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2. Acts 17:11
These people were more receptive
than those in Thessalonica. They
were very willing to receive the
message, and every day they
carefully examined the Scriptures to
see if those things were so.
3. The 4 Major KJV Errors where Gnosticism was
Injected into the Text
• Gift of Teacher, Evangelist, Prophet, Apostle (Nixed)
• Definitions and concepts of words off to varying degrees:
– Regeneration
– Predestination
– The Elect
– Glorification
– Sins nailed to cross
– Blood saves
– Death saves
– Sin Nature
– Atonement of Jesus
– Chosen before the Foundation of the World
– Faith (Noun or Verb) (Most people think of blind Faith)
• The System is designed to soften people’s minds to accept Gnosticism (Re-termed
Calvinism/Reformed)
4. Bridge Deck & Towers
• Original Purpose: “I just woke up one day and realized that I was
‘The Elect.’”
• Definitions of words:
– Regeneration
– Predestination
– The Elect
– (Faith as a Noun or Verb is always on the brain)
5. The Easy Way – The Elect
Tower 1
• The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 states, “Election is the
gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates,
justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the
free agency of man and comprehends all the means in
connection with the end. It is the glorious display of God’s
sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and
unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility. All
true believers endure to the end.”
• Net Bible Study – The Biblical Law of First Mention -
http://www.netbiblestudy.com/00_cartimages/thelawoffirstmentio
n.pdf
6. The Elect = Predestination?
• John Macarthur: “No, I think it's essentially the same. Predestination simply
identifies the point prior to time when God determined that He would elect.
In other words, the election is the actual choice. Predestination simply
identifies this as something that happened preliminary to time.”
• “The only feature that comes before regeneration is election, and that was
in eternity past before the foundation of the world.”
• All of these terms are almost
completely interchangeable.
7. The Elect = Predestination?
• R.C. Sproul: “It’s related to the doctrine of justification, but when we’re
talking about unconditional election, we’re talking in a very narrow confine
of the doctrine of election itself…Many people who have a doctrine of
election or predestination look at it this way: from all eternity God looks
through the corridors of time, and He knows in advance who will say yes to
the offer of the gospel and who will say no.”
• All of these terms are almost
completely interchangeable.
8. The Elect = Predestination?
• John Calvin “There is more honesty in the papists, than in these men: for the doctrine of
the papists is a great deal better, more holy, and more agreeable to the sacred Scripture,
than the doctrine of those vile and wicked men, who cast down God's holy election; these
dogs that bark at it, and swine that root it up…
• Let us learn to come directly to Jesus Christ. If we will not doubt God's election: for He is
the true looking glass, wherein we must behold our adoption…
• They that speak against God's election, leave
the gospel alone; they leave all that God layeth
before us, to bring us to Him…
• All of these terms are almost completely interchangeable.
9. The Elect = Predestination?
• We must not speak rashly of God's election, and say, we are predestinated; but if we will be
thoroughly assured of our salvation, we must not speak lightly of it; whether God hath
taken us to be His children or not…
• For faith is an undoubted token that God taketh us for His children; and thereby we are led
to the everlasting election, according as He had chosen us before…
• All of these terms are almost completely interchangeable.
10. What is the Doctrine of Election?
• This is the wrong question.
– Presupposes the Gnostic definition of the word Elect.
• The right questions.
– Who are The Elect according to the Gnostics?
– Who are The Elect as defined by the biblical text?
11. The Elect – Gnostic Definition
• “The essential element in order to be categorized as
a 'Gnostic' is the belief that a rival evil God created
the evil cosmos composed of physical matter.
Gnostics were cosmic dualists, meaning that
everything composed of physical matter was evil
and everything non-physical (spiritual) was good.
Humans are born evil because they possess a
physical body. Therefore humans are damned at
birth. Valentinus, a Gnostic, taught God offered the
message of salvation to every human equally;
however, only the predetermined elect were
empowered by God to accept that invitation.” Ken Wilson
PhD Oxford
12. The Elect – Gnostic Definition
• “The Gnostic God unilaterally restored right reason
to the helplessly corrupted human will through a gift
to the mind (Corp. Herm.4.4; 6,68.36; 6,69.31–32;
DH.5.3). When divine grace implanted that spiritual
seed then the elects' salvation was compelled by
their new "free will" by their own ‘free choice.’ The
scholar Gilles Quispel articulated this Gnostic
Valentinian separation of the elect (‘predestined not
to fall into foolishness’) from the damned evil nature
of the majority of humanity”
Ken Wilson
PhD Oxford
13. The Elect – Gnostic Definition
• “All works are predestined, discipline and abstinence effect
nothing, and the elect are saved by knowing that they are
saved.’ (27) The Gnostic God must regenerate a person
before that person is able to believe. Also in Gnosticism both
'free will' and 'forced grace' are taught simultaneously.
