The language describes their role in the world.

They were to be bearers of good news.

They were to, so really instead of elect and non-elect, what you have in the

Bible is the elect and then those to whom the elect are set. Everybody, Mike here, welcome to the show.

Everybody, Mike here,

welcome to the show.

So glad you're tuning in flying solo today

neither my son Seth nor Kevin number two were available this morning and so I've been

saving up a question that I got asked several months ago.

I'd done an interview on Sky, Jethani's podcast, The Holy Post on the idea of predestination got a got several emails from that and

and and so what I wanted to do today was to just talk about predestination. The biggest question is,

God, hey Mike, which review on predestination? And I think that this is a fairly

significant topic.

We talked about convictions and beliefs and opinions last time.

This for sure is not a conviction level issue.

In other words, I'm not going to break fellowship with people. conviction level.

I used to come, I'm not going to break fellowship with people, with whom I disagree about how this works.

For me, this is belief level.

I used to come, I used to believe in the Calvinistic understanding of predestination. I've come to see that I think that is really tragically wrong, but I know many Jesus loving good people who hold it.

So, and I'm certainly not the smartest cat in the room.

So it is with a bit of humility, but always with some enthusiasm that I want to present you kind of five different ways or five different

thoughts about how scripture uses the predestination or what I'm going to

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