Here are a few verses that pastor John Piper uses to kindly persuade those struggling against this beautiful doctrine:

• “God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God” (2 Corinthians 4:6). 

• “Even when we were dead in our trespasses, God made us alive” (Ephesians 2:1, 5). 

• “The Lord’s servant must be patient and correct with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance, leading to a knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:24–25).

• “…no one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father” (John 6:65). 

• “As many as were appointed to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48).

• “Even as he chose us [he elected us] in him before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4).

• Also see Romans 8:30, Romans 9:11, Romans 11:5, and 1 Corinthians 1:23-24.

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Praising God’s purpose and plan: to get glory (Eph 1:5-14))