What does it mean to be God’s elect? Part 2

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 2)

Bible References:

1 Peter 1:3-9 ( KJV ) 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. ⁶Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:  ⁷That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:  ⁸Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:  ⁹Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Romans 8:26-39 ( KJV ) 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. ³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?  ³²He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?  ³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.  ³⁴Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.  ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  ³⁶As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  ³⁷Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  ³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  ³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 1:3-6 ( KJV ) ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:  ⁴According 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:  ⁵Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,  ⁶To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Romans 1:18-20 ( KJV ) ¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; ¹⁹Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.  ²⁰For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Ephesians 1:6-12 ( KJV ) ⁶To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.  ⁷In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;  ⁸Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;  ⁹Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:  ¹⁰That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:  ¹¹In 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:  ¹²That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Proverbs 18:15 ( KJV ) ¹⁵The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

2 Peter 3:9 ( KJV ) ⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 ( KJV ) ¹Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,  ²That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ³Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;  ⁴Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.  ⁵Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?  ⁶And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.  ⁷For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.  ⁸And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:  ⁹Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,  ¹⁰And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  ¹¹And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  ¹²That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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,

Romans 3:23-31 ( KJV ) ²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  ²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  ²⁵Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;  ²⁶To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.  ²⁷Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.  ²⁸Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  ²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:  ³⁰Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  ³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Romans 4:1-3 ( KJV ) ¹What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?  ²For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.  ³For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

1 Corinthians 3:9-15 ( KJV ) ⁹For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.  ¹⁰According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. ¹¹For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  ¹²Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;  ¹³Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.  ¹⁴If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.  ¹⁵If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

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.

Isaiah 45:4-5 ( KJV ) ⁴For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. ⁵I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: