(GOD’S) CALLING – ELECTION
Mission or Vocation from God
[in sense – God predestined]
Webster Dictionary 1828 Definition:
CALLING, noun
1. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtain an answer, as in legislative bodies.
2. Vocation; profession; trade; usual occupation, or employment.
Pope. Swift. 1 Corinthians 7:20
3. Class of persons engaged in any profession or employment.
4. Divine summons, vocation, or invitation.
Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure. 2 Peter 1:10.
ELEC'TION, noun [Latin electio.]
1. The act of choosing; choice; the act of selecting one or more from others. Hence appropriately,
2. The act of choosing a person to fill an office or employment, by any manifestation of preference, as by ballot, uplifted hands or viva voce; as the election of a king, of a president, or a mayor.
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
3. Choice; voluntary preference; free will; liberty to act or not. It is at his election to accept or refuse.
4. Power of choosing or selecting.
5. Discernment; discrimination; distinction.
To use men with much difference and election is good.
6. In theology, divine choice; predetermination of God, by which persons are distinguished as objects of mercy, become subjects of grace, are sanctified and prepared for heaven.
There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Romans 11:5.
7. The public choice of officers.
8. The day of a public choice of officers.
9. Those who are elected.
The election hath obtained it. Romans 11:5.
Locations in the KJV of Bible with verses related to this subject:
Romans 8:28-30 called according to his purpose, he did predestinate
Romans 9:22-24 His mercy for those he called both Jew and Gentile
1 Corinthians 1:25-31 Not many wise, mighty or noble are called
1 Corinthians 7:17-24 As a person was when he was called, let that person thus walk. God did not wait for him to change before calling.
SEE ALSO: (list similar subjects and link to them)