Predestination

Simply Put

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Why did the Lord choose us to be His people? Is it because of something we did, something He did, or maybe a little bit of both? Today, Barry Cooper shows that the Bible’s answer to this question is abundantly clear.

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0:00.0	It began one day in late 1991 when a student worker called Tony invited me to meet him for
0:07.4	coffee one afternoon in his study at St. Ebb's Church in Oxford. To be honest, I didn't really see the point. Even after we've met I still
0:15.3	wasn't sure I saw the point. Pretty much all we did was look at a short Bible passage together
0:20.5	and then he'd throw out some questions to make sure I understood what I was reading and then he'd throw out some questions to make sure I understood what I was reading
0:24.1	and then he asked me how he could be praying for me and that was it. Then we doggedly
0:28.3	repeat the process a week or so later. Poor man I thought to myself. He's obviously lonely. By the time we reached
0:34.8	Easter 1992 I realized when I sat down in Tony's overstuffed armchair that I wasn't
0:41.5	doing it for his benefit. I'd been introduced to Jesus Christ.
0:47.0	Now there's much more I could say but the question I want to focus on is this.
0:52.0	Why did all this happen? Why did God choose to write my name in
0:58.0	his Book of Life? Was it because of something I did or because of something he did or perhaps a bit of both. The answer to this is tied up in the
1:09.9	biblical idea of predestination, the fact that God determines everything in advance, including who
1:18.3	will be saved.
1:20.3	Historically, it's been a very big deal, and Martin Luther even called it the heart of the church.
1:27.0	You see the concept of predestination across both old and the New Testaments.
1:32.8	Listen for example to Ephesians chapter one.
1:36.6	In love, God predestined us for adoption.
1:40.7	In him we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined according to the purpose of him
1:46.9	who works all things according to the Council of his will so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory.
1:57.2	In other words, God predetermines or predestines those he will adopt into his family to know and enjoy him forever.
2:10.0	That much at least Christians can agree on. The only question is, how does God make the decision
2:17.1	to predest in someone to adoption and salvation? What's that decision based on?
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