@@abrahamj.m.julien2506 those preselected was predetermined and predestined from before the world began. There is only 1 will. Gods will. Our choices, past present and future we make was Determined by God.
@@MrWiseinheart not accusing GOD. God died for the elect only. He has planned out everything, every particle, every humans plan. Before the beginning. HE predestined EVERYTHING, including sin. Look in the Bible. It does not contradict.
THIS IS WHY WE PRAISE HIM YOUNG FELLOW. 🙏✝️👍✌️😁 So how many does God wants Saved ? That all men should come to the knowledge of the Saviour for he desires none to be lost. It starts at the cross of which everyone comes to in order to be Saved. Shalom Amen AMEN 👍
Revelation 4: 11 "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." "Beware the leaven"
@@AnniEast "which way" "both camps" OOPs! There is only One Way, One Truth. "The Kingdom is Within You" "The Word" is sown in our hearts. If a camp be divided against itself, that camp cannot stand.
@@christtruthreveal63 read my comment again...very clear you completely misunderstood me. What I meant is that whether you hold to a calvanistic view of predestination or not, you can surely agree that the Lord is worthy to receive glory and honor and power. You can agree that He has created all things and that everything created He created for His pleasure. Who disagrees with this? Surely not someone that calls themselves Christian? This verse doesn't prove whether either side is wrong or right. I merely asked why you posted it in the first place.
Me too!!! But i truly don't understand this, If God made us all, and he knows everything about what's gonna happen in our lives, he could very easily change stuff to make us all serve him instead. Yet he doesn't. Why? Because apparently we have free will. However, he knows what is gonna happen, so basically he had it planned out from the very start. So in conclusion, he has a plan, he works together beleivers and non-beleivers into that plan, but then again, it's HIS plan that HE ordained. We are just playing according to that plan. In another argument, one could say that God has a purpose for us in the end, and he has many plans to get us there. The problem with this is if he is sovereign and all-knowing, how come he doesn't know which plan we take due to our freewill? Another problem is, the Bible mentions that God doesn't tempt us. But if God has predetermined eveything, he knows of our sins. Why doesn't he prevent it? So logically, is he is the one tempting us? Lastly, if God has predetermined eveything, why must we pray? To build a connection with God yes, but it's futile nonetheless as we're going according to his plan anyways so what's the point?
Psalm 53:1-3 said no one is looking for God. So if God let us have a freewill, no one will be looking for him. So He had to choose us, otherwise none of us would choose him, Please read Psalm 53:1-3. thanks
Before the foundation of the world, he saw all of history unfold before him. As he did so, he noted those that he saw accept him as God before the Word became flesh and those whom he saw accept Jesus when they heard the Gospel. He then predestinated those who believed in him before the cross to become like father Abraham... And those of us who've accepted Jesus to be conformed to the image of his Son so WE would be just as much his children as his Firstborn is. (Romans 8:29) Which explains why he loves us as much as he loves Jesus. (John 17:23) This is also how he already knew everything he will ever do before the foundation of the world. (Acts 15:18) My Daddy's the BEST!!! Good video!
God Bless you my brother 🙏, this is my first time seeing your videos and I want to thank God firstly before the Algorithm gets any credit when it comes to seeing men and women who are spreading the word. May God continue to use you wisely and in accordance to his glory. Thank you for the content my friend. 🙂
Deuteronomy 29:29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children for ever, that we may do the words of his law.
OMGGGG THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! thank you Father for guiding me to this video!! omggg this break down of the text was everything. no one else’s explanation was making sense to me & i was beginning to fear maybe there was something in me that didn’t want to understand & i didn’t want to have this subconscious doubt about the Lord’s faithfulness & character. this makes total sense God bless you! 🤍🤍🤍
I just had this in part of my last teaching and you strong in the faith brother helped me break that down as to exactly why. Free will as in the garden. God bless us through your Hebrews study too❤
The garden of Eden is not where the first sin was ever committed but IN HEAVEN. And God ALMIGHTY is the one who created Satan with HIS OWN HOLINESS if you read the scriptures like it says in, Genesis 3:1 Proverbs 16:4 Isaiah 45:7 Ezekiel 28 14 16 Colossians 1:16 etc
I agree. He chose us because He knew what we would chose Him! We caused ourselves to believe but He knew thats what we were going to believe! We are adopted because of our faith..God knew thats what we were going to do before we were even conceived!
When God says “I will harden pharaohs heart” it is saying he knew his heart would be hardened by Gods plan. God knew his heart would be hardened because of Him. If I tell someone a hard truth, I will MAKE them defensive. As the gentleman in the video says, predestined is different than predetermined.
1st John 4:8 he that don't know love, don't know God, FOR GOD IS LOVE. We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God so we cannot make just a free will choice in the flesh that we need to die of Daly and choose Christ when he chose us before the world began. PLEASE READ THIS TO THE END MY FRIEND 🙏❤✝️😎🥰 God's CHOSEN ELECT were Chosen by God and GIVEN JESUS, BEFORE the W🌎RLD BEGAN, according to the Scriptures. We need to die of our flesh daily, Matthew 16:24 So are we the ones who chose God? John 6:44 No, cause if a sinner is LOST IN SIN. How can ANYONE make a free will choice TO SAVE THEMSELVES ⁉️👎 THEY CAN'T AS FREE WILL CHOICE IS NOWHERE FOUND IN THE BIBLE. In FACT Jesus spoke against it in 2 Peter 2:9 10 (the LOST is Self-willed) and in Titus 1:7-8 (the SAVED is NOT 🚫 Self-willed) Also Jesus said in Matthew 7 21 23 Just cuz you say Lord Lord, DOES NOT 🚫 get you into the kingdom of heaven, BUT THOSE THAT DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. (Spiritual Obedience) v. 22 And many will say unto me on that day (THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT Rev. 20:11-15), Lord Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out devils 👿, AND DONE MANY WONDERFUL WORKS? (Works in the flesh) Romans 8 8 v. 23 And I (Jesus) Will profess unto them, depart from me, you that work iniquity, I NEVER EVER KNEW YOU. I BELIEVE that Free Will choice is 100% HERESY, or False Teaching ACCORDING to the SCRIPTURES as a Real Christian is to do the WILL of GOD ALMIGHTY which is called OBEDIENCE. Verses of B4 the W🌎rld Even Begin. Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on HIS right hand (HIS SHEEP), Come, ye Blessed of MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION of the W🌎RLD. (Goats are on the left) John 17:5-6 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I HAD WITH THEE BEFORE THE W🌎RLD WAS. 6 I have manifested (REVEALED) THY NAME UNTO THE MEN which God gave Jesus. John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me,,, which thou hast given me: FOR THOU LOVEDST ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE W🌎RLD. Acts 3:21 of all things, WHICH GOD HAS SPOKEN BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS HOLY PROPHETS SINCE THE W🌎RLD BEGAN. What does PRE-DESTINATED mean? Pre means before the WORLD 🌎 began, Destination means where you end up after time is over. Ephesians 1:4-5 According as GOD HAS CHOSEN US IN JESUS BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE W🌎RLD, that we should be holy and without blame before JESUS in GOD: 5 HAVING PRE-DESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURES OF HIS WILL. Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, BEING PRE-DESTINATED according to the purpose of HIM WHO WORKETH ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNCIL OF HIS OWN WILL. 1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, WHICH GOD ORDAINED BEFORE THE W🌎RLD UNTO OUR GLORY 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ,,,, BECAUSE GOD HATH FROM THE BEGINNING CHOSEN YOU TO SALVATION THROUGH SANCTIFICATION of the SPIRIT and BELIEF of the TRUTH 2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath SAVED US, AND CALLED US WITH AN HOLY CALLING, Not according to our works, (or FREE WILL CHOICE in the flesh) BUT ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE W🌎RLD BEGAN. Titus 1:2 In HOPE of ETERNAL LIFE, which GOD, that cannot lie, PROMISED BEFORE THE W🌎RLD BEGAN. 1st Peter 1:20 Who verily was FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE W🌎RLD, but was MANIFEST (OR REVEALED) IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU. The Cross, Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the EARTH 🌎 shall WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB SLAIN (OR CRUCIFIED) FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE W🌎RLD. The Lost, Revelation 17:8 ,,,and they that dwell on the EARTH 🌎 shall wonder, WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE W🌎RLD,,,, Who will never chosen to be saved. God is using the lost to bring this Lost W🌎RLD to an end, and to Earn Crowns to Glorify God our Heavenly WITH THE TRAILS WE GO THROUGH. John 1:12-13 But as many as received him, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME SONS OF GOD, even to them that believe in HIS name: 13 Which were born, NOT 🚫 of blood, nor of the WILL OF THE FLESH, nor of the WILL OF MAN, but of GOD'S WILL. John 8:36 IF,, the Son therefore shall MAKE YOU FREE, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:43 Why don't you understand my speech? even because ye CANNOT HEAR MY WORD. John 8:47 He that is of God hears God's words: ye therefore HEAR THEM NOT, BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF GOD. John 10:3-4 To him the porter (door keeper) opened; and THE SHEEP HEARS HIS VOICE: AND HE CALLETH HIS OWN SHEEP BY NAME, AND LEADETH THEM OUT. 4 And when he putteth forth HIS OWN SHEEP, he goes before them, and THE SHEEP FOLLOW HIM: FOR THEY KNOW HIS VOICE. John 10:26-27 But ye believe not, because YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP, as I said unto you. 27 MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, and I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME: John 13:18 I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL: I KNOW WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN,,, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. Speaking of Judas Iscariot. John 14:17 Even the SPIRIT of TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: BUT YE KNOW HIM; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 15:4-5 Abide in me, and I in you. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF, EXCEPT IT ABIDE IN THE VINE; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same brings forth MUCH fruit: FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING. John 15:16 YE HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU,, 15:19 19 If ye were of the world, the W🌎RLD would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, BUT I (Jesus) HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE W🌎RLD, therefore the world hates you. John 17:2,,,THAT HE (Jesus) SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO AS MANY AS THOU (God) HAS GIVEN HIM. JOHN 17:6 I HAVE MANIFESTED OR REVEALED MY NAME UNTO THE MAN WHICH GOD GAVE TO ME OUT OF THE W🌎RLD. John 17:9 I PRAY 🙏 not for the W🌎RLD but for them which God has given me, John 17:11 ,,keep through the own name (Jesus) Those whom thou has given me that they may be one as we are. John 18:37 EVERYONE THAT IS OF THE TRUTH HERE'S MY VOICE. Revelation 3:20 I stand at the door (OF YOUR ❤) and knock, IF ANYONE HEARS MY (SPIRITUAL) VOICE, they will open the door,, ETC Must I go on.
