Featured Unconditional Election

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Good question.....God has commanded all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel.Acts17
God has indeed ordained every single person who He intends to save....to be saved ...In Time using the meads He has ordained...
Those means include.....the preaching and teaching of Divine truth, reading the scriptures, the verbal and non verbal witness of other sheep, works of providence, believing prayer, all orchestrated by the unseen work of the Holy Spirit, convicting and effectually drawing that sinner to Jesus.
While God has revealed the fact of individual election unto salvation as truth...he also has given revelation of the means that will not fail...God in Love drawing a multitude to HIMSELF.

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No...it is part of the teaching....thy people will be WILLING...in the day of THY power,psalm 110.
The sinner who was previously unwilling and unable, is made willing and able by God's everlasting LOVE.

There is no such person....

good questions

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Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

8:29 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.

8:30 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.

8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us... Unconditional Election is a scriptural truth and it is all in the hands of God... Brother Glen

 

TJP....
many people have not been properly instructed on these teachings.....sadly in our day some who do not understand, or who struggle with some aspects of the teaching....oppose themselves by suppressing the truths that God has given to be a blessing and comfort to His Church.
You are doing the correct thing by asking questions in an effert to understand the position better.
If you believe it or not is between you and God.

 

Man, as unregenerate people, are rotten to the core, fallen, ruined, rotted, dead in their transgressions and sins. As long as they are in that state, the gospel has no effect, as they willingly reject any external stimuli, such as preaching, teaching, witnessing, &c. This is why the doctrine of regeneration not being taught properly causes any and all confusion. When God regenerates a sinner, a new heart is given unto them, their blinded eyes are opened, their deafened ears are unstopped, and they exercise faith and repentance, which are gifts of God given at the point of regeneration. Unless God does His part in regenerating a sinner unto life, they will have no desire to seek Him.

 

Oh yes I agree my Brother in the Lord, Total Depravity is the first point of the T.U.L.I.P doctrine that the Calvinist Brethren believe... I know you believe as I do and others do that it is all the work and purpose of Jesus Christ... But Roman 8 does not stop at verse 34... Look at the beauty of what follows!

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.... Glory... Glory... "GLORY"!... To our Lord, Savior and King, Jesus The Christ... AMEN!... Brother Glen

 

I fully agree.

I would reword the above:
"Unless God raises a sinner from spiritual death unto spiritual life (regeneration)--that sinner will have no desire to seek Him."

 

Here is a sermon by Spurgeon on "The Softening Of The Heart" if you care to take a look... I feel it will answer your question... Brother Glen

http://www.angelfire.com/va/sovereigngrace/howheartssoftened1.html

 

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. [Eph. 2:1-5]

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. [Col. 2:13,14]


While we were dead in sins, He quicken(regenerated{made us alive}) in Christ.

 

And you forgot God gives us his spirit to dwell within us. We are sealed by the spirit when we are born again. That's what makes us a new creature in Christ.

 

11 Thess 2:13 God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

 

Jesus Christ in his declaration to Nicodemus:

John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

According to the Sovereign Grace of Almighty God you have no more control over your being born again as you have over the wind... No mater what your belief it is ALL a work of God only... Brother Glen

 

Indeed. Calvinists have said (on BB and elsewhere) that regeneration precedes salvation, and sometimes there can be a gap of time between regeneration and actual salvation, of minutes, hours, days, even weeks, or more.