No person can come to Christ by their own freewill ! 3

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Jn 6:44 is describing the effectual call or the irresistible grace in what religionist call calvinism, or tulip;

When God calls/draws chosen sinners, he gives them hearing ears, seeing eyes, believing hearts, and understanding minds.

These things are Gifts of God, for as Moses wrote Deut 29:4

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

That word given can also me to cause like in Deut 28:7

The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

So when God draws us by His power He causes us hear, see, perceive Spiritually, they are His Gifts and not natural to man ! 14

 

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God must teach us and He will if we belong to Him of our total inability to believe in Christ and dispelling the myth of coming to Christ by our own freewill. Therefore teaching about mans total depravity and spiritual death is very important, this truth magnifies the truth that man doesnt have a freewill to come to Christ, hence Jn 6:44. By this the aim centers not on what man can do, his efforts or what have you ,to get saved but on Gods Sovereign Mercy and Grace and what He has done to save His People from their Sins Matt 1:21. One of this Great things is to be given life by the Mercy of God through Jesus Christ ! 15

 

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29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

The call here is ,so that they may come to Christ. This call relates to the Fathers drawing, its the effectual call that goes out to His Chosen !15

 

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Those whom the Father draws are those whom He predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son Rom 8:29-30

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

The call here is ,so that they may come to Christ. This call relates to the Fathers drawing, its the effectual call that goes out to His Chosen! 15

 

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