This is an interesting analysis. I am truly blessed as I can compare to Biblical texts in other languages. In french the BDS version verse 5 says (rough translation) « He predestined us to be His children, that He wanted to adopt through Jesus-Christ. This is what He wanted for us in His goodness ». God chooses us but gives us the free will to not choose Him back if that’s our choice. God bless you!
@@jakecathey7061 I hear you bro but ofc God has a plan. If I take my own testimony, I rejected Him time & time again when people would evangelise to me but His plan was always for me to come home to Him but I had to accept Him to do so
@@oluwaeffy I think of it sorta like Armenian God exists out of time and can observe all that has happened is happening and what will happen because he can see this God wrote the names in the book of life who he already knew would accept him
@@oluwaeffyhm yea yea now that i think about it, God does have a plan even though i didn't want to do so. He gave me a desire to serve out of nowhere and i always choose not to, do this that, avoid God at all cause but at the end, here i am serving him. It's like a weird combination of "what the hell how come everything just clicked?" But it just did. I think it's his plan. I have free will, of course but from my choices, even the bad ones, he make good out of it. He still does things to me nevertheless. I can't even explain. But he gives A, i did BCDE, and then ended up choosing to do AA and now i understand it leads to him again
The main passages in context: ROMANS 9:The God in his absolute election v.11-16, chose to save by the means of faith and not by works v.30-33, that's Paul's conclusion of what he has said so far (that's why in v.11 he put God's election in opposition to "works" but not in opposition to faith). And he explains more about the same theme in 10:8-9 he says: "this is the word of faith WE preach: IF YOU...believe...will be saved" Not before believing. And not if YOU don't believe, that's God's absolute election to save that Paul was talking and preaching, and he doesn't say 'God will make you believe or God will believe for you without YOU believing. That's why it is with "No difference" v.12-13, (2:11)(3:22-23) and that's why Paul finishes his explanation of the three chapters with the final purpose of God : " for God has consigned all men to disobedience , that HE may have MERCY on THEM ALL" (11:32). EPHESIANS 1: God by His absolute grace and will predestined us IN Christ... To be holy...v.4. To be adopted.. V. 5...etc., but to be sealed IN Him by the Holy Spirit is "after YOU heard...and BELIEVED ...v.13.(in greek "believed" is in the active voice which means that the action of the verb is activated by the subject "You"). Again, Paul doesn't say 'God made you believe' but "YOU believed..and IN Him were sealed ..." So: GOD chose to save, knowing that PEOPLE would believe(God didn't ignore that, that's why He PREdestined).And since He had no obligation that salvation be through faith, by providing that it be by this means "HE chose" by His absolute grace to give us the opportunity to believe, so that WE may believe. ROMANS 8:28- they say the word "foreknew" in v.29 means that God had an intimate relationship with the elect before time began, but it only means to know before hand, for ex: in John 5:42 Jesus said to the jews who tried to kill Him " i KNOW you..."(same greek word in Rom.8:29) but He doesn't mean that He had an intimate relationship with them. .And we were not justified before the creation of the world, in 4:2-3 Paul already explained that "Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness" Not before.(and the action of the verb "believed" was made by Abraham ) And the way Abraham was justified is a pattern for all of us v.9- 25, "for all nations" (Gal.3:6-8). .Also the Bible says that there's no boasting when we believe Rom.3:27-28, 4:2-3, because faith is according to His grace. 4:16.
You put your finger correctly on 'free will' at 6:30. We all have the free will to choose to accept Jesus or to reject Jesus. We all receive the call. We each decide what the answer to the call will be. By your own choice, either you are in or you are out. See Rev. 3:16.
God, is calling everyone to Him, He chooses certain people to become true ministers of His Word around the world - these people have been predestined to live, if they accept Him (He knows they will accept Him). God offers Himself to everyone & when we choose Him - He chooses us (which can be everyone).
@@chrisa3289 If everything is predetermined before the foundation of the world then every book that ever was is inspired by the Holy Spirit which is not true. Christ was talking to the apostles in that moment not every person who would ever believe. Not everything that ever happens was predetermined by God but He allowed these things to take place. To say regeneration proceeds faith is like saying there's life outside of Christ, which there is not.
In context, of Matthew 20, Jesus is speaking to two different groups of believers, not one group who will receive salvation and one which won't. The context is first and last. The chosen 12 and the called millions of Christians is what I think Jesus is referring to in this parable. In the context of Matthew 22 parable, then the dividing is between those who choose to come and those who choose not to respond to the invite (many called, few chosen) to the wedding feast. THE GUESTS were doing the choosing, the wedding host king was doing the calling. So that completely refutes God choosing who comes to the wedding. John 3:15 That WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Nothing like the topic of predestination to divide God's people. However, I will stand firm in my belief in free choice. I have asked God numerous times to correct me if I am wrong. To lead me into the light and reveal the truth behind the matter to me. To really put it on my heart if the Calvinist belief is true. I will not accept the opinion of one side or the other from man, only what God reveals to me through the spirit. God has yet to do that, therefore I stand firm on my belief of free choice until otherwise.
About four minutes into this video. The contact creator stated that God doesn’t predetermine in nature that’s a misunderstanding. If God didn’t predetermine in nature none of us will physically die, so when we’re talking about determinism we’re talking about the physical body or all physical creation. Predestination is based on a promise through the sovereign will and ability for God to fulfill his promise, To summarize the argument only God could have predetermined the ‘natural world, and the spiritual world simultaneously. The Predestination of scripture, states whosoever shall believe shall have eternal life according to election is a promise that only God can keep without obstructing Free WILL… So here goes the counterfactual argument that God promises whosoever doesn’t believe will spend eternity in death separated from God as the nonbeliever wishes to be. But we all die of physical death…
Why would he choose some over others? Would you love one of your children more than the other and give them special treatment? God's love is infinitely greater than yours too, so do you really believe that God would choose you over others?
I'm really struggling with this?? My choices are indeed horrible, that would make my life terrible won't it? My past haunts me and there is no way people will forgive me. God can but not people. I don't want my choices to be my life, I want God's plan ONLY. I don't want choice or free will, I only want his will. I'm okay with being a puppet. But all this speaks more about me not owning up to my mistakes and putting the blame of God right? I'm so confused.
You are not a puppet when you choose God's will. It would be, if God were a human. But He is NOT!! When you choose God's way, He offers and infinite number of righteous paths that you may choose. In the Garden, God said eat from EVERY tree of the Garden, but just not one. God says to you that you can choose any of an infinite number of righteous paths -- but just don't do evil. Satan says that that is limiting our freedom.
Yes, God really does declare the end from the beginning. We have a human will, but God's will is the only truly free will. Our fallen state through Adam causes us to die. Our justified state through Jesus gives us life. All die through Adam/All live through Jesus. This is the good news Gospel!
In Jeremiah 19:5 God says, "they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did NOT COMMAND or speak, nor did it come into My mind)" So, who do we believe, Jeff Durbin, RC Sproul, James White, John Piper or God Almighty and His Holy Word, the Bible? So, while God does predestine some things, this verse says clearly NOT everything. It's like a university predestining a football team but giving free will to players themselves to decide whether or not to come out for that team.
Very well put young man I continue to follow u even if I don't agree with all and that's ok as it line up with the word um older but alwayer love others opinion about the word continue seeking his face I value your faithfulness
Here's something we do need to understand: We, as sinners, naturally stray from God and it is impossible by ourselves to come to God and to want to seek Him (Romans 3:10-12). God is the one who draws us to Himself, not us (John 6:65, John 6:44). In that same way, therefore, we are chosen by God since we cannot by nature choose Him. He literally has to choose us. If we are all deserving of death and hell, then God is perfectly just to give us that, but He didn't. God is not obligated to save anyone, but the fact that God even chose anyone at all is absolutely wild!
We have a will but it’s not free. It’s not free because I am held captive by my sinful nature,and I am in charge of my decisions . I can freely make decisions but that’s why I am in desperate need to be born again from above.
Read Absolute Predestination by Jerome Zanchius for the correct understanding of predestination. Jesus said he chose us; we did not choose him until after after the Father enabled us to do so. Prior to this enablement no one can or will choose Christ. All that is without God. doing violence to our wills.
I think in all of this confusion regarding humanity, I would suggest that we revisit sumaria, the cradle of civilization, the whole truth regarding mankind and relegion is heavily polarized thus creating obscurity, spiritual myopia.
This is like the newspapers in Back to the Future that Doc Brown goes ahead in time got get. Now Doc Brown knows how everything turns out by reading the newspaper from the future. Since God can see all of our futures, he already knows what our final futures are. And, I think this very different from predetermining our final futures🤔
Being outside of time in eternity God before creation sees each person's life and what we will each do with our free will and having foreknowledge of each person predestines certain aspects of our lives.
I strongly prefer this belief and this explanation, as it is the only thing that makes any sense.. but one question, what does it mean in The Bible when it says "elect" and "non-elect"
Great and simple explanation!!! Why can't people see it? Just breaks my heart. Personally, I understand that predestination or pre determination is to help those who choose him of their own free will. I believe that our choosing him makes him get up from his throne and do everything he can to help us overcome a supernatural adversary that has been around for millenia and even seduced a third of the angels who were in the presence of God and knew all about him. That is why the angels that made the wrong 'choice' were never forgiven. There was no excuse. As for us mere humans he gives us the greater gifts to overcome such an adversary . He gives us Grace, Faith, Love, Adoption as Sons, and the Power of the Holy Spirit. These are the 'benefits' of predestination that followed when he foresaw us choosing him before the foundation of the world.
