Predestination Election: Does God Treat All Equally?
The Apostle Paul speaks about things such as election and
predestination and God knowing where people are going to go even before they ae
born, he speaks specifically in Romans 9 about the children of Israel, that is
Jacob and Esau and how God loved Jacob and He hated Esau. So, does God just choose some of us to go to
hell while electing others to go to heaven?
The answer is God is ALWAYS JUST and He always judges us according to
OUR HEART. If you were just to read the
writings of the Apostle Paul, say for example Romans 9, say 10-13, you may come
to the conclusion that God just sends people to hell for no reason, He hates
people for no reason and He loves other people and brings them in as His elect for
no reason. And that’s simply NOT
true. If you look at the lives of people
like Jacob and Esau, they had a serious of choices and God worked with them
through those things that they did in their life, and He called them to
repent. And God always is for the
righteous, He is for the humble, He is always for those who repent of their
mistakes. Jacob did that and God was for
Jacob. But God is against those that harden
their heart, who are rebellious and who refuse to come to Him. I want to give you an example of this from
another 2 brothers who were Cain and Able.
As we know Cain killed Able, but before Cain kills Able, God gives Cain
a word to him and God says this to Cain; (Gen 4:6-7) “So the LORD said to Cain,
“Why are you angry? And why has your
countenance fallen?” and then God says
to him; “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the
door. And its desire is for you, but you
should RULE OVER IT.”” God did not just predestine Cain for hell, He
did not just predestine Cain to kill his brother, but God specifically came to
Cain and He gave Him the words of life, he told him what he had to do, and told
him he had a choice. ALL of us have a
choice, will we choose what is right?
Will we be in God’s blessing because we choose to do what is
righteous? Or will we be in God’s curse
because we reject Him. Don’t be deceived
by the church that says, “You can do no wrong, you are just part of God’s
elect, you have been saved long ago, you are gong to heaven…” And certainly
don’t believe Satan’s lie that you’re just going to hell no matter what you
do. Satan will throw accusations at you
saying; “You are just part of the damned, you have been hated since you were born,
everyone knows that you are of a corrupted seed and God will send you to hell,
you are just predestined no matter what you do…” NONE of that is true. If you look at the stories of just how God
worked with His children He ALWAYS gave them the opportunity to repent, He
didn’t just predestine the to heaven without cause, and He didn’t just damn
them to hell without cause. The Lord is
ALWAYS JUST in His dealings. We can
gather some VERY wrong conclusions from what the Apostle Paul wrote, or what
other people wrote throughout the Scriptures, but the truth is, THE LORD IS
JUST. He loves every single one of us,
BUT HE DOES NOT TREAT US EQUALLY IN REGARDS TO WHAT WE DO. If we choose what is evil God will start to
detest us, He will hate our lives, He will hate us to the core because we are
rejecting Him, we are rejecting His Spirit.
But on the flip side of that, if we reject SIN, if we reject the evil
nature, if we can overcome then the Lord will receive us. But we need to MASTER OUR SIN, we have to
OVERCOME THE FLESH, we have to overcome hatred and evil desires, and if we do
then the LORD will receive us. There is
a reason that God loved Able, and there is a reason God loved Jacob. You know Jacob was a deceiver, he started out
on the wrong foot, but he repented, he had a love for the LORD in his heart and
he chose to walk in the way of the Lord, he wasn’t perfect but the Lord
perfected him as he started walking with the Lord. He had a heart to desire what was true and
what was right. He walked with the
LORD. So did Abraham his father, he wasn’t
perfect, but he had a heart to walk with the LORD. It is
true that even before we are born GOD KNOWS what choices we are going to make
because God is Omnipotent, He knows ALL things.
But don’t fall into the thought that you can’t repent because God just
is sending you to hell, that simply is NOT true. No one is in hell because there were just
predestined by God APART from their choices, their actions, the things that
they physically and spiritually did. You
will be sent to hell if you reject the words of Jesus Christ. You are accountable to your actions, your
thoughts, and your words. Will you
overcome? Will you MASTER SIN? Will you OVERCOME IT? Will you call on the name of Jesus and be
saved or will sin master you and will you fall into temptation? And will God reject you because you never
came into His presence, you never overcame the darkness? I hope that you overcome in the name of JESUS
and really come into HIS love. May the
grace of Jesus be with you.
