Connecting With Jesus

Predestination

Has God predestined certain people to be saved and others to be lost?

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

Some people interpret Matthew 22:14, which says that many are called, but few are chosen,” to mean that God has chosen some individuals to be saved and some not to be saved. They assert that in Romans 9:13 says that God loved Jacob and hated Esau, it means he didn’t want Esau to be saved. Therefore, Esau was “predestined” to be lost.

I respectfully disagree. When the Lord says, “Many are called, but few are chosen,” that could be translated as “but few respond. “The apostle John defines how many people God wants to save “For God so loved the world…”(John 3:16, my emphasis). He further states that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”We all have been given the freedom to believe and choose whether or not to be saved God does not force us.

Try to picture a traffic helicopter hovering over a section of a mountain highway in which there are lanes going opposite directions through a tunnel. The person in the helicopter is looking down and we see that a little red Volkswagen is getting ready to pass an 18-wheeler inside the tunnel. But coming the other side of the mountain is another 18-wheeler in the oncoming lane.It hasn’t happened yet, that pilot can safely report that there’s going to be an accident in the tunnel. The helicopter pilot is not making it happen, but he sees that it’s going to happen. To say that the pilot predestined the crash is ad, of course.

God knows all things. He does not want there to be a crash in the tunnel, but He sees it coming. A Nipon needs to understand that the Lord longs for everyone to be saved and wants all people to come to repentance. God is love and doesn’t any person to perish.

Dear Jesus, thank you for giving your life for me. Today I choose you to be my Savior.

For Further Study: 1 Timothy 2:3, 4:1 John 4:8 Revelation 22:17 .

1 Timothy 2:3-4 KJV
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; [4] Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:1 KJV
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

John 4:8 KJV
(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

Revelation 22:17 KJV
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.