Step Into Your Identity

Episode 2 of 3 - What does it mean to be predestined and chosen? The word “predestined” is difficult for many people to accept, but in this episode Rabbi Schneider dives into what it really means. Join Rabbi as he continues teaching on one of his favorite books in the Bible.
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Step Into Your Identity - Did We Choose God?

[@mikegasper790]

That ending brought me to tears. Thank you so much Yeshua for choosing me, and my brothers and sisters.

[@truth6007]

I don't miss a single teaching of yours, Rabbi. I'm always blessed when I listen to you. Watching from India.

[@Safiredawn]

I have always heard pastors say when teaching about predestination that we chose God first so He chose us. I always knew in my spirit that this wasn’t accurate. Thank you for your teaching on this often misinterpretation of scripture. I thank God every day for choosing a sinner like me to be part of His family!

[@PatC-yi4fq]

Amen

[@Idkjustyet]

The Holy Spirit surely does guide us to truth even when lies are being told & weren’t not aware of it. I love God He’s so good 💯😭❤️

[@bryantlane8646]

A SAINT WASHED IN THE HOLY BLOOD OF LORD JESUS CHRIST….TALKING RIGHT WILL LEAD YOU TO LIVE VICTORIOUS AMEN.

[@patriciasenior8487]

I suppose people like to think there is something they can contribute to their salvation. How many times have I heard somebody say they are a good person. I think of the song Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretched like me. I once was lost but now I’m found was blind but now I see. I was converted in a hell and damnation church. Sadly I don’t think there are many of those about these days.

[@uzmagill3772]

Amen and Amen thank you Apostle Rabbi Schneider for the great teaching and powerful prayer and great word .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Amen 🙏

[@diankak4953]

Thank God for Rabbi Schneider, I learn so much, oh God be the Glory !

[@debb3661]

I feel so grateful for Rabbi Schneider's teachings, this was SO HELPFUL to me! All praises to the Father, King Jesus and the Holy Spirit 🙏❤

[@blessed72772]

Thank you Rabi Schneider. What a beautiful word! This is such a great reminder. We are chosen not because we have done anything to deserve it!!! How can you not love God with all your heart, all your mind and with all your understanding knowing that? ❤

[@KOSHERBLAK]

Well side Rabbi I appreciate your insights on the word of God thank you for this teaching this morning

[@migueltorres2198]

We are blessed and highly favored❤😊

[@marymelton8782]

HALLELU-YAH ! Thank You LORD ❤ for who I am in You ! Thank you Rabbi for that powerful teaching ! ❤

[@DannyLovesJesus]

I enjoy watching Rabbi Schneider. He seems to be a great man of God. Thank you, and praise Jesus our Lord Almighty Savior! Thank you Jesus! 🙌🙏

[@thomasfortner6678]

This is the best presentation of of the "Golden Chain of Salvation" from Roman I've heard in a long time. Well done, Rabbi. The Reformers would sing His praises because of your teaching in this passage.

[@ninamonico1312]

Thank you Father for choosing me and my loved ones. 🙏🏽💖

[@margarethaslett1002]

Thank you Rabbi . Thank you Jesus

[@siseabarton874]

Shalom Thank you Father for choosing me before the foundation of the earth. ❤prayers 🙏 Rabbi thank you.

[@divinitysorcha3780]

Thank you, Rabbi. Bless you. Bless GOD. Bless Jesus. Amen ❤.

[@paulzdobinski7573]

Thank you, Father, for saving me through your son Jesus Christ, my Lord and imparting to me the gift of Grace the Holy Spirit. Amen . Behold, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Amen .

[@jilldaher1046]

Chosen for such a time as now 🌟🙏✝️💙🌈

[@user-iamRobinV68]

Bless you Rabbi. You bring such peace 🙏✝️

[@bryanolson4350]

Amen. Thankyou brother

[@user-hz8cl4hj6f]

Thank you for this message. Our God is a awsome God. I am grateful to My Heavenly Father for chosing me to be apart of His family and for placing me into His Kingdom and that He has plans for me for the good. He is my life worth living for, for without Him I would have nothing to live for. You are a real blessing. May the Lord bless you and your family. Shalom

[@jennifercunningham8834]

An on time word, Glory to God

[@rhondaedwards664]

Thank you Rabbi for this deep and important teaching! I'm helped greatly in my understanding of this mysterious truth principle of God 🙏 I'm so glad to support and be covered by the anointing of this ministry. Shalom, blessing and prayer always!

