So just leaving you with that, as you can look up the word predestinate in a concordance. But with that in mind what I just shared with you; you can see that it always points to what God has predestinated us believers to be before Him.
Some might not agree, but I think this really solves all the arguments and the divisions in the body of Christ. Some people just want to send some people to Hell. They say "You know God chose or predestined you to go to Hell." Christ died for everybody. He knows ahead of time who's going to receive Him, but He never makes anybody receive Him or reject Him.
I see this even more when I get into Romans Chapter 9 because in Chapter 9, that's what it is dealing with. The argument is that if God chooses everything and everybody to be the way they are, then how can I be violating His will or His word? "I'm only being what He chose me to be!"
So, Paul's going to say "Is there unrighteousness with God? You mean He chose you to be an unrighteous person? That's His will for your life?" No, He didn't!
And there are some certain principles in the text that's going to teach us exactly God's approach to the whole thing. How did He choose Jacob over Esau before they were even born? "Jacob I have loved, and Esau I have hated."
What a terrible thing, unless we understand the wording and what it's applied to. Before they were born and before they did good or evil, God chose one of them through which would be the promised line of Messiah. That's not choosing Heaven or Hell, or righteousness or unrighteousness. Even Ishmael, when God said to Abraham that if Sarah wants to get out of here with her son, let them go. I'll take care of them.
It was the same with Cain and Abel. They both bring their sacrifice. Abel's was received. Cain's was rejected. Just to show you his heart, because it was rejected, he killed his brother. That just goes to show you why it wasn't received!
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So just leaving you with that, as you can look up the word predestinate in a concordance. But with that in mind what I just shared with you; you can see that it always points to what God has predestinated us believers to be before Him.
Some might not agree, but I think this really solves all the arguments and the divisions in the body of Christ. Some people just want to send some people to Hell. They say "You know God chose or predestined you to go to Hell." Christ died for everybody. He knows ahead of time who's going to receive Him, but He never makes anybody receive Him or reject Him.
I see this even more when I get into Romans Chapter 9 because in Chapter 9, that's what it is dealing with. The argument is that if God chooses everything and everybody to be the way they are, then how can I be violating His will or His word? "I'm only being what He chose me to be!"
So, Paul's going to say "Is there unrighteousness with God? You mean He chose you to be an unrighteous person? That's His will for your life?" No, He didn't!
And there are some certain principles in the text that's going to teach us exactly God's approach to the whole thing. How did He choose Jacob over Esau before they were even born? "Jacob I have loved, and Esau I have hated."
What a terrible thing, unless we understand the wording and what it's applied to. Before they were born and before they did good or evil, God chose one of them through which would be the promised line of Messiah. That's not choosing Heaven or Hell, or righteousness or unrighteousness. Even Ishmael, when God said to Abraham that if Sarah wants to get out of here with her son, let them go. I'll take care of them.
It was the same with Cain and Abel. They both bring their sacrifice. Abel's was received. Cain's was rejected. Just to show you his heart, because it was rejected, he killed his brother. That just goes to show you why it wasn't received!
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