Unfortunately, only the elect were given a healed 'free will' to
accept this salvation offered to ‘everyone’ (but offered
unequally)”
• All of these terms are almost completely interchangeable in
Gnosticism.
• This mirrors modern day Christianity with Reformed
Theology and Calvinism.
Ken Wilson
PhD Oxford
14. Demystify The Elect
• The Law of First Mention, “which simply means that the very first
time any important word is mentioned in the Bible [usually, of
course, is in Genesis, the first book of the Bible] Scripture gives
that word its most complete, and accurate, meaning to not only
serve as a ‘key’ in understanding the word's Biblical concept, but
to also provide a foundation for its fuller development in later
parts of the Bible.”
• Net Bible Study – The Biblical Law of First Mention -
http://www.netbiblestudy.com/00_cartimages/thelawoffirstmentio
n.pdf
17. The Elect
• This is Jesus and this passage is also quoted in the New Testament.
“Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,
(H972) in whom my soul delights; I have put my
spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to
the Gentiles.”
Isaiah 42:1
18. The Elect
Matthew 12:15-18
“When Jesus became aware of this, he left that place.
Many crowds followed him, and he healed all of them,
ordering them not to make him known. This was to fulfill
what was declared by the prophet Isaiah when he said,
‘Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, whom I love,
and with whom I am pleased! I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will proclaim justice to unbelievers.’”
19. The Elect
Luke 23:35
“Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. The leaders were
mocking him by saying, “He saved others. Let him save
himself, if he is the Messiah of God, the chosen one!”
20. The Elect
1 Peter 2:4
“As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by
people but was chosen and precious in God’s sight,”
21. The Elect
1 Peter 2:6
““Look! I am laying a chosen, precious cornerstone in
Zion.
The one who believes in him will never be ashamed.”
22. The Elect – Israel & Jesus
New Testament Defines the Old Testament
Gnostic Definitions
(Bad)
Old Testament Defines the New Testament
(Good)
24. The Easy Way – Predestination
• John Macarthur: “Well, the doctrine of election simply means that God, uninfluenced and before creation,
predetermined certain people to be saved.”
• Hardy: “That implies that there was a larger group of people out of which He made that choice. What group of
people is that?”
• John: “Humanity.”
• Hardy: “Humanity? Is there a relationship between that and the doctrine of predestination? Are they the same or
are they different concepts?”
• John: “No, I think it's essentially the same. Predestination simply identifies the point prior to time when God
determined that He would elect. In other words, the election is the actual choice. Predestination simply identifies
this as something that happened preliminary to time.”
25. The Easy Way – Predestination
• John Macarthur: The second half of the word — the first is "pre." The
second half of the word is "destined," and that sort of takes you to the end.
And the end of it is I think best summed up in Romans 8 that we are:
"Predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son." So that God's
elective purpose was to the glorification, that is the full and final salvation,
of those whom He chose.”
26. Where did we get our current definition of predestination?
• Alister McGrath states, “One aspect of Augustine’s
understanding of grace needs further comment. As
human beings were incapable of saving
themselves, and as God gave his gift of grace to
some (but not all), it followed that God had
“preselected” those who would be saved.
Developing hints of this idea to be found in the
New Testament, Augustine developed a doctrine of
predestination. The term “predestination” refers to
God’s original or eternal decision to save some,
and not others. It was this aspect of Augustine’s
thought which many of his contemporaries, not to
mention his successors, found unacceptable. It
need hardly be said that there is no direct
equivalent in Pelagius’ thought.”
27. The Easy Way – Predestination
Tower 2
• The word predestinated only appears in two passages in scripture. Twice in Ephesians 1 and twice in
Romans 8.
• The Greek word proorizō (G4309) appears in two other verses, but it most often translated
preordained or determined.
• In this verse, the Elders are saying that YHVH’s plan of Jesus’ sacrifice is what was decided
beforehand (G4309) should happen.
Acts 4:28
They did what your power and will
had decided beforehand (G4309)
should happen.”