Predestination necessarily means free will doesn't exist. I can prove it in a single question. God knows I'm going to eat a ham sandwich today. Can I eat a turkey sandwich instead?
Your amazing and great for showing how to really understand and feel what the Bible is really saying. I believe and love and understand very much and hope others like you will help others truly see God's true understanding and meaning.🥰✌💖✴
Brother, I love and appreciate your ministry. Your exegesis is rlly on point. However, you simply cannot get around the fact that we were dead in our sins. Left in our natural fallen state, our free will is unable to choose God (John 6:44, Ephesians 2:1, Isaiah 64:6). God has to act first and initiate salvation. He has to turn a heart of stone into a heart of flesh. He has to raise the dry bones and bring them to life. If our spiritual condition is properly understood, then it is also understood that no one is able to choose God without God having chosen them first. God bless you bro! Peace and Love from our Lord Jesus Christ! All Glory to Him!
Thanks for the comment and encouragement man. Really appreciate that word. I definitely understand. I used to be 5 point Calvinist myself and it was a journey to arrive where I’m at today so I’m happy to talk through these things with you as best as I can. Hit me up on my website if you’re able to 👍🏼
You don't tell nobody to see it your way, you let the scriptures speak. All the true people of God, communicated, and faithfully transferred the truth of God to the people. You paused also that use to happen to me when God would stop me in my tracts telling me I was wrong... Jesus is real...
Amen! This ties in with what I was thinking about people who are running around frantically trying to "save everybody". People choose to respond and be saved. Then God works with "the saved". I hate that people can't see God's gifts. Everyone has a chance.🙏❤️
Everyone is born spiritually dead. Colossians 2:13 ESV “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,” John 11:43 ESV “When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”” Jesus brought Lazarus forth. He brought him back to to life so he can come forth. Lazarus didn’t participate in any way shape or form. He needed to be revived first. In the same way God chooses to revive his chosen before we can call out to him in repentance & faith. Ephesians 2:8, 10 ESV “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” John 1:12-13 ESV “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 3:3 ESV “Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”” I didn’t even consult with my parents that I would like to be born & even that God was the doer of my fleshy birth.
@@dannyrodriguez7454 Great point Danny about our first birth and not having anything to do with it. Much like our second birth. It is the will of God. He saves those He's predestined to salvation and this is a gift of God that no man should boast!
@Phoenix hey brothers and sisters this mess also from "new age " thinking. Notice that there is no mention of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is all the same as other false thinking "religions" all man centered. Be wise as to not be carried away by false doctions and inventions of man.
Calvinists have hijacked the biblical meaning of predestination to fit their unbiblical theology. Beyond The Fundamentals does a great job distinguishing between biblical predestination and the Calvinists view of predestination. Sadly, because of the popularity of Calvinism, many people assume the Calvinists view is what the Bible teaches.
Calvinism denies the free will of man. However, Scripture teaches that man has free will to choose God as verified by the following passages: Joshua 24:15 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, CHOOSE you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:22 - Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have CHOSEN to serve the Lord.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied. The word "chosen" in Joshua 24:22 indicates that man has free will and indicates the action taken by the people as a result of the exhortation given in Joshua 24:15. Deuteronomy 30:19 - 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore CHOOSE life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Again, the word "choose" indicates that God has given us FREE WILL. Judges 10:14 - 14 Go and cry unto the gods WHICH YE HAVE CHOSEN; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. Ezra 8:28 - And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the Lord; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a FREEWILL offering unto the Lord God of your fathers. Psalm 119:108 - Accept, I beseech thee, the FREEWILL offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments. Isaiah 66:3- He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have CHOSEN THEIR OWN WAYS, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. Why can't people just accept Gods sovereignty. We have free will to live the way we want here on earth but we don't own heaven like we just choose if we want to go in or not. Have you ever seen an adoptee choose his adopter? Its the other way around, the adopter is always the one who choose which child to adopt.
We know that God is sovereign, you just misunderstand what God has made. God chose us before the foundation of the earth, but that stems from his foreknowledge, he doesn't predetermine our choice but he just knows all of the outcomes and possibilities. Love cannot be forced or else it's not real love. Knowledge doesn't imply causation. You have mistaken predestination for predetermination? This isn't just my opinion, but it's all throughout the bible , the bible teaches both freewill and Predestination and election, your just mixed up on the mechanics of how that actually unfolds according to what God has made. This is where our understanding starts to break down upon the realization that both are true but we are finite minds trying to understand a infinite being however we have to go by scripture.
"Think not that you chose me, but I chose you" I think that sums it up, God is author of salvation. He has saved whom he wills. Those whom he saved, they have believed. "And all who were appointed unto eternal life believed". Etc
"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins" Ephesians 2:1 "And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses" Colossians 2:13 "But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14 What is your understanding can a person choose to be in Christ (decision for Jesus), or is salvation God's work not man's decision?
I would say yes we chose. Just as we choose to drink water, just as we choose to turn the tv on. That’s free will. But when we chose Jesus, the Holy Spirit absolutely helps us. We just have to make the choice after that it’s all God’s grace.
@@ivio2644 1 Corinthians 2:14 says that natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, would you say that God has to change something in us that we can receive salvation because natural man with his "free will" doesn't choose God?
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 I would say the change happens after we accept Christ and what He did for us. Then the change happens. I believe we make the choice as a natural man to accept Christ. Just as the natural man rejects Christ. What do you think?
@@ivio2644 free will is a delusional we fall under when we think we have choice. You may have the choice between a hot dog or a burger. But when it comes to Salvation Father knows the end from the beginning he chooses us we don't choose Him. Free will is not a part of a prisoner's of Jesus's life
Q: How is it that we come to be in Christ? A: [1Co 1:30-31 KJV] 30 But of him (God the Father) are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
I do understand what you are saying! We “us” the believers that one that are in the house/ family are predestine to be holy and blameless in Christ KEY word {In Christ}, th problem that I have found I this that some people understand that we the believers do not have sin? If you are a believer do you have sin? kEY word {in Christ} explain that somebody!
Hi, can you tell me which Bible version you found the word mystery in Ephesians 3:6 because i don't see it in my Bible. I was reading from your Bible skllls study course on Ephesians and looked for the word mystery but i don't see it in verse 3:6. KJV Bible
that's because he might have a EVS or some other translation of the Bible which is not good to study in because some of the other Bibles take out hold chapters change words etc that's why I only read King James version
Hey sister, i think the scripture reference is meant to be Eph 3:3 (not Eph 3:6) where it says - "How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words," Hope this helps. 🙏
“God is not choosing who ends up in Christ and who believes. He is choosing what he will do to those who believe in Christ.” So how does one believe in Jesus on their own when we are saved by grace??
The will is in bondage. You would never choose Christ. Christ chooses us. Jesus told is disciples " He chose them, they didn't choose Him(John 15:16). " Unless the Father draws you , you would never come to Christ (John 6:44). " The flesh profits nothing. Only the Spirit can give life to the Spirit ( John 6)."
He was speaking to His disciples not every single person who will believe. We can’t take one piece of the Bible and say “that is how it works ALL THE TIME and ONLY this way.” It’s not a solid formula..
@@tonythompson5156He did have to draw us…this is true.. without Jesus coming and without His Holy Spirit working we wouldn’t look up and just praise Him on our own. How could we? Literally… We wouldn’t be able to even IF we wanted to
Hello, Can you say? why does the Holy Spirit do a work of Sanctification in a person - before the belief of the truth, If we decide to or not to come to Christ. My question comes from reading a part of 2 Thessalonians ch 2 v 13 “…because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.” To prevent you from getting sidetracked with God choosing, to salvation, I stress the question again. Why does the Holy Spirit need to sanctify a person before the belief of the truth; not trying to trick you. If you don’t know that is ok, we all must learn to wait on the Lord and this includes waiting for him to give us understanding. The Spirit of God is responsible to bring understanding and teaching.
Who was Jesus talking to when He said those that the Father gives He will not cast out? John 6:37-39 KJV All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
A God who already knows who's going to hell before he ever creates them is not compatible with free will. 1. It's impossible for me to choose something outside of God foreknowledge 2. Gods foreknowledge existed before I was born. 3. Every choice I will ever make has already been determined before I was born.
Are the chosen the one who excepted God, Or how does it work. Was it Moses or Jeremiah to do God's will cause it sounded like they were afraid to do so. I'm just trying to understand.
I have mostly agreed with all of the videos that I've seen about your explanations of the word but I have to disagree with you a little bit on this brother even though I love you and I admire you and I don't consider myself a calvinist I just consider myself a receiver of Grace because God is good, anyhow, I believe that you don't fully understand what the will is and if it is truly free. The term " Free Will " was just coined in the last hundred years probably or something like that and it does not reflect a true idea, Arthur w pink really explains it well in his book The sovereignty of God I highly recommend it to you brother it is a short read but you will truly be enriched, 👍
Brother, can you please help me understand this. I am okay with explaining God chosing in a calvinistic view or sovereign view or other view. I am scared to see a perspective, where God making us unholy and then making us holy in christ and for this reason he made man to fall. Why bcz to the glory of his grace... will a loving father would force us like this, either for his glory or determination. As i said, i am a sinner and god only chosing me as a calvinistic or sovereign way is fine for me. Because it is god who can show such love n grace. But he only throwing us in sin or trials or temptations and cleaning us in him for his glory and also to showcase his love, this version is scaring me. Can you plz help..
"He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ." If God hasn't chosen you for adoption to Himself as sons, then you are not part of His family. Do adopted kids do the choosing or does the one who is adopting the child do the choosing? This is not complicated. But so many people make it complicated by disregarding that the adopted child isn't the one who did the choosing.
