Predestination

Galatians 5-Ephesians 2

We have to deal with the doctrine of predestination or limited atonement and this is as good a place as ever.  We are all predestined to be saved by God who is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 Some of us, by the freewill granted to us by God, will refuse His plan of predestining us to be with Him eternally.

There we dealt with it!!!

I would have rather focused on this.

“It was for freedom that Christ set us free…if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law…But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no Law…

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the love of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us…For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand , that we should walk in them. 

Galatians 5:1a, 18, 22-23; Ephesians 1:18-19; 2:10

The church would be better served if we focused on our predestined good works than on our predestined election.  

Standing Man Standing Women by Stephen DeStabler
one of the best "good works" I have ever seen.  I still remember the day i saw it some 30 years
ago in Kansas City Kansas.  I turned the corner and there it was.  Unbelievable!!!