This sermon is the introduction to verses 29, 30 and we will just touch on Foreknowledge today. Next week we will get hot and heavy into "foreknowledge" and what the Biblical meaning of the word is. In verse twenty-eight of our text we find that all these "things" that work together are for the Elect. Verses 29-30 now tell us who the elect are or rather how they came to be the elect. This is a doctrine that is hated by many and very much misunderstood by the rest. But the Greek language and the grammar dictate that we interpret these verses as something that God has done "past time." Completed action without regard to time but rather done in eternity.