Bible Verses about being CHOSEN.
John6:4
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him;and I will raise him up on the last day.
Ephesians 1:4
Just as he chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,that we would be Holy and blameless before Him in Love.
He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself,according to the kind intention of his will.
AMEN!
Umm, doing a personal study of the word has its benefits and there are many ways to do that. My personal bible study starts with prayer as I ask the Holy Spirit to lead and enlighten. One of the most important principles of studying the word of God is always to interpret according to the context of the verse. This means considers the preceding and immediately following the verse, word or topic to make sure that you are setting on that which God’s intended meaning. Example:
John 6:44 King James Version (KJV)
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
So what is the preceding verse? If you are going back on v41, the Jews murmured. Why? Because as the same verse says, Jesus is the bread which came down from heaven that gives life everlasting. Tracing further back will lead to the narrative reasons of their murmurings. Part of that text of v.41 will lead us even further to vv.22-40 for the whole background of the story. It says coming and drawing of the people because not only of seeing the miracles of Jesus but also did eat of the loaves or the physical bread and were filled. (v.26). The context is also about not to labor (a.ka. ‘not of works which we have done’) but that which everlasting life is given to us by Christ (v.27) of similarity that the gift is eternal life though Christ (Romans 6:23).
To continue, after Jesus heard them asserted that eternal life is the work of God, it’s nothing about their works (as in ‘not of yourselves, it is the gift of God’) and belief on Christ is all the necessary thing (v.29). The issue therefore is everlasting life through Jesus Christ and how to own/possess it, but as far as the Jew is concerned, they seek sign (Greek seeks knowledge) in order to believe as even citing the O.T. of the giving of the manna (instance of miracle) yet Jesus told them that the giving of himself by the Father as the true bread had
came down from heaven who has the power to give life
unto the world (v.33).This do not limit the works of God to only a few. The gift of everlasting life that Christ gives is to all yet only those who
comes or
believes are the ones that shall never hunger or thirst. Apparently, the following verses of our text says of Christ making an invitation of eating this bread (figuratively)which Christ is offering to include all people (v. 51, 54) to have eternal life and will be raised up of the last day (either by rapture or the resurrection). The words “if any man” and “whoso” is very telling of the offering.
So that the background as far as the text is concerned, speaks nothing to do of God choosing for some to salvation. The Bible, rather talks about the coming and drawing of the people unto him. Even the word ‘draw’ has nothing to do with choosing beforehand. It has something the Father coming through, via the teaching and hearing the word of God (v. 45). So only after being taught, heard or learned the words of God may come or believe Christ for eternal life (47).
God bless