Question:
What is predestination?

Answer:
There are four verses in which this word is found. They are:Romans 8:29,30 and Ephesians 1:5 and 11. Also, in Acts 4:28 and 1 Corinthians 2:7 where the words “determined” and “ordained” are used, they mean the same as predestinate. Predestinate means to foreordain, to predetermine, to decide beforehand. All of these verses tell us that God has planned according to the counsel of His own will what He shall do. In Romans and Ephesians we are shown that what God has predetermined will actually be seen and enjoyed by Christ’s redeemed ones in the glory to come when we are with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In Romans we shall be just like God’s Son and be with Him in Glory. In Ephesians we will be God’s sons by adoption according to His purpose. By faith, we now enjoy these wonderful things even though the full accomplishment of them is future. This is because what God has foreordained will become a full reality. Nothing and no one can stop, or even hinder, what God has decided beforehand. Some people think that predestination has to do with whether or not a person shall be saved and go to heaven, or that some are predestined to be saved and some are predestined to be lost. This is false, for all these verses show us what the blessing of Christ’s redeemed ones, the saved, are according to God’s determination. Lost ones are not noticed. To repeat, predestination is the truth of what believers shall be when they are with Christ in eternal glory.