Election

(Willie Will) Peep it son, no need to run from the truth We need to come to understand Ephesians 1 We see in love the Father predestined We seem to have a problem with the doctrine of election We keep stressin’ and leave guessin’ leadin’ to depression Because it’s God’s love we question Well sit back and take a deep breath in And exhale, let’s set sail, the word of God is refreshin’ Let’s be real with it, the Bible obviously talks About predestination so we gotta deal with it I’ll be a fake attorney by His grace and mercy And present my case so let’s take a journey for the sake of learning First turn to Romans 8:28-30 Zoomin’ in on verse 29, read the first line “Those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to The image of His Son”- Exhibit #1 People try to use an argument lacking common sense Concerning the foreknowledge of God thinking the logic fits Dudes are saying He looked out into the future ages With illumination seeing all that would choose salvation And those men were chosen by God because they chose Him But that’s not what the passage has spoken It says those He foreknew He predestined If he foreknew everybody, is everybody predestined? Is everyone His object of affection? If so, then what’s the point of the doctrine of election? It’s spiritual but let me make it plain so u see the miracle And praise His Name instead of taking His grace in vain It isn’t complicated, we all evaded the God that made us And traded in His truth for a lie Worshiping what God created more than God who is glorified Corroborated our death, our lives are an abomination But if the Father’s aim is to bestow mercy Then it’s not to say that He was obligated but that God is gracious As God’s enemies we deserve to be crushed We’re dirty enough to be eternally cursed and turned into dust And if he did it He would be perfectly just to murder me but He decided to show mercy to us I didn’t choose God, God chose me Gave me a new heart and it wasn’t because I was holy But if I chose G-O-D then God owes me, the only reason I first walked thru them church doors is Psalm 65 verse 4, why do I know God? Matthew 11:27 says it best and Those that have been predestined keep pressin’ It’s a deep message, I only see blessin’ in election ’ma see the blessin’, yo it’s not even a question How God in His perfection wrote the doctrine of election (shai linne) God in His perfection wrote the doctrine of election Cause He’s sovereign, there’s no question and that got some people stressin’ But no option but election can account for our protection Godly direction or perfected bodily resurrection, yo! Don’t let the thinking of modern men fool ya God does what He wants- that’s what it means to be Sovereign Ruler It’s deep but not complicated- with complete confidence I’ll state it: Peep it- it’s how God has always operated He’s the greatest, fam- His amazing plan made His hand Save the man Abraham from a pagan land Who can argue with the people that God chooses? Israel and not Egypt, Peter and not Judas Humanly speaking, it should have been Saul and not David The inheritance should have been Esau’s and not Jacob’s The truth it speaks brightly so you can see rightly A huge, mighty God who chooses the least likely Still some contest it as a phony doctrine But if we’re really dead in sin, predestination is the only option With reservations they fume inside There’s hesitation because it’s devastating to human pride This truth is the sober kind that you’re prone to find In passages like Romans 9- it’s so divine it’ll blow your mind We are the clay and we’ve been formed by the Potter None can come to the Son unless they’re drawn by the Father “But God draws everybody” That’s what some cats say It can’t be that way because all who are drawn are raised on the last day Because of original sin and all of our despicable deadness within Election must be unconditional then Some people say that we were drowning in the ocean Barely floating until God threw us the rope then Our free will helped us as we groped Our faith is the hand that grabbed the rope and God put us back in the boat Nope! Without apology I deny that analogy Reality- we were dead at the bottom of the sea I was a swollen corpse with hope no more Until Jehovah the LORD dove from the shore to the ocean floor Yeah, I was a corpse and I smelled like it I’ll keep it simple, why did God choose me? Because He felt like it! He brought me out, not an act of my volition Breathed life into my lungs and didn’t ask for my permission Throughout the Bible there’s major examples of this Pages of passages like the raising of Lazarus Rather than debating the Master’s gift We should be happily praising His magnanimous saving of savages It’s time we see God’s sovereignty and His primacy His holy dynasty running things by divine decree Why does He choose some and not others to see Jesus? Our God is in the heavens- He does whatever He pleases!