[@sharondunlap6242]

Oh how much more Great is God's Salvation and God's Grace and God's Mercy towards us ! Hallelujah...Thank You Father God...I give All my Hallelujah's to You..Amen!

[@gaylesuemedley-barton4217]

Hallelujah thank You Father! Amen!❤😊

[@jestemeria579]

I want and I need my calling in him, it's the completion of my life, the moment I have been waiting such a long time. O GOD I'm hungry for righteousness let your glory shine so that through you I may be a beacon of light in this world. Complete this vessel and sanctify me O GOD but not according to my will but yours O GOD. All things are coming clear, may your glory father shine in the world. Let all those that are weary come to you O GOD so that we can find rest in this world through the truth that is in Jesus Christ our Lord. Glory be to GOD. AMEN

[@AB8606SbG]

Amen brother!! To God be all glory!!!

[@raising5kiddos]

Thank you, father for choosing to love me. It’s so amazing to know you and love you. All of my days I will sing about the goodness of God.

[@VMA11750]

Wow! Excellent breakdown, Rabbi! Thank you.

[@cbowles3379]

Thank you so much rabbi Schneider for todays message ! Amen and amen ❤🙏❤

[@PatC-yi4fq]

Amen

[@dianeoberto9199]

Rabbi Schneider, I prayed that God would clarify this for me, and when I watched this I knew He was answering that prayer. I can see His Holy Spirit upon you, and it is recorded! He is within and abounding You! Praise God, for He is good!

[@patriciasenior8487]

It’s great to hear somebody talk about Christian Truths. Years ago I remember talking to somebody about predestination and that person became very offended, even though that person was a believer.

[@thehudsonfamilyhomestead9551]

Thank You my Yeshua for choosing me!❤❤❤

[@PatC-yi4fq]

Amen

[@dianelink-urtz4698]

Thank you Rabbi ❤ wonderful teaching to start the day!

[@annawest6771]

Thankyou for this Beautiful.

[@PatC-yi4fq]

Amen

[@ruth8583]

I thank Father God for choosing me every single day! He has been the only one that has been left standing with after all! I love Jesus with my whole heart because he fixed my broken heart.

[@oprophetisfake9482]

God didn't choose you to be in Jesus. He chose what will happen to you once you had received grace and you were in Jesus. God wants for all men to come to salvation

[@richardjohanson6421]

Jesus said no one came to come to Him unless God grants it John 6:44, and no one can come to God except thru Jesus John 14:6 that's why no one can take us out of His or our Father's hands. John 10:29

[@richardjohanson6421]

​@@oprophetisfake9482Romans 11-26 Isaiah 45 4-7

[@oprophetisfake9482]

@@richardjohanson6421 John 6:44-45 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me DRAWS them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me." God does not drag people but draws them. Those that listen and learn from the Father are given to Jesus, but that doesn't mean that the others were not also called and had the opportunity to believe in and be included in Jesus. The predestination of those in Jesus to salvation and conformity with the likeness of Jesus, is not dependent on God choosing to save some and damn others for no apparent reason. If people listen and learn from God they will be saved, but they have free will to choose if they will listen right up until either the point of salvation or up until the point of death. I repeat God does not predestine who will be in Jesus, but He does predestined that once people ARE in Jesus, they will be saved. Salvation is by faith alone, not by predestination alone. When we read the book of Romans we see faith CONTRASTED against works. What some want to make out is that if man exercises faith himself, even with help from God, that that faith somehow counts as a work of righteousness. It is contradicting what is actually in Romans.

