Salvation never has been a matter of fairness.

The election is rooted in pure grace, and it seems that he is most gracious to those to whom grace

seems most undeserved.

Welcome to Grace to you with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

What's perhaps the most controversial doctrine in all of the Bible?

Well, it might be the doctrine of election, the idea that God chooses some for salvation. Many Christians love this doctrine. It humbles them, and it

stirs them to worship God for His mercy. Others reject election. They think it makes God cruel and

callous, and makes men mere automaton's.

The question is, what does the Bible say?

Consider that today on Grace to You as John MacArthur continues his study called the Doctrines of Grace.

And now with today's lesson, here is John.

Our salvation is secure to the end because our salvation was predestined

in the very beginning to be completed. And we remember that Romans 8 makes a monumental

and very clear statement to that regard.

When in Romans 8, the Apostle Paul writes, for whom he foreknew, he predestined to become conformed

to the image of his son.

That is all whom God predestined will become conformed to the image of His Son in eternal glory.

And thus, whom He predestined he called and whom He called he justified and whom He justified

these He also glorified.

And so we said that the great undergirding foundational truth that secures

our future is God's decree in eternity past. It is the fact that we are chosen for final salvation that makes our salvation secure.

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