The Mysteries of Election...

DID GOD CHOOSE YOU TO SALVATION BECAUSE HE "Predicted" YOU WOULD BELIEVE?


According to brother Jeshurun, "Choose, as indicated by the prescience of God. For whom He foreknowed, He likewise predestinated to be complied with the picture of His Son". [1Peter 1:2; Romans 8:29]

Did God choose men since He predicted they would atone and accept? The inquiry itself seems idiotic or imbecilic to every one of the individuals who have really come to put stock in the tenets of 'Sovereign Grace' and a 'Genuine Election', but then THAT is precisely what MANY who case to hold the precepts of race accept!

They can't out-appropriately DENY the precept of Election for the Bible is brimming with it! Be that as it may, they have a thoroughly wrong idea of what this convention really educates!

There are numerous who have a thoroughly wrong idea of the term 'Decision'! As per them, God chooses just those whom He investigated the future and predicted would accept of their own 'through and through freedom'!

So "race" as indicated by these Arminians is not "Unlimited" as the sacred text plainly avows, but rather is CONDITIONAL on the benefits of the individual chose!

Yes, God anticipates ALL THINGS! "Known unto God are ALL His works from the earliest starting point of the world"! [Acts 15:18] And if there was anything God "anticipated" concerning His choose or anointed ones, it is THIS – that if left to themselves they could NEVER EVER 'pick Him' however openly pick everything that is in spite of Him and end up in Hell!

THIS is the reason in the 'completion of time' or in 'Day of His energy' He sends forward His Spirit and sovereignly recovers them and attracts them to Himself! "Thy individuals might will in the day of Thy force"! [Psalm 110:3]

Predicted confidence and benevolent acts, then, are never to be looked upon as the CAUSE of the Divine decision. They are somewhat its leafy foods. They demonstrate that the individual has been picked and recovered. To make them the BASIS of decision includes us again in a pledge of WORKS, and places God's motivations in TIME instead of in ETERNITY. This would not be PRE–destination but rather POST–destination, a reversal of the Scripture account which makes confidence and sacredness to be the CONSEQUENTS, and not the ANTECEDENTS, of race (Eph. 1:4; John 15:16; Titus 3:5).

Here are a few remarks from divines of the past in the matter of what THEY thought about this twisted perspective of fate –

A.W. PINK (1886-1952): Was it since God predicted they would accept? No; for in what manner can the individuals who are "dead in trespasses and sins" have faith in Christ? How could God foreknow a few men as adherents when conviction was difficult to them? Sacred text proclaims that we "Trusted THROUGH GRACE," Acts 18:27. Confidence is God's blessing, and separated from this blessing none would accept. The reason for His decision, then, exists in Himself, and not in the objects of His decision. He picked the ones He did, basically in light of the fact that He picked them.

C.H. SPURGEON: Now, God gives confidence, thusly He couldn't have chosen them by virtue of their confidence, which He anticipated. There should be twenty hobos in the road, and I decide to give one of them a shilling; yet will any one say that I resolved to give that one a shilling—that I ELECTED him to have the shilling—since I anticipated that he would have it? That would ramble. In like way, to say that God chose men since He predicted they would have confidence would be excessively preposterous for us, making it impossible to listen to for a minute. Confidence is the blessing the God. Each prudence originate from Him. Consequently it can't have CAUSED him to choose men, since it is His blessing.

THOMAS WATSON (1620-1686): It is silly to believe that anything in us could have minimal impact upon our decision. Some say that God foresaw that such people would accept, and along these lines chose them; so they would make the matter of salvation to rely on something in us. While God does not pick us FOR confidence, but rather TO confidence. "HE HATH CHOSEN US, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY," Ephesians 1:4―not in light of the fact that we would be sacred, yet that we may be blessed. We are chosen TO heavenliness, not FOR it.

WILLIAM GURNALL (1617-1679): Mark―not on the grounds that He anticipated that they would be of themselves blessed, yet that they ought to be holy―this was that God determined He would make them to be.

AUGUSTINE (354-430): The finesse of God does not observe men fit to be chosen, but rather makes them so. Here undoubtably tumbles to the ground the vain thinking of the individuals who guard the premonition of God contrary to His elegance, and confirm that we were chosen before the establishment of the world, since God fore-realized that we would be great, not that He Himself would make us great. This is not the dialect of Him who says, YE HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU, John 15:16.

JOHN KNOX (1514-1572): Let the entire Scripture be perused and persistently checked, and no sentence, properly comprehended, might be found that confirms God to have picked us in appreciation of our works, or in light of the fact that He anticipated that we ought to be dependable, heavenly and just. In any case, despite what might be expected, numerous spots should we find―yea, even such a variety of as treat of the matter―that evidently insist we are uninhibitedly picked, by reason for His cooperative attitude, and that in Christ Jesus.

GEORGE WHITEFIELD: For my own part, I know of no other precept that can really humble man; either God must pick us, or we should pick God; either God must be the principal mover, or man must be the main mover; either God must pick them by virtue of some integrity, because of some immaculateness, or demonstrations of devotion, or God must pick them just of His beauty, for His own name's purpose, and to tell us that we have not picked Him, but rather that He has picked us.

Whatever men's thinking may propose, if the offspring of God reasonably look at their own particular encounters—on the off chance that they do God equity—they should recognize that they didn't pick God, however that God picked them. Furthermore, on the off chance that He picked them by any stretch of the imagination, it must be from time everlasting, and that too without anything anticipated in them.

C.H. SPURGEON: I trust the principle of decision, since I am entirely certain that if God had not picked me I ought to never have picked Him; and I am certain He picked me before I was conceived, or else He never would have picked me a short time later; and He probably chose me for no good reason to me, for I never could discover any reason in myself why He ought to have looked upon me with extraordinary adoration. So I am compelled to acknowledge that precept. I am bound to the convention of the wickedness of the human heart, since I get myself corrupted in heart, and have day by day proofs that there dwelleth in my substance no good thing.

A. W. PINK: "In LOVE having predestinated us unto the selection of kids by Jesus Christ to Himself as per the great delight of His will." It was "infatuated" that God the Father fated His divinely selected individuals unto the appropriation of youngsters by Jesus Christ to Himself, concurring—ACCORDING to what? As indicated by some excellency He found in them? No. What then? As indicated by what He predicted they would get to be? No; imprint precisely the roused answer—According to THE GOOD AND PERFECT PLEASURE OF HIS WILL.

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