[@tatiana-webbe8871]

Amen and God bless thank you God for choosing me

[@liyawang6175]

Thank you my Good Lord Jesus for healing me 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@roshanchristopherdsouza918]

Shalom Brethren 🙏 HalleluYah Amen. For this Elohim is our Elohim forever. He shall be our guide even to death. (Psalm 48:14) Our heavenly Abba Father Yahweh Elohim blesses all of you and keeps safe Yahshua HaMashiach Name Amen. From INDIA 🇮🇳💖🥀🌸🌺💞🌹💕💐

[@geraldhoskowicz5157]

It literally blows my mind that GOD knew ME before the world was created! Out of billions and trillions of people He created over many many millennia! I LOVE My Abba Father and Brother Yeshua. ❤️. ✝️❤️✌️

[@maria.1313]

Thank you Abba Father for choosing me in your love to be Holy for you! Thank you for your mercy new every morning, I accept my identity in Yeshua your son 🥹❤️‍🔥☦️🩸🙏

[@tomscott3678]

Praise the Lord

[@dorothybaade8159]

WOW Rabbi! What an amazing teaching! It's God from beginning to end with HIS great mercy!

[@PatC-yi4fq]

Amen

[@lyndavigoureux5070]

Amen Alleluia thank You Lord Yeshua for save me

[@OliveWeitzel]

Rav Schneider, today your message made me cry!

[@carolinekinney2364]

To know the Father chose each one of us, He chose me! If I can love Him anymore, that is a great reason to. I don’t ever want to hurt Him. He truly owns my heart.

[@AliceDoe-dt5dl]

Amen ✨

[@bb-r5710]

Amen❤❤

[@svt.787]

God bless you Rabbi Schneider and your family 🙏💝✨ Your teachings have helped me tremendously 💯

[@paulzdobinski7573]

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved you and your household. Amen .

[@lilimariamj]

These words were of so much comfort right now. Thank you Rabbi Schneider 🙏

[@richardjohanson6421]

Everything is predestined according to the foreknowledge of His will Ephesians 1 4-11 Psalm 139 1-16 all our days ordained before one came to pass.

[@richardjohanson6421]

That's why we have the Book of Revelation the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end Jesus Christ

[@heather602]

Did God tempt Adam and Eve to disobey and sin against Him?

[@JeffR777]

@@heather602 SATAN did read your Bible!!! Genesis 3:1-6

[@JohnathonAxtman]

Be glad, yes exceedingly glad when men exclude you, for thus they did to the prophets. But woe to you when the crowds praise you, for thus they did to the false prophets.

[@destinfarr]

Amen!

[@ThinkHEAVEN-YouTube]

You may have explained just why those waiting for the Rapture are waiting so long - because He is waiting for a lot of people to be saved BEFOREHAND 🎉❤!

[@PatC-yi4fq]

Amen

[@sharonmobley7072]

Thank you Rabbi Schneider for this much needed clarification. God’s continued blessings ✝️🛐🔥🕊

[@brendamedford8560]

GOD repeatedly calls on us all to exercise our will to trust in Christ for salvation we all should pursue obedience to those commands regardless of how well we do or don't understand predestination GOD bless Rabbi Schneider and keep you in Jesus Christ name Amen. 🙏🇮🇱📖🕊️💗

[@bpategodsdaughter348]

Amen 🙏 ❤

[@user-kq8xw6ox4k]

❤❤❤❤

[@patrickgithinjih]

Man of God I need a healing prayer, I have been unwell for more than 3 months. I want to be healed by God

[@RabbiSchneider]

Shalom @patrickgithinjih, We want you to know that we will be praying for your healing. Rabbi oversees our Prayer Team that meets to pray, in faith, for those that reach out to us. God Bless, The Discovering The Jewish Jesus Prayer Team

[@patrickgithinjih]

@@RabbiSchneider God bless you and your team.

[@DawnSmith-xs7gf]

❤❤❤

[@BigBllc]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Humility is the fear of the Lord. God decides it! Not me. His will. Not mine. My life is but a vapor which appears for a short while. If the Lord wills then I shall live.

[@RabbiSchneider]

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[@trishhardy7975]

Amen...Thank You Father for choosing me before the foundation of the world!!❤🛐

[@blancarosello7681]

Amen! ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@jamesmiller3562]

🛐

[@rgisSavedbyG]

I just stated to listen, and I do know that God know's everything, the End from the beginning, in other words he knows, because he created everything, including TIME....

[@Henry-et1ot]

So, I seek to know God's purpose and identity for me is because he chose me, not that I chose him.