28. The Easy Way – Predestination
Tower 2
• The word predestinated only appears in two passages in scripture. Twice in Ephesians 1 and twice in
Romans 8.
• The Greek word proorizō (G4309) appears in two other verses, but it most often translated
preordained or determined.
• Again, this is referencing the sacrifice of Jesus that was decided beforehand should happen. Nothing
in these two verses affirm the “doctrine” of election and are only related to YHVH’s plan for His Son.
HinduCalvinsits rarely cite these verses anyway.
1 Corinthians 2:7
Instead, we speak about God’s
wisdom in a hidden secret, which
God destined (G4309) before the
world began for our glory.”
29. The Easy Way – Predestination
Tower 2
• The word predestinated proorizō (G4309) only appears in two passages in scripture. Twice in
Ephesians 1 and twice in Romans 8.
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (G4309) to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.”
Romans 8:30
“Moreover, whom he did predestinate (G4309), them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom
he justified, them he also glorified.”
30. The Easy Way – Predestination
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (G4309) to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.”
31. The Easy Way – Predestination
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (G4309) to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.”
32. The Easy Way – Predestination
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (G4309) to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.”
33. The Easy Way – Predestination
• The Rules for English Grammar
– When the subject of a sentence is plural, the pronoun in the sentence becomes plural.
– Conversely if the subject of the sentence is singular, the pronoun should be singular.
• The firstborn among the brethren is Jesus. The Greek word for firstborn is prototokos (G4416) and 8
out of 9 times that the word is used in the New Testament it refers directly to Jesus.
• “And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn G4416 son: and he called his name
JESUS.” Matthew 1:25
• “And she brought forth her firstborn G4416 son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him
in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” Luke 2:7
• “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn G4416 of every creature” Colossians 1:15
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (G4309) to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.”
34. The Easy Way – Predestination
• The Rules for English Grammar
– When the subject of a sentence is plural, the pronoun in the sentence becomes plural.
– Conversely if the subject of the sentence is singular, the pronoun should be singular.
• “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn G4416 from the dead; that in all
things he might have the preeminence.” Colossians 1:18
• “And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten G4416 into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God
worship him.” Hebrews 1:6
• “To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, G4416 which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of
all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect” Hebrews 12:23
• “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten G4416 of the dead, and the prince of the
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood” Revelation 1:5
• The only time it is not Jesus is Hebrews 11:28, “Through faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood,
lest he that destroyed the firstborn G4416 should touch them.”
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (G4309) to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.”
35. The Easy Way – Predestination
• The sentence makes sense if you use whom instead of those.
– Not “For those he did foreknow, that he might be…”
• Jesus was not born with His new body.
– He only got His new body after the Resurrection.
• The sentence in Romans is past tense. The sentence in Philippians is future tense.
– Jesus is the one who was foreknown.
• The Greek word for conform is symmorphos (G4832) and is only used twice in scripture. Once here
and:
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed (G4832) to the image of his Son, that he might be
the firstborn among many brethren.”
Philippians 3:21
“He will change our unassuming bodies and make them like
(G4832) his glorious body through the power that enables him
to bring everything under his authority.”
36. Predestination Past & Future
Symmorphos / Conformed
Past – Jesus got a new body. Romans 8:29 Future – You will get a new body. Philippians 3:21
37. The Easy Way – Predestination
• Yet most modern translations are happy to simply put the word “and” here because the “golden
chain of redemption” concept.
• Them, toutous (G5128), is found in verse 30 but not in 29.
Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.”
Romans 8:30
“Moreover (G1161), whom he did predestinate them (G5128), he
also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and
whom he justified, them (G5128), he also glorified.”
38. Predestinated for What?
Ephesians 1:5
“Having predestinated (G4309), us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself”
Ephesians 1:11
“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being
predestinated (G4309), according to the purpose of him who
worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:”
39. Predestined for What?
• Once you are Justified you are Predestined to get a new body. Nothing can stop that outcome.
Ephesians 1:5
“Having predestinated (G4309), us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself”
Romans 8:23
“And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first
fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
41. Determined in the Tanakh?
• The answer is only once.
• 1 out of 622,771 times.
“Seventy weeks are determined (H2852) upon
your people and upon your holy city, to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in
everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the
vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most
Holy.”
Daniel 9:24
42. Determined in the New Testament?
• The Greek word for determined ὁρίζω (horizo-G3724) is the root word for predestination and it means to define, to mark out
boundaries, or to appoint. It is used 8 times in the New Testament.
