Acts 9:15

“The Lord said to him, Go, for he is a vessel of election unto me.” “Election,” eklogee, is from ek, “out,” and legoo, “choose.” Hence it means out from the chosen, i. e., chosen from the chosen. You are chosen out of this wicked world in regeneration. In sanctification, you are chosen from the regenerated. Christ does not take a bride from the devil's people, which would follow if there was but one work in salvation. But He takes a wife from God's people. While Saul was leading Satan's host, he was elect in the mind of God. Hence He sends Ananias to call him. In Saul's conversion, we see the double miracle often repeated in our day, i. e., bodily healing and salvation. His sight was miraculously restored and his soul converted, i. e., filled with the Holy Ghost to the full capacity of spiritual infancy, not his sanctification, as some think. I have seen many converted after the Sauline manner, i. e., filled with the Holy Ghost so they shouted all over the community like Saul throughout Damascus.