Predestination: God's Sovereign Choice to Save

Man is totally depraved--unwilling to believe apart from God's sovereign, effectual grace.
John 6:44; 8:47
Romans 3:9-18; 8:7-8
1 Corinthians 2:14
Ephesians 2:1-3
John 3:19-20

God can bring to faith whomever He pleases; unbelief does not hold God hostage and overthrow His sovereign choice to save a person. His saving grace is always effective when He desires it to be, yet it does not force a person to come to Christ, but causes him to come willingly.
Psalm 115:3
Isaiah 55:11; 46:10
Romans 8:30
Job 42:2
John 5:21; 6:37-40, 44, 55, 64-65; 18:37
Daniel 4:35
The verses in the next session also apply here

Salvation depends ultimately on God's will, not man's. God sovereignly choses whom to save apart from any condition found in man. This is called "unconditional election."
Ephesians 1:4-11 (take special note of verses 5 and 11); 2:4; 10
Acts 13:48
John 1:13; 3:37; 8:47; 10:26; 15:16, 19; 17:2, 6, 9, 24
Romans 8:28-30; 9:1-24
Romans 9:15, 16; 11:4-8
Joel 2:32 (compare with Romans 10:13)
1 Thessalonians 1:4
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
2 Timothy 1:9
Titus 1:1
Revelation 13:8; 17:8; 20:15
1 Corinthians 1:25-31
James 2:5
Matthew 11:27-30

Repentance and faith are not produced by man. God gives (causes) them.
2 Timothy 2:24-25
John 6:63, 65
James 1:18
1 Peter 1:23
Acts 11:18; 16:14
Deuteronomy 29:5; 30:6
Jeremiah 32:39-40
Ezekiel 36:26-27
Romans 11:36

God is sovereign over unbelief.
John 12:37-41; 10:26
Romans 9:18-19; 11: 7-8, 25, 32
Matthew 13:11-17; 24:22
Mark 4:10-13
1 Peter 2:8
Proverbs 16:4
Jude 4

Further verses
1 Corinthians 1:1-2
2 Timothy 2:10
1 Peter 1:1-2, 15, 20; 2:9
Jude 1, 24

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