Jeremiah 1:4 - 5 “Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (5) Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
People not just lost people, but some Christians hate the
term “election”, and the reason they do is because it is exclusive. People,
even a lot of Christians just cannot imagine that God could be exclusive, but
rather He must be inclusive. God has throughout the entire bible been
exclusive, God was exclusive in the flood in choosing Noah and his family to be
the only human survivors. God was exclusive in electing Israel to be His chosen
Nation, why did He only choose a small nation to be His. Then there is the
twins, Jacob and Esau, God loved Jacob and hating Esau God’s choice. If God
could have loved one, then God could have loved the other, but He chose just to
love Jacob and to hate Esau. Was it wrong for God to choose Esau to exclude from
His love, that question was asked and answer in the scriptures. Romans 9:13 -
14 “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall
we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.” For
Christians to deny the election of God, is to deny God the right to do as He
chooses with His own creation. God explained to Moses that it was His right as
the Creator to do as He pleases with His own creation. Exodus 33:19 “And he
said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the
name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.” God spoke to
the Prophet Jeremiah and told him that in eternity past He had elected Jeremiah
to be a “prophet unto the nations.”. God also told him that his life
before being formed in the womb, He knew him and ordained him a prophet and God
had already “sanctified thee” all before Jeremiah was even born, this is
called the election of God. God even told him that his prophesying would be the
work of God. Jeremiah 1:6 - 7 “Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot
speak: for I am a child. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for
thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou
shalt speak.” Even after people read all the scriptures, even the New
Testament they still deny the election of God because it is exclusive. This is
a barrier that only God can break, you cannot teach anyone anything that
refuses to learn it. Learning the bible is the work of the same one who taught
Jeremiah, God. Just as people do not have the power to change themselves, we
also do not have that power. But God is also exclusive in His teaching, He give
one person one understanding and another person another understanding. God
said, 1 Corinthians 12:4 “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the
same Spirit.” God explained further in verse 5 “And there are differences
of administrations, but the same Lord.” God by His own choosing built
us all different in this life, all elected to have and execute differently. We
are all built like the snowflakes, we are all made different to look and sound
different. But in the end, we all end up at the identical place with the
identical accomplishments as God elected just as He did with this young Prophet
named Jeremiah. God has not only elected us, sanctified us, and called us, He has
also ordained our work on this earth that He chose for each of us to do. Ephesians
2:10 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” God did not
send us all here in hope we would accomplish His work, we are Gods chosen
vessels to fulfill His elected will. Psalms 100:3 “Know ye that the LORD he
is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people,
and the sheep of his pasture.” God is exclusive, God has always been
exclusive, He chose, Noah, Moses, Abraham, Jacob, David, and countless others.
People do not choose God, God choses us. Listen closely to Jesus in John 15:16 “Ye
have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever
ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” God is
exclusive and if you never realize this, you will never understand the bible in
Truth.
