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Hello, this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, and today I just want to show you a few more scriptures using the word elect just to show you that this is referring to believers. It's not referring to the Jews. A lot of people will say today that the Jews are God's chosen people, and they're talking about unsaved Jews. I mean, they're talking about Jews that follow a different religion of Judaism, and they'll point to the people that just live in Israel and say, they're the chosen people of God. We need to support them. But wait a minute. In the New Testament, the chosen people of God are saved Christians. That's why we're called the elect. Elect means chosen. Listen to Titus 1.1, Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth, which is after godliness. So according to Titus 1.1, the elect is associated with having faith in Christ and with acknowledging the truth. Listen to 1 Peter, chapter 1, verse 1. We'll find the same thing. It says, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. So again, what makes us elect the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ? What makes us elect salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus? It's consistent. We're looking at all kinds of verses that show you that the elect can be scattered in all different nations. They can be in all different countries. They can be Roman. They can be Galatian. They can be Colossian. They can be Jew or Gentile, barbarian, Scythian, bond free. It doesn't matter. If you're in Christ, you're the elect. You're the chosen people under the new covenant.