[@childofGod3n1]

There wouldn't be any need for the cross if He knew who would choose Him bc it would've been a done deal! And no freewill. Jesus would have died needlessly. That would make God out to be horrible! He chose us in the beginning to have fellowship with Him. We do have a a freewill. Happy is the person who finds this truth! 😊🙏😇

[@heather602]

Jesus still needed to make atonement for our sins. But yes, God desires true worshippers. Spirit and truth. ❤

[@TomiAnneTimm]

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

[@oprophetisfake9482]

Yes, we chose God, with His help. The doctrine that God chose those that would be saved, and simply left others with a false, ineffective call, is to put the blame on God for anyone continuing in sin and unbelief. The Bible doesn't say God drags some to salvation and just lets the rest go to hell. It says that God is drawing ALL men to Himself. Another problem related to this is the idea that God cannot be God,if He relinquishes the tiniest iota of His sovereignty to mankind. Intimately they end up making God the author of sin. They preach such an absolute control that nothing could ever happen or have happened, that their god didn't causally decree to happen. IE they end up teaching that God must not only have allowed sin, but caused it Himself. The truth is God forsaw those who would believe, and He foreordained what would happen to those who would receive His grace and be saved. Under extreme, logically following, Calvinism not even Adam or Satan had any free will and were just like pawns♟️♟️ in a chess game with the god of Calvinism playing both sides of the board.

[@Lost-in-the-EIGHTIES]

Rabbi I AM thankful to be chosen. Without questioning in a way that is judging God, how can I be elated to have been chosen continuing to have the joy of my salvation while at the same time contain the utter horror and hopelessness I feel for those who have been chosen unto wrath no matter how much I witness or pray for their salvation they are going to hell. I have struggled with this Calvinist conundrum for a long time. What am I missing please! I must be missing something that ties a ribbon on it. Do those not chosen actually go to hell or to a place not quite as close to God…

[@heather602]

Calvinism is a deception. Please seek the Lord for the truth. He was gracious to show me through many scriptures. Jesus loves you.

[@kaimagnus]

Perhaps we need to consider and realize that when God chose Isaac over Esau and there seems to be no reason that it is good and right and we can't see it right or understand it because our hearts are darkened from the sin curse at the fall of humanity. Maybe if our hearts were right we could see it right and it would seem to us that it was all good and right when God chose Isaac over Esau. I believe that it was good and right simply because it is God and everything He does is good and right simply because it is Him! I just trust that whatever The Lord does is good and right because it is from Him! I hope this an understanding that He has put in me, part of Him choosing me to be His. I actually hope for these things because if he chose me then I can't mess it up! He will make sure I keep trying and keep on the way to Him. As we are told Jesus will not lose any that are given to Him! I'm a person born into sin so I would mess it up if it was under my control. So I'm very glad and grateful that The Lord is in control! Hope this helps. I love you all!

[@prestonsilvey733]

How do we know if we are chosen?

[@SheepDog1974]

Chosen means that you have declared the following. Romans 10:9-13

[@crct2004]

@@SheepDog1974 Seems to me that is the opposite of what Rabbi just said.

[@crct2004]

I am seeing that large numbers of people are wanting and claiming to be "the chosen." My guess is that it is those who feel unworthy and not chosen but still are drawn to our Lord no matter how much suffering, loss, betrayal and isolation one faces. So many seem to associate earthly blessings with being righteous/chosen. I kinda think it may well be quite the opposite. Some of the best people I have ever known suffered terribly and did not seem blessed at all but their hearts shined.

[@tristenweber-nd1sv]

You would not have knowledge of the Lord and the wisdom to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior if you were not of the elect. The Pharisees did not know Him because Jesus did not choose them as they were were not His sheep. Jesus called Peter blessed because knowledge of the Son of Man was given to him by the Lord. So you see, if you accept or have accepted Christ as Lord and Savior you are among the elect as the only way your heart could even be open to that truth was if God chose to open it.

