Doesn’t Christ always encourage EVERYONE to be heaven-bound? But as this last Sunday’s Gospel put it: unless you leave everyone and everything behind and focus only on serving the Lord with your life, you will not follow him.
He also tells us that we must carry or Cross — not a death symbol, as RNmom mentioned to me, but a symbol of the daily sufferings we go through........
Sure He does.
And the elect have ears and will hear. Jesus also said: “You did not choose Me, but I chose you” (John 15:16).
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13)
He also tells us that we must carry or Cross
Sure he does. Not sure what that has to do with election though.