Samson2021
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There is no such thing as free will. A person is either in bondage to sin or is a bond-servant of Christ. The only decision we can make is whether we are going to receive Christ as Saviour, or continue to reject Him.
God, in his sovereign will, has created a plan of salvation with strict instructions about how to enter into it and be saved. We have a choice between two options, and only two options: Be in bondage to sin and continue on the road to hell, or to receive Christ as the Person who has paid your debt of sin to God on the Cross and become a bond-servant to Him to follow God's will for the rest of your life. There is no middle ground. Therefore there is no free will. God has made us an offer we can't refuse. It is either His way of Salvation or the highway to hell. So, there is no contradiction between His sovereignty where He does things the way He wants, and our need to choose one of the two alternatives.
You cant say there is no such thing as free will, and then put a persons salvation on their own shoulders. It's sort of an oxy-moron.
No man can come to the Son except the Father draw Him. Now how is that up to me to be drawn of God to the Son?
I cannot baptize myself in the Holy Spirit, only Jesus has that right. And without the Spirit ye are none of His.
"Ye are saved by grace, through FAITH, and that(faith) not of yourselves, it (faith) is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8
Romans 3:21-28 is a good lesson of how one is justified by God in that the individual is given the faith necessary to believe according
to the grace of God. Thus God is the one who justifies he who believes in Jesus. Without the grace of God giving you the faith necessary
to believe then you would remain a vessel to dishonor. "He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will harden, He hardeneth."
Indeed as a babe in Christ He said to me "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, you know this" when telling me to go pray
for a specific person to receive a healing. The healing was of the heart and inoperable cancer which I found out about 6 months later.
All things are left up to God as He works ALL things, including when you should believe, according to the counsel of His own will
God, in his sovereign will, has created a plan of salvation with strict instructions about how to enter into it and be saved. We have a choice between two options, and only two options: Be in bondage to sin and continue on the road to hell, or to receive Christ as the Person who has paid your debt of sin to God on the Cross and become a bond-servant to Him to follow God's will for the rest of your life. There is no middle ground. Therefore there is no free will. God has made us an offer we can't refuse. It is either His way of Salvation or the highway to hell. So, there is no contradiction between His sovereignty where He does things the way He wants, and our need to choose one of the two alternatives.
You cant say there is no such thing as free will, and then put a persons salvation on their own shoulders. It's sort of an oxy-moron.
No man can come to the Son except the Father draw Him. Now how is that up to me to be drawn of God to the Son?
I cannot baptize myself in the Holy Spirit, only Jesus has that right. And without the Spirit ye are none of His.
"Ye are saved by grace, through FAITH, and that(faith) not of yourselves, it (faith) is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8
Romans 3:21-28 is a good lesson of how one is justified by God in that the individual is given the faith necessary to believe according
to the grace of God. Thus God is the one who justifies he who believes in Jesus. Without the grace of God giving you the faith necessary
to believe then you would remain a vessel to dishonor. "He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will harden, He hardeneth."
Indeed as a babe in Christ He said to me "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, you know this" when telling me to go pray
for a specific person to receive a healing. The healing was of the heart and inoperable cancer which I found out about 6 months later.
All things are left up to God as He works ALL things, including when you should believe, according to the counsel of His own will
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