Can a believer know they were chosen before God created Adam?
Yes. By faith, once a person becomes a child of God, they can look back and see they were chosen before God ever created Adam. He already had them positioned in the body of Christ, called according to His own purpose and grace given in Christ Jesus before the world began.
Les teaches that this truth is almost unbelievable from the human element, but by faith, as soon as we become a child of God, we can look back and see we were chosen before God ever created Adam. He already had us positioned in the body of Christ. This calling is not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. Because we were already His before anything was created, Paul could say that neither principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor height, nor depth, nor any other thing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Les also notes this security does not give license; grace is not license, and it does not give the right to sin, but it rests in His divine purpose that we are called, elected, and His.