Notes on Election (from a Bible Study by MJT)

Election is a corporate thing. (predestined, called, election)
-
Matthew 24:31/24
Mark 13:20/22/27
Luke 18:7
Romans 8:28-33
Romans 9:7
Ephesians 1:5/11/34
Colossians 3:12
1 Timothy 5:21
2 Timothy 2:10
Titus 1:1
1 Peter 1:2
2 Peter 1:10
-
- Eph. 1:34 “chose us in him.” How?
-
-Romans 9-11 tells us why God’s promises to Israel haven’t happened.
-
You have to ask yourself when it comes to the Bible…
What does it say?
What doesn’t it say?
-
-What is God’s purpose today?
To call out a body of believers to be raptured into heaven.
-
-foreknowledge: Does not mean God determined who would go to heaven. It simply means He knew who would.
-
“Christ may have died for your sins but I’m not sure because I don’t know if you’re elect or not…”
-
-We can know who are the elect.
-
-God’s Elect = believers
-
-Those who respond to what is required to be his people are elect.
-
-God has always had an elect group/agency.
-
-Churches try to go “individual” and make “election” not a corporate thing.
-

Old Testament Elect = The Little Flock
Now = Those who are in Christ

-In both different time periods mentioned above to be elect is/was a choice of own free will.
- - God has never forced an unbeliever to believe.
- A Diagram:
The Olive Tree
-it represents the place of access to God.
-it’s branches = those who are called.
-Romans 11:16