The Doctrine of Election, Half 1 (Chosen Scriptures) [Audio Only] – John MacArthur
“As you recognize, a few weeks in the past, we accomplished our research within the fantastic epistle written by Jude, which ended with a promise that God is ready to hold us from falling and to current us faultless earlier than his presence with glory. And since that launched to us the fantastic doctrine of everlasting safety, or higher acknowledged, the perseverance of the saints, or the preservation of the saints, we spent a couple of weeks speaking about that doctrine. And within the discussions that I had with you relating to that, I mentioned that the tip is decided by the start. Our salvation is safe to the tip as a result of our salvation was predestined within the very starting to be accomplished.
And we do not forget that Romans 8 makes a monumental and really clear assertion to that regard. when in Romans 8 the apostle Paul writes, “For whom he foreknew, he predestined to turn into conformed to the picture of his Son.” That’s, all whom God predestined will turn into conformed to the picture of his Son in everlasting glory. And thus “whom he predestined he known as, and whom he known as he justified, and whom he justified these he additionally glorified.” And so, we mentioned that the good undergirding foundational reality that secures our future is God’s decree in eternity previous. It’s the truth that we’re chosen for closing salvation that makes our salvation safe.
The doctrine of election is a disturbing doctrine for many individuals. It’s portrayed and offered that method, as if someway it calls into query the goodness of God, the grace of God. In reality, there are actually stunning statements made about this doctrine by outstanding evangelicals. For instance, the well-known Tim LaHaye, who is part of the Left Behind sequence and lots of different books, and Tim says, “To recommend that the merciful, long-suffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like this – predestination – which might have us imagine it’s an act of grace to pick out sure individuals for heaven and by exclusion others for hell comes perilously near blasphemy.” These are statements that these gents have put in print…” from the Transcript
