Unearthing Your Heavenly Election: What the Bible Says About Predestination

By Charles Burgess

Have you wondered what Gods intentions are or if He has intentions for you? Answers to these questions and more are found in Unearthing Your Heavenly Election, which reveals the logical love in Gods choosing of you to be in heaven with Him eternally.

Unearthing Your Heavenly Election is a compilation of verses from the Old and New Testaments progressively arranged to uncover the sensible reasoning behind predestination. As an added bonus, you will learn the parallel doctrine in the Bible that will relieve, comfort, and empower your Christian walk. That is the doctrine of eternal security.

You will find answers to questions like:

How can you claim Jesus chose me when I am the one who chose Jesus? Can people lose their salvation? Why would some people not be chosen?

Study in depth Jesus separation of the goats from His sheep, and come to understand His parables of the talents, wheat, and tares. Take advantage of the included glossary for simple definitions of commonly used Christian words viewed in the light of election.

Start enjoying your Christian walk as you shed vague ideas concerning salvation, and instead, embrace the clarity and intensity of it. Release your grip on guilt, and let it fall away as you discover more love than you have ever known. Lose the confusion you have had about Gods saving grace, and find the answers to questions you have been afraid to ask. Come to a place of peace and relaxation with yourself and with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490848921

Charles Burgess

Charles Burgess earned a BS in Workforce Education and an MBA. In a career as a Global Training Lead, he received awards from Dell Computer, Intel Microprocessor Engineering and Exelon Nuclear. His novel Superheated draws upon his career field and incorporates treasured Midwest locations.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 09/15/2014

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1

Chapter 1 Chosen, Elect, and Draw

Chapter 2 Ordained, Called, and Preserved

Chapter 3 Foreknowledge, Predestinated, and Before the Foundation

Chapter 4 Election of Jesus and of Angels, Uphold, and Keep

Chapter 5 Evil Men Ordained and Appointed, and Children of the Devil

Chapter 6 Children of the Flesh, of the World, and Not of the World

Epilogue to Part 1

Part 2

Chapter 7 A Misconception about Election

Chapter 8 Free Will and Evangelism

Chapter 9 Eternal Security

Chapter 10 Conclusion

Afterword

Glossary

About the Author

To believers and pastors all over the world who have not yet learned of or embraced their election by God. It is hoped that this book will bring them the peace, joy, and empowerment that comes from having this knowledge.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

—C. S. Lewis

Foreword

As a preacher of God’s Word and the pastor of a local church, I am occasionally reminded by my wife to take the cookie jar of Truth from the top shelf and put it on a lower shelf where everyone can reach it. In other words, if I am going to effectively minister to my church family from behind the pulpit, they must be able to understand what is being taught. If people go home from church impressed with their preacher’s biblical knowledge but have not grasped the basic principles of the passage that was preached, their lives will remain untransformed, and they will be hindered in their ability to grow in their personal relationship with their Creator.

This is especially true when a preacher, or in this case, an author, takes on a weighty subject, such as election and predestination. While some may be content to preach to the choir of Bible college- and seminary-educated believers, I believe it takes a uniquely gifted individual, with both a passion for God’s Word and a strong commitment to discipleship, to tackle these complicated topics and to meticulously distill them down to a layman’s level—with the goal of helping those who are intimidated and overwhelmed by such deep doctrines to come to a clear understanding of what God’s Word teaches.

Charlie Burgess is such a man. Charlie is particularly qualified to author such a book because he is a layman himself who has no theological training and yet is a well-studied disciple of God’s Word who takes seriously the biblical admonition to rightly divide the word of truth. Most importantly, Charlie has thoughtfully authored a book that is rich in biblical content because he believes Scripture can stand on its own merit and does not need human intervention to help it. The end result is an extremely well-researched and well-organized book that explains the doctrine of election in a most understandable manner without sacrificing one ounce of biblical Truth. It is truly an easy and enjoyable read.

Those who sit in the pews, as well as those who stand behind the pulpit and sidestep the subject of election because of a lack of comprehension, will discover as they read this book that understanding election is not