Reference: Elect
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ELECT or ELECTION: (See PREDESTINATION.)
(1) Chosen to office (Ac 9:15; Joh 6:70; 1Sa 10:24). ELECTION
(2) of Israel in the Old Testament as a nation, and of the visible Christian church, to spiritual privileges (Isa 45:4; 44:1; 2Jo 1:3; 1Pe 5:14).
(3) Of Israel to temporal blessings in their own land, both formerly (De 7:6) and hereafter (Isa 65:9-22).
(4) Of saints, individually and personally, (Mt 20:16; Joh 6:44; Ac 22:14) before the foundation of the world: to adoption (Eph 1:5); salvation, not without faith and holiness, but "through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth," for He who chose the end chose also the means (2Th 2:13); conformity to Christ (Ro 8:29); good works (Eph 2:10); spiritual warfare (2Ti 2:4); eternal glory (Ro 9:23). He chooses not merely character's, but individuals to whom He gives the needful characteristics, faith and obedience (Ac 5:31; Eph 2:8), and writes them in the book of life (Lu 10:20; Php 4:3; Joh 6:37,40). Believers may know it (1Th 1:4).
Exemplified in Isaac (Ge 21:12); Abraham (Ne 9:7; Hag 2:23); the apostles (Joh 13:18; 15:16,19); Jacob (Ro 9:12-13); Paul (Ga 1:15). God's "grace was given in Christ Jesus (to the elect) before the world began" (2Ti 1:9). Its source is God's grace, independent of any goodness foreseen in the saved (Eph 1:4-5; Ro 9:11,18; 11:5). The analogy of God's providence in this life choosing all our circumstances and final destination, and numbering the very hairs of our heads, illustrates the same method in His moral government (compare Joh 17:24; Ac 13:48; Ro 8:28-30; 1Th 5:9; 2Ti 2:10; 1Pe 1:2).
The election being entirely of grace, not for our foreseen works (Ro 11:6), the glory all redounds to God. The elect are given by the Father to Jesus as the fruit of His obedience unto death (Isa 53:10), that obedience itself being a grand part of the foreordained plan. Such a truth realized fills the heart with love and gratitude to God, humbling self, and "drawing up the mind to high and heavenly things" (Church of England, Article 17). Yet men are throughout Scripture treated as responsible, capable of will and choice. Christ died sufficiently for all, efficiently for the elect (1Ti 4:10; 1Jo 2:2). The lost will lay all the blame of their perdition on themselves because "they would not come to Jesus that they might have life"; the saved will ascribe all the praise of their salvation to God alone (Re 1:5; Mt 22:12).
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So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last."
And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.
But do not be glad that the spirits submit to you, but be glad that your names are enrolled in heaven."
All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,
For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.
Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select all twelve of you? And even of you, one is an informer."
I do not mean all of you; I know whom I have chosen; but let the Scripture be fulfilled: " 'He who is eating my bread Has raised his heel against me.'
It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.
Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.
God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.
When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,
and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak,
We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good. For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;
For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers; and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.
For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them, she was told, "The elder will be the younger's slave." read more. As the Scripture says, "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau."
So he has mercy on anyone he pleases, and hardens the heart of anyone he pleases.
so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory,
So too at the present time there is a remnant selected by God's mercy. But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.
And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit
Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love. He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose,
He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose,
For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God.
For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.
And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.
For we know, brothers whom God so loves, that he has chosen you,
We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,
It is for this that we toil and struggle, for we have fixed our hopes on the living God, the Savior of all men, especially those who believe.
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
Anyone who is in the army keeps from being involved in business affairs, so as to please the officer who enlisted him.
or steal from them, but to show such perfect good faith as to do credit to the teaching about God our Savior, by everything they do.
and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood