Okay, I want to dive into a particular passage of scripture that's often used as a proof text for Calvinism,

Second Thessalonians 2.13 and following.

Many of you who listen to the podcast regularly know that I've covered all of these verses at one time or another,

but one of the critiques is that sometimes those passages are covered in the middle of a long, you know, podcast, and so may not be as accessible or searchable and able to find.

And so I wanted to produce some of these videocast as well to cover the text where you can read them on the screen for those that are watching by YouTube.

And also those who are downloading the podcast can get a podcast that's specifically addressing a particular proof text of Calvinism.

And so today's proof text that we're going to look at is 2.13, which says this.

It says, but we must always thank God for you, brothers, love by the Lord, because from the beginning,

God has chosen you for salvation

through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth. Now let's just stop right there

and understand historically what the context is. Again, we always want to talk about historical

context first. It's a part, the first step of hermeneutics is to understand who's Paul's

audience. What is he addressing addressing we know Paul is an

apostle to the Gentiles and most of the churches that he has started are predominantly

Gentile churches and that we know from other writings that he often uses the pronouns we

and us in reference to we the apostles or we the Jewish apostles bring to you the Gentile believers, our gospel.

This is our, you received our gospel.

And the mystery that's just being made known for the very first time, as we read in Ephesians

Chapter 3, matter of fact, let's look at that.

I know we've looked at another broadcast, but in context of this passage,

I want you to see the context that Paul is addressing these different churches, like the church

in Ephesus, the church in Thessalonica. What is he addressing as a predominantly Gentile

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