preacher4truth
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That though we were blind, now we see. Comparing the healing of the physically blind to that of being spiritually blind. We love that part.
We like to think and dialogue upon the lines that we were dead spiritually, thus were blind, and that He made us see. We like to stop it right there. But what are the implications that you and I could not even see, and what do the Scriptures say about His Sovereign choosing of those to whom He and He alone will choose to reveal Himself?
We were also deaf spiritually. Did He not also heal the deaf? Why? For the same reason He healed the blind. As those who were blind could not see unless He enabled them, so too also those who were spiritually deaf could not hear His voice, and understand, unless He enables them. He did this to show us where we all are, spiritually, for the same exact reason He healed the blind. That He must do it all. Not just part of it. He came to find His lost sheep, and He carried them back to the fold. He did all of it. The only reason we are able to do so (hear, see, and choose) is because we are/were already His sheep, that He chose, not because we came and chose Him; He came to us and He alone chose us and He enabled us to do all of it. This also shows us where we would have remained unless He reached into our lives and chose us. Mark 7:37
We should thank God that He enabled every aspect of our being dead in sins so that we could respond to Him. Spiritual death to spiritual life, He granted to us every aspect, and enabled every facet of our being spiritually dead, to be alive again spirtitually so we could respond to Him choosing us, even giving us capability to hear Him and to be able to see. He who made us able to hear made us able to hear so we would be saved. He chose us in this. Not the other way around.
This nonsense that says "Yes, he opened my eyes and ears, but I chose him" is ridiculous. You chose nothing, He chose you, and enabled you to respond.
Some on here like to say "So you're saying we couldn't hear Him, that the dead spiritually can't hear him?" then mock it.
No, you couldn't even hear Him, unless He opened your ears to do so.
I am amazed that such exalt man in this whole thing. You, and I could do nothing without Him. Nothing. Nope; we could not even hear His voice unless He chose us and enabled us to be capable of hearing it.
Has He not also blinded some, and, made some deaf to not respond? Of course He has. He can, He is God! The hearing we talk about is the ability to hear and understand, Isaiah 6:9. This is His Sovereign choice to do so. It is plainly taught in the Scriptures.
Why can the Potter do this? Because He is all wise and He is Sovereign, so we must either trust Him in all of this that He does, or wemust say "well, my God is different than that God so I reject it" and in turn fashion to ourselves what we want our God to be like, so that He is either manageable, or way above our thoughts and Sovereign and accept the God of Scriptures. The latter is the One Whom I worship.
This does away with those who think they've done this choosing out of their own free will to do so. Not so, and not even close. Rather, He enabled you to be capable of doing so.
Who made the blind eyes to see, and the deaf ears to hear? He did.
I just want to thank God that He did all of it; the choosing, the opening my eyes, the opening of my ears, and the enabling me to believe He and He alone saved me. He chose me, and I glory in that.
- Blessings
We like to think and dialogue upon the lines that we were dead spiritually, thus were blind, and that He made us see. We like to stop it right there. But what are the implications that you and I could not even see, and what do the Scriptures say about His Sovereign choosing of those to whom He and He alone will choose to reveal Himself?
We were also deaf spiritually. Did He not also heal the deaf? Why? For the same reason He healed the blind. As those who were blind could not see unless He enabled them, so too also those who were spiritually deaf could not hear His voice, and understand, unless He enables them. He did this to show us where we all are, spiritually, for the same exact reason He healed the blind. That He must do it all. Not just part of it. He came to find His lost sheep, and He carried them back to the fold. He did all of it. The only reason we are able to do so (hear, see, and choose) is because we are/were already His sheep, that He chose, not because we came and chose Him; He came to us and He alone chose us and He enabled us to do all of it. This also shows us where we would have remained unless He reached into our lives and chose us. Mark 7:37
We should thank God that He enabled every aspect of our being dead in sins so that we could respond to Him. Spiritual death to spiritual life, He granted to us every aspect, and enabled every facet of our being spiritually dead, to be alive again spirtitually so we could respond to Him choosing us, even giving us capability to hear Him and to be able to see. He who made us able to hear made us able to hear so we would be saved. He chose us in this. Not the other way around.
This nonsense that says "Yes, he opened my eyes and ears, but I chose him" is ridiculous. You chose nothing, He chose you, and enabled you to respond.
Some on here like to say "So you're saying we couldn't hear Him, that the dead spiritually can't hear him?" then mock it.
No, you couldn't even hear Him, unless He opened your ears to do so.
I am amazed that such exalt man in this whole thing. You, and I could do nothing without Him. Nothing. Nope; we could not even hear His voice unless He chose us and enabled us to be capable of hearing it.
Has He not also blinded some, and, made some deaf to not respond? Of course He has. He can, He is God! The hearing we talk about is the ability to hear and understand, Isaiah 6:9. This is His Sovereign choice to do so. It is plainly taught in the Scriptures.
Why can the Potter do this? Because He is all wise and He is Sovereign, so we must either trust Him in all of this that He does, or wemust say "well, my God is different than that God so I reject it" and in turn fashion to ourselves what we want our God to be like, so that He is either manageable, or way above our thoughts and Sovereign and accept the God of Scriptures. The latter is the One Whom I worship.
This does away with those who think they've done this choosing out of their own free will to do so. Not so, and not even close. Rather, He enabled you to be capable of doing so.
Who made the blind eyes to see, and the deaf ears to hear? He did.
I just want to thank God that He did all of it; the choosing, the opening my eyes, the opening of my ears, and the enabling me to believe He and He alone saved me. He chose me, and I glory in that.
- Blessings
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