He chose you that you would gain the very glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He chose you that you would bear His image in heaven.

He chose you in the past.

He called you a powerful, effectual call that awakened you from the dead and granted you clear

understanding of the gospel and the gift of saving faith.

Welcome to Grace to You, featuring the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's been said, not all things are good for us to know,

so God has not revealed everything to us, and there are some things that are good for us to know even when we can't explain them fully. Well, that's certainly true of the doctrine of election,

a teaching that may be the most difficult part of salvation to accept.

How could a loving God choose some people for heaven and allow others to perish in hell?

Well, stay here on, Grace to you, as John MacArthur continues his series called the Doctrines of Grace.

Today, you're going to see what scripture says about

sovereign election, truth that you can embrace, even if you can't fully understand it. Now here's

John with the lesson. Some people think that this doctrine of election is somehow alien to God and

somehow alien to his purposes in the world.

But that certainly is not true after all.

Clearly out of all the people in the world God chose Israel.

Out of all the people in the world God chose Abraham and removed him from Err the

Caldes and made him the father of a great nation.

That's why Israel is called Psalm 105, verse 43, His chosen ones.

Psalm 135 says, for the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself.

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