If it pleases the Lord to choose me, it's His good pleasure in that choice.

And if it pleases the Lord not to choose me, not to give me His grace,

and to let me perish in my sin, then that pleasure of His will would be equally good."

Well, that's not the way some people view salvation. They wonder how that part of God's character

lines up with His love. Hello and welcome to renewing your mind on Lee Webb.

More than 30 years ago, you could count me among those who raised an eyebrow at the doctrine

of predestination. I've used it as unfair, but over time I began to see that God is anything

but unfair, and I discovered that election is something that permeates all of Scripture.

It was the historic Westminster Confession of Faith and the faithful teaching of men like

R.C. Sproul that helped me understand and embrace this glorious truth. And it's my prayer

that His message today will bring that kind of understanding for you.

We continue now with our study of the Westminster Confession. We're still studying in chapter

three on the eternal decrees of God. And in our last session, we began to examine perhaps

the most difficult dimension of those eternal decrees. And that is the whole question of

predestination. We looked at the historic understanding of double predestination and

showed that God does not work in the same way to bring the elect to Himself and in similar

fashion, working in unbelief in the hearts of the reprobate. He doesn't do that. And we

tried to get into that question a little bit. Now the confession continues. It's focused

now on this issue of predestination. And there are several aspects that are brought up

in the confession that I'd like to examine at least briefly with you. Now in section

four, we read these angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained are particularly and

unchangeably designed. And their number so certain and definite that it cannot be either

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