Featured Seeking God some of the Time

Yes, the natural man will seek God - on the natural man's terms.

The question is not the natural man's sincerity. It is that without the enabling power of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, no one will seek God through Christ and His finished work and His righteousness.

 

Yes, the natural man will seek God - on the natural man's terms.

The question is not the natural man's sincerity. It is that without the enabling power of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, no one will seek God through Christ and His finished work and His righteousness.

 

Those people whom God chose before the world began and given to Christ to be their Surety.

 

Yes, they were seeking God on their own terms, not through Christ and His finished work and His righteousness. Only those regenerated by the Holy Spirit seek God through Christ and His finished work and His righteousness.

 

1 John 4: 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Brother Glen

 

Yes, KenH I couldn't agree with you more. Anyone can "adapt" to the lifestyle, we can be influenced to start reading our bibles
going to church, praying, etc. I can testify from experience, I went through all the motions, walking the isle, getting baptized,
being a respectable church member, thinking that was what one must do. It did me no good doing this "seeking". But I was not
born again. Years later, attending a good Baptist church and hearing the word, I started struggling, short time later God was
dealing with me. Yes, I believe God breaks us completely, then I knew God had mercifully saved me, then faith came
naturally. It starts with the regenerating work of God. Repentance, faith etc. follows it.

 

Not what I said. The elect are in a lost state when the Holy Spirit regenerates them so that they are willing in the day of God's power to seek Him.

 

Yes, they were. If God's elect were not chosen before the world began, then no one can be saved.

 

It is quite germane.

 

Romans 3:9-18 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written,

There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth,
There is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open sepulchre;
With their tongues they have used deceit;
The poison of asps is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
And the way of peace have they not known:
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

(emphasis mine)

 

Since all humans beings are never perfectly holy as God is perfectly holy all during their time on this earth, all humans beings are always sinning.

All of my righteousness is as filthy rags(Isaiah 64:6). My righteousness is wholly in the righteousness of another - Christ Jesus.