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1/ “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.” John 15:16
1/ “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.” John 15:16
2/ This is one of the clearest examples of predestination in scripture. “Not” is “ou”
in Grk which is a negative that denies something absolutely/categorically.
When Christ says, “You did NOT choose Me” He is saying that the apostles
absolutely had nothing to do w/ choosing Him.
in Grk which is a negative that denies something absolutely/categorically.
When Christ says, “You did NOT choose Me” He is saying that the apostles
absolutely had nothing to do w/ choosing Him.
3/ The implication to the apostles & to every regenerate Christian is that we
contributed nothing to our salvation. This is the same today for each believer
that is redeemed. Mankind in its sinful disposition would always choose self before God because it's in our nature to do so
contributed nothing to our salvation. This is the same today for each believer
that is redeemed. Mankind in its sinful disposition would always choose self before God because it's in our nature to do so
4/ It is why Peter says about apostates in 2 Peter 2:22, “A sow, after washing,
returns to wallowing in the mire.” You can clean a pig up, but unless the nature
of pig is changed then it will go back into the mud every time.
returns to wallowing in the mire.” You can clean a pig up, but unless the nature
of pig is changed then it will go back into the mud every time.
5/ Before a believer was redeemed we wallowed in the mud until Christ chose us and pulled us out of the mire, in which he did not do an exterior cleansing, but changed the heart, regenerating it, bringing to life what was dead.
6/ When He changes the heart then we who have been redeemed now have the ability to follow him and lay down those things in our lives which His word says are displeasing to Him because we are grateful for what He has done for us.
7/ We lay down pornography, homosexuality, lying, stealing, worshipping false gods, perverse speech, rage, sinful pride, hatred, and any other sin rooted in a love of self. Opposing God when we were unredeemed was not freewill, it was slavery to sin.
8/ Romans 3:10-11 says, “There is none righteous, not even one; There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God;”. Paul is quoting David from Psalm 14:1-3 and Psalm 53:1-3. We are not capable in our sin nature to choose God. He must choose us.
9/ Man lost that freewill when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. We became chained to sin and unless God chooses us out of that sin we are doomed to wallow in the mire where our will is only sin continually.
10/ “choose” is the word eklegomai. Ek is “out” and “lego” is “to speak to a conclusion” implying the settling of an argument, or putting an argument to rest. It denotes finality. Properly, it is rendered “to choose out” or “to choose for oneself”.
11/ Christ choose these apostles and every person He redeemed from before time andnot for any acts of merit. God
did not choose us based on any good works. God chose His elect for His purposes according to His will that His name might be glorified.
did not choose us based on any good works. God chose His elect for His purposes according to His will that His name might be glorified.
12/ Matthew 7:13-14 clearly shows us that very few will be going to heaven. All of mankind was destined to an eternity in Hell, which means that if God pulled you off the path of destruction, you should be forever and eternally grateful for such an act of mercy.
13/ Christ did not die to potentially save people from Hell. In His death was certainty of those whom He would redeem. If Christ died only to potentially save man then no man would be redeemed and His death would be in vain.
14/ In the later part of v16 Christ says, “and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.” One who is chosen by God will bear fruit for God’s kingdom...
15/ and that fruit will “remain” (meno – abide). The fruit remains because it is the Lord doing the work through the servant. Within the context of John 15:12-17 one of those fruits that manifests will be love for one other believers, not unbelievers.
16/ The command is clear for believers to love one another, and that will be a fruit that manifests proving regeneration. Christ then compares His point of
believers loving each other to the world in v18-25. “If you were of the world,
the world would love its own”(v19).
believers loving each other to the world in v18-25. “If you were of the world,
the world would love its own”(v19).
17/ The world love its own people just as the Christian should love fellow believers. But then Christ makes a distinction in v19, “but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.”
18/ The world hates believers just as Cain hated Abel because God chose us out of the world just as He chose Abel. Christ goes on to say in v20 that “a slave is not greater that his master” revealing that if the world hates him it will hate us.
19/ I am going to leave these two questions for believers:
Is there any area of your life where you side with the world? If so, would that
belief (without eisegesis) be supported by scripture? Keep in mind that the
world hates Christ and every word of His Bible.
Is there any area of your life where you side with the world? If so, would that
belief (without eisegesis) be supported by scripture? Keep in mind that the
world hates Christ and every word of His Bible.
20/20 The only way the world would side with scripture is if it were twisted to be erroneous. The world seeks to use scripture for its own ends, not Christ's. Never forget this.
