What does it mean to be God’s elect? Part 1

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the Bible teaches about God’s elect. Examining the Bible first and then what some men have determined about God’s elect. Part 1 of 2.

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Bible References:

1 Peter 1:1-5 ( KJV ) ¹Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  ²Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,  ⁴To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,  ⁵Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Hebrews 4:12 ( KJV ) ¹²For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Romans 8:24-30 ( KJV ) ²⁴For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?  ²⁵But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. ²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.  ²⁷And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.  ²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ²⁹For 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.  ³⁰Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Romans 10:9-10 ( KJV ) ⁹That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.  ¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

1 John 5:1-5 ( KJV ) ¹Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.  ²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.  ³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.  ⁴For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  ⁵Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 Peter 1:21-25 ( KJV ) ²¹Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.  ²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:  ²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. ²⁴For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:  ²⁵But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Ephesians 4:1-5 ( KJV ) ¹I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, ²With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;  ³Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.  ⁴There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;  ⁵One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

John 6:63-64 ( KJV ) ⁶³It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.  ⁶⁴But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

2 Timothy 1:9 ( KJV ) ⁹Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Exodus 7 (the plaques)