• 1. “The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been determined (G3724), but how terrible it will be for that man by whom he is
betrayed!” Luke 22:22
• 2. “After he was arrested according to the predetermined (G3724) plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and
killed him using the hands of lawless men.” Acts 2:23
• 3. “He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed (G3724) by God to be the judge
of the living and the dead.” Acts 10:42
• 4. “Though God has overlooked those times of ignorance, he now commands everyone everywhere to repent, because he has set a
day when he is going to judge the world with justice through a man whom he has appointed (G3724).” Acts 17:30, 31
• 5. “He was a descendant of David with respect to his humanity and was declared (G3724) by the resurrection from the dead to be
the powerful Son of God according to the spirit of holiness—Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.” Romans 1:3, 4
43. Determined in the New Testament?
• The Greek word for determined ὁρίζω (horizo-G3724) is the root word for predestination and it means
to define, to mark out boundaries, or to appoint. It is used 8 times in the New Testament.
• 6. “From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing (G3724) the
seasons of the year and the national boundaries within which they live, so that they might look for
God, somehow reach for him, and find him.” Acts 17:26, 27
• 7. “Therefore, since it is still true that some will enter it, and since those who once heard the good
news failed to enter it because of their disobedience, he again fixes (G3724) a definite day—
“Today”—saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do
not harden your hearts.’” Hebrews 4:6
• 8. “So all of the disciples decided (G3724) they would send a contribution to the brothers living in
Judea, as they were able, 30 by sending it through Barnabas and Saul to the elders.” Acts 11:29
44. Determined in the New Testament?
• 7. “Therefore, since it is still true that some will enter it, and since those who once heard the good
news failed to enter it because of their disobedience, he again fixes (G3724) a definite day—
“Today”—saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do
not harden your hearts.’” Hebrews 4:6
– YHVH determines a definite day for you to decide to do something.
– That day passes and you fail. Then YHVH again fixes another definite day, today, for you to maybe not fail. But that part is up
to you.
• The point here is that YHVH can determine something, and not get the outcome that He wants, so He
can determine that same thing again at a different point on the timeline.
– (At some point we run out of chances.)
45. The Easy Way – Regeneration
Tower 3
• 1. Baptist (33%)
• 2. Nondenominational Protestant (13%)
• 3. Methodist (10%)
• 4. Pentecostal (10%)
• 5. Unspecified Protestant (8%)
• 6. Lutheran (8%)
• 7. Presbyterian (5%)
• 8. Restorationists (4%)
• 9. Episcopalian/Anglican (3%)
• 1. Regeneration is a work on the mind by the Holy Spirit before an
individual can be justified or born again.
• 2. Regeneration is the new birth, justification, or being born again.
• 3. Regeneration is a gift that is salvific.
• 4. Regeneration precedes faith and is salvific. (Reformed)
• 5. Regeneration is after faith and is salvific. (Baptist)
• 6. Christians are regenerated and sanctified when they are
converted.
• 7. Regeneration happens when a baby is baptized and is salvific.
• 8. Regeneration is about your character after an individual is
justified or born again.
ALL of these definitions use Augustine’s Gnostic definition of Regeneration!
46. Regeneration
Define Regeneration
“I’m going to give you a new heart,
and I’m going to give you a new
spirit within all your deepest parts.
I’ll remove that rock-hard heart of
yours and replace it with one that’s
sensitive to me.”
Ezekiel 36:26
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the
Holy Spirit;” ”
47. Regeneration
“I’m going to give you a new heart,
and I’m going to give you a new
spirit within all your deepest parts.
I’ll remove that rock-hard heart of
yours and replace it with one that’s
sensitive to me.”
Ezekiel 36:26
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the
Holy Spirit;” ”
Ezekiel 36:26
48. Regeneration
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration (G3824), and renewing
of the Holy Spirit;” ”
Palingenesia (G3824) – Genitive
Singular-Possessive Noun
Definition – Reproduction, Renewal
49. Regeneration
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration (G3824), and renewing
of the Holy Spirit;” ”
Palingenesia (G3824) – Genitive
Singular-Possessive Noun
Definition – Reproduction, Renewal,
Born Again
Matthew 19:28
“Jesus told them, ‘I tell all of you with
certainty, when the Son of Man sits on
his glorious throne in the renewed
creation (G3824) you who have
followed me will also sit on twelve
thrones, governing the twelve tribes of
Israel.’”
