Hello, this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
Today I want to show you another scripture that uses the term elect to refer to believers
in Christ.
Just to show you that it's we as Christians that are God's chosen people, not the Jews.
The word elect means chosen.
So we as Christians are the chosen people.
The Jews are not elect unless they believe in Christ, then they'll be elect.
Listen to Romans 8, starting in verse 33.
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
It is God that justifieth.
So right there we see that being elect is to be justified by God.
How are we justified?
By faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, not of works lest any man should boast.
So he says, who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand
of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
And on and on.
See, we are elect because we're justified.
Because we believe in Jesus.
Because we believe in the resurrection.
And because Jesus loves us and he will never leave us or forsake us, nothing can separate
us from the love of Jesus Christ.
He's daily making intercession for us.
We are the elect.
We are the chosen people.
This is spoken unto the Romans.
He says we're the elect.
God's making intercession for us.
Nothing's going to separate us from the love of Christ.
And he's talking to Gentiles in the book of Romans.
So again, this just goes to show you that it's not the Jews that are elect in the New
Testament or chosen in the New Testament.
No, we're the chosen people in the New Testament, not the Jews.