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1 | Faith in Self or Faith in God? | Rom 9:16 | ra_Jesus_is_Savior | 173496 | ||
"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will" - Ephisians 1:5 In Ephesians 1:5 "Predestinated" means marked out beforehand. This is another way of saying salvation is God's work and not our own doing. God has adopted us into his family and made us heirs along with Jesus (Romans 8:17). In Roman law, adopted children had the same rights and privilages as natural children. Paul uses this term to show how strong our relationship to God is. |
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2 | Faith in Self or Faith in God? | Rom 9:16 | DocTrinsograce | 173497 | ||
"Them he also did predestinate." (Romans 8:29) "Do not be afraid of predestination. And do not be ashamedof it. We are predestinarians, because we believe the Bible; and predestination is a Bible doctrine, full of comfort and joy for God's saints. Predestination is God's infallible purpose of grace regarding His elect whom He foreknew. It simply means that our eternal destiny was settled by God, and infallibly secured by Him before the world began. In sovereign predestination, God eternally and immutably determined WHO He would save, HOW He would save them, WHEN He would save them, and WHERE He would save them. Then He sovereignly arranged everything necessary, both to accomplish their salvation and to bring them to glory at last, perfectly conformed to the image of His dear Son. "Predestination marked the house into which grace would come, paved the road by which grace would travel to that house, set the time when grace would enter, and guaranteed that grace actually would come and enter in at the appointed time! Nothing was left to chance, blind fate, luck, or man's imaginary free will! Predestination is no more and no less than God Almighty having arranged from eternity everything necessary to bring His elect children into heaven in the perfection of everlasting life." --Rev. Don Fortner |
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