Predestination Party, Round II

I love studying doctrine. I love the way it informs my reading of the Word and worship, and how it helps me to understand just a great deal more about my great sin and God's great love.

"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." - Eph 2:1-9

"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" - 1 John 3:1

"For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God... And this is the word that was preached to you." - 1 Peter 1:23, 25

“Those who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." - John 1:13

"For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." - Phil 1:6

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?" - Rom 8:28-31