What If I Am Not One of the Elect?
1) Direct Answer
Don’t stay under that fear. If you can hear the Word and feel a pull to come to Jesus Christ, that itself is the sign that you are one of the elect. Come to Him now. The one who comes, He will not cast out.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me; and him that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). The elect come—and anyone who comes is received.
- “No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him” (John 6:44). That inward draw you feel is God calling.
- “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give unto them eternal life” (John 10:27-28). The sheep recognize His voice in the Word and follow.
- “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17). The door stands open to every thirsty heart.
- “Give diligence to make your calling and election sure” (2 Peter 1:10). You don’t guess at it—you step into it and confirm it by obeying the Word.
- The way is plain: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38). Believe from the heart (Romans 10:9-13), be sealed with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- The lost don’t worry about being elect; dead seed doesn’t feel the sun. If you’re concerned, that’s evidence the Spirit is dealing with you.
- Election never bars a seeking soul; it brings you in. The Bible never shows Jesus turning away a repentant, believing heart.
- If you can receive the Word and follow it, that proves what you are. The sheep hear His voice. So don’t argue with the knock—open the door.
- Ask yourself: Did Jesus ever tell a thirsty soul, “You might not be elect, stay away”? No. He said, “Come.”
4) Short Reinforcing Statement
Come by faith today. Repent, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and ask God to fill you with the Holy Ghost. The Spirit Himself will witness with your spirit that you belong to Him, and that settles the question of election.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Have not I sent thee?
62-0124 §120
Jesus so much as said, "Before the time come that that elected church, that Pentecostal group..." Now, Pentecost is not an organization. Now you brothers that's got the Pentecostal Assemblies, the Pentecostal Oneness, the Pentecostal Church of God, the Pentecostal Foursquare, and all that, you're fooling yourselves. That's an organization---which is all right, I have nothing against it. But you're not the group; Pentecost is an experience. That Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, that Assemblies, and the Foursquare,...
What it takes to overcome all unbelief: Our faith
60-0729 §86
Our heavenly Father, upon the basis of Thy Word, upon the basis of Thy shed blood, on Thy vicarious suffering at Calvary, Thy triumph over death, over hell and the grave, and over Satan, all the works of Satan, from sin to its attributes, to sickness, and to disappointments, and nervous flusterations, and all the gloomy wearies that goes with it, all the doubts and things. We build Your platform here tonight for Your beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. We are electing Him, Lord, for this campaign. And we're happy, Lord. T...
A blushing prophet
56-1125E §24
Sinning among the Christians, among the elect, they've sold their birthrights out for popularity. The minister has swapped the Gospel for a social calling. He's swapped the old-fashioned, blood-washed Gospel for an intellectual with the people, to preach intellect, talk of societies and misuse the Gospel. Many of them has went out into the fields of preaching and used the Gospel for personal gain, to make money. Many of them has got big farms and cars and things that they never would have had---personal gain. Not a...
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §96
We have water baptism---it's all mixed up. That's right. One sprinkles; one pours. One takes Father, Son, Holy Ghost; one takes this. One baptizes three times face forward---one for a God named "Father," another one for a God named "Son," another one for a God named "Holy Ghost"; the other one says, "You're wrong. You have to baptize backwards three times, that way." And oh, what a mess! But the whole thing has been wound up. Why, there's only one God. And his name is Jesus Christ, and there's not another name unde...
A Secondhand Robe
56-1125M §12
Now, God seeing ... foreseeing that Elijah's days were numbered, that he had so long he could stay here on earth, as everyone has. So, he was going to have a successor to Elijah. And when He did, God called this man. He wasn't in no seminary when He called him. He was plowing in a field with a yoke of ox, doing the service, taking care of his mother and father. And God called him to be the successor of Elisha ... or, Elijah. Perhaps many up at the school thought they was surely going to be his successor. They was g...