The ELECT OF GOD are those who have been chosen by God for salvation. Divine ELECTION is unconditional. It is not based on the character of work of an individual. God’s ELECTION of His chosen ones is not based upon foreseen faith in the future. It is strictly a sovereign choice by God.

*[I do not agree- will share my thoughts at the end of blog].

Without ELECTION, No one would be saved. Man is in a fallen state and is incapable of choosing to believe in God. It is only when he is regenerated and born-again spiritually by the Holy Spirit that anyone is able to have faith to believe in Christ. The salvation of the ELECT OF GOD is God’s work from before the foundation of the world. No one can boast for any part of his or her salvation. God has done it all!!

But God, who is RICH IN MERCY, because of HIS GREAT LOVE with which HE LOVED US, even when we were DEAD in trespasses, MADE US ALIVE together with Christ (BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of HIS GRACE in HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US in Christ Jesus. For by GRACE, you have been SAVED through FAITH, AND THAT not of yourselves; it is a GIFT OF GOD, not of works, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST.”- Eph 2:4-9

God plans everything; that is called “foreordination”. God determines the eternal destiny of every human who lives throughout all of human history; that is called “predestination”. God chooses each and every one of His saved people; that is called “ELECTION”.

*Please note: [I don’t agree with this perception].

Everyone of God’s ELECT was known and loved by God before the foundation of the word, which is called ‘foreknowledge”, It is not simply referring to God’s knowing that in the future a person would believe in Christ. But it is the deepest love, mercy, and grace, from God towards His elect. It is not based on anything they have done, are doing or might do in the future. But His love for His ELECT is based entirely on the good pleasure of God’s will.

* [I don’t agree with this perception].

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. Moreover whom He PREDESTINED, He also CALLED; whom He called, these He also JUSTIFIED; and whom He justified, these He also GLORIFIED.”- Rom 8:29-30

The ELECTION of His saints proves several truths about God. It confirms that He is sovereign over His creation. It displays that all of His judgements are perfect. It illustrates that what He ordains shall come to pass, with no exceptions. People may not believe in Him; some may even hate Him; many may choose other gods; but ALL shall know that Almighty God is an eternal, wise and sovereign God!

“Just as HE CHOSE US in Him BEFORE THE FOUNDATOINS OF THE WORLD, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having PREDESTINED us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL.”- Eph 1:4-5

“All that the Father GIVES ME WILL COME TO ME, and the one who comes to Me I will be by no means cast out.” – John 6:37

“And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that NO ONE CAN COME TO ME unless It has been GRANTED TO HIM by My Father.”- John 6:65

“Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And AS MANY HAD BEEN APPOINTED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED.”-Acts 13:48

“So, then it is NOT of him who wills, NOR of him who runs, but OF GOD who shows MERCY.”- Rom 9:16

“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 truth.”- 2 Thess 2;13.

“WHO HAS SAVED US and called us with a holy calling, NOT ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS, but according to HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE which was GIVEN US in Christ Jesus BEFORE TIME BEGAN.”- 2 Tim 1:9

The fact that all Christians are ELECT OF GOD should cause us to praise Him and to thank Him. If God had not chosen His ELECT no one would be saved. We should also be very secure in our salvation. Knowing that it is God who chose us, gave us the Holy Spirit, and granted us the faith to believe; it is a secure as it gets for us.

If anyone doubts whether or not he or she is ELECT, the solution is to cancel that doubt, lies in our attitude towards Jesus Christ. What do we believe is His role in our salvation? What is our role? These answers are only found in the Scriptures.

Christians are able to have confidence in their ELECTION and SALVATION by faithfully studying the Word of God, the Bible. The more we CORRECTLY UNDERSTAND the Bible, the more secure and complete in Christ we become. Our ELECTION in Christ does not change with Bible study, but our UNDERSTANDING and confidence of our election changes.

“BE DILLIGENT to present yourself APPROVED to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH!”- 2 Tim 2:15

-Michael Alan Nichols

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*My thoughts: I want to base this off of the very perfect Character of God, God is NOT partial, and He does NOT pick favorites, however, He does choose those He foreknew would accept His calling upon their lives. God does NOT call the qualified, but He does qualify the called. God is a God of freewill, therefore those He calls must answer the call. Our faith is in Him and not of ourselves so we cannot boast; However, just as a Bride has freewill to accept the proposal, and a person has the right to accept or deny any position offered to them we all have the very same freewill to accept the Groom and the position granted to us. God is NOT a tyrant, so I truly do not agree with the perception of this lesson that was presented under the guise of “Sovereignty of God” this is yet another one of those “God is in control” theories that I do NOT agree with because I belong to Gentleman!

Jesus Christ is a loving, freewill savior with no conditions attached but to believe and receive the proposal.

With that I pray that the eyes of all our hearts be enlightened to His Calling for our lives! May we accept these awesome positions He grants to us who choose to believe!

[I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people),and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength. – Eph 1:18-19

All my predestined, preordained, appointed, elected, selected, chosen and justified love,

❤ Diana xo, 🙂