The Most Important Message: Ancient Of Days & Jesus came together to send me a message as one. He propped me up in my bed half asleep & placed His message directly into my mind/existence & moved my fingers to write this (it felt like I was vibrating in His light & He won’t let me forget it - it’s like I memorized it in a couple minutes verbatim): ‘I was asked to call God, as he gave me the command. After I complied & asked for a call he answered & gave me a phone call. I was in disbelief for two seconds then I held up water in a white porcelain cup filled near the rim & listened to his still and quiet voice from the lips of the ripples of the waters.’ The message is as follows. He said: 1. Any wicked man who should try to move another mountain is dumb. (Creating towers of Babylon around the world.) 2. Making a mountain out of a mole hill is a war that will never be won. (God sees this wicked generation as a molehill which will be leveled & overthrown.) 3. All those that are wicked are the ones who deny my son (Jesus). (Self explanatory.) 4. All those who pickup arms will die by the gun. (Those who should try to keep their lives shall lose it.) 5. All things I do for my pleasure but some of it is not fun. (God does not enjoy chastising his children with punishment.) Jesus & I have begun to sow reparations for the wickedness which has been sown. Thank you Michael. ♥️”
Our freewill is one thing God has never crossed boundary with. Nevertheless, He has prepared a path and a lifestyle for those who by will believe with their hearts that Christ died for their sins and confess with their mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord.
What about Jonah and Pharoah? And the LORD PREPARED a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17 And it says God hardened Pharoahs heart...it seems like God does what pleases to Him including overriding our free will. Jonah wanted to run run run but God would NOT allow that! He could have given up on Jonah and commanded a different Prophet to send to Ninevah but the story is not about Ninevah I beleive.....its about Jonah, His beloved child. God pursues us until the end to accomplish His will for our lives. That's comforting that we can't outrun God and that He will command and cause things to happen for our OWN GOOD in spite of our sin nature that wants to run, hide and cover ourselves with shame like Adam and Eve.
@@mybigfatexpatlife6865 Hello. Peace be unto you God's beloved. I will not answer your question directly i am sorry but i will say some little things that God has taught me and I have learnt. For Pharaoh and Jonah, God already knew their minds were made up from the beginning, That is why in Exodus 3:19 explains this. Same thing with Jonah. But the bid deal about God in these examples were not just the characters but the lives, the people that their "childish" decisions could affect. So what i strongly believe is that God is always in the constant activity of making us believe He is the sovereign God! Gal 5: 17 has helped me understand how great our free will is to both the sinful desire and the Holy Spirit desire. So in the context of your questions freewill might not be truly understood but very well in line with the contest of the video. God bless you 😊
This would be right if the text said "he chose those who would later believe in him"... That we should be holy and blameless, or put the way he's trying to say he chose those who are already in him to be predestined - he looked down the corridors of time to see who will choose him, after that he predestines them for adoption, holiness ,etc. that's actually post-ratification. God does not choose in that scenario, man chooses then God is compelled by mans choice. But the text says the choice is God's "he chose us in Him before the foundation of the world". He chooses those who will be in him. If you chose God, freely and apart from God's action, why did you choose when so many don't, what is it about you that makes you so different that you would choose God?
If God made us all, and he knows everything about what's gonna happen in our lives, he could very easily change stuff to make us all serve him instead. Yet he doesn't. Why? Because apparently we have free will. However, he knows what is gonna happen, so basically he had it planned out from the very start. So in conclusion, he has a plan, he works together beleivers and non-beleivers into that plan, but then again, it's HIS plan that HE ordained. We are just playing according to that plan. In another argument, one could say that God has a purpose for us in the end, and he has many plans to get us there. The problem with this is if he is sovereign and all-knowing, how come he doesn't know which plan we take due to our freewill? Another problem is, the Bible mentions that God doesn't tempt us. But if God has predetermined eveything, he knows of our sins. Why doesn't he prevent it? So logically, is he is the one tempting us? Lastly, if God has predetermined eveything, why must we pray? To build a connection with God yes, but it's futile nonetheless as we're going according to his plan anyways so what's the point?
In Ezekiel God said He will cause the people to walk in His statutes and cause them to obey His commands. Ezekiel 36:22-32 English Standard Version I Will Put My Spirit Within You 22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. 23 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. 24 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.[a] 28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. 30 I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord God; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
Very interesting. How does the word Elect and the verses that go along with it and John 6:44 which states that No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day play into the interpretation you have made in this video?
For the answer to that, you'll have to wait for my deeper dive into calvinistic theology sometime in the next couple of months because there is no way to pack my answer into a TH-cam comment. This kind of conversation requires a verbal answer
Love this video but how would you interpret verses like John 6:44, acts 13:48, revelation 13:8 and most definitely Romans 9:19-23? Other Bible verses say He wishes that all would reach repentance and whoever come to Him He will not cast out, but I think that’s speaking in terms of our limited perception of free will. I don’t think Calvinistic predestination and free will contradict at all. God is outside of time - the choice to predestine us is one that exists outside of time. Inside of time we have no idea who is called or not, so in our free will we choose to or not to follow Christ. But that choice that we are making is first influenced by the Holy Spirit. He has to unblind our hearts in order for us to desire to follow Him in the first place - and I believe He unblinds those who He has chosen to “draw to Himself” as the verses above state and harden the hearts of those who do not believe. The Bible says to the natural man the things of God are foolish. All of us find Him foolish until He opens our eyes. An analogy to help understand it better: if a father puts ice cream on the table and says his child can choose to eat it or not, the child’s probably gonna use his free will to choose to eat it! But he had to have the ice cream provided first to make that choice. That’s just my take on it
Calvinists, I'm asking this sincerely, not with an "I'm going to prove them wrong" attitude. How do you reconcile Luke 13:34-35 with predestination? 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 35 Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Why would Jesus long to gather them under His wing, and be upset enough to weep bitterly because they would not? Why would He weep over an impossibility, and impossibility that He Himself created? The house is forsaken, b=meaning, at one time the house was not forsaken. Also, what about "Choose this day Whom you will server? It seems to me that there are so many scriptures that refute Calvinism that it makes no sense to "camp out" on one extreme or another. How do you folks handle this apparent contradiction? Again, I'm asking sincerely. I am prepared to learn if anyone can explain it.
I would rather put it this way, I will preach what the bible says is true. And not what I think is true. Let the scriptures speak for it self. Cheers brother
I deleted my response. While I disagree I certainly support your desire to search the scriptures. I don’t want to discourage any person, especially a young man, from doing that. Clearly none of us have all the answers. Keep growing. May God bless you.
I cannot keep track of all the people I respond to. Were you the one that I had asked for some specific example of where you disagree with me and with biblical support for those claims?
I am not. I sighted some specific scriptures that I believe support what I believe about man not choosing God but the reverse. After your response I became convicted about going down that road. In many churches I have attended the men don’t seem to be interested in learning more about God which I find very confusing and frustrating. They are content to let their wives fill that role. I am not. So, while we disagree I am very glad to see that you are searching. That gives me hope for the younger generation. I’m not going to discourage you but rather ask for your forgiveness. God bless you.
Jason says: “God determined before the foundation of the world how he would treat those who believed in His son.” Perfect. And before He said “Let there be light,” He knew exactly who would choose to believe in His son and who would not. Irrefutable. Which means before Adam took a single breath, God knew EXACTLY who (and how many countless-billions, trillions?) of souls would end up tormented for eternity. He knew this BEFORE anyone even existed. And He knew of each individual specifically. With that knowledge, he pressed “go” on the universe, and everyone was born with their destiny to choose Jesus or go to hell already known by God and utterly unavoidable by them. It is completely impossible to avoid the fact that this is the condition we are calling free will.
You know when I first heard this I accepted it without a doubt. It made so much sense because I was away from the faith made up in my mind Im not coming back.. But then I always had a sense of this massive pull back to the fold. Jesus does not lose not a one. I don't know fully if I am predestined but My God to know this ALL before He created us before He created EVERYTHING, the magnitude of that type of knowledge only One God can process.
You are the first person to explain any form of predestination that I understood and accept. Thank you!!
I’ve been trying to make sense of this whole thing, thanks for clearing the fog!
Well said brother! We all need to understand the difference between PREDESTINATION and PRESELECTION.
God bless you!!!
@@abrahamj.m.julien2506 those preselected was predetermined and predestined from before the world began. There is only 1 will. Gods will. Our choices, past present and future we make was Determined by God.
@@tonythompson5156so all the sinners are predetermined to be sinful I'd be very careful to accuse God of that.
@@MrWiseinheart not accusing GOD. God died for the elect only. He has planned out everything, every particle, every humans plan. Before the beginning. HE predestined EVERYTHING, including sin. Look in the Bible. It does not contradict.
THIS IS WHY WE PRAISE HIM YOUNG FELLOW. 🙏✝️👍✌️😁
So how many does God wants Saved ? That all men should come to the knowledge of the Saviour for he desires none to be lost. It starts at the cross of which everyone comes to in order to be Saved. Shalom Amen AMEN 👍
I've been really enjoying your videos, brother... thanks for bringing more clean content to TH-cam.
Revelation 4: 11 "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
"Beware the leaven"
It's hard to figure our which way you lean with this verse. I think both camps can agree with it.
@@AnniEast "which way" "both camps"
OOPs!
There is only One Way, One Truth. "The Kingdom is Within You"
"The Word" is sown in our hearts.
If a camp be divided against itself, that camp cannot stand.
@@christtruthreveal63 read my comment again...very clear you completely misunderstood me.
What I meant is that whether you hold to a calvanistic view of predestination or not, you can surely agree that the Lord is worthy to receive glory and honor and power. You can agree that He has created all things and that everything created He created for His pleasure.
Who disagrees with this? Surely not someone that calls themselves Christian?
This verse doesn't prove whether either side is wrong or right. I merely asked why you posted it in the first place.
Thank God for your ministry
God bless the Word as it goes out
AMEN.!!!
Wow, brother. This topic has been weighing on my heart lately. You have really helped me understand this. All Glory to God.
Me too!!! But i truly don't understand this, If God made us all, and he knows everything about what's gonna happen in our lives, he could very easily change stuff to make us all serve him instead. Yet he doesn't. Why? Because apparently we have free will. However, he knows what is gonna happen, so basically he had it planned out from the very start. So in conclusion, he has a plan, he works together beleivers and non-beleivers into that plan, but then again, it's HIS plan that HE ordained. We are just playing according to that plan.
In another argument, one could say that God has a purpose for us in the end, and he has many plans to get us there. The problem with this is if he is sovereign and all-knowing, how come he doesn't know which plan we take due to our freewill?
Another problem is, the Bible mentions that God doesn't tempt us. But if God has predetermined eveything, he knows of our sins. Why doesn't he prevent it? So logically, is he is the one tempting us?
Lastly, if God has predetermined eveything, why must we pray? To build a connection with God yes, but it's futile nonetheless as we're going according to his plan anyways so what's the point?
WOW! That makes so much sense! This concept has been so challenging to understand!
Psalm 53:1-3 said no one is looking for God. So if God let us have a freewill, no one will be looking for him. So He had to choose us, otherwise none of us would choose him, Please read Psalm 53:1-3. thanks
Before the foundation of the world, he saw all of history unfold before him. As he did so, he noted those that he saw accept him as God before the Word became flesh and those whom he saw accept Jesus when they heard the Gospel. He then predestinated those who believed in him before the cross to become like father Abraham...
And those of us who've accepted Jesus to be conformed to the image of his Son so WE would be just as much his children as his Firstborn is. (Romans 8:29)
Which explains why he loves us as much as he loves Jesus. (John 17:23)
This is also how he already knew everything he will ever do before the foundation of the world. (Acts 15:18) My Daddy's the BEST!!!
Good video!
Menh, thank GOD for your deep Spiritual insights thru CHRIST JESUS. Amen
God Bless you my brother 🙏, this is my first time seeing your videos and I want to thank God firstly before the Algorithm gets any credit when it comes to seeing men and women who are spreading the word.
May God continue to use you wisely and in accordance to his glory.
Thank you for the content my friend. 🙂
AMEN.!!!
Thank you for explaining this. These videos are so helpful.
Deuteronomy 29:29.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children for ever, that we may do the words of his law.
UNDERSTOOD!!! PRAISE GOD.!!! THANK YOU .
OMGGGG THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! thank you Father for guiding me to this video!! omggg this break down of the text was everything. no one else’s explanation was making sense to me & i was beginning to fear maybe there was something in me that didn’t want to understand & i didn’t want to have this subconscious doubt about the Lord’s faithfulness & character. this makes total sense God bless you! 🤍🤍🤍
That’s life and thank you for clarifying this it’s not about who and what you love it’s all about who loves you even when it hurts❤
I just had this in part of my last teaching and you strong in the faith brother helped me break that down as to exactly why. Free will as in the garden.
God bless us through your Hebrews study too❤
The garden of Eden is not where the first sin was ever committed but IN HEAVEN. And God ALMIGHTY is the one who created Satan with HIS OWN HOLINESS if you read the scriptures like it says in,
Genesis 3:1
Proverbs 16:4
Isaiah 45:7
Ezekiel 28 14 16
Colossians 1:16 etc
I agree. He chose us because He knew what we would chose Him! We caused ourselves to believe but He knew thats what we were going to believe! We are adopted because of our faith..God knew thats what we were going to do before we were even conceived!
God does not force His will upon people. He has called all but few will or have accepted this gracious invitation of Salvation and an eternal life.
GOD hardened pharoah heart to reject letting the slaves go
Pharoah hardened his own heart first…then God topped it off finally
When God says “I will harden pharaohs heart” it is saying he knew his heart would be hardened by Gods plan. God knew his heart would be hardened because of Him. If I tell someone a hard truth, I will MAKE them defensive. As the gentleman in the video says, predestined is different than predetermined.
Pharaoh did harden his own heart but God used it for HIS GLORY to show his power, and the scriptures would be fulfilled...
1st John 4:8 he that don't know love, don't know God, FOR GOD IS LOVE.
We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God so we cannot make just a free will choice in the flesh that we need to die of Daly and choose Christ when he chose us before the world began.
PLEASE READ THIS TO THE END MY FRIEND 🙏❤✝️😎🥰
God's CHOSEN ELECT were Chosen by God and GIVEN JESUS, BEFORE the
W🌎RLD BEGAN, according to the Scriptures. We need to die of our flesh daily, Matthew 16:24 So are we the ones who chose God? John 6:44 No, cause if a sinner is LOST IN SIN. How can ANYONE make a free will choice TO SAVE THEMSELVES ⁉️👎
THEY CAN'T AS FREE WILL CHOICE IS NOWHERE FOUND IN THE BIBLE.
In FACT Jesus spoke against it in 2 Peter 2:9 10 (the LOST is Self-willed) and in Titus 1:7-8 (the SAVED is NOT 🚫 Self-willed)
Also Jesus said in Matthew 7 21 23
Just cuz you say Lord Lord, DOES NOT 🚫 get you into the kingdom of heaven, BUT THOSE THAT DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. (Spiritual Obedience)
v. 22 And many will say unto me on that day (THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT Rev. 20:11-15), Lord Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out devils 👿, AND DONE MANY WONDERFUL WORKS? (Works in the flesh) Romans 8 8
v. 23 And I (Jesus) Will profess unto them, depart from me, you that work iniquity, I NEVER EVER KNEW YOU.
I BELIEVE that Free Will choice is 100% HERESY, or False Teaching ACCORDING to the SCRIPTURES as a Real Christian is to do the WILL of GOD ALMIGHTY which is called OBEDIENCE.
Verses of B4 the W🌎rld Even Begin.
Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on HIS right hand (HIS SHEEP), Come, ye Blessed of MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION of the
W🌎RLD.
(Goats are on the left)
John 17:5-6 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I HAD WITH THEE BEFORE THE W🌎RLD WAS.
6 I have manifested (REVEALED) THY NAME UNTO THE MEN which God gave Jesus.
John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me,,, which thou hast given me: FOR THOU LOVEDST ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
W🌎RLD.
Acts 3:21 of all things, WHICH GOD HAS SPOKEN BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS HOLY PROPHETS SINCE THE W🌎RLD BEGAN.
What does PRE-DESTINATED mean?
Pre means before the WORLD 🌎 began,
Destination means where you end up after time is over.
Ephesians 1:4-5 According as GOD HAS CHOSEN US IN JESUS BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
W🌎RLD, that we should be holy and without blame before JESUS in GOD:
5 HAVING PRE-DESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURES OF HIS WILL.
Ephesians 1:11
In whom also we have OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, BEING PRE-DESTINATED according to the purpose of HIM WHO WORKETH ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNCIL OF HIS OWN WILL.
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, WHICH GOD ORDAINED BEFORE THE W🌎RLD UNTO OUR GLORY
2 Thessalonians 2:13 ,,,, BECAUSE GOD HATH FROM THE BEGINNING CHOSEN YOU TO SALVATION THROUGH SANCTIFICATION of the SPIRIT and BELIEF of the TRUTH
2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath SAVED US, AND CALLED US WITH AN HOLY CALLING, Not according to our works, (or FREE WILL CHOICE in the flesh)
BUT ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE
W🌎RLD BEGAN.
Titus 1:2 In HOPE of ETERNAL LIFE, which GOD, that cannot lie, PROMISED BEFORE THE
W🌎RLD BEGAN.
1st Peter 1:20 Who verily was FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
W🌎RLD, but was MANIFEST (OR REVEALED) IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU.
The Cross, Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the EARTH 🌎 shall WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB SLAIN (OR CRUCIFIED) FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE
W🌎RLD.
The Lost, Revelation 17:8 ,,,and they that dwell on the EARTH 🌎 shall wonder, WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE W🌎RLD,,,,
Who will never chosen to be saved.
God is using the lost to bring this Lost W🌎RLD to an end, and to Earn Crowns to Glorify God our Heavenly WITH THE TRAILS WE GO THROUGH.
John 1:12-13 But as many as received him, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME SONS OF GOD, even to them that believe in HIS name:
13 Which were born, NOT 🚫 of blood, nor of the WILL OF THE FLESH, nor of the WILL OF MAN, but of GOD'S WILL.
John 8:36 IF,, the Son therefore shall MAKE YOU FREE, ye shall be free indeed.
John 8:43 Why don't you understand my speech? even because ye CANNOT HEAR MY WORD.
John 8:47 He that is of God hears God's words: ye therefore HEAR THEM NOT, BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF GOD.
John 10:3-4 To him the porter (door keeper) opened; and THE SHEEP HEARS HIS VOICE: AND HE CALLETH HIS OWN SHEEP BY NAME, AND LEADETH THEM OUT.
4 And when he putteth forth HIS OWN SHEEP, he goes before them, and THE SHEEP FOLLOW HIM: FOR THEY KNOW HIS VOICE.
John 10:26-27 But ye believe not, because YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP, as I said unto you.
27 MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, and I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME:
John 13:18 I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL: I KNOW WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN,,, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
Speaking of Judas Iscariot.
John 14:17 Even the SPIRIT of TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: BUT YE KNOW HIM; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 15:4-5 Abide in me, and I in you. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF, EXCEPT IT ABIDE IN THE VINE; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same brings forth MUCH fruit: FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING.
John 15:16 YE HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU,,
15:19
19 If ye were of the world, the W🌎RLD would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, BUT I (Jesus) HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE
W🌎RLD, therefore the world hates you.
John 17:2,,,THAT HE (Jesus) SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO AS MANY AS THOU (God) HAS GIVEN HIM.
JOHN 17:6 I HAVE MANIFESTED OR REVEALED MY NAME UNTO THE MAN WHICH GOD GAVE TO ME OUT OF THE W🌎RLD.
John 17:9 I PRAY 🙏 not for the W🌎RLD but for them which God has given me,
John 17:11 ,,keep through the own name (Jesus) Those whom thou has given me that they may be one as we are.
John 18:37 EVERYONE THAT IS OF THE TRUTH HERE'S MY VOICE.
Revelation 3:20 I stand at the door (OF YOUR ❤) and knock, IF ANYONE HEARS MY (SPIRITUAL) VOICE, they will open the door,, ETC
Must I go on.
This is an interesting analysis. I am truly blessed as I can compare to Biblical texts in other languages. In french the BDS version verse 5 says (rough translation) « He predestined us to be His children, that He wanted to adopt through Jesus-Christ. This is what He wanted for us in His goodness ». God chooses us but gives us the free will to not choose Him back if that’s our choice.
God bless you!
Nope.
Rejecting God is an act.
A verb.
They are simply playing out how God made them.
Its not a choice.
It is finished.
i struggle with freewill because to me it screams God does not have a plan
@@jakecathey7061 I hear you bro but ofc God has a plan. If I take my own testimony, I rejected Him time & time again when people would evangelise to me but His plan was always for me to come home to Him but I had to accept Him to do so
@@oluwaeffy I think of it sorta like Armenian God exists out of time and can observe all that has happened is happening and what will happen because he can see this God wrote the names in the book of life who he already knew would accept him
@@oluwaeffyhm yea yea now that i think about it, God does have a plan even though i didn't want to do so. He gave me a desire to serve out of nowhere and i always choose not to, do this that, avoid God at all cause but at the end, here i am serving him. It's like a weird combination of "what the hell how come everything just clicked?" But it just did. I think it's his plan. I have free will, of course but from my choices, even the bad ones, he make good out of it. He still does things to me nevertheless. I can't even explain. But he gives A, i did BCDE, and then ended up choosing to do AA and now i understand it leads to him again
The main passages in context:
ROMANS 9:The God in his absolute election v.11-16, chose to save by the means of faith and not by works v.30-33, that's Paul's conclusion of what he has said so far (that's why in v.11 he put God's election in opposition to "works" but not in opposition to faith). And he explains more about the same theme in 10:8-9 he says: "this is the word of faith WE preach: IF YOU...believe...will be saved" Not before believing. And not if YOU don't believe, that's God's absolute election to save that Paul was talking and preaching, and he doesn't say 'God will make you believe or God will believe for you without YOU believing. That's why it is with "No difference" v.12-13, (2:11)(3:22-23) and that's why Paul finishes his explanation of the three chapters with the final purpose of God :
" for God has consigned all men to disobedience , that HE may have MERCY on THEM ALL" (11:32).
EPHESIANS 1: God by His absolute grace and will predestined us IN Christ... To be holy...v.4. To be adopted.. V. 5...etc., but to be sealed IN Him by the Holy Spirit is "after YOU heard...and BELIEVED ...v.13.(in greek "believed" is in the active voice which means that the action of the verb is activated by the subject "You"). Again, Paul doesn't say 'God made you believe' but "YOU believed..and IN Him were sealed ..." So: GOD chose to save, knowing that PEOPLE would believe(God didn't ignore that, that's why He PREdestined).And since He had no obligation that salvation be through faith, by providing that it be by this means "HE chose" by His absolute grace to give us the opportunity to believe, so that WE may believe.
ROMANS 8:28- they say the word "foreknew" in v.29 means that God had an intimate relationship with the elect before time began, but it only means to know before hand, for ex: in John 5:42 Jesus said to the jews who tried to kill Him " i KNOW you..."(same greek word in Rom.8:29) but He doesn't mean that He had an intimate relationship with them.
.And we were not justified before the creation of the world, in 4:2-3 Paul already explained that "Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness" Not before.(and the action of the verb "believed" was made by Abraham ) And the way Abraham was justified is a pattern for all of us v.9- 25, "for all nations" (Gal.3:6-8).
.Also the Bible says that there's no boasting when we believe Rom.3:27-28, 4:2-3, because faith is according to His grace. 4:16.
You put your finger correctly on 'free will' at 6:30. We all have the free will to choose to accept Jesus or to reject Jesus. We all receive the call. We each decide what the answer to the call will be. By your own choice, either you are in or you are out. See Rev. 3:16.
Not everyone. Christianity is only a thing in particular parts of the world. There are humans alive now who have no idea who Jesus is.
God, is calling everyone to Him, He chooses certain people to become true ministers of His Word around the world - these people have been predestined to live, if they accept Him (He knows they will accept Him). God offers Himself to everyone & when we choose Him - He chooses us (which can be everyone).
"Think not the you chose me, but I chose you" -Jesus
@@chrisa3289 If everything is predetermined before the foundation of the world then every book that ever was is inspired by the Holy Spirit which is not true. Christ was talking to the apostles in that moment not every person who would ever believe. Not everything that ever happens was predetermined by God but He allowed these things to take place. To say regeneration proceeds faith is like saying there's life outside of Christ, which there is not.
I want to thank you for helping make the Word easier to understand. God bless. 🙏
Best explanation ive ever heard!
Such Wisdom! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌❤️
It's not confusing at all, because He desires us, He makes it possible for us to decide on our future
*He makes it possible* for us to decide on our future? Can you elaborate on that please? How does he make it possible?
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Many are called, but few are chosen!
Facts
Matthew 20.16 many are called, few are chosen.
Matthew 20.28 the Son came to give his life as a ransom FOR MANY.
Bingo
In context, of Matthew 20, Jesus is speaking to two different groups of believers, not one group who will receive salvation and one which won't. The context is first and last. The chosen 12 and the called millions of Christians is what I think Jesus is referring to in this parable.
In the context of Matthew 22 parable, then the dividing is between those who choose to come and those who choose not to respond to the invite (many called, few chosen) to the wedding feast. THE GUESTS were doing the choosing, the wedding host king was doing the calling.
So that completely refutes God choosing who comes to the wedding.
John 3:15 That WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Very nicely explained brother. God bless you.
Its always, God gave us a measure of faith. Nothing we came up with as paul said i didnt study or come by christ it was a gift 🎁 given to me.
Nothing like the topic of predestination to divide God's people. However, I will stand firm in my belief in free choice. I have asked God numerous times to correct me if I am wrong. To lead me into the light and reveal the truth behind the matter to me. To really put it on my heart if the Calvinist belief is true. I will not accept the opinion of one side or the other from man, only what God reveals to me through the spirit. God has yet to do that, therefore I stand firm on my belief of free choice until otherwise.
About four minutes into this video.
The contact creator stated that God doesn’t predetermine in nature that’s a misunderstanding.
If God didn’t predetermine in nature none of us will physically die, so when we’re talking about determinism we’re talking about the physical body or all physical creation.
Predestination is based on a promise through the sovereign will and ability for God to fulfill his promise,
To summarize the argument only God could have predetermined the ‘natural world, and the spiritual world simultaneously.
The Predestination of scripture, states whosoever shall believe shall have eternal life according to election is a promise that only God can keep without obstructing Free WILL…
So here goes the counterfactual argument that God promises whosoever doesn’t believe will spend eternity in death separated from God as the nonbeliever wishes to be.
But we all die of physical death…
I feel God pursued me. Does He choose some to salvation?
Why would he choose some over others? Would you love one of your children more than the other and give them special treatment? God's love is infinitely greater than yours too, so do you really believe that God would choose you over others?
I'm really struggling with this?? My choices are indeed horrible, that would make my life terrible won't it? My past haunts me and there is no way people will forgive me. God can but not people. I don't want my choices to be my life, I want God's plan ONLY. I don't want choice or free will, I only want his will. I'm okay with being a puppet. But all this speaks more about me not owning up to my mistakes and putting the blame of God right? I'm so confused.
No, you rightly confess that they were your decisions, and I agree, so for your desire to be God's will over all is admitting that very fact.
You are not a puppet when you choose God's will. It would be, if God were a human. But He is NOT!! When you choose God's way, He offers and infinite number of righteous paths that you may choose. In the Garden, God said eat from EVERY tree of the Garden, but just not one. God says to you that you can choose any of an infinite number of righteous paths -- but just don't do evil. Satan says that that is limiting our freedom.
Did this help?
Yes, God really does declare the end from the beginning. We have a human will, but God's will is the only truly free will. Our fallen state through Adam causes us to die. Our justified state through Jesus gives us life. All die through Adam/All live through Jesus. This is the good news Gospel!
Excellent explanation.
In Jeremiah 19:5 God says, "they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did NOT COMMAND or speak, nor did it come into My mind)" So, who do we believe, Jeff Durbin, RC Sproul, James White, John Piper or God Almighty and His Holy Word, the Bible? So, while God does predestine some things, this verse says clearly NOT everything. It's like a university predestining a football team but giving free will to players themselves to decide whether or not to come out for that team.
Very well put young man I continue to follow u even if I don't agree with all and that's ok as it line up with the word um older but alwayer love others opinion about the word continue seeking his face I value your faithfulness
Here's something we do need to understand: We, as sinners, naturally stray from God and it is impossible by ourselves to come to God and to want to seek Him (Romans 3:10-12). God is the one who draws us to Himself, not us (John 6:65, John 6:44). In that same way, therefore, we are chosen by God since we cannot by nature choose Him. He literally has to choose us. If we are all deserving of death and hell, then God is perfectly just to give us that, but He didn't. God is not obligated to save anyone, but the fact that God even chose anyone at all is absolutely wild!
We have a will but it’s not free. It’s not free because I am held captive by my sinful nature,and I am in charge of my decisions . I can freely make decisions but that’s why I am in desperate need to be born again from above.
Read Absolute Predestination by Jerome Zanchius for the correct understanding of predestination. Jesus said he chose us; we did not choose him until after after the Father enabled us to do so. Prior to this enablement no one can or will choose Christ. All that is without God. doing violence to our wills.
You niled it, Young Man!!!!!
Thank you Brother.
Yes, many are confused by What is predestined.
I think in all of this confusion regarding humanity, I would suggest that we revisit sumaria, the cradle of civilization, the whole truth regarding mankind and relegion is heavily polarized thus creating obscurity, spiritual myopia.
Excellent!
This is like the newspapers in Back to the Future that Doc Brown goes ahead in time got get. Now Doc Brown knows how everything turns out by reading the newspaper from the future. Since God can see all of our futures, he already knows what our final futures are. And, I think this very different from predetermining our final futures🤔
Being outside of time in eternity God before creation sees each person's life and what we will each do with our free will and having foreknowledge of each person predestines certain aspects of our lives.
I strongly prefer this belief and this explanation, as it is the only thing that makes any sense.. but one question, what does it mean in The Bible when it says "elect" and "non-elect"
Great and simple explanation!!! Why can't people see it? Just breaks my heart. Personally, I understand that predestination or pre determination is to help those who choose him of their own free will. I believe that our choosing him makes him get up from his throne and do everything he can to help us overcome a supernatural adversary that has been around for millenia and even seduced a third of the angels who were in the presence of God and knew all about him. That is why the angels that made the wrong 'choice' were never forgiven. There was no excuse. As for us mere humans he gives us the greater gifts to overcome such an adversary . He gives us Grace, Faith, Love, Adoption as Sons, and the Power of the Holy Spirit. These are the 'benefits' of predestination that followed when he foresaw us choosing him before the foundation of the world.
Predestination necessarily means free will doesn't exist. I can prove it in a single question.
God knows I'm going to eat a ham sandwich today. Can I eat a turkey sandwich instead?
Excellent explanation! ❤
Your amazing and great for showing how to really understand and feel what the Bible is really saying. I believe and love and understand very much and hope others like you will help others truly see God's true understanding and meaning.🥰✌💖✴
Well done brother 👌
Brother, I love and appreciate your ministry. Your exegesis is rlly on point. However, you simply cannot get around the fact that we were dead in our sins. Left in our natural fallen state, our free will is unable to choose God (John 6:44, Ephesians 2:1, Isaiah 64:6). God has to act first and initiate salvation. He has to turn a heart of stone into a heart of flesh. He has to raise the dry bones and bring them to life. If our spiritual condition is properly understood, then it is also understood that no one is able to choose God without God having chosen them first. God bless you bro! Peace and Love from our Lord Jesus Christ! All Glory to Him!
Thanks for the comment and encouragement man. Really appreciate that word. I definitely understand. I used to be 5 point Calvinist myself and it was a journey to arrive where I’m at today so I’m happy to talk through these things with you as best as I can. Hit me up on my website if you’re able to 👍🏼
Don't let him off the hook, we are to contend for the faith earnestly...😊
It means the same thing. Weather God directly or indirectly forces our will, it is still forcing our will therefore we have none.
You don't tell nobody to see it your way, you let the scriptures speak. All the true people of God, communicated, and faithfully transferred the truth of God to the people. You paused also that use to happen to me when God would stop me in my tracts telling me I was wrong... Jesus is real...
Amen! This ties in with what I was thinking about people who are running around frantically trying to "save everybody". People choose to respond and be saved. Then God works with "the saved". I hate that people can't see God's gifts. Everyone has a chance.🙏❤️
I gifts of God are irrevocable. Faith itself is a gift of God . What and to whom God gives is his choiceand cannot be revoked..
This includes Grace,repentance,faith and salvation.
Everyone is born spiritually dead.
Colossians 2:13 ESV
“And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,”
John 11:43 ESV
“When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.””
Jesus brought Lazarus forth. He brought him back to to life so he can come forth. Lazarus didn’t participate in any way shape or form. He needed to be revived first. In the same way God chooses to revive his chosen before we can call out to him in repentance & faith.
Ephesians 2:8, 10 ESV
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
John 1:12-13 ESV
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”
John 3:3 ESV
“Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.””
I didn’t even consult with my parents that I would like to be born & even that God was the doer of my fleshy birth.
@@dannyrodriguez7454 Great point Danny about our first birth and not having anything to do with it. Much like our second birth. It is the will of God. He saves those He's predestined to salvation and this is a gift of God that no man should boast!
@Phoenix hey brothers and sisters this mess also from "new age " thinking. Notice that there is no mention of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is all the same as other false thinking "religions" all man centered. Be wise as to not be carried away by false doctions and inventions of man.
Calvinists have hijacked the biblical meaning of predestination to fit their unbiblical theology. Beyond The Fundamentals does a great job distinguishing between biblical predestination and the Calvinists view of predestination. Sadly, because of the popularity of Calvinism, many people assume the Calvinists view is what the Bible teaches.
Jealous!
Calvinism denies the free will of man. However, Scripture teaches that man has free will to choose God as verified by the following passages:
Joshua 24:15 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, CHOOSE you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:22 - Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have CHOSEN to serve the Lord.”
“Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.
The word "chosen" in Joshua 24:22 indicates that man has free will and indicates the action taken by the people as a result of the exhortation given in Joshua 24:15.
Deuteronomy 30:19 - 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore CHOOSE life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Again, the word "choose" indicates that God has given us FREE WILL.
Judges 10:14 - 14 Go and cry unto the gods WHICH YE HAVE CHOSEN; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Ezra 8:28 - And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the Lord; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a FREEWILL offering unto the Lord God of your fathers.
Psalm 119:108 - Accept, I beseech thee, the FREEWILL offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments.
Isaiah 66:3- He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have CHOSEN THEIR OWN WAYS, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Thank you for this, Brother. It helps a great deal..Praise and Glory to God, thanks be to Him our One True Living God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. Why can't people just accept Gods sovereignty. We have free will to live the way we want here on earth but we don't own heaven like we just choose if we want to go in or not. Have you ever seen an adoptee choose his adopter? Its the other way around, the adopter is always the one who choose which child to adopt.
We know that God is sovereign, you just misunderstand what God has made.
God chose us before the foundation of the earth, but that stems from his foreknowledge, he doesn't predetermine our choice but he just knows all of the outcomes and possibilities. Love cannot be forced or else it's not real love. Knowledge doesn't imply causation. You have mistaken predestination for predetermination? This isn't just my opinion, but it's all throughout the bible , the bible teaches both freewill and Predestination and election, your just mixed up on the mechanics of how that actually unfolds according to what God has made.
This is where our understanding starts to break down upon the realization that both are true but we are finite minds trying to understand a infinite being however we have to go by scripture.
Love it, good stuff again!
"Think not that you chose me, but I chose you"
I think that sums it up, God is author of salvation. He has saved whom he wills. Those whom he saved, they have believed. "And all who were appointed unto eternal life believed". Etc
Could you please explain romans 9 love your videos men god bless❤️🙏
"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins" Ephesians 2:1
"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses" Colossians 2:13
"But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14
What is your understanding can a person choose to be in Christ (decision for Jesus), or is salvation God's work not man's decision?
My question too
Does a man choose or decide to beleive jesus Christ?
I would say yes we chose. Just as we choose to drink water, just as we choose to turn the tv on. That’s free will. But when we chose Jesus, the Holy Spirit absolutely helps us. We just have to make the choice after that it’s all God’s grace.
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1 Corinthians 2:14 says that natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, would you say that God has to change something in us that we can receive salvation because natural man with his "free will" doesn't choose God?
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 I would say the change happens after we accept Christ and what He did for us. Then the change happens. I believe we make the choice as a natural man to accept Christ. Just as the natural man rejects Christ. What do you think?
@@ivio2644 free will is a delusional we fall under when we think we have choice. You may have the choice between a hot dog or a burger. But when it comes to Salvation Father knows the end from the beginning he chooses us we don't choose Him. Free will is not a part of a prisoner's of Jesus's life
Q: How is it that we come to be in Christ?
A: [1Co 1:30-31 KJV] 30 But of him (God the Father) are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Talk about predestination and skip romans 9?
thanks a lot!
It's clear we're predestinated to either inherit eternal joy or eternal shame. Eternity is open as well for evil-doers. 🍷📜🦍
I do understand what you are saying! We “us” the believers that one that are in the house/ family are predestine to be holy and blameless in Christ KEY word {In Christ}, th problem that I have found I this that some people understand that we the believers do not have sin? If you are a believer do you have sin? kEY word {in Christ}
explain that somebody!
He choose us in him…not once your in him he chooses you. I’m amazed how people read this backwards …..
Both the act and purpose of choosing has been done before the foundation of the world. Where’s man’s free will here?
Hi, can you tell me which Bible version you found the word mystery in Ephesians 3:6 because i don't see it in my Bible. I was reading from your Bible skllls study course on Ephesians and looked for the word mystery but i don't see it in verse 3:6. KJV Bible
that's because he might have a EVS or some other translation of the Bible which is not good to study in because some of the other Bibles take out hold chapters change words etc that's why I only read King James version
Hey sister, i think the scripture reference is meant to be Eph 3:3 (not Eph 3:6) where it says -
"How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,"
Hope this helps. 🙏
“God is not choosing who ends up in Christ and who believes. He is choosing what he will do to those who believe in Christ.” So how does one believe in Jesus on their own when we are saved by grace??
The will is in bondage. You would never choose Christ. Christ chooses us. Jesus told is disciples " He chose them, they didn't choose Him(John 15:16). " Unless the Father draws you , you would never come to Christ (John 6:44). " The flesh profits nothing. Only the Spirit can give life to the Spirit ( John 6)."
Amen!! We are children of wrath by nature and would never choose HIM on our own accord.
He was speaking to His disciples not every single person who will believe. We can’t take one piece of the Bible and say “that is how it works ALL THE TIME and ONLY this way.” It’s not a solid formula..
@@tonythompson5156He did have to draw us…this is true.. without Jesus coming and without His Holy Spirit working we wouldn’t look up and just praise Him on our own. How could we? Literally… We wouldn’t be able to even IF we wanted to
Thank you & our Lord Jesus
Hello, Can you say? why does the Holy Spirit do a work of Sanctification in a person - before the belief of the truth, If we decide to or not to come to Christ. My question comes from reading a part of 2 Thessalonians ch 2 v 13 “…because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.”
To prevent you from getting sidetracked with God choosing, to salvation, I stress the question again. Why does the Holy Spirit need to sanctify a person before the belief of the truth; not trying to trick you. If you don’t know that is ok, we all must learn to wait on the Lord and this includes waiting for him to give us understanding. The Spirit of God is responsible to bring understanding and teaching.
Who was Jesus talking to when He said those that the Father gives He will not cast out?
John 6:37-39 KJV
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Thank you
A God who already knows who's going to hell before he ever creates them is not compatible with free will.
