|
Divine Predestination
by Don Fortner
“Them he also did predestinate." -- Romans 8:29
Do not be afraid of predestination. And do not be ashamed
of it. We are predestinarians, because we believe the Bible;
and predestination is a Bible doctrine, full of comfort and
joy for God's saints.
Predestination is God's infallible purpose of grace
regarding his elect whom he foreknew. It simply means
that our eternal destiny was settled by God, and
infallibly secured by him before the world began.
In sovereign predestination, God eternally and immutably
determined WHO he would save, HOW he would save them,
WHEN he would save them, and WHERE he would save them.
Then he sovereignly arranged everything necessary, both
to accomplish their salvation and to bring them to glory
at last, perfectly conformed to the image of his dear Son.
Predestination marked the house into which grace would come,
paved the road by which grace would travel to that house,
set the time when grace would enter, and guaranteed that
grace actually would come and enter in at the appointed time!
Nothing was left to chance, blind fate,
luck, or man's imaginary free will!
Predestination is no more and no less than God Almighty having
arranged from eternity everything necessary to bring his elect
children into heaven in the perfection of everlasting life.
|