#1
Listen, MTMattie, about the treasure that is the Word of God.
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He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day" (John 12:48)
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everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and [yet] it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock" (Matthew 7:24-25).
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Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven [will enter]. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'" (Matthew 7:21-23)
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Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell - and great was its fall" (Matthew 7:26-27).
#2
Interestingly, you mention me as shown below.
You vehemently believe that you are not a friend of Jesus thus making yourself an enemy of Jesus because your "
John 15 have nothing to do with you or me" (proof
post #6,395) thus you self-willingly (
2 Peter 2:9-10) exclude yourself from "
I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me but I chose you" (
John 15:15-16). I reject your "
John 15 have nothing to do with you or me".
You can see you mentioned me in the quote from you above, and now in your post quoted above you hypocritically wrote accusatorily "
Do you know how your choices will affect others".
You used 1 Corinthians 10 to be a hypocrite.
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woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in." (Matthew 23:13).
#3
1 Corinthians 10 says nothing about free-will.
#4
As with Free-willian Philosophy standard operating procedure, you focus on empty human choice instead of God’s precious choice.
#5
Here is a powerful description of God, "
it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13), so God controls my will.
#6
@synergy this post is equally to you because of your heartfelt agreement (your "Like") with MTMattie.
#7
Your heart's treasure (
Matthew 15:16-19,
Matthew 6:21) is that God
is not who the Word of God says that God is, and the Word of God says God is Sovereign with "
no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him" (
Matthew 11:27), so your heart
rejects" Lord Jesus Christ and your heart "
does not receive" Christ's "
sayings", so see John 12:48 for the consequence.
#8
The Word of God issues these wonderful blessings to all believers in all time:
- "you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:16), so God chooses people to be friends (John 15:15, the prior verse) and to believe (John 6:29) and to be born again (John 3:3-8) and for righteous works (John 3:21, John 15:5) and to repent (Matthew 11:25) and to love (John 13:34) and unto salvation (John 15:19, the same passage).
- "I chose you out of the world" (Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:19, includes salvation), so God exclusively chooses people unto salvation.
- "What I say to you I say to all" (Lord Jesus Christ, Mark 13:37 - Jesus had taken the Apostles Peter, Andrew, James, and John aside in private and said this), so all the blessings of God mentioned above are to all believers in all time.
And I am forevermore thankful to Lord Jesus Christ!
The only way for you free-willian philosophers to acheive your free-will is for you to add to the Word of God, and it is written "do not add to His words or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar" (Proverbs 30:6).
Your heart makes false statements about God and man. Free-will is a conjured concept of the traditions of men leading to worship in vain (Matthew 15:9).
In Truth (John 14:6), the Almighty God is Sovereign (Genesis 1:1) in man's salvation and affairs of man (Daniel 4:34-35)! PRAISE MY DELIVERER!!!
