Scriptural Confirmations # 81
81. PREDESTINATION.
Predestination
1. We know that to them that love God all things work together for good, to them who are called of God according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. Moreover, whom He predestined and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. Who shall accuse God's elect? It is God that justifieth (Romans 8:28-30, 33).
Concerning predestination. Shall the thing formed say to the Former, why hast thou made me thus? Many other things in addition (Romans 9:8, 11, 15, 18-23; 11:7-10, 32, 33).
That the elect are in Christ before the foundation of the world, according to the good pleasure of His will (Ephesians 1:3-13).
A universal election of those who believe in Christ is meant, as is clear from verses 10-11, 13.
According to the purposes of the ages which God hath accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord (Ephesians 3:11).
Something concerning what was purposed by God before the ages (2 Timothy 1:9-10).
Foreknown before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:20). God hath called us to eternal glory in Jesus Christ (1 Peter 5:10).
Give diligence to make your calling and election sure: thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:10, 11).
If we confess our sins, the Lord remits them for us and cleanses us from unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).
From the Prophets.
The elect are said to be those who, after the separation has been made between the good and the evil, are raised up; the rejected, those who have done evil; the elect, those who have done good. In this sense they are called the elect (Isaiah 65:9, 15, 22).
Ephesians 1:3-13
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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;
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even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
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having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
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to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,
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in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
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which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
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making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
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to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
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in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
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to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
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in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
