Sovereign Election – God doesn't foresee an action on our part(condition) to save us. Salvation and election are completely and solely a gift from God alone by Grace alone through the gift of Faith alone!
Both come from God!
The conditions and means remain the same as in Romans 10, the preacher must be sent by the spirit, equipped with the Gospel and the Word, the sinner must repent and call upon the Lord, all of which are directed by the Spirit! John 15:16, 17:2, and Galatians 1:15 all speak of how God choses us and not that we choose Him! “As many as were appointed to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48). In Ephesians 1, Paul says, “[God] chose us in [Christ] before the foundation of the world. . . . In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will” (Ephesians 1:4,11). It is the “counsel of God’s will” that is eternally decisive in this affair. What will you say to God at the judgment if he asks, “Why did you believe on my Son while others didn’t?” You will not say, “Because I was smarter.” No. Surely you will say, “Because of your grace. Had you not chosen me, I would have been left spiritually dead, unresponsive, guilty.”
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