Election is a touchy subject in many churches and denominations, but it is something Brooke and I strongly believe. I was going to attempt to write a post about it, but honestly, Shai Linne nailed it in his song, Election:
Peep it son, no need to run from the truth.
We need to come to understand Ephesians 1:
We see in love the Father predestined,
We seem to have a problem with the doctrine of election.
We keep stressing and leave guessing leading to depression,
Because it’s God’s love we question.
Well sit back and take a deep breath in
And exhale, let’s set sail, the word of God is refreshing.
Let’s be real with it, the Bible obviously talks
About predestination, so we gotta deal with it.
I’ll be a fake attorney by His grace and mercy
And present my case so let’s take a journey for the sake of learning.
First turn to Romans 8:28-30:
Zooming in on verse 29, read the first line
“Those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son”- Exhibit number 1
People try to use an argument lacking common sense
Concerning the foreknowledge of God thinking the logic fits.
Dudes, are saying He looked out into the future ages
With illumination seeing all that would choose salvation
And those men were chosen by God because they chose Him?
But that’s not what the passage has spoken.
It says those He foreknew, He predestined.
If He foreknew everybody, is everybody predestined?
Is everyone His object of affection?
If so, then what’s the point of the doctrine of election?
It’s spiritual but let me make it plain so you see the miracle
And praise His Name instead of taking His grace in vain.
It isn’t complicated, we all evaded the God that made us
And traded in His truth for a lie,
Worshiping what God created more than God who is glorified
Corroborated our death, our lives are an abomination.
But if the Father’s aim is to bestow mercy,
Then it’s not to say that He was obligated, but that God is gracious.
As God’s enemies we deserve to be crushed.
We’re dirty enough to be eternally cursed and turned into dust,
And if He did it, He would be perfectly just to murder me but
He decided to show mercy to us.
I didn’t choose God, God chose me,
Gave me a new heart and it wasn’t because I was holy.
But if I chose G-O-D then God owes me, the only reason
I first walked thru them church doors is
Psalm 65 verse 4, why do I know God?
Matthew 11:27 says it best and
Those that have been predestined keep pressing
It’s a deep message, I only see blessing in election.
I see the blessing, it’s not even a question,
How God in His perfection wrote the doctrine of election.
God in His perfection wrote the doctrine of election
'Cause He’s sovereign, there’s no question, and that got some people stressing.
But no option but election can account for our protection,
Godly direction or perfected bodily resurrection!
Don’t let the thinking of modern men fool you
God does what He wants- that’s what it means to be Sovereign Ruler.
It’s deep but not complicated- with complete confidence I’ll state it:
Peep it- it’s how God has always operated.
He’s the greatest, His amazing plan made His hand
Save the man Abraham from a pagan land.
Who can argue with the people that God chooses?
Israel and not Egypt, Peter and not Judas
Humanly speaking, it should have been Saul and not David,
The inheritance should have been Esau’s and not Jacob’s.
The truth it speaks brightly so you can see rightly
A huge, mighty God who chooses the least likely
Still some contest it as a phony doctrine.
But if we’re really dead in sin, predestination is the only option
With reservations they fume inside.
There’s hesitation because it’s devastating to human pride.
This truth is the sober kind that you’re prone to find
In passages like Romans 9- it’s so divine it’ll blow your mind.
We are the clay and we’ve been formed by the Potter,
None can come to the Son unless they’re drawn by the Father.
“But God draws everybody,” That’s what some people say.
It can’t be that way because all who are drawn are raised on the last day.
Because of original sin and all of our despicable deadness within,
Election must be unconditional then.
Some people say that we were drowning in the ocean
Barely floating until God threw us the rope then
Our free will helped us as we groped
Our faith is the hand that grabbed the rope and God put us back in the boat.
Nope! Without apology I deny that analogy
Reality- we were dead at the bottom of the sea
I was a swollen corpse with hope no more
Until Jehovah the LORD dove from the shore to the ocean floor
Yeah, I was a corpse and I smelled like it
I’ll keep it simple, why did God choose me? Because He felt like it!
He brought me out, not an act of my volition,
Breathed life into my lungs and didn’t ask for my permission.
Throughout the Bible there’s major examples of this
Pages of passages like the raising of Lazarus
Rather than debating the Master’s gift,
We should be happily praising His magnanimous saving of savages
It’s time we see God’s sovereignty and His primacy,
His holy dynasty running things by divine decree.
Why does He choose some and not others to see Jesus?
Our God is in the heavens- He does whatever He pleases!
(Shai Linne, Election lyrics)
"Blessed is the one you choose and bring near..." Psalm 65:4
"Blessed is the one you choose and bring near..." Psalm 65:4
"Because Your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise You." Psalm 63:3
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