Paul Jesus
50. Regeneration
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration (G3824), and renewing
of the Holy Spirit;” ”
1. It is the literal physical renewal of physical things.
2. This happens well in the future is not talking about any person in the past.
3. This has nothing to do with anyone’s mind.
4. This has nothing to do with anyone’s Justification.
Matthew 19:28
“Jesus told them, ‘I tell all of you with
certainty, when the Son of Man sits on
his glorious throne in the renewed
creation (G3824) you who have
followed me will also sit on twelve
thrones, governing the twelve tribes of
Israel.’”
Paul Jesus
51. Regeneration
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration (G3824), and renewing
of the Holy Spirit;” ”
1. I will propose this definition of the word palingenesia: A physical recreation and renewal of a
physical body or set of physical bodies. Bodies here does not refer to simply human bodies, but
also planetary bodies and everybody encompassed by the physical universe, minus those in the
Lake of Fire. Literally “Again Exist.” (You might even say Born Again)
2. Palin – Again
3. Genesia – Created (Greek Genesis)
Matthew 19:28
“Jesus told them, ‘I tell all of you with
certainty, when the Son of Man sits on
his glorious throne in the renewed
creation (G3824) you who have
followed me will also sit on twelve
thrones, governing the twelve tribes of
Israel.’”
Paul Jesus
52. Regeneration
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration (G3824), and renewing
of the Holy Spirit;” ”
• He saved us, by the flying of a helicopter.
• He saved us, by the swimming of a lake.
• He saved us, by the walking of a dog.
• He saved us, by the throwing a grenade.
• He saved us, by the hiking of a trail.
• He saved us, by the launching of a boat.
• This is not describing what happened to us.
• This is describing the method by which Jesus saved us.
• This is describing what saved us.
• So what saves?
53. What saves?
Romans 5:10
“For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
through the death of his Son, how much more, having
been reconciled, will we be saved by his life!
• The blood does not save.
• The cross does not save.
• The “finished work of Christ” does not save.
• The LIFE OF JESUS is what saves.
54. Regeneration
1 Corinthians 15:20,23
“But at this moment the Messiah stands risen
from the dead, the first one offered in the
harvest of those who have died… However, this
will happen to each person in the proper order:
first the Messiah, then those who belong to the
Messiah when he comes.”
• None of us have our new bodies yet.
• Jesus is the First Fruits of the Resurrection.
• Titus 3:5 is about the Glorification of Jesus’ body, past
tense.
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according
to his mercy he saved us, by the
washing of regeneration (G3824),
and renewing of the Holy Spirit;” ”
55. Regeneration
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing
(G3067) of regeneration and
renewing of the Holy Spirit;” ”
• Loutron (G3067) – Noun. Washing
• Notice that this is future tense. If we were washed and regenerated like the HinduCalvinists claim about Titus 3:5, why would we
need further washing in the future?
Ephesians 5:26
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ
also loved the church, and gave himself for
it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing (G3067) of water by the
word.” That he might present it to himself
a glorious church, not having spot, or
wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish.”
Past – Jesus got a new body. Romans 8:29 Future – You will get a new body. Philippians 3:21
56. Regeneration
Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration and renewing (G342) of
the Holy Spirit;” ”
• Anakainosis (GG342) – Noun. Renew.
• Once again, Jesus was renewed in the past. Not us. We are supposed to renew in the present so that we can determine what
YHVH’s will is.
Romans 12:2
“Do not be conformed to this world, but
continuously be transformed by the
renewing (G342) of your minds so that you
may be able to determine what God’s will
is—what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.”
57. Regeneration
“I’m going to give you a new heart,
and I’m going to give you a new
spirit within all your deepest parts.
I’ll remove that rock-hard heart of
yours and replace it with one that’s
sensitive to me.”
Ezekiel 36:26
“Therefore, Israel, I’m going to
judge you according to the behavior
of each and every one of you,”
declares the Lord God. “So repent
and turn from all your sins so that
sin won’t keep on being a stumbling
block for you. Stop your
transgressing—the deeds by which
you’ve rebelled—and then make for
yourselves a new heart and a new
spirit.”
Ezekiel 18:30,31
58. Summary
• The Elect – Israel & Jesus
• Predestined for a new body (Glorification) once you become saved (Justified).
• Regeneration is the physical recreation of physical things.