mercy on? Can we get an idea of how many He truly
wants to save now?
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Ephesians 14-6

• For he chose us in him before the creation of
  the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
  In love he predestined us to be adopted as his
  sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his
  pleasure and will 6to the praise of his glorious
  grace, which he has freely given us in the One he
  loves.

God predestines us before the beginning of time.
Two questions 1) Does God limit predestination,
does he want only an elect few to be saved? or 2)
Does God want everyone to be saved? What do other
Scriptures say?
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Verses Clarifying Predestination
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John 639-40

• 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that
  I shall lose none of all that he has given me,
  but raise them up at the last day. 40For my
  Father's will is that everyone who looks to the
  Son and believes in him shall have eternal life,
  and I will raise him up at the last day."

Jesus says that the ones given to him are the
same as those who believe. His will is that
everyone who believes in Jesus will be saved.
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Romans 828-30

• 28And we know that in all things God works for
  the good of those who love him, who have been
  called according to his purpose. 29For those God
  foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to
  the likeness of his Son, that he might be the
  firstborn among many brothers. 30And those he
  predestined, he also called those he called, he
  also justified those he justified, he also
  glorified.

God predestines those he foreknew. What did he
foreknow about them?
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Ephesians 111-13

• 11In him we were also chosen, having been
  predestined according to the plan of him who
  works out everything in conformity with the
  purpose of his will, 12in order that we, who were
  the first to hope in Christ, might be for the
  praise of his glory. 13And you also were included
  in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the
  gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you
  were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy
  Spirit,

We are predestined according to a plan. Paul
notes part of this plan is that we hope, hear,
and believe. Those who believe are the ones who
are predestined. God foreknows them.
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Ephesians 28-9

• 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faithand this not from yourselves, it is the
  gift of God 9not by works, so that no one can
  boast.

We can do nothing to earn our salvation. Still it
our God-enabled faith that opens the door to this
gift.
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1 Peter 11-2

• 1To God's elect, strangers in the world,
  scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
  Asia and Bithynia, 2who have been chosen
  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
  

We are chosen through foreknowledge.
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God Wants Everyone to be Saved
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John 1232

• 32But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will
  draw all men to myself."

Jesus will draw all men and women to himself.
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Romans 518

• So then as through one transgression there
  resulted condemnation to all men, even so through
  one act of righteousness there resulted
  justification of life to all men.

Jesus' sacrifice was made for everyone.
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Romans 1013-15

• 13for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the
  Lord will be saved."
• 14How, then, can they call on the one they have
  not believed in? And how can they believe in the
  one of whom they have not heard? And how can they
  hear without someone preaching to them? 15And how
  can they preach unless they are sent? As it is
  written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who
  bring good news!"

Everyone who calls on Jesus will be saved. God
desires everyone to be saved. He calls us to
preach and so they can hear and believe.
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1 Timothy 23-4

• 3This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4who
  wants all men to be saved and to come to a
  knowledge of the truth

Plain and simple. God wants everyone to be saved.

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2 Peter 39

• 9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as
  some understand slowness. He is patient with you,
  not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to
  come to repentance.

Plain and simple. God does not want anyone to
perish.
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Verses that Warn Against Falling Away
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Hebrews 64-5

• 4It is impossible for those who have once been
  enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift,
  who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5who have
  tasted the goodness of the word of God and the
  powers of the coming age, 6if they fall away, to
  be brought back to repentance, because to their
  loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over
  again and subjecting him to public disgrace.

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Hebrews 1026-27

• 26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we
  have received the knowledge of the truth, no
  sacrifice for sins is left, 27but only a fearful
  expectation of judgment and of raging fire that
  will consume the enemies of God.

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2 Peter 220-21

• 20If they have escaped the corruption of the
  world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
  and are again entangled in it and overcome, they
  are worse off at the end than they were at the
  beginning. 21It would have been better for them
  not to have known the way of righteousness, than
  to have known it and then to turn their backs on
  the sacred command that was passed on to them.

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Revelation 35

• He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in
  white. I will never blot out his name from the
  book of life, but will acknowledge his name
  before my Father and his angels.

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Our Hope Assurance in Christ
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John 316

• 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his
  one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
  shall not perish but have eternal life.

Whoever believes in Jesus will be saved.
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Romans 837-39

• 37No, in all these things we are more than
  conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am
  convinced that neither death nor life, neither
  angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
  future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor
  depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
  able to separate us from the love of God that is
  in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Nothing can separate us from Gods love.
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Philippians 212-13

• 12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always
  obeyednot only in my presence, but now much more
  in my absencecontinue to work out your salvation
  with fear and trembling, 13for it is God who
  works in you to will and to act according to his
  good purpose.

God gives us the ability to believe and obey. We
must work with Him in our salvation. Remember He
wants everyone to be saved.
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2 Timothy 211-13

• 11Here is a trustworthy saying
• If we died with him,
• we will also live with him
• 12if we endure,
• we will also reign with him.
• If we disown him,
• he will also disown us
• 13if we are faithless,
• he will remain faithful,
• for he cannot disown himself.

Jesus remains faithful even when we sin. We can
be sure of our salvation and confident that He
will save us.
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1 John 19

• 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
  and will forgive us our sins and purify us from
  all unrighteousness.

God forgives our sins.
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1 John 39

• 9No one who is born of God will continue to sin,
  because God's seed remains in him he cannot go
  on sinning, because he has been born of God.

God will finish His work within us.