TULIP - Unconditional Election

Unconditional Election

Eph 1:2-14

God is holy

God is to be feared

God also has untouchable grace

Predestination and election for what? “to the praise of his glory.”

“You’re so valuable!” The true story is so much better.

No extravagant testimony is not necessary but shows more of God’s grace.

God’s grace is so profound and so restrictive to man that people don’t like to hear it (“clears the parking lots”)

It’s something that can’t be made up because it’s beyond human thought; in the sense that no human would make this up and want to live by it

It makes man so small and feeble and God so big and sovereign

“Only God? That’s offensive!”

We like to be the sovereign. Proof? Adam and Eve

They wanted to be “like God”. They wanted to heighten their value and were not satisfied with God has done with them.

God doesn’t choose us because of what we’ve done. He chooses based on His own will.

Eph 2 says that we are dead in trespasses and sins and we are children of wrath. Then it continues by saying that we were saved by GRACE through FAITH. These are gifts from God, nothing we mustered up on our own.

Very important to know the detriment of sin. If you get this wrong, it will change how your view everything.

Jn 6:44

Man cannot come to the Father by himself. He must be drawn. And when he is drawn, Jesus will raise him up on the last day. NO WAY Jesus loses anyone to their “free will”.

Rom 3:10-11

Seeker-sensitive churches. Bad strategy because no one seeks for God.

Rom 8:1-8

If you’re in Christ by faith, there is no condemnation for you.

You cannot submit to God’s law while being the flesh

1 Cor 2:14

No surprise to hear “idiot!” when we preach the Gospel

Monergism - God saves

Synergism - Man and God works together for salvation

Bible teaches Monergism

God exercises sovereignty in actively ordaining everything

God’s sovereignty

Dt 32:39

1 Sam 2:6-8

Jb 9:12

Jb 12:6-10

Ps 33:11

Ps 115:3

Sovereign over “chance”

Pr 16:33

1 Ki 22:20

Sovereign over wicked actions of men

Gn 45:5

Gn 50:20

Sovereign over election

1 Tim 5:21

Ex 6:7

Dt 7:6-8

Fair? It’s mercy and grace

Why? Love.

God chooses individuals to salvation

Ps 65:4

Mt 24:24

Jn 6:37

According to the text, which comes first: those who go to God or those whom God makes come?

God chooses people that He will allow to stay in their sins and experience condemnation. Controversial but let God’s word speak and not your thoughts and traditions

Ex 4:21

Rom 13

Rom 9:17-18

Rom 9:21-22

1 Pet 2:8

What’s God motivation in election? Because He wanted to.

if you’re not concerned with the glory of God and not concerned with making much of Him, you won’t be satisfied with that idea and you never will be.

If you’re about God, you’ll be just fine with that idea

Eph 1:5

Why? To display His glory

Is 43:6-7

Rom 9:21-24

1 Co 1:27-31

Eph 2:4-7

Why is this so important? Why are the Reformed beliefs so important? Why do we can so much about preserving the grace of God? Because of what the text says.

Jn 6:28-44

Jn 10:7-29

Question isn’t “Am I chosen?”

The question is “Do you see Jesus and know your sin and desire Him?”

Here’s the call, Jesus is the perfect savior so repent of your sins and trust in Him.

This should encourage you to worship and evangelize

100% success rate!

If people don’t respond to the Gospel, God is glorified in His justice

If people do respond to the Gospel, God is glorified in His grace