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1 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | hopalong | 187443 | ||
Dear Lookn, I beg your pardon my friend, but Paul goes a bit further than your post seems to indicate. Quote: "As I read it, all it says is that the man, as a sinner, does not value God's word and, therefore, rejects it because he has no spiritual apprehension of it's significance; that is basically it." 1Cor2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. The unsaved individual ,not only does not esteem the God's Word, but he cannot even bear listening to it, nevermind understand it. Remember, we are speaking about a creature that is a spiritual cadaver. To his way of thinking, the Gospel is a joke; something made up by religious fanatics! I'm sure that in your own experience in evangelizing, that you have found youself, so to speak, talking to a "stone wall"! That is why we pray that God will change this person's heart! A changed heart will result in a changed will, don't you see. God bless you, Old 'Hopalong |
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2 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | mark d seyler | 187486 | ||
Hi Hopalong, You wrote: "The unsaved individual ,not only does not esteem the God's Word, but he cannot even bear listening to it," I didn't notice that in the quoted passage. Did you have a different passage in mind, that says "the unsaved cannot even bear listening to God's Word"? Love in Christ, Mark |
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3 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | skccab | 187492 | ||
Hi Mark I don't know if Hopalong had this verse in mind, but could it be the one from Acts 7:57 where after Stephen finsihed preaching it says they cried out in a loud voice and stopped their ears and ran upon him in one accord. I can't think of any others. blessings cheri |
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4 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | mark d seyler | 187509 | ||
HI Cheri, Perhaps, although I would point out that that passage is simply describing the actions of a particular group of people during a specific event, and does not give us a principle or rule to be used for general application. So I don't think this actually teaches what Hopalong was talking about. I can't think of any others either. Love in Christ, Mark |
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