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EPISODE · Mar 16, 2026 · 34 MIN

LIVE DISCUSSION: Foreknowledge/Impeccability of Christ, Part 1/8

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Send us Fan MailPredestination gets treated like a theological grenade, but we treat it like Scripture treats it: a sober, steady source of assurance. We start with the uncomfortable reality that many Christians argue about predestination without ever defining the word that comes first in Romans 8: foreknowledge. If foreknowledge is just God’s foresight, then salvation starts to look like God reacting to what He finds. If foreknowledge is God’s prior love and purpose, then predestination becomes God’s decisive plan to save, not a prediction based on human behavior.Along the way, we interact with real-time pushback and press one central question: how can God be 100% certain about what will happen? Is the future secure because God decrees and governs providence, or because God simply “knows” without controlling? That question isn’t academic. It touches perseverance, confidence, prayer, and whether your salvation rests on God’s promise or on the stability of your own will.We read Romans 8:29–30 closely and refuse to let the conversation get dismissed with labels. Paul’s language forces clarity: foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified. Then we widen the lens with Amos 3:2 and Matthew 7:23 to argue that “know” often signals covenant relationship and saving love, not bare awareness. If Jesus knows every person as Creator, what does it mean when He says, “I never knew you”?If you care about biblical exegesis, God’s sovereignty, free will, and assurance of salvation, this is a conversation worth hearing and thinking through. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who avoids the topic, and leave a review with your biggest question about foreknowledge and predestination.Support the showBE PROVOKED AND BE PERSUADED!

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Send us Fan Mail Predestination gets treated like a theological grenade, but we treat it like Scripture treats it: a sober, steady source of assurance. We start with the uncomfortable reality that many Christians argue about predestination without ever defining the word that comes first in Romans 8: foreknowledge. If foreknowledge is just God’s foresight, then salvation starts to look like God reacting to what He finds. If foreknowledge is God’s prior love and purpose, then predestination bec...

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