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The idea of election goes back to Abraham (Gen.
12:1–3).
·         God chose to make a nation of that patriarch’s descendants.
·         He chose Israel to be his people.
·         He worked his purposes out through that one nation and in due course sent his Messiah as a Jew.
·         After that, God continued to choose, or elect, people in accordance with his purpose (Rom.
9:11), grace (Rom.
11:5), love (1 Thess.
1:4), and foreknowledge (1 Pet.
1:2).
·         The “elect” can rely on God’s concern for them (Luke 18:7) and on their sure salvation (Rom.
8:33).
·         They are to live lives befitting their status (Col.
3:12–14).
·         Mystery is inherent in the concept of election, because we also know that God desires the salvation of all persons (1 Tim.
2:4).
Many people want to know their election before they look to Christ.
But they cannot learn it thus; it is only to be discovered by ‘looking unto Jesus.’
Look to Jesus, believe on Him, and you shall make proof of your election directly, for as surely as you believe, you are elect.
If you will give yourself wholly up to Christ and trust Him, then you are one of God’s chosen ones.
Go to Jesus just as you are.
Go straight to Christ, hide in His wounds, and you shall know your election.
Christ was at the everlasting council.
He can tell you whether you were chosen or not, but you cannot find out in any other way.
Go and put your trust in Him.
There will be no doubt about His having chosen you, when you have chosen Him. - Charles Spurgeon
 
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*The Elements of the Eternal Forming of the Body*
*/just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.
In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace.
/*/(////1:4–6a////)/
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These verses reveal the past part of God’s eternal plan in forming the church, the Body of Jesus Christ.
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His plan is shown in seven elements: the method, election; the object, the elect; the time, eternity past; the purpose, holiness; the motive, love; the result, sonship; and the goal, glory.
#. *The Method—Election*
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The Bible speaks of three kinds of election.
#. *One is God’s theocratic election of Israel*.
“/You are a holy people to the Lord your God,///” Moses told Israel in the desert of Sinai; “/the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth/” (Deut.
7:6).
i.
That election had no bearing on personal salvation.
“/They are not all Israel who are descended from Israel,///” Paul explains; “/neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants////”/ (Rom.
9:6–7).
ii.
Racial descent from Abraham as father of the Hebrew people did not mean spiritual descent from him as father of the faithful (Rom.
4:11).
#. *A second kind of election is vocational.
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                                                               i.
The Lord called out the tribe of Levi to be His priests, but Levites were not thereby guaranteed salvation.
ii.
Jesus called twelve men to be apostles but only eleven of them to salvation.
iii.
After Paul came to Christ because of God’s election to salvation, God then chose him in another way to be His special apostle to the Gentiles (Acts 9:15; Rom.
1:5).
#. *The third kind of election is salvational*, the kind of which Paul is speaking in our present text.
i.
“/No one can come to Me,////”/ Jesus said, “unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (John 6:44).
ii.
/Helkuō/ (*draws*) carries the idea of an irresistible force and was used in ancient Greek literature of a desperately hungry man being drawn to food and of demonic forces being drawn to animals when they were not able to possess men.
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Salvage yards use giant electromagnets to lift and partially sort scrap metal.
When the magnet is turned on, a tremendous magnetic force draws all the ferrous metals that are near it, but has no effect on other metals such as aluminum and brass.
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In a similar way, God’s elective will irresistibly draws to Himself those whom He has predetermined to love and forgive, while having no effect on those whom He has not.
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From all eternity, *before the foundation of the world*, and therefore completely apart from any merit or deserving that any person could have, God *chose us in Him*, /“////in Christ///” (v. 3).
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By God’s sovereign election, those who are saved were placed in eternal union with Christ before creation even took place.
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Although man’s will is not free in the sense that many people suppose, he does have a will, a will that Scripture clearly recognizes.
i.
Apart from God, man’s will is captive to sin.
But he is nevertheless able to choose God because God has made that choice possible.
ii.
Jesus said that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16) and that “/everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die/” (11:26).
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The frequent commands to the unsaved to respond to the Lord (e.g., Josh.
24:15; Isa.
55:1; Matt.
3:1–2; 4:17; 11:28–30; John 5:40; 6:37; 7:37–39; Rev.
22:17) clearly indicate the responsibility of man to exercise his own will.
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Yet the Bible is just as clear that no person receives Jesus Christ as Savior who has not been chosen by God (cf.
Rom.
8:29; 9:11; 1 Thess.
1:3–4; 1 Pet.
1:2).
i.
Jesus gives both truths in one verse in the gospel of John: “/All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out////”/ (John 6:37).
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God’s sovereign election and man’s exercise of responsibility in choosing Jesus Christ seem opposite and irreconcilable truths—and from our limited human perspective they /are/ opposite and irreconcilable.
i.
That is why so many earnest, well–meaning Christians throughout the history of the church have floundered trying to reconcile them.
ii.
Since the problem cannot be resolved by our finite minds, the result is always to compromise one truth in favor of the other or to weaken both by trying to take a position somewhere between them.
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We should let the antimony remain, believing both truths completely and leaving the harmonizing of them to God. #. /Eklegō/ (*chose*) is here in the aorist tense and the middle voice, indicating God’s totally independent choice.
i.
Because the verb is reflexive it signifies that God not only chose by Himself but for Himself.
His primary purpose in electing the church was the praise of His own glory (vv.
6, 12, 14).
ii.
Believers were chosen for the Lord’s glory before they were chosen for their own good.
iii.
The very reason for calling out believers into the church was that “/the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places///” (3:10).
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Israel was God’s elect, His “chosen one” (Isa.
45:4; cf. 65:9, 22).
i.
But she was told, “/The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
but because the Lord loved you/” (Deut.
7:7–8).
God chose the Jews simply out of His sovereign love.
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God’s heavenly angels also are elect (1 Tim.
5:21), chosen by Him to glorify His name and to be His messengers.
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Christ Himself was elect (1 Pet.
2:6, KJV),
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The apostles were elect (John 15:16).
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By the same sovereign plan and will the church is elect.
i.
God “/has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity/” (2 Tim.
1:9).
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In Acts we are told, “/And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed/” (13:48).
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