GOD chooses who HE wants.
If you are GOD's then nothing will seperate you from GOD.
Please pray the LORD's PRAYER and please read:
ROMANS 8:31-39
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”[a]
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GOD BLESS US ALL,
Jesus4life
Good sound theology...except for appending the so-called “Lord’s Prayer”. Notice where in the story line of the Bible this prayer occurs. The Sermon on the Mount is a thorough-going description of the Law (continuing through Matt. 7:27). Why is this important? Because during this amplification of the Law Jesus also said, “You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Do we think this is the Gospel of grace? Not hardly.
The cross had not yet come. Jesus’ exposition of the Law astounded the listeners as impossible...and it is. It was intended to crush self-effort. No amount of self-developed righteousness will meet these requirements. And, just as the rich young ruler gave up when told the true weight of the Law, there is no hope for man...unless God chooses the man (your original point). Notice Matt. 19:26. What man cannot do, God will do for His elect.
When you mix the exposition of the requirements of Law with Paul’s remarks about God’s election you risk confusing the audience. That is, do you really believe that you want God to forgive you EXACTLY as you forgive others? Really? I want Him to forgive me beyond my lack of forgiveness. That is the Gospel Paul illuminated in Romans. And, you are correct...If God chooses you then nothing will separate you from God.
We have to take the Scriptures as they come to us, unfolding, developing, clarifying as they go. You will notice that most Roman Catholics hover on the Gospels, and have some disdain for Paul. This is because they can sense a change in the picture, an unwelcome change from “you must do” (Gospels) to a “you cannot do, God will do it for His elect” (Epistles). With your remarks, the water is muddied. But, let the story unfold. Your remarks are true, but quoting the so-called Lord’s Prayer to support them confuses the issue.
“In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.”
**When GOD chooses you, no one can take you away from GOD.**
Wrong.
Jesus chose Judas Iscariot, and the devil took him away from the Lord.
Amen! Salvation is totally of the Lord.