Matthew Stuckey here from Verity Baptist Church Manila and I want to provide you
another video on the topic of unconditional election as part of this
Calvinism series and I want to talk to you about 2 Thessalonians chapter 2
verses 10 through 13 and this is what the Bible says in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2
verse 10 and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness and them that perish
because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved this
is just after it was talking about the working of Satan is talking about the
Antichrist here in 2 Thessalonians 2 and then it talks about how there's
people that receive not the love of the truth and it says that they might be
saved if they had chosen to receive the love of the truth if they had believed
on Jesus Christ they would have been saved but they receive not the love of
the truth and a lot of people they hear the message of salvation and they end up
rejecting it they don't believe it and so it says in verse number 11 and for
this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie
and look there are certain people that you know what God does send them strong
delusion this is where a lot of Christians get confused because they see
how sometimes God will harden people's hearts or it says they cannot believe
and when there's certain people God sends them strong delusions they should
believe a lie because they rejected the truth for so long and during the end
times you're certainly gonna see that where people you know they reject the
truth and then they end up embracing the Antichrist and the devil scheme and
things like that which is the context in 2 Thessalonians 2 so verse 12 it says
that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure
and unrighteousness so the people that believe not the truth those that don't
believe they go to hell he that believes not son shall not see life the wrath of
God abideth them so they choose not to receive the love the truth they believe
not the truth then it says in verse 13 which is a verse Calvinist love but we
are bound to give thanks already God for you brethren beloved the Lord because
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of
the Spirit and believe the truth and so they love to focus on that where says
he's chosen you to salvation but as we've said before he didn't just choose
us randomly even in this verse he's chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth remember what I kept
talking about how they receive not the love the truth they didn't receive they
didn't believe the truth anyone God ends up sending them strong delusion so once
again the way he chooses them to salvation is through belief of the truth
that's clearly what you see in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 verses 10
through 13 and so it's not an unconditional a random election a random
choosing based on nothing no it's based on the fact did you receive the love the
truth did you believe when you heard the message of salvation and for us that are
saved look you know what we chose to believe the truth once again it comes
down to our free will it's not random it's very obvious the way he chose them
to salvation yeah he chose them to salvation based on whether or not they
would believe the truth or not thank you and God bless