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It is taught in the scriptures that God predestinates whom He foreknows to become as He is, per Rom 8:28-29 KJV. Note: God calls them. They are given to reply to the call. Hence, their responsibility is not imputed but imparted to them by obedience, nor can He until they are proven: Jesus being the first to step through into that personal experience of Promise > Proving > Provision > resulting in throneship of the Godhead. Actually Adam was the first but he failed in the "proving" stage necessitating a "rescue". Jesus entered the 'program' sinless, as did Adam, However, Jesus won the victory over what [Adam} was "unwillinglg subjected" to, i.e., "Vanity" Rom 8:20 KJV. Point 1. God foreknew Jesus to trust as him as He did: the whole Godhead depended on the outcome of the "Proving" stage of his life. The evidence of his sucess was witnessed on the Mt Transfiguration when He crossed over into Glory: "And we behold His Glory"! (John 1:14 KJV)
2. By this example we can understand God never chooses one to failure. He chooses those who will choose Him when/if in a failed state: (cf 1Sam.13:14 KJV) to see again, the "proving" of Saul compared to the later on "proving" of David. Saul made excuses in his failings, David didn't. God foreknew that. God called David "a man after His own heart". Now we know why.
3. Gideon, the "mighty man of valor"! Gideon no doubt wondered who the angel of the Lord [The LOrd] was speaking to! Gideon then recognised his Lord! and said so per Judges 6:11-13 KJV. Quite obviously Gideon was a righteous man. As with David, Gideon was a righteous man before God ever called him.
From the scriptures, can we find God selecting an unrighteous person to perform HIS righteousness?
If God never chooses the unrighteous, what becomes of them? Can it not be said that to the righteous God gives grace and to the unrighteous His mercy, per Rom. 9:15 KJV? Those of His grace, belong to Him.
Where in any of this by God are decrees which God cannot ever reverse? The unrighteous who receive his mercy? The righteous who are sealed by His grace because of their lifestyle in righteousness? Whose left?
What determines a decree by Him? Certainly not His sovereignty absent His Justice. And can His sovereignty violate His Holiness? Can sin stand in His presence? Where is arbitrariness in Him? In this is God not always looking for righteousness in the Earth? Why? Because they function in their knowledge of Him. And He foreknows them. Chooses them, He calls them. They respond. . . And of their own freewill do they do so.
2. By this example we can understand God never chooses one to failure. He chooses those who will choose Him when/if in a failed state: (cf 1Sam.13:14 KJV) to see again, the "proving" of Saul compared to the later on "proving" of David. Saul made excuses in his failings, David didn't. God foreknew that. God called David "a man after His own heart". Now we know why.
3. Gideon, the "mighty man of valor"! Gideon no doubt wondered who the angel of the Lord [The LOrd] was speaking to! Gideon then recognised his Lord! and said so per Judges 6:11-13 KJV. Quite obviously Gideon was a righteous man. As with David, Gideon was a righteous man before God ever called him.
From the scriptures, can we find God selecting an unrighteous person to perform HIS righteousness?
If God never chooses the unrighteous, what becomes of them? Can it not be said that to the righteous God gives grace and to the unrighteous His mercy, per Rom. 9:15 KJV? Those of His grace, belong to Him.
Where in any of this by God are decrees which God cannot ever reverse? The unrighteous who receive his mercy? The righteous who are sealed by His grace because of their lifestyle in righteousness? Whose left?
What determines a decree by Him? Certainly not His sovereignty absent His Justice. And can His sovereignty violate His Holiness? Can sin stand in His presence? Where is arbitrariness in Him? In this is God not always looking for righteousness in the Earth? Why? Because they function in their knowledge of Him. And He foreknows them. Chooses them, He calls them. They respond. . . And of their own freewill do they do so.