ELECTION AND RELATED DOCTRINES

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I) FOREORDINATION = THE OVERALL PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSE WHICH IS DETERMINED BEFOREHAND BY GOD

A) [Compare Eph 1:4-5, 11]:

B) [Compare 1 Cor 2:7]:

II) DECREE = THE ACT BY WHICH GOD ESTABLISHED THE CERTAINTY OF WHAT HE FOREORDAINED

A) [Compare Dan 11:36]:

B) [Compare Lk 22:22]:

C) [Compare Acts 2:23]:

D) [Compare Acts 4:27-28]:

E) [Compare Lam 3:37-38]:

III) FOREKNOWLEDGE = WHAT GOD KNOWS WITH CERTAINTY WILL COME TO PASS BECAUSE HE HAS DECREED IT

A) [Ro 8:29]:

1) GOD DID NOT ELECT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS ON ACCOUNT OF FOREKNOWING THAT THEY WOULD ACCEPT CHRIST AS SAVIOR BUT ON ACCOUNT OF HIS DECREE THAT THEY WOULD ACCEPT CHRIST AS SAVIOR

a) [1 Pet 1:2]:

IV) ELECTION

A) ELECT AND ELECTION DEFINED

1) [Compare Ro 11:5-8]:

2) [1 Thes 1:4-5]:

3) [1 Pet 1:1-2]:

B) ONLY THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN BY THE FATHER TO THE SON WILL COME TO THE SON AND NO ONE CAN COME TO THE SON UNLESS THE FATHER DRAWS & ENABLES HIM

1) [Compare Jn 6:37, 44, 65]:

2) [Compare Jn 12:32]:

3) [Jn 10:16]:

4) [2 Pet 2:1]:

5) [Compare Ro 8:7-8]:

6) [Compare 2 Cor 4:3-4]:

C) ELECTION IS THE WORK OF GOD. IT IS NOT A MATTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL ELECTING GOD AND THEN GOD ELECTING HIM IN RESPONSE - AND NEITHER GOD'S JUSTICE NOR MAN'S FREE WILL IS IMPUGNED

1) [Ro 9:10-23]:

D) ELECTION SEPARATES FROM AMONG MEN, ALL OF WHOM ARE UNDER CONDEMNATION, SOME TO FULFILL GOD'S PURPOSE OF SALVATION BY GRACE AND SOME TO FULFILL HIS PURPOSE OF DESTRUCTION

1) [Ro 9:10-23]:

E) THE ELECT WILL INEVITABLY TRUST IN CHRIST AS SAVIOR UNTO ETERNAL LIFE AND THE NON-ELECT WILL NOT

1) THE ELECT WILL INEVITABLY TRUST IN CHRIST AS SAVIOR UNTO ETERNAL LIFE

a) [Compare Romans 8:28-30]:

2) THE NON-ELECT WILL INEVITABLY NOT BELIEVE

a) [Compare 1 Peter 2:7-8]:

b) [Compare Ro 9:19-22]:

V) PREDESTINATION = THAT END WHICH IS DETERMINED BEFOREHAND BY GOD TO WHICH THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ELECTED ARE SET APART AS PART OF GOD'S OVERALL AND FOREORDAINED PLAN

A) [Eph 1:4-5, 11]:

B) [Ro 8:29]:

C) [1 Cor 2:7]:

D) [Jn 3:16]:

E) [Acts 13:48]:

VI) CALLED = TO BE SUMMONED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE FOREKNOWN BY GOD BECAUSE GOD PREDESTINATED THEM TO BE CALLED AS A RESULT OF HIS FOREORDAINED PURPOSE AND PROGRAM

A) [Ro 8:29-30]:

B) [Jn 6:37, 44, 65]:

C) [Phil 1:29]:

VI) THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SINNER = TO BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BE SAVED, OF HIS OWN VOLITION

A) [1 Jn 2:2]:

B) [Jn 3:16]:

VIII) THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BELIEVER: TO WALK IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SOVEREIGN WILL OF GOD

A) [Mt 22:14]:

B) [Compare Acts 9:15-16]:

C) [Compare Jn 15:16]:

D) [Compare Eph 2:10]:

E) [Compare Ro 12:3]:

F) [Compare 1 Cor 3:12-15]: