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Sinners don't come to Christ unless God is at work within them.
Example John 3, their deeds are wrought in God...
So they were God's workmanship. Notice those who do evil pull back from Christ, they refuse to come to Christ. But those that do come to Christ, are 'doing truth', and the only reason they can is because God was at work in them. And God was not working in the first group who refuse to come to Christ.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
People who do the truth are those who obey the gospel, which is to believe in Christ. And Christ says their deeds are wrought in GOD.
God is at work in sinners as in convicting them of their sins and showing them their need for Jesus as their Saviour. Not as in making them believe. The passage above shows that man must possess a "free will", "believe", "believe not", is only possible with this.
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