world, he adds, “In love He predestinated10 us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself” (Eph. 1:4–5 NASB). Hence, predestining points to the same prior action of God, with the emphasis more particularly on God’s sovereign action in the choosing or electing. Predestining also points more directly to the end to which we are called. Later in Ephesians 1 Paul speaks of our “having been predestined according to his purpose … to the end that we … should be to the praise of His glory” (vv. 11–12