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.
Three kinds of believers
63-1124E §77
Now elected, that's the kind that has had their name on the book from the foundation of life that believes or foundation of the world that believes all the Word of life. That's the elected. Now, watch these people. Now, I say this with reverence and respect with godly love, if I don't I'm ... I need an altar call myself. Notice, Jesus said they would deceive the very elected. Now, that wouldn't be Methodist; that wouldn't be Baptist. We know they're unbelievers to begin with, but it's Pentecostals organization that...
Church Ages, part 6: The Thyatirean Church Age
60-1208 §85
(They don't have big educations and things): So these people may not learn to be, Or boast of worldly fame, They have all received their Pentecost, Baptized in Jesus' name; And are telling now, both far and wide, His power is yet the same. I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them. One of them, I'm one of them, I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them, Hallelujah! One of them, one of them. I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them. Come, my brother, seek this blessing That will cleanse your heart from sin, It w...
The anointed ones at the end time
65-0725M §124
Notice. Just like it was at the beginning, so will it be at the end. As Eve just misinterpreted one word, Satan did to Eve, and she believed it. She, not he. The church, not Him, see. The church was the one that got the false word, see. Not Adam, Eve. Not the Christ, the church, the bride, the anointed, supposed to be, calls herself the bride. She got the false word. Can't you see that? Why, it laces together like a shoestring, like the lashes on your eye. Why, everything you turn to the Bible, it just lashes it ri...
Jehovah-Jireh
57-0612 §31
Abraham believed God, said, "Lord, how will I know that these things will be?" Said, "Come out, Abraham; I want to show you." Said, "First..." He said, "Look to the dust." He said, "Your seed will be like the dust in the earth. Can you number it?" "No." And He said, "Look up to heaven, another place." Said, "Your seed will be like the stars of heaven without numbers." See, from the dust to the stars: speaking of the resurrection. You see it? Spiritual minds ought to pick that up quickly: "From the dust to the stars...
But it wasn't so from the beginning
61-0411 §91
Are you without Christ tonight, in that kind of an experience? Are you a member of some hybrid condition? Are you a hybrid yourself, confessing to be a Christian, when you've never received the Holy Spirit? If you are, my most gracious and beloved friend, will you raise your hand, say, "Remember me in prayer, Brother Branham. I now want the real experience of Pentecost in my heart. I'm a Methodist ... I'm a Baptist ... I belong to a Pentecostal organization. But I don't know Christ in that way, like they did on the...