In God's sovereign plan, certain individuals are chosen to receive salvation and eternal life. According to Ephesians, believers were predestined for adoption as sons and daughters before the foundation of the world. Romans and Acts also speak to this concept, highlighting that those who are called are also glorified, and that the Gentiles who were appointed to eternal life believed. Additionally, Jesus taught in John that no one can come to Him unless the Father draws them, emphasizing the divine initiative in salvation. This doctrine is further underscored in Luke, where God is said to avenge His elect who cry out to Him day and night.
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For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love