WHAT IS THE DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION? IT IS BASCIALLY THIS, THAT GOD HAS DESTINED, PREDETERMINED, FOREORDAIN, ALL THE EVENTS OF THE WORLD, IN SUCH A WAY THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD, TO THOSE THAT LOVE GOD. WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, ARE WALKING A PATH THAT LEADS TO A HEAVENLY, CITY NEW JERUSALEM. AS THE EARTH ROTATES AROUND THE SUN, THE EARTH IS IN A CERTAIN PLACE AT A CERTIAN TIME. WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, ARE AT A CERTAIN PLACE AT A CERTAIN TIME. WE ARE FOREORDAINED TO EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE, AND TO DRINK OF THE CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER OF LIFE, TO WALK UPON THE STREET OF GOLD. WE ARE ON A PATH THAT WILL LEAD US TO A CITY, WERE THERE ARE NO GRAVEYARDS FOR THERE IS NO DEATH THERE, THERE IS NO HOSPITALS, FOR THERE IS NO SICK THERE. A CITY WERE THERE IS NO PRISONS, FOR THERE IS NO WICKED PEOPLE THERE. A CITY OF LOVE, JOY, AND PEACE. IF YOU ARE A NEW CONVERT TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHEN GOD PREDESTINED US, HIS CHILDREN. GOD CHOOSE, ELECTED, AND PREDESTINED ALL OF US BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.

Eph:1:1: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: (KJV)

Eph:1:2: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (KJV)

Eph:1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (KJV)

Eph:1:4: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (KJV)

Eph:1:5: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (KJV)

Eph:1:6: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. (KJV)

Eph:1:7: In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (KJV)

CHILDREN OF LIGHT, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, GOD KNEW HIS CHILDREN, AND ELECTED, SELECTED, HAND PICKED US TO BE HIS VERY OWN, AND PREDESTINATED US TO BE ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY. BEFORE WE WERE BORN, BEFORE WE HAD DONE ANY GOOD ARE EVIL GOD LOVED US. GRACE IS AN UNMERITED FAVOR.FOR BY GRACE ARE WE SAVED. GOD LOVED US AND PREDESTINED US TO BE ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY. WE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, DID NOTHING TO DESERVE THIS FAVOR. WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE. ALL WHOM GOD FOREKNEW HE DID PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON. ALL WHOM GOD FOREKNEW HE DID PREDESTINATE, AND WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE HE CALLS TO REPENTANCE. AND IT IS REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE. AND WHOM HE CALLS THEM HE JUSTIFIES, VENDICATES, ACQUITES, OF PUNISHMENT.

Rom:8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (KJV)

Rom:8:29: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. KJV)

Rom:8:30: Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (KJV)

Rom:8:31: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (KJV)

Rom:8:32: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (KJV)

Rom:8:33: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. (KJV)

LISTEN AS JESUS CHRIST, THE WORD OF LORD, SPEAKS TO JEREMIAH ABOUT HIS ELECTION, AND ABOUT HIS ORDAINATION TO BE A PROPHET TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL. GOD, BY JESUS CHRIST CREATED ALL THINGS.

Jer:1:4: Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jer:1:5: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Jer:1:6: Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

Jer:1:7: But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

Jer:1:8: Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

Jer:1:9: Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Jer:1:10: See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

LISTEN CAREFULLY, SAINTS OF GOD, ALL WHOM GOD FOREKNEW, HE DID PREDESTINATE, AND WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE, THEM HE CALLED, AND WHOM HE CALLED THEM HE ALSO JUSTIFIED, AND WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, THEM HE ALSO GLORIFIED. IT IS GOD THAT CALLS US TO REPENTANCE, AND IT IS REPENTANCE TO LIFE. GOD PLANNED IN LOVE FOR THE ELECT, SO THAT ALL THE EVENTS OF THE WORLD, WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR GOOD. THERE ARE IN THIS PRESENT WORLD BOTH THE CHILDREN OF GOD, AND THE CHILDREN OF SATAN. IN THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES GOD CALLS THE "ELECT" THE CHILDREN OF GOD, THE WHEAT. AND THE CHILDREN OF SATAN HE CALLS THE "TARES." GOD LOVES HIS ELECT, BUT HE HATES THE CHILDREN OF SATAN. HATED THEM BEFORE THEY WERE EVER BORN.

