Why does God
Is that true? Does God choose who is saved? Or do we choose Him?
Man choosing God for salvation
…Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household. —Acts 16:31
** …if you confess with your mouth** that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. —Romans 10:9 (ESV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. —John 3:16 (ESV)
God choosing man for salvation
4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will —Ephesians 1:4-5.
He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. —2 Timothy 1:9
And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. —Acts 13:48 (ESV)
…no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. —Matthew 11:27
Is it
Paul gives 2 answers to our question about fairness
1) God can be
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” —Romans 9:14-15
Scripture affirms two things that are always true when God deals with people
- God is always
- Sometimes God is
For the wages of sin is death… —Romans 6:23
Instead of asking why God would not save
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 6:23
2) Who are you to question
19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? —Romans 9:19-21
Why wouldn’t God save everyone?
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. —2 Peter 3:9
Why does God choose to save some and not others?
1) To display His
[God chose] to show his wrath and make his power known. —Romans 9:22
Will not the Judge of all the earth do right? —Genesis 18:25
You are good and do good. —Psalm 119:86
When we praise God today in prayers and songs, we typically praise God for saving us from our sins and from God’s wrath. But in [the book of] Revelation, God’s people also praise God for righteously judging and punishing his enemies. When God serves justice by judging and punishing his enemies, he deserves glory for his wrath and power. —Andrew Naselli
2) To display His
“God did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy. —Romans 9:23
The least of mercies are not deserved by the best of sinners. —John Bunyan
God displays His justice and His mercy so we would praise His
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