Matthew 13:10-13
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” 11And He answered and said to them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. 12“For whoever has, to him shall more be given, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him. 13“Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
If He’s chosen you, you’re going to have that faithfulness of Abraham. You will have that same faithfulness that he showed, and you’ll have the works to prove it.
Romans 9:19
You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?”
If He chooses who He does and He hardens the hearts of the ones He doesn’t choose, why does He find fault with them? Because He did it. Can the person who is not chosen and who God(Elohim) has hardened his heart, can this guy resist the will of the Father? Can he, do it? No, he can’t. So, Paul continues, this is a masterful writing here by Paul.
Rom 9:20-21
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use, and another for common use?
A potter with a big lump of clay can make some real pretty things to put on the shelf for everyone to admire. But with this same lump of clay, he can take some of it and make a toilet. Is that fair to the toilet? Who wants to be the toilet? That’s not fair. We have to have them, is it okay for the potter to do that? Yes, it is. What are we made of? Clay, we are just a hand full of clay too. Can God (Elohim) do that? Yes, He can.
Rom 9:22-23
What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
God(Elohim), is willing to demonstrate His wrath and make His power known but He is going to endure with much more patience. These vessels He created to destroy, meaning a lot of people that He created to destroy, He endured them with a lot of patience. and
Rom 9:23
And He did so in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy,(upon those He chose to give mercy to), which He prepared beforehand for glory, (since before creation)
As far as predestination, you can’t get past this one, for instance in Romans 8-11, Paul goes into that. If you truly want to know the character of the Father, we have to understand this. To say predestination is wrong, first of all, Scripturally, you won’t find it, not a single passage, you won’t find a one. But to say predestination is not true then He is one of two things, God(Elohim) is not capable of saving everybody or He doesn’t want to save everybody, which is it? It’s the latter. Those who insist against predestination, aren’t they saying He is not capable of saving everybody? Is there a third option? I can’t think of a third option, either He doesn’t want to, or He can’t. People will try and show passages in Scripture and say, see He want’s everyone to be saved, no He doesn’t. If He wanted everyone to be saved, guess what? Everyone would be saved, it’s whoever He chooses.
1 Peter 1:1-2
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen 2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure.
Rom 6:13-14
and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
You’re not under the curses of the Torah, you’re under the graciousness of the Father. Why are you not under the curses of the Torah? Because you’re chosen to be His and He’s put His breath within you, to give you a desire to be obedient to Him, that’s the New Covenant.
Rom 6:15-18
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Revelation 22, He’s talking about new Jerusalem. New Jerusalem is a picture of His redeemed people. Any of His redeemed people may come and drink the water of life freely but those who are not chosen to have the spirit of the Father within them, to keep His Torah, are not a part of new Jerusalem. Remember, it says the ungodly and the liars and the murderers and all that, they won’t be there. In
Revelation 22:14-15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. [(In the king James it says) Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.] 15Outside are the dogs (what are dogs in Scripture, Britt Hadashah in particular. Gentiles) and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.
Those are outside, they’re not inside, they can’t freely come and drink. Why do some translations say wash their robes and some to enter the kingdom and others say those who will keep the commandments under the kingdom? Ancient documents say both things actually, the answer being is that they both mean the same thing. Revelation tells us a little earlier.
Revelation 19:7-8
“Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.” 8And it was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
They’re sinless acts, that’s what washing the bright and clean linen is, that’s the clothing of His people. What about whosoever believes in Him will have everlasting life?
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Only those who are chosen believe, the Greek word for believe is Pistis and it’s not a passive emotional warm feeling. It’s to place confidence in, and remember, Pistis, is used in the New Testament.
Of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul whoever believes in Him (is convicted with a law of soul to Him) will not perish but will be resurrected in an eternal body.
Strong’s #4102: pistis (pronounced pis’-tis)
from 3982; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:–assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon:́
pistis
1) conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the NT of a conviction or belief respecting man’ s relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith and joined with it
1a) relating to God
1a1) the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ
1b) relating to Christ
1b1) a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God
1c) the religious beliefs of Christians
So, in other words, if you have the breath of the Father within you, that’s is that inner conviction of an inner and higher prerogative in law of soul, that’s the spirit, the breath of the Father. So, the Greek word for faith is related the same way, it’s Pistis, it means the same thing.
1 John 5:2-4
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. 4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith(fulness).
Following His commandments is not something a person decides to do or does. It’s because he wants to get saved. What do I need to do? Honor the sabbath day, check, don’t eat unclean things, like what? Pork and shellfish, I like bacon I don’t care, check, you just check these things off. A person who’s chosen of God(Elohim) has an inward desire for the Torah, they have a realization of Messiah that few else have, that someone who doesn’t have this desire to follow Torah has. Scripture states that God(Elohim) chooses who will be His, we don’t choose Him He chooses us. If you ever hear in a church the 17th stanza of just as I am, trying to get someone to walk the aisle, remember, the problem with these altar calls in churches, they’re giving a false illusion that they’re getting saved by doing so. They’re giving a false impression that people are getting saved and they’re not getting saved. They’re convincing people to make a covenant with God(Elohim), come up here and give your life to Jesus, commit your life that’s what they’re telling people to do. They pretty much say, you’re saved, your salvation is eternal, now go and sin some more. They almost get the phrase right, they lead these very people into breaking the same covenant. They just you’re your money, show people you love Jesus. Here’s what they want you to do, now that you’ve given your life to Jesus; Ignore the Sabbath, ignore the appointed times of the Father, eat unclean creatures, ignore the real names of the Father and His Son, celebrate pagan holidays, Jesus loves that stuff because you’re doing it for Him. Ignore all the Father’s instructions in our lives, ignore His Torah. Isn’t that what they do? That’s exactly what they do. I used to do all of these things also.
Deut 7:5
“But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
Asherim – noun, plural A·she·rim [uh-sheer-im], A·she·rahs for 2.
an ancient Semitic goddess, sometimes identified with Ashtoreth and Astarte, worshiped by the Phoenicians and Canaanites.
any of various upright wooden objects serving as a sacred symbol of Asherah.
Jeremiah 10:3-4
For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. 4“They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter.
Why doesn’t God(Elohim) say you need to convert these people? And turn their pagan practices and pagan ways into ways to worship Him? Why doesn’t He say that? They’re not chosen. A lot of people have the mindset that we can convert people. No, we can’t. It’s one thing to get a message out there especially one the people don’t have which I would say is to be obedient to the Torah. That’s a message that the people don’t have. There’s a lot of people fighting that message now because they see it as a threat, and it is a threat to their pagan belief systems and their lawless belief systems. God(Elohim) wants nothing to do with His people who are involved with false gods, He doesn’t want them to have anything to do with that. He doesn’t want to be worshipped the way they’re worshipped. He doesn’t want His people doing the things that the pagans did for their gods, He doesn’t want that.
Deut 7:6
“For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
You are to be holy, a set apart people for God(Yahweh), we aren’t to love Him and worship Him in ways that others have worshipped their false gods, He is not interested in that, His name is jealous.
1 peter 2:9
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Exodus 34:14
—for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—
He doesn’t want to share the affection that is due to Him. The affection due to Him is from His people. He says you’re a holy people, what does that mean? Set apart, you’re not like the rest of the world, you’re set apart, you’re set apart for Him and His ways and your set apart for Him only, it’s like a marriage. That’s why He used that analogy, it’s something we could understand.
People aren’t chosen because they’re better than everybody else, they’re chosen because God(Elohim) decided to choose them, that’s why they were chosen, it is a decision of the Father. When and how they receive it, is up to Our Heavenly Father.