Of course, and it was no ordinary purpose, it was the very reason for the salvation of mankind.
So look if people think they were elected, for what purpose were they elected? What have they done to warrent their election? What makes them so special? Will Jesus be saying to them, "well done my good and faithful SERVENT, or do they think they should be riding round in a golden carriage like the queen of England.
Basically what do you think is the purpose of election? Please tell.
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Romans 9
Rom 9:11-23
Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad — in order that
God's purpose in election might stand:
12 not by works but by him who calls — she was told, "The older will serve the younger."
13 Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
15 For he says to Moses,
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
17 For
the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.”
18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? 22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And
He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
