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Election doesn’t negate the sinner’s or the saint’s responsibility.

It means that the saint’s acts, for every one of which he is completely responsible, can be covered by the sinless, immeasurably pure blood of Christ, which nobody would seek or desire unless God efficaciously called him to it, since it requires a man to deny himself, deny his family, deny his friends, and deny the very world system into which he had been born, raised, and devoted every ounce of his energy.

Election both enables and efficaciously draws the man to obtain salvation through faith by grace in Christ alone.