Discussion question: v28: what are the implications of this verse?
Genesis 50:20 – Joseph and his brothers
David’s adultery and murder lead to Solomon’s kingship and the line of Jesus
Even the fall of mankind lead to the greatest gift ever given (Christ Jesus)
Discussion question: v28: How specific can we get with this verse, can we say something like God causes a leaf to fall from a tree so that I stop and look at it so that I’m off by a split second and don’t get hit by a car? or does this only mean the big stuff like God causes a famine so that an entire race of people move down to another nation so that God rescues them from that nation? Does the all mean all? See the following verses for some examples of “all”
Mark 1:5 – all the nation was going out to John?
Titus 2:11 – the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men
James 1:21 – put aside all filthiness and all wickedness
Discussion question: What are the qualifications for all things working together for good?
they love God
they are called according to His purpose
Leader: for your reference
Called:
1 Pet 2:9
1 Cor 1:9
1 Thess 2:21
Eph 1:18
John 6:44,12:32,18:10,21:6
Foreknew:
Acts 2:23
1 Peter 1:2
Discussion question: What did God foreknow? Either that we will accept or that He knew His own plan of salvation?
Acts 2:23, 1 Peter 1:2
1 Peter 1:20 – Christ was foreknown before the foundation of the World
Rom 11:2
God chose Israel for His own purposes: Deut 7:7-8, 10:15
Discussion question: What does it mean for God to know us?
Jer 1:5
Matt 7:23
John 10:14
1 Cor 8:3
Predestination – why the controversy? because if God predestined us, we didn’t choose but if God didn’t predestine us, something is out of God’s control
Acts 4:27-28
1 Cor 2:7
Eph 1:5,11
Predetermined
Luke 22:22
Acts 2:23
Called – see above
Justified – see Romans 3-5
Glorified – are we glorified?
Col 3:4
Rom 8:17
1 Thess 2:20
2 Tim 2:10
