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On this week’s TouchPointes with Pastor Jim Butler :
TouchPointes Ep. 02.02 – Doctrine of Election, “Does God choose us or do we choose God?” John 17 (+assorted NASB1995 texts)
Declaring the end from the beginning
“10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;” Isaiah 46:10 NASB1995
’18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.” Romans 9:18 NASB1995
“6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; 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.” Deuteronomy 7:6 NASB1995
“5 I am the Lord, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me;” Isaiah 45:5 NASB1995
“1 “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.” Isaiah 42:1 NASB1995
“18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:18 NASB1995
“4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, Ephesians 1:4-5 NASB1995
“65 And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”” John 6:65 NASB1995
The High Priestly Prayer
“1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. 3 This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” John 17:1-5 NASB1995
“27 All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” Matthew 11:27 NASB1995
“28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.” Romans 8:28-30 NASB1995
“19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?” Romans 9:19-21 NASB1995
