Did God Elect Joe Biden?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, uses today's presidential inauguration to illustrate an important #theological point about #election, #predestination and #Calvinistic #compatibilism (ie theistic #determinism).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to SoTriology 101. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Inauguration day. Yes, it is clickbait. I admit it up front because you may be thinking to yourself, |
| 0:21.6 | well, Layton, that is a different kind of election. We're not talking about sociological election. |
| 0:26.9 | We're not talking about biblical election. We're talking about the election of people to office. |
| 0:31.7 | Those are completely different things. That's just pure clickbait. As Patrick already pointed out, clickbait much. That's exactly what it is. And I'm trying to make a point by doing so that the word election doesn't always mean the same thing every time you read it. That's true in the Bible as well as in real life. It's just because you see the word elect or election doesn't mean somebody was unilaterally picked before |
| 0:54.9 | they were born to be effectually saved. And I think hopefully this clickmate can help you realize |
| 1:00.8 | that, that sometimes the word election just simply means God makes a choice. Sometimes he chooses |
| 1:05.3 | people for service. Like he might choose Paul to be an apostle. He might choose the apostles |
| 1:09.7 | individually over other people he could have chosen to be an apostle. He might choose the apostles individually over other people |
| 1:12.0 | he could have chosen to be apostles. |
| 1:14.3 | That doesn't mean that certain individuals |
| 1:16.1 | were effectually made to believe so as to be saved. |
| 1:18.6 | It means that God chose some of his believers |
| 1:21.1 | to be messengers. |
| 1:22.8 | That's a difference. |
| 1:23.6 | He chose the nation of Israel to be the nation |
| 1:25.8 | and the seed through which the Messiah would come. That doesn't mean that all of Israel will be saved. It doesn't mean that every single |
| 1:30.8 | Israelite, even a part of the lineage of Christ himself, will necessarily be saved because |
| 1:35.4 | it's not election to salvation. It's certainly not an individual unilateral election to |
| 1:39.5 | effectual salvation. Why? Because election doesn't always mean what many of the Calvinists think it means. |
| 1:46.8 | And so we're using inauguration day, yes, as a clickbait to approach the doctrine of election, |
| 1:52.3 | to approach the concept and idea of the worldview with regard to, is God in control, is God in |
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