THE SERIOUSNESS OF OUR SINFULNESS Romans 3:11-12 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after

God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." Romans 8:7-8 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Ephesians 2:1-3 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. Job 14:4
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Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil. 1 Corinthians 2:14 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Isaiah 64:6-7 6 But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. 7 And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; Jeremiah 17:9 can know it?
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" The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who

John 8:44, 47 44 "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. 47 "He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."

REGENERATION AND GODS DRAWING Ephesians 2:4-9 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 1 Corinthians 1:23-24 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 1 Corinthians 4:7 7 For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? Acts 11:18 18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life." (see also 2 Tim 2:25) Acts 13:48 And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 16:14 Lydia heard us The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. John 10:26-27 26 "But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 6:44, 65 44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 65 And He said, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father." 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 4 knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God. 5 For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit. John 1:12-13 to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 3:6-8 6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 "Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' 8 "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

THE GRACIOUS, ETERNAL CHOICE TO BE HIS PEOPLE Ephesians 1:4-6, 11 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. Romans 9:15-16 15 For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 1 Peter 2:9-10 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. Matthew 20:15 'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?' (SEE 20:1-15 parable of the landowner) Psalm 65:4
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Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You,

John 10:16 16 "And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd. John 15:16 1 John 4:10
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"You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us.

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Deuteronomy 10:15 15 "The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. Deuteronomy 14:2 the LORD has chosen you to be a people for himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

FOREKNOWLEDGE AS INTIMATE, PERSONAL Romans 8:29-30 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; 30 and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. Romans 11:2 God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? Amos 3:1-2 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O People of Israel...You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Genesis 18:17-19 The lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do...? No, for I have chosen [litterally: "known"] him, that he may charge his children...to keep the way of the Lord...so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised. Hosea 13:4 Yet I have been the LORD your God Since the land of Egypt; And you were not to know any god except Me, For there is no savior besides Me. Psalm 1:6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish. Matthew 7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.' 1 Corinthians 8:3 If one loves God, one is known by God. Galatians 4:8-9 8 However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, 2 Timothy 2:19 "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord abstain from wickedness."