February 26, when God becomes 100% for us.

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh,

carrying out the desires of the body and the mind,

and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 2.3

All of God's wrath, all the condemnation we deserve, was poured out on Jesus.

All of God's demands for perfect righteousness were fulfilled by Christ.

The moment we see by grace this treasure and receive him in this way,

His death counts as our death, and his condemnation as our condemnation,

and His righteousness as our condemnation and his righteousness as our righteousness and God becomes

100% irrevocably for us forever in that instant. The question this leaves unanswered is,

doesn't the Bible teach that in eternity, God set his favor on us in election?

In other words, thoughtful people ask, did God only become 100% for us in the moment of faith

and union with Christ and justification, did he not become 100% for us

in the act of election before the foundation of the world? Paul says in Ephesians 1, 4 and 5,

God chose us in Jesus before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.

In love, he predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ.

Is God then not 100% for the elect from eternity?

The answer hangs on the meaning of 100%.

With the term 100%, I'm trying to preserve a biblical truth found in several passages of Scripture.

For example, in Ephesians 2.3, Paul says that Christians

were children of wrath before they were made alive in Christ Jesus. We all once lived among the

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