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Post date: Oct 13, 2016 5:37:55 AM
the author of the election is not John Calvin, it is Jesus
many a good baby Christian gets very scared and this manifest as anger when one speaks about the election. They then immediately start using the term Calvinism, as if Calvin is the author and authority on the election.
Beloved, God is the author of the election and this process is visible on every page of the Bible. this does not fit well into our modern humanistic view of "God is love".
I have heard so many Christian say: " I will not serve a God like that" as soon as they hear a scripture that does not make them feel happy or guarantee them salvation. My blood runs cold when I hear them reject the God of the Bible so self righteousness and so humanistically.
It is much and act of Biblical Love to submit yourself to the word of God, even when you don't really understand or like it.
Lets look a few very succinct text re the election. Remember the question is whether the God you proclaim is the one of the Bible or whether you make one up as go based on happy feelings and some randomly selected sermons.
Scripture interprets scripture, not doctrine interprets scripture
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
Ephesians 1:3-6
A very powerful text from Moses
6 “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
7 “The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
8 “but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
10 “and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.
11 “Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
13 “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
14 “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
15 “And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
16 “And you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7:6-16
Jesus speaking
16 “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
17 “These things I command you, that you love one another.
John 15:16-17
Evangelism in Acts
48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 13:48
Protection against deception in the last days is only for those whom God chose for salvation from the beginning.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,
14 to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:7-14
Then the very powerful Romans 8
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Romans 8:26-30
Has Pharaoh en Esau been glorified? Obviously not! Then they have not been foreknown or called or justified either. If you stick to the text. Please don't twist this portion because it doesn't fit with your theology.
God's love clearly manifests through Gods election
13 As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”
Romans 9:13-17
Guys, I realize this is new and scary, but looking at the powerless, sentimental, dumbed-down, humanistic church today we have to get back to scripture.
"Google Jesus", and "Sermon Jesus" wont save us.
We need Bible Jesus
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