Predestination

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:44).

Scripture Reference

Romans 8:16  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 

Ephesians 2:1  And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 

2:2  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— 

2:3  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. 

2:4  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 

2:5  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 

Romans 8:14  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 

Romans 10:14  How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 

1 Corinthians 2:14  The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 

Romans 8:6  For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 

7  For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Jeremiah 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 

Ephesians 2:8  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 

9  not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 

1 Corinthians 1:23  but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 

24  but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 

Exodus 33:19  And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Rom 9:15  For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”