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Free Will in the Bible:
#1.
Joshua 24:15 KJV -
"
Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve"
#2.
Matthew 11:28 KJV -
"
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
#3.
John 7:17 KJV -
"
If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God."
#4.
John 7:37 KJV -
"If anyone thirsts,
let him come to Me and drink."
#5.
Acts 2:38 KJV -
"
Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized"
#6.
Acts 3:19 KJV -
"
Repent therefore and
be converted"
#7.
Acts 16:31 KJV -
"
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved"
#8.
Acts 17:30 KJV -
"but now commands all men everywhere to
repent"
#9.
Revelation 22:17 KJV -
"
Whoever wills, let him take the water of life
freely."
#10.
Genesis 4:7 KJV -
"
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and
if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
#11.
Revelation 22:17 KJ2
"And
the Spirit and the bride say,
Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
#12.
Luke 13:34 NLT -
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often
I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings,
but you wouldn't let me.
Joshua 24:15 KJV -Joshua 24 is about covenantal faithfulness and renewal, not salvation. Notice Joshua told them they couldn't serve God but as for him and his house, they would. This verse is about choosing between two false gods not a choice between a false god and God.
Matthew 11:28 KJV - is a command. No command contains within it your natural moral ability to obey it.
John 7:17 KJV - IF anyone wills to do his will. The lost have no desire to do his will. They cannot understand spiritual things 1 Cor. 2:14 thus they could never understand the need to do God's will.
John 7:37 KJV - If anyone desires... again lost ones don't desire God.
Acts 2:38 KJV - again a command no command contains in it your ability to obey it.
Acts 3:19 KJV - again a command
Acts 16:31 KJV -Truth statement. Its says nothing about who will ever believe. It says whoever does A (believes) will obtain B (be saved).
Acts 17:30 KJV - again a command.
Revelation 22:17 KJV - whoever will let him take of the living water freely. ONLY A SAVED one can do so. Again the lost don't desire God so it logically follows they would have no desire to want to drink from the living water. This is a true statement, not a free will unto salvation verse.
Genesis 4:7 KJV - God speaking to Cain and telling him a spiritual truth. This isnt not a free will unto salvation verse. Its obvious Cain believed God existed for he brought him a sacrifice of his own hands and God didn't except it. Yet God accepted Abel's because it was a blood sacrifice. This isn't about free will unto salvation but about obeying God when he grants you the ability to do so. All Cain had to do to have his offer accepted was to offer a blood sacrifice like his brother did but he offered the sacrifice of his own work instead. Thus salvation isn't by works, like the bogus claim to a free will choice before regeneration.
Luke 13:34 NLT -
In
Luke 13:34 (also Matthew's account in
Matt. 23:37) there is no hint in these verses that God's divine decree can be successfully resisted fully and finally just because someone is "unwilling." The Bible is clear on the teaching that, if someone is "unwilling," they are acting according to their depraved nature to hate God (
John 3:18-20;
7:7;
15:8,
23;
Eph. 2:1-3;
Rom. 1:30;
8:3-8;
John 12:40;
Romans 9:18,
11:7), and if someone is willing, it is because God makes him so (
John 6:44,
65). No one that God makes willing can stay away (
John 6:37). God's grace for the elect is irresistible!
Let's look at the verses in question:
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
First, we must ask what is meant by "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem." Without taking into account the rest of the context of Matthew 23 or Luke 13, it looks as though Christ is addressing every person in Jerusalem. However, the context does not bear witness to this. Note that Jerusalem here is said to "kill the prophets and stone those who are sent." Who are these that have done these atrocious crimes?
As suggested by
The Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible, this is akin to the parable of Christ in
Matthew 21:33-46 which is based on
Isaiah 5:1-7 and probably reflects
Psalm 80:8-18. Here there is a landowner who is God (
Matt 23:33). The vineyard is the Kingdom of God (
Matt 23:43). The servants are the prophets who were beaten, stoned, and killed (
Matt 23:35-36) by the tenants. The son, of course, is Jesus (
Matt 23:37-39). The tenants are the Jews opposed to the prophets and Jesus (
Matt 23:34-40). They murder the son just as they mistreated the prophets of the past. The tenants have done these atrocious crimes.
The context of our text parallels this. In
Matthew 23:2 Jesus begins with his own explanation: "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees (tenants) sit in Moses' seat." Then in
Matthew 23:13 and following, Christ begins with the "woes" of the leaders of Jerusalem and ends in
Matthew 23:23 with, "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?" Thus, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem" refers to the leaders of Jerusalem (again, referring to the tenants of
Matt. 21).
Also, note in our two texts above that Jesus states he desires to have gathered the "children," not all "Jerusalem." It is not God's elect resisting, rather it is the seed of the serpent (the leaders of Jerusalem, the tenants) waging war with God's servants (
Gen. 3;
Rev. 12), whom Christ is gathering. This "Jerusalem" was temporarily preventing the children from being gathered. It is these unregenerate ones that are resisting the proclamation of the Gospel because it is in their nature to do so (
John 12:40;
Romans 9:18;
11:7;
Acts 7:51). How were they preventing this? By killing the prophets and stoning them, etc. They even crucified the very Son of God!
In this passage, Jesus is wrapping up his final rebuke of judgment against the leaders (seed of the serpent) who opposed him (the seed of the woman). They were trying to keep the children of Jerusalem (chicks) from coming to salvation; but, as
Matthew 23:38 states, their house will be left desolate to them. In other words, as much as the leaders of Jerusalem desire to prevent the elect of Israel from being gathered to Christ, he will gather them despite their resistance.
These verses, then, show God's irresistible grace and his sovereignty rather than in any way challenging it.
Calvinism and Matthew 23:37?