Rom:9:10: And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

Rom:9:11: (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Rom:9:12: It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

Rom:9:13: As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Rom:9:14: What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Rom:9:15: For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Rom:9:16: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

WHY WERE THE CHILDREN OF SATAN CREATED? THEY WERE CREATED TO BE TAKEN AND DESTROYED.YOU WILL KNOW THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE PRESUMPTUOUS, THEY OVER STEP THE BOUNDS OF PROPIETY, THEY ARE SELF WILLED, OBSTINATE, NOT CONCERNED OF OTHERS. PERVERSELY ADHERING TO AN OPINION, PURPOSE, COURSE, IN SPITE OF REASON, ARGUMENT, OR PERSUASION.

2Pt:2:9: The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

2Pt:2:10: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

2Pt:2:11: Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

2Pt:2:12: But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

HOLY CHILDREN, GOD DID SOMETHING WONDERFUL FOR THE ELECT, HE CREATED US IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING. WHEN WE HEAR THE GOSPEL PREACHED, WE BELIEVE THE GOSPEL, AND FAITH COMES TO DWELL WITHIN US. BY GRACE ARE WE SAVED THOUGH FAITH, AND NOT OF OURSELFS, IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD.

Rom:10:13: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Rom:10:14: How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

Rom:10:15: And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

Rom:10:16: But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

Rom:10:17: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

LISTEN CAREFULLY, BELOVED OF GOD, NOT ALL MEN HAVE FAITH. ONLY THE ELECT OF GOD HAVE FAITH. ONLY THOSE PREDESTINATED TO WALK THE STREET OF GOLD, PREDESTINATED TO EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE HAVE FAITH. ONLY THOSE ORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE SHALL BELIEVE. ONLY THE ELECT OF GOD HAVE THE POWER TO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING.

Acts:13:44: And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

Acts:13:45: But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Acts:13:46: Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

Acts:13:47: For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Acts:13:48: And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

YEARS AGO, WHEN I FIRST STARTED PREACHING, MOST MEN WERE PREACHING THE DOCTRINE OF FREE WILL. THEY BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE FREE MORAL AGENTS, AND THEY COULD DO AS THEY PLEASED. AND, THEY STATED PLAINLY THAT THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION. THIS REALLY BOTHERED ME, FOR THE SCRIPTURES STATED PLAINLY THAT, ALL WHOM GOD FOREKNEW HE DID PREDESTINATE. LISTEN AS I READ THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE AGAIN.

Rom:8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Rom:8:29: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

IT WAS ABOUT THIS TIME THAT, THE LORD REVEALED TO ME THAT NOT ALL MEN WERE PREDESTINATED. THEREFORE, IF A MAN DOES NOT BELIEVE IN PREDESTINATION, THEN IT VERY WELL MAY BE THAT HE IS NOT PREDESTINATED. I WOULD LIKE TO STATE AT THIS TIME THAT I BELIEVE THAT I AM PREDESTINATED. BUT THERE IS ONE THING FOR CERTAIN; MAN IN HIS UNREGENERATED STATE IS NOT, MORAL, NEITHER IS HE FREE. THE CARNAL MIND, FLESHLY MIND OF SENSE, AND REASON, WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST, IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF GOD; NEITHER INDEED CAN BE.

Rom:8:3: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Rom:8:4: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom:8:5: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Rom:8:6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Rom:8:7: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Rom:8:8: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, THE UNREGENERATED MAN IS NOT MORAL, NEITHER IS HE FREE BECAUSE GOD HAS BANDS, AND CORDS ON HIM.

Ps:2:1: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Ps:2:2: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

Ps:2:3: Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

Ps:2:4: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Ps:2:5: Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure

BELOVED, IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME GOD SHALL GATHER TOGETHER IN CHRIST ALL THINGS THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, THAT ARE ON EARTH. IT IS IN CHRIST JESUS THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE OUR INHERITANCE.

Eph:1:10: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Eph:1:11: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Eph:1:12: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

SAINTS OF GOD, IF YOU ARE A NEW CONVERT TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, YOU MAY NOT KNOW WERE ETERNAL LIFE IS. ETERNAL LIFE IS IN CHRIST JESUS. WHEN A PERSON IS BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST JESUS, INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND RECEIVES THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL COMES TO LIFE. THIS OUTWARD MAN OF FLESH, AND BLOOD SHALL PERISH IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE FOREVER. BECAUSE THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. WHEN A PERSON RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST IT IS THE EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE.

1Jn:5:11: And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (KJV)

2Cor:4:16: For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. (KJV)

CHRISTIAN BRETHREN, THERE IS A WAY THAT YOU CAN MAKE YOUR CALL AND ELECTION SURE AND THAT IS IF YOU WILL TAKE FAITH, AND ADD TO FAITH VERTURE.

2Pt:1:5: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2Pt:1:6: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

2Pt:1:7: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

2Pt:1:8: For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Pt:1:9: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.