Predestination Process of Elimination: All are Called, Few are Chosen.

[robert derrick]

In the matter of predestination, it is plain that it must be what and not who, because all are called to the cross of Christ:

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

All men are assured everywhere that by Jesus Christ we can be forgiven of past sins by faith in His blood; therefore, all men everywhere are called to salvation by Jesus Christ.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Any and every man on earth has Jesus for an advocate with the Father, and not just a few preselected before the foundation of the world.

Since all men everywhere are called to Jesus Christ for advocacy and forgiveness of sins, then if all that are called are also predestinated to be chosen, then all men everywhere are called and chosen, not just a few.

If any man says all men are not called, but only the few that are prechosen, then the Scripture is broken, and the Lamb of God is only the advocate and propitiation for them only. John lied when He said not for ours only, and Paul lied, when He said God now commands all men to repent, and Peter lied when he said God would have all men come to repentance, and finally Jesus lied, when He said He would draw all men unto Himself:

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

Predestination to be conformed to who Christ is, is the process of elimination to test and prove who is answering that call and is drawn to Jesus among all men.

 

[robert derrick]

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. 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.

All are called, many answer that call and are known by Jesus, but only a few are being conformed to His Image as brethren of the Son, and so become the few chosen to be like Him in His glorious resurrected body at His appearing.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 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.

All are called, but only them living holy and blameless in His sight, are chosen in Him.

If all that are chosen were called and prechosen before the world, then all men are not called, and Jesus does not draw all men unto Himself and His cross.

The Scripture therefore is speaking of how the few are chosen, which was determined at the foundation of the world to be with conformity to the image of the Lamb of God.

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

Predestination to be conformed to the image of Jesus and be a praise of His glory on earth, is the process of elimination among all men, to test and prove who is answering that call to all men, and are trusting in Christ.