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Calvinism - 2

Unconditional Election. Calvinism - 2. http://www.gospeloutreach.net/tulip.html. In their own words: Unconditional Election.

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Calvinism - 2

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  1. Unconditional Election Calvinism - 2

  2. http://www.gospeloutreach.net/tulip.html

  3. In their own words: Unconditional Election Because of humanity's total depravity, God of necessity, in eternity past, chose certain people to be saved. There was nothing inherently better or different about the chosen people which caused God to choose them. God was totally free in His decision to show grace and mercy to some sinners who deserved nothing but His wrath. This is, in essence, the doctrine of Unconditional Election. http://www.gospeloutreach.net/unconditional_election.html

  4. In their own words: Unconditional Election U stands for unconditional election. An emphasis on election bothers many people, but the problem they feel is not actually with election; it is with depravity. If sinners are as helpless in their depravity as the Bible says they are, unable to know and unwilling to seek God, then the only way they could possibly be saved is for God to take the initiative to change and save them. This is what election means. It is God choosing to save those who, apart from His sovereign choice and subsequent action, certainly would perish. http://www.reformedreader.org/t.u.l.i.p.html

  5. Calvinist Doctrine – 2 Peter 3:16 “Ephesians 1:3-14 is perhaps the best place in that describes the nature of election.” (sic) http://www.gospeloutreach.net/unconditional_election.html

  6. Ephesians 1 – Chosen IN HIM • V. 3 – all spiritual blessings IN CHRIST • V. 4 – chosen IN HIM • V. 5 – adoption as sons by Christ (Gal. 3:26-27) • V. 5 – the good pleasure of His will (Ez. 18:20,32)

  7. Ephesians 1 – Chosen IN HIM • V. 6 – accepted in the Beloved. • V. 7 – redemption and forgiveness in Him • V. 10 – gathered together in Christ • V. 11 – inheritance in Christ

  8. Ephesians 1 – Chosen IN HIM • Chosen before the foundation of the world • Predestined to adoption Ephesians 2:11-13 v. 12 …having no hope and without God in the world. • Before they were in Christ – NO HOPE!

  9. Ephesians 1 – Chosen IN HIM • How did they get IN HIM? • Heard the gospel, believed and trusted in Christ. 1:12-13 • Repented of their sins. 2:1-3 • Were baptized INTO Christ. Acts 19:1-5 • Galatians 3:26-27 • Acts 2:38, 41, 47 • Cf. Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:23

  10. Calvinist Doctrine – 2 Peter 3:16 Romans 9:10-26

  11. Romans 9 – Answering Jewish Objections • Remember the purpose of Paul’s argumentation in Romans 9-11. • Inspired response to those who would limit God’s mercy to fleshly Israel. • God by His sovereign grace chose Jacob to facilitate salvation to all by faith in Christ.

  12. Romans 9 – Answering Jewish Objections • The choosing of ethnic Israel was to fulfill His purpose. 9:4-5, 11:28 • Paul explains that God has the sovereign right to extend His mercy to the Gentiles. • God’s promise was not undermined by the predominate will of unbelieving Jews.

  13. 1st Objection – 9:6-13 • If the gospel is true, God has been unfaithful to His promises to us (Jews). • 9:6 But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, • V. 7-13 The choice of God in accordance with His divine purpose to bless all nations through the seed of Abraham would stand through the lineage of Isaac, not Ishmael, and Jacob, not Esau.

  14. 1st Objection – 9:6-13 • The reason God chose Israel as a nation was to fulfill His Messianic promise. • The belief or unbelief of Israel would not alter the purpose of God to offer mercy to all nations through Christ. Romans 3:3 • God’s choice to use ethnic Israel to fulfill His purpose was not dependent on their goodness, evil or works. 9:11, Deuteronomy 9:4-6

  15. 1st Objection – 9:6-13 • V. 12 - Genesis 25:23 • Speaks of NATIONS • Esau never served Jacob, but Edom served Israel. • V. 13 – Malachi 1:2-3 • Jacob and Esau were long departed when this was written. • Speaks of Edom and Israel (v. 4-5) Ishmael and Esau were not condemned to Hell. They are simply excluded from having a part in the working out of God’s redemptive plan.

  16. 2nd Objection – 9:14-18 • If the gospel is true, God is unrighteous in His dealings with us (Jews). • 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! • God is just in extending mercy to all men through the gospel. 9:15-18

  17. 2nd Objection – 9:14-18 • Jews were insulted by the truth that believing Gentiles would be included in spiritual Israel, whereas unbelieving Jews would be excluded. • V. 15 expresses God’s willingness and right to extend mercy to all men that they may seek Him by faith.

  18. 2nd Objection – 9:14-18 • V. 16 Israel could will and run that God not offer mercy to the Gentiles, but God cannot be thwarted. • V. 17-18 Pharaoh is given as an example of the futility in resisting God’s purpose in extending mercy.

  19. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • If the gospel is true, God is not fair in His dealings with us (Jews). • 9:19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” • God has the sovereign right to decree the conditions of justification. 9:19-33

  20. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • God established us (Israel) as His people through Abraham and the Law. • God is unfair if He rejects law-keeping, circumcised Jews who refuse to believe in Christ. • How could God reject us is through our rejection of the gospel, His purpose of extending mercy to all men is accomplished. 11:30-31

  21. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 The Potter/Clay analogy: Isaiah 29:13-16 • You can’t reply against God, you must submit to Him. • Jeremiah 18:1-12 • All about CONDITIONS

  22. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • God has sovereignly chosen what He will do regarding the clay (sinner), in that He has chosen to respond to the clay according to its repentance or lack thereof. • By quoting the potter/clay metaphor, Paul essentially tells the Jews that God will deal man based on his repentance – as He has always said He would deal with them.

  23. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • The image is that of the vessel of dishonor blaming its position on the potter, rather than humbly submitting to God. • The potter determines the criteria of acceptance, i.e. whether a vessel is a vessel for honor or dishonor

  24. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • V. 22-24 • Paul exonerates God’s treatment of unfaithful ethnic Israel – the fact that God was and is longsuffering with such persons does not sugges that He is either indifferent toward their sins or has accepted them. • It is an overt expression of God’s love and mercy and an indication that the greater glory redounds to God by the salvation of sinners rather than by their destruction.

  25. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • The nature of categories/classes (i.e. vessels of wrath, vessels of mercy) is unchanging. • Inclusion of an individual in either category is based on that individual’s own response to the offer of grace. Romans 10:1-3, 11:22, 2 Timothy 2:20-21, Romans 11:19-23

  26. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • V. 25-29 OT Scriptures show they should have expected this. • Hosea 2:23, 1:10 – Inclusion of the Gentiles • Isaiah 10:22-23, 28:22 – Only a remnant of Israel would be saved. • Isaiah 1:9, 13:19 – Jews had no reason to count on ethnicity and adherence to the Law as the means of justification before God.

  27. 3rd Objection – 9:19-33 • V. 30-33 30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith; 31 but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.32Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone. 33 As it is written: “ Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,Andwhoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

  28. Conclusion: • God chose a class of people – Those IN CHRIST – not individuals for salvation. (Ephesians 1) • Whether we are part of the elect or not depends on our response to the Gospel, not a sovereign declaration of God independent of our actions. (Romans 2:6, 2 Corinthians 5:10) • Calvinist doctrine makes God a monster, creating people for destruction and affording them no way to escape.

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