Bible Study 19 | Why did God Love Jacob?
- The NLM
- Jun 4
- 4 min read
In this era’s Christian theology, predestination and election theories have become sources of misunderstanding God’s Word.
But why did God love Jacob more than Esau?
In this time, we seek to discover the biblical reason through the sermon message found in Pastor Paul C. Jong’s series Volume 2, “RETURN TO THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT.”
How can God unilaterally send some people to hell and choose others?
God’s choice is to choose everyone in Jesus Christ, and without Jesus Christ, He does not choose anyone.
A doctrine of election without Jesus Christ is not biblical.
This kind of doctrinal choice is a non-truth. However, many theologians say that God chooses some and not others. Absolutely not. God has chosen to save all people through Jesus Christ. The reason some do not receive salvation is that they do not believe in the gospel of the remission of sins through the water and the Spirit given by Jesus, not because God did not intend to save them. God has determined to save all people from all sins.
Before the creation of the world, God decided to save all sinners, created as His creatures, from their sins and make them His children through the salvation of water and the Spirit accomplished by His Son, Jesus Christ. Through the salvation of water and the Spirit in Christ, God chose to save all humanity from all the sins of the world. This is what the Bible teaches about God’s predestination and election.
Those who are reborn by believing in the gospel of the remission of sins through Jesus’ water and the Spirit are the chosen ones in Jesus Christ.
However, in theology, God’s choice is divided into the elect and the non-elect. Therefore, it is said that Buddhist monks who do not believe are not chosen by God. But God has intended to save even those monks who do not believe, through Jesus Christ.
If there is an unconditional choice without Jesus Christ, would there be a need to preach or believe? If God chose without Jesus Christ, the Savior, what need would there be for sinners to believe in Jesus? How would God’s love, truth, salvation, and all these words be fulfilled?
Then, would there be a need for God’s righteous servants on this earth to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ’s salvation? Would righteous people who have had their sins removed need to evangelize? Is it true that God the Father has already chosen who will go to heaven and who will go to hell without Jesus Christ?
God’s choice of Jacob in Jesus Christ, saying,
As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.” (Romans 9:13)
means that God knew from the womb that Jacob would be a believer through Jesus Christ and chose him.
In this world, there are many sinners who believe in Jesus.
If we categorize them into two groups, one group is like Esau and the other like Jacob.
Why did God love Jacob?
Jacob knew he had no righteousness and acknowledged his shortcomings, so he confessed that he was a sinner before God and sought God’s grace. Therefore, God called Jacob and saved him. However, Esau relied more on his own strength than on God and did not believe in the Lord, so he did not enter into the grace of salvation that wipes away all sins. Therefore, it is true that God said, ‘Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated’.
God has already chosen to save all humanity through Jesus Christ from His side.
Sinners only need to believe in the grace of sin removal through Jesus Christ. Then, the truth and righteous salvation of God the Father will be fulfilled.
The only thing for all of us sinners to do is to believe in our hearts that Jesus Christ has removed our sins. Believing in the salvation that Jesus has accomplished by removing sins is what everyone must do, and God has completed the salvation of sinners through the salvation that Jesus Christ has accomplished by removing all sins.
Why did God love Jacob?
Jacob knew his own shortcomings and acknowledged that he was a sinner, so he sought God’s grace.
God has planned to save all humanity, including you and me, from the beginning of the world to its end. And by fulfilling ‘all righteousness’ through His Son Jesus Christ, He did not save by choosing some and not choosing others, but gives salvation only to those who believe in what the Lord has done.
What is ‘all righteousness (Matthew 3:15)’ here?
Jesus, who is God, came to this earth in the flesh and received all the sins of mankind, the sins of the world, through baptism from John the Baptist, the representative of humanity, and by being judged in our place on the cross as the wages of those sins and rising again on the third day, He saved us once and for all eternally from all sin, curse, and judgment.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (John 3:16)”
I hope you will break away from the false doctrine of election theories and believe in God’s love, who loved the world and sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to save every single person without exception.
For more detailed content on this topic, it is included in Pastor Paul C. Jong’s series Volume 2, “RETURN TO THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT” on The New Life Mission website, and you can read it through ‘free e-books and audiobooks.’
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