Biblical Election: Do Sin Loving Evil Doers Choose God or Does a God Choose them

Bible conference lecture by John G. Reisinger. Mr. Reisinger is an evangelist & Bible conference speaker. He has pastored churches in Canada & in the U.S.A. He spent 10 years in church planting & established four sovereign grace churches. Mr Reisinger has written many books including "The Sovereignty of God in Providence," "John Bunyan on the Sabbath," "What is the Christian Faith?", "Tablets of Stone & the History of Redemption, " & many others. Mr Reisinger has also hosted a Christian radio program called "The Sound of Grace" since 1982.
Predestination and election are both biblical teachings. The English "predestination" is translated from the Greek word proorizo which means 1) to predetermine, decide beforehand; 2) in the NT, of God decreeing from eternity; 3) to foreordain, appoint beforehand.1 Predestination, then, is the biblical teaching that God predestines certain events and people to accomplish what He so desires. The word proorizo occurs six times in the New Testament, each time demonstrating that God is the one who is foreordaining and bringing about certain events:

1. Acts 4:28, "to do whatever Thy hand and Thy purpose predestined to occur."
2. Rom. 8:29, "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren;
3. Rom. 8:30, "and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified."
4. 1 Cor. 2:7, "but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory."
5. Eph. 1:5, "He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ.