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1 | Please provide responses to these verses | Luke 8:13 | ne14pool | 89451 | ||
NC, You said, God does not do our repenting or believing for us. So let me get this straight, YOU muster up the ablility to repent and believe? That is interesting when Scripture clearly tells us in 2 Tim 2:25-26 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will. NOTICE: Who GRANTS them repentance? It is clear that God does. The word GRANT in the greek means... means to give. It is a gift of God. Who should I believe? I am sorry but I have to believe Scripture! Then read what Scripture says about whose work it is to believe... The Jews asked Jesus what THEY must do to do the works that God requires. Jesus response is very revealing. He did not answer what work they must do, but He told them what the work of God is. John 6:28-29 Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." NOTICE: In order for us to believe it takes a work of God. Once again there is Phil 1:29 For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him, Granted means to receive as a gift of God's grace. You were given the faith to believe in Him. It is the gift of God. You didn't muster up your own faith. Please don't boast in YOUR faith before the Lord! Your faith is the work of God. Then you said, How then do you explain the fact that Judas who was numbered with the other 11 apostles was lost. In what sense is this verse true? Judas may have been numbered with the disciples, However, in John 13:18 Jesus made it clear that Judas was not one of his chosen ones. When he said, "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: 'He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' The Bible does not contridict itself. Scripture must be interpreted with Scripture. That is why eternal security and the perseverance of the Saints is clearly taught in the Bible. Yours in Christ...Doug PS... Isn't your user name, New Creature come from 2 Cor 5:17? If this is true then don't you believe what it says? Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! NOTICE: The old has GONE! That means GONE! Not to come back again! It touches on Eternal Security! Very interesting!! |
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2 | Please provide responses to these verses | Luke 8:13 | ne14pool | 89566 | ||
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Of coarse, I do believe this scripture (as in all scripture) and it does not contradict what I was stating. We are commanded to repent, that doesn't deny that God must first grant us the ability to repent. Nor does it imply that those who don't repent won't still be held accountable for their unwillingness to repent. Because both statements are true. One person receives God's mercy the other receives God's wrath, both will glorify God. That to is biblical (See Romans 9) God also commands us to be perfect? There is no way within ourselves that we can obey this command, but it does drive us to the cross of Christ, crying out for mercy. But is any man other than Christ perfect? No, we are not perfect. However, we are perfect in God's eyes because for those who have been given the gift of faith (the elect), he has credited the Righteousness of Christ to our account and will not hold his sins against us. Why? Because he has given us the gift of faith by which we receive His grace. Yes we have faith, but only because God has given it to us. We exercise the gift because we were regenerated and brought to life by His Holy Spirit working in our hearts. The result of begin brought to life by God's Spirit is that we will be convicted of our sins and will repent. These things are all a result of God's gifts, which include faith, and repentance. You quoted A.W. Tozer and I would also like to quote Tozer from the Pursuit of God where he said, I like what A.W. Tozer said in the book "The Pursuit of God" He was commenting on taking credit for accepting Christ; and said, "We pursue God because, and only because , He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No man can come to me, " said our Lord, "except the Father which hath sent me draw him, " and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time that we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand." You asked me, "Did God do your repenting for you? Or did you personally need to repent of the sins you committed?" God granted to me the ability and the desire to repent. Yes, I repented, but only because God enabled me to. I can’t boast about "my" repentance. He regenerated me to life so that I could repent and believe. God brought me to life to believe and repent. Once I set my eyes upon Christ I could not resist Him. You also asked me my understanding of Hebrews 6:4-6. I think the important thing to pay attention to in this verse is the word "tasted". For Christ said in John 6:53-54 "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. This person that is spoken of in Hebrews 6 only "tasted" of Christ. Just as food, it doesn't actually become a part of you until you consume it. So it is with Christ. This person in Hebrews was only testing driving Christ (if you will). That is my understanding of this scripture. For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. (Heb. 6:4-6 NASB) |
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