"Man's Choice, Or God's?"

Man’s Choice, Or God’s?

For those of you who are confused on the point of predestination, I wanted to do a little more explaining. Several young people have asked me if predestination meant “If you desire to be saved, you can say a salvation prayer, but you have to wait until judgment day to find out if you were predestined or not? If not, too bad, you weren’t saved all along?” Instead of looking at it from man’s point of view, let’s start with God’s before I answer the question.

Ephesians 1:4 ~ … He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world…

Predestination was God’s choice of who should be saved, decided before the foundation of the world, before He said “Let there be light.”

In fact, “before the foundation of the world” means before God even laid plans for the whole world, and according to Ephesians 1:5, 9, & 11, it was according to the good pleasure of His own will. He predestined because He wanted to.

Also, we do not choose our salvation by our own will.

John 1:12-13 ~ But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Our sinful nature did not choose God (the will of the flesh) and our conscious minds did not choose God (the will of man). God chose us (Ephesians 1:4). Thus, from God’s point of view, only those who are predestined will desire to be saved, not the other way around.

In Christ, Auty