Predestination.

Ephesians 1:3-5 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,”

I know this passage of scripture has been written about and spoken of probably more than any other in the scriptures by Sovereign Grace Baptist. However, there is one single word we want to look at, I inserted the entire context to make sure, and as proof of what my idea is here. I want to look at this word “predestinated” because it is a wonderful power act of Jehovah God. There is so much preaching in our modern day about what God cannot do, that it on surface appears to many think that God has some inabilities or weakness. In this same modern day preaching we find preachers preaching that God is liken unto a man, but not just a man, but a man begging and pleading for us to obey him, or to serve Him, and this is profoundly arrogance on man’s part. There is so much of this today that it has reached the point of sickness in the mind of ever churches of error. If you understand the basics about God you would know that He is Sovereign, elective, self-power, self-knowledge, self-holiness, self-accomplishing, and a self-supplier of everything. There was a time when only God existed, there was nothing else in existence. Now we hear all the unprovable stories of man that everything (including human life) just dropped to the earth and evolved into the great human beings that we are today, however there is no proof of this. The whole theory is flawed from start to finish, so much so that NONE of it is (1.) provable and (2.) logical of a right thinking mind. God gives detail of creation and explains in detail how everything got here. However, man would rather believe an unprovable lie than the God of creation. It is the same theory of Arminianism in Christianity, they serve unprovable theories in order to de-value God and uplift man. This attempt to lift up man is to make man a valuable creature. These same Theorist wants people to understand that God is irrelevant and not needed in our accomplishments. Christ is not needed in prayer, or anything else, because man has it all figured out. Well, here is the truth of the scriptures. God is in complete control of everything. God before the creation of the world predetermined everything. Everything that happens, happens because God has brought it forth. God has time planned out and everything works according to His predestinated plan. Every world leader is put into office and taken out of office according to His will. Every war and death happens according to His will. He chooses who lives and who dies according as He predetermined it to be. God is not a man nor does He think, act, or move as a man. God does not need man’s help, He does everything alone and by himself and if He chooses to use a person to accomplish any of His Will, He still sees it through. He uses the selfish, sinfulness of man to accomplish His will and condemns them to eternal damnation for doing it, as he did with them that crucified Jesus Christ His Son. God is slowly taking the world to the tribulation period and there is nothing man can do to change anything because it is how God predetermined it to be. God loved Jacob and hated Esau because He chose too. God will save those He elected in eternity past and no one can change what He does. There is no unrighteousness with God because He is the creator, creation belongs to Him and He has the right to save one sinner and send the other to eternal hell without explanation. If you do not believe this then you do not believe in God.  Romans 9:13-16, 21 “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. (14) What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. (15) For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. (16) So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. (21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”