God's pleasure in election.

Here's election, here's some texts to show you what's meant by election.

Behold to the Lord your God belong heaven and earth, heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.

Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them.

You, above all the peoples as you are this day. so when it says the Lord set his heart set

his heart in love on your fathers that literally means the Lord loved to love your fathers.

Set your heart and chose.

It's an amazing statement.

The Lord loved to love your fathers and chose them.

So set your heart and love on your fathers is literally this hashak.

He loved to love your fathers and he chose them.

So he was acting in the overflow of his joy.

He was not constrained by anything outside himself, like, oh, there's a beautiful people, Israel.

I'll choose them because they're so attractive.

That's not at all what was going on. He acted freely.

His election was unconditional.

It's amazing how many people today love to talk about the unconditional love of God

and don't realize what they're saying.

These are people who say they love the unconditional love of God, and then you say, so you believe in unconditional election?

No, no, no, not.

They don't, the word is just, it's just used willy-nilly about how patient God is with sinners instead of thinking through, well, if it's unconditional,

then there's nothing you did to get it and nothing that would keep God from doing it to others,

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