1. What happens when you become a Christian
condemnation
conversion
election
justification
regeneration
TION …
What happens when you become a Christian
adoption
sanctification
glorification

2. TION
What happens when you become a Christian
#2 election …

3. #2 election
Hmmmm
God

4. #2 election “Free-will is an illusion. You are a biochemical puppet”
Sam Harris

5. #2 election God chooses people:
Deuteronomy 7:7 The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. God set his affection on you and chose you…”

6. #2 election God chooses people: Deuteronomy 7:7
Mark 13:27 He will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

7. #2 election God chooses people: Deuteronomy 7:7 Mark 13:27
1Peter 1:1 To God’s elect, exiles scattered…

8. #2 election God chooses people: Deuteronomy 7:7 Mark 13:27 1Peter 1:1
Ephesians 1:4-5 he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will…

9. #2 election God chooses people: Deuteronomy 7:7 Mark 13:27 1Peter 1:1
Ephesians 1:4-5
1Thessalonians 1:4-5 We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction.

10. #2 election Others Creation Self God God chooses people
… because we wouldn’t choose him on our own.
Others
Creation
Self
God
Romans 5:6-10
Romans 8:7-8

11. #2 election God expects us to choose Him too:
Joshua 24:15 choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

12. #2 election God expects us to choose Him too: Joshua 24:15
Mark 8:34 Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

13. #2 election God expects us to choose Him too: Joshua 24:15 Mark 8:34
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

14. #2 election Being pursued by God:
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England C S Lewis

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18. #2 election Did we kill Jesus …or was Jesus chosen to be killed?
Acts 2:23 [Jesus] was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.