[@SheepDog1974]

@@tristenweber-nd1sv faith comes by hearing, Romans 10:17 The gospel is the power of God. Romans 1:16, he sends it out and his word does not return void. People come to faith by Romans 10:14-15. The Pharisees did not know him because they did not believe, they chose not to. Otherwise your interpretation assumes that God created some people to believe and be saved and others to be damned and destined for eternal separation from God. This is false, not biblical and calvinism. God is love and his affection is for ALL to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 1Tim 2:4-6 🙏

[@quincyquetant6457]

Amen! Question, if God knew that he loved Jacob and hated easeaa before they weee born. Doesn’t that mean he knows the decisions each one would make before they ever did it? Which is how he’s able to choose before it even happens? Saying he knew us before we were in our mother’s womb, from my understanding means that he knew what we would doin this lifetime. So the foundations of this world being completed and him know the end from the beginning, from my understanding would mean that he made that choice because it already happened.

[@SheepDog1974]

Knowledge of something does not mean to Determine something... While God foreknew Jacob - the word "hated Esau" means that God chose Jacob over Esau. It's not what calvinism implies that God loves some for salvation and hates others for damnation. Jesus loves ALL and want ALL to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ 🙏

[@quincyquetant6457]

@@SheepDog1974 so why does scripture say that he hates Esea? That was the base of my question.

[@SheepDog1974]

@@quincyquetant6457 our English translation doesn't have a proper word for the Greek translation. In the new testament, Luke 14:26 Jesus says that we should hate our father and mother... Is this what he really means, No! The word hate means "prefer, to choose" But not in the salvific sense.

[@eunicebennett6171]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💙🇮🇱🕊

[@richardjohanson6421]

John 6 70Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” 71He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who would betray Him, being one of the twelve.

[@richardjohanson6421]

Jesus said no one came to come to Him unless God grants it John 6:44, and no one can come to God except thru Jesus John 14:6 that's why no one can take us out of His or our Father's hands. John 10:29

[@amyhall6715]

How does this fit with regards as to those who go to hell?

[@richardjohanson6421]

Romans 9 12-2712it was said to her, “The older shall serve the younger.” 13As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.” Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice 14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15For 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.” 16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 17For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” 18Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. 19You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” 20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved.” 26“And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.”

[@ingridmendez287-w6g]

Does love have a color because life requires patience and patience is part of love and it’s not fire what if human is chosen cause he accept without emotion

[@richardjohanson6421]

Born an illegitimate child from an adulterous relationship before Roe vs Wade yet chosen from the beginning of the world Ephesians 1 4-11 Psalm 139 1-16 Isaiah 57 3-19

[@Lost-in-the-EIGHTIES]

Rabbi I believe you are a messianic Jew, do you also believe in the Calvinistic teachings like a 5 point tulip teaching?

[@richardjohanson6421]

John 15 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

[@richardjohanson6421]

Hebrews 4 13And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. James 1 5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

[@heather602]

Yes God chose us. But it's still God's will that none perish and all come to faith in Christ.

[@JeffR777]

@@heather602 Nope scriptures address both in the Bible, God willing to perish and not willing to perish, you need to read your Bible!!!

[@christinepieterse8072]

Who is this us and we So what is the use then praying for souls to be saved? If God already has chosen I am so confused now So no matter how hard a person tries to live for God It is all in veign, if he/she is not chosen😢 Just like Judas Iskariot

[@JeffR777]

Not by right actions of doing things, like trying to live for God to be saved, right? that's doing right actions, right works. Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

[@heather602]

Sister, I want to encourage you to continue praying for the lost. Calvinism is false teaching. It grieves me that so many are caught up in it.

[@JeffR777]

@@heather602 Thank you for your opinion, STOP projecting on people your warped ideas.

[@heather602]

If calvinism were true then every single jew that was ever born would be saved. Paul says that God has not cast away his people whom He FOREKNEW. Paul says they were cut off because of unbelief. But if they do not continue to abide in unbelief, God will graft them into the vine. Jesus says when He is lifted up he will draw ALL men. But that doesn't mean that all will repent. Pharoah hardened his own heart a few times before God hardened it further. This aligns with what God says about giving people up to their own lusts after a certain point.

[@SheepDog1974]

Calvinism is a sham

[@heather602]

​@@SheepDog1974Amen

[@AB-ComeLordJesus]

Paul also said not all those who are descendants of Abraham are of Abraham ( children of faith) God always has a remnant among the Jews those are the called of God.

