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So it's just more in terms of we can unpack all these in context, but let's just run through strings of verses and then have some explanation in terms of God choosing to save and how gracious is

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His grace. Matthew 22 14, for many are called but few are chosen. John 6 37, all that the

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Father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me

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I will never cast out. I have said for years that if you want to see the doctrines of grace in a discourse from Jesus, read

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John 6. Read John 10 if you want the doctrines of grace enunciated or explained by Jesus.

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Now I know people are like, well, doctrines of grace were formulated later and explained later. That's not the point I'm making. The teaching and the principles and all that we're saying in the doctrines of grace are taught by the

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Lord Jesus. For example, in John chapter 6, Jesus says, I've come down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of Him who has sent me.

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He says, and this is the will of Him who has sent me, that if all that He has given to me,

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I should lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. So what do you get there from Jesus? He says, this is my mission.

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This is what the Father has given to me to do and accomplish. And that is that He has given to me a people and I will lose not one of them and I will raise them up on the last day.

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That is guaranteed salvation. He knows His own. He knows who He's coming to save.

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He knows their name, John 10. He knows His sheep by name and they hear His voice and they follow Him. He says to the unbelievers that were there,

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He says, the reason you don't believe is because you can't hear me is because you're not of my sheep. So He says, the reason you don't hear me is because you're not of my sheep.

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My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they will follow me. But in John 6, Jesus says, there's a people given to Him by the

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Father and He will raise them up on the last day. But He doesn't just say that. He says in John 6 44, He says, no man, no one can come to me.

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Okay. So that's ability. No one has the ability to come to me. So how do we ever get the idea that God somehow is, however you want to express it, like looking through time or, or knowing all of time and knowing the actions of people that, okay,

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I'll choose them on the basis of their faith in me. They are willing to be humble. They are willing to come to me. They're willing to seek me.

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And therefore I'll choose them because I know my perfect knowledge that they're willing to believe in me.

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That's not what Jesus said when He talks about the election of the Father. And He talks about these people given to Him by the

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Father. He didn't say it like that. He didn't believe that. Jesus doesn't believe that, that the Father looks through time somehow or knows all of time and knows all potentialities or however you want to work this out.

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Jesus doesn't say that the Father goes, oh, and they were able to come. And so He draws them. Jesus says the opposite.

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He says, no one is able to come to me. No one is able. That sounds like Jesus in John 8.

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It does. Right. Jesus in John 8 says, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.

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Slaves aren't free. Unless the Son sets you free, you, you should be free indeed.

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So Jesus says, no one's able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. Now, every synergist can't get away from what

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Jesus says there. And so what they'll do is they'll say, well, yeah, you know, the Father has to draw. I mean,

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I get it. Yeah. There's, we're all sinners. The Father has to draw. Follow Jesus to the end of the sentence.

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He says, no one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him and I will raise him up.

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Jesus raises up the one the Father draws. Now, unless you like universalism, you're going to have to deal with the fact that Jesus says there are a people given to him by the

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Father. He is not going to fail in saving them. He will raise them up and none of them were able to come to him unless the

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Father drew them. So again, if you think the draw, the Father is drawing everybody by his grace for salvation.

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If you think that the Father's drawing everybody for it by his grace for salvation, then that means that everybody will be saved because Jesus says that he raises up the one the

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Father draws. You see, the problem is there's no way out of this and we can just go on for days with these verses, but I see you wanted to say something.

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No, it's a hard pill, I think, to swallow initially because it's like, well, God wants everyone. You know, he desires everybody.

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But again, you have to deal with that text that you just laid out there. There is a people given to the

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Son by the Father. There's no way out. And those same people, Ephesians chapter one tells us, are chosen in him.

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That's in Christ before the foundation of the world and they're predestined for adoption to himself.

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That's God the Father as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will to the praise of his glorious grace.

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So God's grace is the manifold centerpiece in the middle of all of this. The creature is out here as a recipient of this loving kindness.

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And then at the center you have God's free gift, which is the highlight.

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It's the thing in the middle that is inducing the praise. And then connecting to that, jumping ahead a few verses in verse 11, in him,

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Jesus, we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.

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So there's the will of God, according to the divine counsel. And you and I, if you're in Christ, have been predestined unto this glory, according to the counsel of God's will.

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So all of those things together, God's grace, his glory, his counsel, his will, he's at the center.

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And we're merely at the bottom of the waterfall with this stream pouring down on our heads. That's where we are, right?

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We're the recipients, right? We're not the center character of the story here. It's God. And we're just merely receiving this.

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And then of course, the question becomes, well, on what basis do you receive and someone else rejects?

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What's the determinant cause of that, right? Well, it would have to be God's unstoppable ability to overcome our resistance against him through his saving power.

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Which he owes nobody. Yeah. No one's entitled to that. No one has a claim.

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I think that might be a good way to phrase it is, no one has a demand upon God. No one has a claim upon his grace.

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No one can say, I deserve that, or I'm owed that. And if you say that you don't deserve that, then you must conclude that God extends this according to his good pleasure, again, which is the centerpiece of all of this.