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One of the questions people ask Christians is, "What about those who have never heard the Gospel, what's going to happen to them?"...
ALSO, "If God has already determined who will be saved, then why evangelize?".
My answer has to always be what I truly believe the Scriptures teach from the deepest part of my honest conviction. Truly Biblical, truly honest, yet truly COLD, as only the truth can be.
Whereas some believe the gospel is found in the definition of what is a true Christian, the definition of a true Christian (among many defining characteristics) isn't just someone who believes they can be free from sin but someone who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.
Unless one is born again (John 3:3) they can't see the kingdom of God let alone conquer their sins.
Desiring to be free from sin is obviously to be coveted but it's not the gospel.
Our being free from sin is a consequence of believing the true gospel which is that we believe that Christ is the Son of God, The Creator, who came into the world to die for our sins and by faith, God, the Holy Spirit indwells us by God's grace.
Having made Him Lord of our lives. We now walk in the Holy Spirit, purifying ourselves and growing in Christ to a mature stature towards the resembling of Christ's perfect moral standard, by God's grace and power.
We're saved by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone. It is a gift of God and not of our merit or "good" works.
The fruit of hundreds of years of scripture twisting, dogma, and of falsehood is APOSTACY.Today we can see this in their official catechism of their church's heretical doctrines, and in the cultural and leftist sway of their current pope.
The Lord Jesus calls us to be freed from all of that and wants us to come into a personal and real relationship with Him, being SET FREE to come and walk with Him and Him alone in the cool of the day, and to have a personal relationship with God.
OPEN ACCESS to the Throne of GRACE IN TIME OF NEED WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
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In this video, Sean McDowell makes it seem like men are "FREE" to choose God and that God wants humanity to be "FREE" to choose or not choose Him. (some sort of fairness we're pursuing here)
But why does he or anyone think that human freedom is so much a part of God's interest? This sounds more like something MAN is concerned about - not God!
After all, men can't be FREE in any way EVEN if they don't "choose" God because as the Bible teaches, we're all "SLAVES TO SIN".
"What does it profit you to gain the whole world, yet lose your own soul" - Mark 8:36
Free from God but slaves to eternal death? How much is that "freedom" worth in God's eyes?
So perhaps God isn't too concerned about man's freedom to deny Him as much as some people believe.
Especially since the call to come... is a COMMAND not a suggestion.
(Acts 17:30)
Do we have the power to CHOOSE God... as in, come to salvation... as in, seal ourselves with the Holy Spirit?...
That is what it means to BE SAVED or "BORN AGAIN". The "New Birth"; REGENERATION... RESURRECTION.
Those of us who say we can CHOOSE our salvation... are we remembering that salvation involves all of the above?
So do we still think our salvation is something that WE do?
What is OUR PART in that experience? Are we 10% active in that regeneration or 50%? ...
All we know is that we must obey, respond, come forward, do the right thing; repent, change, grow in The Lord, etc., etc.
We are in that walk in REAL TIME but God has already fashioned the road of that walk in the eternal.
(Ephesians 2:10)
So do we have FREE WILL?
Yes, I exercise it every day for breakfast... Eggs or oatmeal?
But REGENERATION?... SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION? Is a bit above OUR paygrade - wouldn't you say?
With regard to salvation, it's us in the now but only because of what God had already decreed for us from before the foundation of the world.
Listen to my video above and tell me what you think.
Some have tried to bridge the OSAS conversation over to the Ravi Zacharias scandal. But often times, those who are misguided regarding the OSAS (Once saved, always saved) doctrine will have the hardest time trying to reconcile with the consequence of what happen with Zacharias and their misunderstanding of OSAS only adds to their confusion.
On this podcast, I want to discuss what OSAS really is and what it really is not.
Those holding to a more synergistic theology regarding salvation will have the hardest time with the RZ's scandal because of the "good fruit" they thought they saw in his ministry ONLY to choke at his "bad fruit" of his scandal afterwards.
But OSAS (God sovereignty) is the doctrine that states that God is in charge of who's truly saved no matter WHO or what man/woman we're looking at on the outside.
This is one that I didn't think would cause a theological tug-o-war on some social media circles, but yet it did. Some people find it difficult to think babies can go to Heaven without having first heard the Gospel of Christ. I say, that's fine -- but don't they have to be born first? The sign of the fall in humanity is our sin. Unless a neonate or a zygote is sinning in thought, word or deed in the womb. Nevertheless, this an interesting conversation to have.
A rich and edifying scripture right from the mind of God towards us. Let's study these edifying words of promise to encourage us and strengthen us in The Lord. Feel free to share. I'm also on YouTube and Periscope. TruNEWS16