[@AB-ComeLordJesus]

​@@SheepDog1974Can you explain from Scripture how?

[@heather602]

@@AB-ComeLordJesus Yes God always has a remnant. However, the command is still to repent and not remain in unbelief in order to be grafted in. The Holy Spirit is not irresistible. That idea idea is cast down in Hebrews and in other places in both OT and NT

[@VinceOlson96]

I love Rabbi Schneider, many of his teachings have helped me better understand the faith I have but I disagree with his interpretation of these texts. He's teaching Calvinism here which I don't subscribe to.

[@blancarosello7681]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@richardjohanson6421]

Isaiah 43 1But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. 2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. 3For I am the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. 4Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, And people for your life. 5Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; 6I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth- 7Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

[@richardjohanson6421]

Isaiah 45 1-7 4For Jacob My servant’s sake, And Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me. 5I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, 6That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other; 7I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.’

[@richardjohanson6421]

Isaiah 43 9Let all the nations be gathered together, And let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this, And show us former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; Or let them hear and say, “It is truth.” 10“You are My witnesses,” says the Lord, “And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me. 11I, even I, am the Lord, And besides Me there is no savior. 12I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And there was no foreign god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses,” Says the Lord, “that I am God.

[@richardjohanson6421]

Isaiah 43 22-28 26Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted. 27Your first father sinned, And your mediators have transgressed against Me. 28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, And Israel to reproaches.

[@richardjohanson6421]

Luke 21 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

[@ShelbyDove]

Then YESHUA didn't die because GOD loved the world only part of it? That would contradict scripture.

[@heather602]

It does contradict it. Jesus sacrificed his life for the world. That doesn't mean the whole world will repent. It means God is great, amazing, merciful kind loving and just and we deserve hell. Every mouth will be stopped. God WILL have his day when he shows the entire world that He is God. Don't stop praying for the lost!!

[@misctimetraveler]

so it means that no matter what some will never be saved because God has hardened their hearts on purpose? So don't worry about those who don't listen to the Gospel it is up to God who comes to him. Some of those you love may not be able to be saved. We just have to accept it. So some may just give up because they don't think they have been chosen. But you are saying we (your audience) are chosen, but you don't know that everyone here has been chosen.

[@heather602]

I love Kurt Schneider but calvinism is a deception. Please seek the Lord for the truth. He showed me when I wrestled with this issue.

[@ByTheSpirit84]

If this is true, that God predestines people for salvation and not others, intentionally excluding some from eternal life, condemning them to a fiery eternity in hell for no reason other than He chose to do so, then that would make God more evil than anything that has ever been and it is completely inconsistent with the very core of the gospel. Which is that Jesus died for the sins of all the world, that whoever calls on Him will be saved, not just "the chosen". I'm out, I can't support (by my YT subscription) this doctrine.

[@JeffR777]

The reason for the condemning is because of their sinful choices, right? their evil choices and works they go to hell.

[@ByTheSpirit84]

@@JeffR777 The point is, the idea of predestination is only those that God chooses can be saved, and those He does not never have a chance because "they aren't chosen". Thus God creates people just to let them burn in hell forever. At the end of the day, none of us know who is and isn't chosen obviously. But the doctrine or idea to me (and a lot of believers share this opinion) Calvinism and that aspect of it specifically are decidedly anti-Christian.

[@VinceOlson96]

Not sure if you've heard of Leighton Flowers but I recommend looking him up if you haven't. He interprets these passages in a way that align with scripture and don't misconstrue the character of God.

[@ByTheSpirit84]

@@VinceOlson96 I will have to give this a look and read. Thank you for the recommendation

[@JeffR777]

@@ByTheSpirit84 God's grace is also of his character We are saved by Christ's grace through Christ's faith Ephesians 2:5, 8 GRACE IS: 1. Unmerited, then none can claim it as their inalienable right. They can’t say I have a right to God’s grace 2. If grace is unearned and undeserved, then none are entitled to it. 3. If grace is a gift, then none can demand it. Therefore, as salvation is by grace, the free gift of God, then He bestows it on whom He pleases. Because salvation is by grace.