You really can't handle the awful truth can you, you just keep running but you will sash head on into it but it will be too late.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
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.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—
Isaiah 42:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
And “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
The children of your elect sister greet you.
As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”