Worth Green, Th.M., D. Min.
This morning I am going to tell you “The Absolute Truth about Predestination—-No Kidding.” What I am about to tell you is beyond debate. It will please the true Calvinist who believes that God so controls this world that God elects some to heaven and elects or leaves others to death, hell, and destruction. And it will please the true Arminian/Wesleyan who believes in the God given, unhindered human freedom of all people to choose our paths in life, including whether or not we trust and obey God.
The absolute truth about predestination—no kidding, is found in Romans 8:29f. Therein St. Paul writes:
For those whom God foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he (the Son) might be the first-born of many brethren/children/brothers and sisters.
The truth about predestination is that those, whom God foreknew—and that certainly includes all “true followers of Jesus Christ who persevere to the end” are “predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.”