1. It's impossible for me to choose something outside of God foreknowledge
2. Gods foreknowledge existed before I was born.
3. Every choice I will ever make has already been determined before I was born.
Bro just explained multiverse theory: biblical edition
Are the chosen the one who excepted God, Or how does it work.
Was it Moses or Jeremiah to do God's will cause it sounded like they were afraid to do so.
I'm just trying to understand.
I have mostly agreed with all of the videos that I've seen about your explanations of the word but I have to disagree with you a little bit on this brother even though I love you and I admire you and I don't consider myself a calvinist I just consider myself a receiver of Grace because God is good, anyhow, I believe that you don't fully understand what the will is and if it is truly free. The term " Free Will " was just coined in the last hundred years probably or something like that and it does not reflect a true idea, Arthur w pink really explains it well in his book The sovereignty of God I highly recommend it to you brother it is a short read but you will truly be enriched, 👍
Brother, can you please help me understand this. I am okay with explaining God chosing in a calvinistic view or sovereign view or other view. I am scared to see a perspective, where God making us unholy and then making us holy in christ and for this reason he made man to fall. Why bcz to the glory of his grace... will a loving father would force us like this, either for his glory or determination. As i said, i am a sinner and god only chosing me as a calvinistic or sovereign way is fine for me. Because it is god who can show such love n grace. But he only throwing us in sin or trials or temptations and cleaning us in him for his glory and also to showcase his love, this version is scaring me. Can you plz help..
"He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ."
If God hasn't chosen you for adoption to Himself as sons, then you are not part of His family. Do adopted kids do the choosing or does the one who is adopting the child do the choosing? This is not complicated. But so many people make it complicated by disregarding that the adopted child isn't the one who did the choosing.
The Most Important Message:
Ancient Of Days & Jesus came together to send me a message as one. He propped me up in my bed half asleep & placed His message directly into my mind/existence & moved my fingers to write this (it felt like I was vibrating in His light & He won’t let me forget it - it’s like I memorized it in a couple minutes verbatim):
‘I was asked to call God, as he gave me the command. After I complied & asked for a call he answered & gave me a phone call. I was in disbelief for two seconds then I held up water in a white porcelain cup filled near the rim & listened to his still and quiet voice from the lips of the ripples of the waters.’
The message is as follows. He said:
1. Any wicked man who should try to move another mountain is dumb. (Creating towers of Babylon around the world.)
2. Making a mountain out of a mole hill is a war that will never be won. (God sees this wicked generation as a molehill which will be leveled & overthrown.)
3. All those that are wicked are the ones who deny my son (Jesus). (Self explanatory.)
4. All those who pickup arms will die by the gun. (Those who should try to keep their lives shall lose it.)
5. All things I do for my pleasure but some of it is not fun. (God does not enjoy chastising his children with punishment.)
Jesus & I have begun to sow reparations for the wickedness which has been sown. Thank you Michael. ♥️”
Our freewill is one thing God has never crossed boundary with. Nevertheless, He has prepared a path and a lifestyle for those who by will believe with their hearts that Christ died for their sins and confess with their mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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What about Jonah and Pharoah?
And the LORD PREPARED a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17
And it says God hardened Pharoahs heart...it seems like God does what pleases to Him including overriding our free will. Jonah wanted to run run run but God would NOT allow that! He could have given up on Jonah and commanded a different Prophet to send to Ninevah but the story is not about Ninevah I beleive.....its about Jonah, His beloved child. God pursues us until the end to accomplish His will for our lives. That's comforting that we can't outrun God and that He will command and cause things to happen for our OWN GOOD in spite of our sin nature that wants to run, hide and cover ourselves with shame like Adam and Eve.
Do beleive that we ourselves make the decision to beleive in Christ?
@@mybigfatexpatlife6865 Hello. Peace be unto you God's beloved. I will not answer your question directly i am sorry but i will say some little things that God has taught me and I have learnt. For Pharaoh and Jonah, God already knew their minds were made up from the beginning, That is why in Exodus 3:19 explains this. Same thing with Jonah. But the bid deal about God in these examples were not just the characters but the lives, the people that their "childish" decisions could affect.
So what i strongly believe is that God is always in the constant activity of making us believe He is the sovereign God!
Gal 5: 17 has helped me understand how great our free will is to both the sinful desire and the Holy Spirit desire. So in the context of your questions freewill might not be truly understood but very well in line with the contest of the video.
God bless you 😊
Who told you that will is free?
This would be right if the text said "he chose those who would later believe in him"... That we should be holy and blameless, or put the way he's trying to say he chose those who are already in him to be predestined - he looked down the corridors of time to see who will choose him, after that he predestines them for adoption, holiness ,etc. that's actually post-ratification. God does not choose in that scenario, man chooses then God is compelled by mans choice. But the text says the choice is God's "he chose us in Him before the foundation of the world". He chooses those who will be in him. If you chose God, freely and apart from God's action, why did you choose when so many don't, what is it about you that makes you so different that you would choose God?
If God made us all, and he knows everything about what's gonna happen in our lives, he could very easily change stuff to make us all serve him instead. Yet he doesn't. Why? Because apparently we have free will. However, he knows what is gonna happen, so basically he had it planned out from the very start. So in conclusion, he has a plan, he works together beleivers and non-beleivers into that plan, but then again, it's HIS plan that HE ordained. We are just playing according to that plan.
In another argument, one could say that God has a purpose for us in the end, and he has many plans to get us there. The problem with this is if he is sovereign and all-knowing, how come he doesn't know which plan we take due to our freewill?
Another problem is, the Bible mentions that God doesn't tempt us. But if God has predetermined eveything, he knows of our sins. Why doesn't he prevent it? So logically, is he is the one tempting us?
Lastly, if God has predetermined eveything, why must we pray? To build a connection with God yes, but it's futile nonetheless as we're going according to his plan anyways so what's the point?
In Ezekiel God said He will cause the people to walk in His statutes and cause them to obey His commands.
Ezekiel 36:22-32
English Standard Version
I Will Put My Spirit Within You
22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. 23 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. 24 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.[a] 28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. 30 I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord God; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
Very interesting. How does the word Elect and the verses that go along with it and John 6:44 which states that No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day play into the interpretation you have made in this video?
For the answer to that, you'll have to wait for my deeper dive into calvinistic theology sometime in the next couple of months because there is no way to pack my answer into a TH-cam comment. This kind of conversation requires a verbal answer
Does he have a video explaining Romans 9?
Or can someone send me a link to help me undertand it properly? Thanks
You are eisegeting the passage, my friend. The verses speak pretty clearly for themselves.
Well, you have a good point but what about Det. 7:6; John 6:44; 10:29; 2 Timothy 1:9; and Eph. 1:4.
Love this video but how would you interpret verses like John 6:44, acts 13:48, revelation 13:8 and most definitely Romans 9:19-23? Other Bible verses say He wishes that all would reach repentance and whoever come to Him He will not cast out, but I think that’s speaking in terms of our limited perception of free will. I don’t think Calvinistic predestination and free will contradict at all. God is outside of time - the choice to predestine us is one that exists outside of time. Inside of time we have no idea who is called or not, so in our free will we choose to or not to follow Christ. But that choice that we are making is first influenced by the Holy Spirit. He has to unblind our hearts in order for us to desire to follow Him in the first place - and I believe He unblinds those who He has chosen to “draw to Himself” as the verses above state and harden the hearts of those who do not believe. The Bible says to the natural man the things of God are foolish. All of us find Him foolish until He opens our eyes. An analogy to help understand it better: if a father puts ice cream on the table and says his child can choose to eat it or not, the child’s probably gonna use his free will to choose to eat it! But he had to have the ice cream provided first to make that choice. That’s just my take on it
Calvinists, I'm asking this sincerely, not with an "I'm going to prove them wrong" attitude.
How do you reconcile Luke 13:34-35 with predestination?
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 35 Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
Why would Jesus long to gather them under His wing, and be upset enough to weep bitterly because they would not? Why would He weep over an impossibility, and impossibility that He Himself created? The house is forsaken, b=meaning, at one time the house was not forsaken.
Also, what about "Choose this day Whom you will server?
It seems to me that there are so many scriptures that refute Calvinism that it makes no sense to "camp out" on one extreme or another. How do you folks handle this apparent contradiction? Again, I'm asking sincerely. I am prepared to learn if anyone can explain it.
I would rather put it this way, I will preach what the bible says is true. And not what I think is true. Let the scriptures speak for it self. Cheers brother
I deleted my response. While I disagree I certainly support your desire to search the scriptures. I don’t want to discourage any person, especially a young man, from doing that. Clearly none of us have all the answers. Keep growing. May God bless you.
I cannot keep track of all the people I respond to. Were you the one that I had asked for some specific example of where you disagree with me and with biblical support for those claims?
I am not. I sighted some specific scriptures that I believe support what I believe about man not choosing God but the reverse. After your response I became convicted about going down that road. In many churches I have attended the men don’t seem to be interested in learning more about God which I find very confusing and frustrating. They are content to let their wives fill that role. I am not. So, while we disagree I am very glad to see that you are searching. That gives me hope for the younger generation. I’m not going to discourage you but rather ask for your forgiveness. God bless you.
Jason says: “God determined before the foundation of the world how he would treat those who believed in His son.” Perfect. And before He said “Let there be light,” He knew exactly who would choose to believe in His son and who would not. Irrefutable. Which means before Adam took a single breath, God knew EXACTLY who (and how many countless-billions, trillions?) of souls would end up tormented for eternity. He knew this BEFORE anyone even existed. And He knew of each individual specifically. With that knowledge, he pressed “go” on the universe, and everyone was born with their destiny to choose Jesus or go to hell already known by God and utterly unavoidable by them. It is completely impossible to avoid the fact that this is the condition we are calling free will.
You know when I first heard this I accepted it without a doubt. It made so much sense because I was away from the faith made up in my mind Im not coming back.. But then I always had a sense of this massive pull back to the fold. Jesus does not lose not a one. I don't know fully if I am predestined but My God to know this ALL before He created us before He created EVERYTHING, the magnitude of that type of knowledge only One God can process.
Please, anyone, I need to know this. Is there divine intervention?