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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
To take on the whole armor of God
62-0701 §39
There's three curtains. As I leave you this afternoon, I leave this with you. Remember, there's three curtains. One of them's called the iron curtain, one of them the bamboo curtain---China and so forth, eastern---and then there's a purple curtain. Don't fear the bamboo curtain, or the iron curtain; but be careful of that purple one. Better be careful. The anti-Christ shall be so close ... to deceive the very elected... What is the elected? When that light shines upon that ... (s-o-n) s-u-n shines upon a seed that'...
The Hand of the Lord came upon him
54-0403 §51
If the one there who's a prophet, he'll know the secret things. For instance, somebody standing there with a sin: He'd call it out and tell them so. Or, the man or the woman that's sick---looks very healthy---say, "Here's what's in your life. You're a Christian, but you have certain-certain things. You've been a certain place." Then the Bible said, normal people would fall down and say, "Truly, God is with you." 'Course critics, and so forth, that's born to be condemned, they can't say it, because they're condemned...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-128
Let me inject a thought in here. Even our natural birth is based upon election. The female ovaries produce many, many eggs. But why is it that at a certain time a certain egg comes down and not another one? And then amongst the male sperm, for no known reason a certain germ attaches itself to the egg while others that could have just as easily attached themselves, or had a better opportunity to do so did not do so and perished. There is an intelligence behind all this, otherwise what determines whether the baby is...
The greatest news flash in history
61-0424 §6
...o it was a great time, them glorious forty days. How I would've loved to have been there. But then, thinking again that I'd have had to have been a believer, because He did not appear to no one but his elected church. He only appears to believers. And as He was then He cannot change. Today He still only appears to his elected church believers. Now we find that there were many who talked of Messiah in those days, and there were many who looked for a coming Messiah. But He had a church that was elected. So has He ton...
The anointed ones at the end time
65-0725M §9
In the book of St. Matthew (Pardon me. [Brother Branham clears his throat.]), twenty-fourth verse ... twenty-fourth chapter, rather, beginning with the fifteenth verse, I wish to read a portion of His Word. And when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which are in Judea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let...