God’s Sovereignty Man’s Choice

Ephesians 1:4 “For he chose us in him before the Romans 1:28 “Furthermore, since they did not think
creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he
sight.” gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought
not to be done.”
Ephesians 1:5 “he predestined us to be adopted as John 1:12 “He came to that which was his own, but
his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received
pleasure and will” him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the
right to become children of God”
Ephesians 1:11-12 “In him we were also chosen, Romans 1:11 “For although they knew God, they
having been predestined according to the plan of him neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to
who works out everything in conformity with the him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish
purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first hearts were darkened.”
to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.”
Matthew 22:14 “For many are invited, but few are James 4:4 “You adulterous people, don't you know
chosen.” that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world
becomes an enemy of God.”
John 6:70 “Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen Mark 1:17-18 “"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I
you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” will make you fishers of men." At once they left their
nets and followed him.”
Mark 1:20 “Without delay he called them, and they
left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men
and followed him.”
Acts 9:15 “But the Lord said to Ananias, "Go! This Acts 26:19-20 “So then, King Agrippa, I was not
man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before disobedient to the vision from heaven. First to those
the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all
Israel."” Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they
should repent and turn to God and prove their
repentance by their deeds.”
Romans 8:28-30 “And we know that in all things God Romans 11:23 “And if they do not persist in
works for the good of those who love him, who have unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to
been called according to his purpose. For those God graft them in again.”
foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the Romans 11:15 “For if their rejection is the
likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn reconciliation of the world, what will their
among many brothers. And those he predestined, he acceptance be but life from the dead?”
also called; those he called, he also justified; those he
justified, he also glorified.”
Romans 11:2 “God did not reject his people, whom 1 Timothy 2:3-4 “This is good, and pleases God our
he foreknew” Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to
a knowledge of the truth.”
Romans 11:5 “So too, at the present time there is a Romans 11:32 “For God has bound all men over to
remnant chosen by grace.” disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.”
Colossians 3:12 “Therefore, as God's chosen people, 1 Peter 4:3 “For you have spent enough time in the
holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with past doing what pagans choose to do—living in
compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and
patience. detestable idolatry.”
2 Thessalonians 2:13 “But we ought always to thank Joshua 24:15 “But if serving the LORD seems
God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this
the beginning God chose you to be saved through the day whom you will serve,…But as for me and my
sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the household, we will serve the LORD.”
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1 Peter 1:2 “who have been chosen according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through the
sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus
Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be
yours in abundance.”
1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God,
that you may declare the praises of him who called
you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Romans 9:10-12 “Yet, before the twins were born or
had done anything good or bad—in order that God's
purpose in election might stand: not by works but by
him who calls—she was told, "The older will serve the
younger."
1 Timothy 5:21 “I charge you, in the sight of God and
Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these
instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of
favoritism.”
Matthew 11:27 “All things have been committed to
me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the
Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son
and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Romans 9:19-21 “One of you will say to me: "Then
why does God still blame us? For who resists his
will?" But who are you, O man, to talk back to God?
"Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why
did you make me like this?' "Does not the potter have
the right to make out of the same lump of clay some
pottery for noble purposes and some for common
use?”
Romans 9:22-24 “What if God, choosing to show his
wrath and make his power known, bore with great
patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for
destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of
his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he
prepared in advance for glory— even us, whom he
also called, not only from the Jews but also from the
Gentiles?”
Romans 9:17-18 “For the Scripture says to Pharaoh:
"I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might
display my power in you and that my name might be
proclaimed in all the earth." Therefore God has mercy
on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens
whom he wants to harden.”
2 Peter 2:1 “But there were also false prophets among
the people, just as there will be false teachers among
you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies,
even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them
—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
John 7:17 “If anyone chooses to do God's will, he
will find out whether my teaching comes from God or
whether I speak on my own.”
2 Peter 1:10 “Therefore, my brothers, be all the more
eager to make your calling and election sure. For if
you do these things, you will never fall,”
Jude 1:6 “And the angels who did not keep their
positions of authority but abandoned their own
home—these he has kept in darkness, bound with
everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.”
John 6:40 “For my Father's will is that everyone who
looks to the Son and believes in him shall have
eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be
accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is
crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you
must master it.”
2 Timothy 2:20-21 “In a large house there are articles
not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay;
some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. If a
man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an
instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to
the Master and prepared to do any good work.”
Ezekiel 18:30-32 “Therefore, O house of Israel, I will
judge you, each one according to his ways, declares
the Sovereign LORD. Repent! Turn away from all
your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid
yourselves of all the offenses you have committed,
and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you
die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the
death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Repent and live!”
Ephesians 4:17-18 “So I tell you this, and insist on it
in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the
Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are
darkened in their understanding and separated from the
life of God because of the ignorance that is in them
due to the hardening of their hearts.”
Ephesians 4:19 “Having lost all sensitivity, they have
given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in
every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.”

Deuteronomy 8:2 “Remember how the LORD your
God led you all the way in the desert these forty years,
to humble you and to test you in order to know what
was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his
commands.
1 Samuel 2:7 “The LORD sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.”
Job 40:12 “look at every proud man and humble him,
crush the wicked where they stand.”
James 4:6 “But he gives us more grace. That is why
Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives
grace to the humble."
Philippians 1:29 “For it has been granted to you on
behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith,
suffer for him”
Matthew 24:24 “For false Christs and false prophets
will appear and perform great signs and miracles to
deceive even the elect—if that were possible.”
Acts 11:18 “When they heard this, they had no further Acts 11:17 “So if God gave them the same gift as he
objections and praised God, saying, "So then, God has gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who
granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life."”
2 Timothy 2:10 “Therefore I endure everything for
the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the
salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.” endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown
Ephesians 4:20-25 “You, however, did not come to
know Christ that way. Surely you heard of him and
were taught in him in accordance with the truth that
is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your
former way of life, to put off your old self, which is
being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made
new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the
new self, created to be like God in true righteousness
and holiness. Therefore each of you must put off
falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we
are all members of one body.”
Exodus 10:3 “So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh
and said to him, "This is what the LORD, the God of
the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to
humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that
they may worship me.
1 Kings 21:29 “"Have you noticed how Ahab has
humbled himself before me? Because he has
humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his
day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his
son."
2 Kings 22:19 “Because your heart was responsive
and you humbled yourself before the LORD when
you heard what I have spoken against this place and its
people, that they would become accursed and laid
waste, and because you tore your robes and wept in
my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD.”
James 4:10 “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and
he will lift you up.”
1 Timothy 6:11-12 “But you, man of God, flee from
love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight
of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which
you were called when you made your good
confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
Titus 2:11 “For the grace of God that brings salvation
has appeared to all men.”
was I to think that I could oppose God?"
2 Timothy 2:11-12 “Here is a trustworthy saying: If
we died with him, we will also live with him; if we
him, he will also disown us;”