THE HERESY INVADING LOCAL CHURCHES

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ELECTION?


II Peter 1:10, “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye
shall never fail.”
 Election is the doctrine of God
Himself choosing man to do something specific for Him by using His Sovereignty! There are some who teach that salvation has
to do with election. They say that God by His Sovereignty chooses who will be
saved. That is simply not true! Man chooses whether he is saved or not. Whosoever will may come. Man either accepts or rejects God’s payment of His only begotten Son for sin.
 Some teach God knew who would be saved and so He then elected
them to be saved. That is not the doctrine of election. The doctrine of election has nothing to do with salvation, but it has to do strictly with our
working for God to get salvation to others.
 A man is saved by trusting Jesus Christ as payment for his
sins, God wipes away all of his sins, refuses to record future sins, and places
Jesus’ righteousness on the saved person’s record in Heaven. He is declared
innocent, as if he had never sinned at all. God appeases Himself! God sets the
saved person apart for a future life in Heaven. 
 God gives him or her a new birth and as a new creature escorted to Heaven. God gives the saved person the person of
the Holy Spirit to convert him to usefulness for God with his life on earth. God prepares a glorified
body for the saved person to give him when he arrives in Heaven. God made reconciliation possible so that man could fellowship with God Himself. God
preserves the saved person for Heaven. This is amazing because all of that took
place the moment the saved person placed his or her faith in Jesus Christ for
salvation!
 Now comes the doctrine of election! God elected me to be in
the ministry! God elected my two sons to be pastors! When you were
saved God commanded you first to be baptized, join a local church, tithe and
give offerings, and go soul winning. Then second His election will put you into and
area of ministry to others. In essence election has to do with you working for
God. No one is elected for Heaven or elected for Hell. That is as much heresy
as a bloodless religion is or a non-inspired preserved Bible is!
 When God saved me at age eleven at 132 E. Michigan Ave.,
Galesburg, Michigan in February of 1957 He cleared my record in Heaven,
declared me justified or innocent, appeased Himself, court adjourned, He gave
me a new creature, He gave me the Holy Spirit, He prepared a glorified body for
me in Heaven, gave me an opportunity to fellowship with Him, preserved me for
Heaven, and elected me to be in the ministry.
ISRAEL WAS CALLED AN ELECT NATION
 Romans chapters 9, 10, and 11 you find that Israel was not
chosen for salvation, but was chosen by God to do a unique work in the world.
She was chosen by God to give us the Scriptures, give us the Messiah, and give
us the local New Testament church. In Matthew chapter 10 all of the members of
the first Baptist church of Jerusalem were all Jews. Israel was chosen by God
to present the Gospel to the world.
 When God elected Israel to do all of that He was saying I
need a nation to give the Scriptures too, the Messiah too, the local New
Testament church too, and the Gospel too! God is not saying I have chosen
Israel to go to Heaven and all the other nations to go to Hell. No, God elected
Israel to do a particular work for Him on earth.
A LOCAL NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH IS CALLED “THE ELECT LADY”
 II John 1:1, “The elder
unto the elect lady…”
The local New Testament church is called “…the elect lady…” Does that mean that
everybody who’s a member of your church is
elected to go to Heaven? Oh, no! election is not about going to Heaven or Hell
in the Scriptures! The local church has been elected to be the instrument of
the propagation of the Gospel in your area and to the world.
 Israel was elected for a particular work for God on earth. Your church and every other local New Testament church is elected
to spread the Gospel on earth. Election is when your pastor was saved God
said, “I’m going to elect him to be the pastor of your church.” At salvation God elected you to do what you are
doing for God.
 Here is the question! Your calling is to be a soul winner!
Are you doing it? Your election is to do a specific work for God on earth at
this very moment! Are you doing it?
 Israel was an “elect” nation. Elected to Heaven or Hell? No!
Elected to give the world the Saviour, Scriptures, Gospel, and New Testament.
The local New Testament church is the “elect
lady.”
Elected to Heaven or Hell? No! Elected to give the Gospel to every
human being on earth for God! God has elected the local New Testament
church not to Heaven or Hell, but to spread the Gospel to “every creature.”
THE APOSTLES ARE CALLED HIS ELECT
  
 Does this mean that the Apostles are the only ones going to
Heaven? No, thousands were saved and baptized during their day! Election cannot
be referring to going to Heaven or Hell. The Apostles were the first ones
chosen for a specific job on earth for God. They were chosen in a unique way to
lead in spreading the Gospel to the world. Election is being chosen for
leadership to spread the Gospel around the globe to every nation.
PAUL WAS CALLED THE ELECT

APOSTLE

 Titus 1:1, “Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to
the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after
godliness;”
Paul calls himself a servant and an apostle with both being
according to the faith of God’s elect.” He is saying God has elected him or
chosen him to be a servant and an apostle. Paul was elected for Heaven? No!
Paul elected to get saved and then God elected Paul to be a servant and an
apostle.
 II Peter 3:9, “The 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.”
Our God does not want any one to go to Hell!
Our God does not elect people to Heaven or Hell. He elects people to do a work
on earth for God
ELECT ANGELS
 I Timothy 5:21, “I
charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels…”

Are angels born again? No! Thus, this cannot be dealing with Heaven or Hell.
Angels cannot be saved! What are angels? Messengers! What are they elected too?
To be messengers!
 Paul was elected to be an apostle to the Gentiles. He took
the Gospel to the Western World. The Jewish nation was an elect nation to give
us the Messiah, the Scriptures, the Gospel, and the local New Testament church.
The local New Testament church is the elect body to spread the Gospel to the
world. The angels have been elected as special messengers to help us spread the
Gospel for God.
 Election is a Sovereign act of God to do a specific work to
spread the Gospel to the world for God. If God makes an act based based on what
you do then that is not a Sovereign decision by God. God cannot elect you to do
something or be something you have already chosen. I did not choose to be a
preacher and neither did any one else who is in the ministry.
 All are commanded and called to be soul winners, but only a
few are chosen to be the pastor, preacher, principal, chancellor, choir director, youth director, or bus director, etc. Just
before Matthew 20:16 is the parable of Jesus sending forth labourers in to the
vineyard. In dealing with those labourers He said, “few are chosen.” Thus, this doctrine of election has nothing to do
with who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell, but who works or who labors in a
particular field.
 John 15:16, “Ye have
not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and
bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall
ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”
God does not want you to
be barren spiritually, but fruitful spiritually. 
 Jesus is saying the being “chosen” relates to the work in the
vineyard. Every context of the word “elect”
in the Scriptures has to do with work! God has elected you not to be a lazy
hound dog! All of us are called to be a soul winner, but some are elected to be
the principal, youth pastor, mission’s director, college president, or pastor,
etc.
 At salvation God took away our sins, decided not to record any
future sins, put Jesus’ righteousness on our record, declared us justified,
appeased Himself by Himself, declared the case closed with the court adjourned,
set me aside for Heaven in the future, regenerated us, gave us a new creature,
sent the Holy Spirit into us to convert us, reserved a new body in Heaven for us, made it possible for us to fellowship with God, preserved us by sealing us
with the Holy Spirit, and then election is God giving us a specific work to do
for Him!

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