What, exactly, do you think the above means???
This is a problem.
The reformed take ordinary verses and make them mean all sorts of incorrect doctrine.
Matthew 11:25
25 At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.
The Grace of God means exactly “
I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes” (
Matthew 11:25).
And, by the time we finish reviewing and dissecting your heart's treasure (
Matthew 15:16-19,
Matthew 6:21) about Matthew chapter eleven, your last state will be worse than the first.
Now, let's look at Matthew 11 in full:
Verse 14
14 "And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come.
Verse 14 speak of Free Will.
You impose your free-will adulteration as a replacement for the Word of God thusly:
| The traditions of men | | The Word of God |
| | |
If you are free-willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
(GodsGrace 11:14) | | If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
(Matthew 11:14) |
and the Apostle Paul wrote "
it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (
Philippians 2:13), so your heart believes your sovereignty of man eliminating the Sovereignty of God, and so goes your adulteration of the Holy Word of God.
Verse 15
15 "He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Verse 15 means that a person is ABLE TO HEAR,,,,IF he WANTS TO HEAR.
Free Will.
The loving Christ of us Christians opens our ears to hear the Word of God in Truth (John 14:6):
And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means, "Be opened!"). Immediately the man’s ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to speak plainly.
(Mark 7:34-35)
But you do not believe Christ does the wonders that He does, instead, you believe you open your own self-willed ears (2 Peter 2:9-10).
Now, look at "
he who has ears to hear, let him hear." (
Matthew 11:15) and see that "
He who has ears to hear" is made by Christ as part of the born again, new man.
Your heart (
Matthew 15:16-19,
Matthew 6:21) really adulterates the Word of God, here:
| The traditions of men | | The Word of God |
| | |
he who has free-will ears that WANTS TO hear, let him use his ABLE ears apart from Me to hear.
(GodsGrace 11:15) | | he who has ears to hear, let him hear.
(Matthew 11:15) |
and Lord Jesus Christ declares “
he who practices the Truth comes to the Light, that his works may be revealed, that they are having been worked in God” (
John 3:21), so your heart believes your sovereignty of man eliminating the Sovereignty of God, and so goes your adulteration of the Holy Word of God.
As a reminder, you tried to nullify the Word of God recorded in
John 3:21 in order to conform to your fraudulent free-will as shown in
post #6,580, but you failed.
Verses 16-19
16 "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,
17 and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.'
18 "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon!'
19 "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."
Jesus was addressing the current generation of Jews.
They were like spoiled children COMPLAINING TO GOD...Apparently they didn't know that God had predestinated everything for them.
These child-like Jews were never happy....they called John the Baptist crazy...and they called Jesus friend of the misfits.
But Jesus didn't care for what the Jews thought/believed...He was going to accomplish what He came for.
Note that you wrote "
Jesus was addressing the current generation of Jews" regarding Matthew 11:16-19. You perform the action as if there is no other application by Jesus. But, more about audience and applicability later.
Verse 20
20 Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.
Again, you're faced with having to read about Free Will.
Jesus denounces Chorazin, Bethsaida, Tyre, Sidon.....because they DID NOT REPENT.....sounds like Free Will.
You ears do not hear because you wrote "
sounds like Free Will", and here is the Spiritual proof:
| The word of GodsGrace | | The Word of God |
| | |
Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not free-will choose to repent.
(GodsGrace 11:20) | | Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.
(Matthew 11:20) |
and Lord Jesus Christ declares repentance in man is controlled by God when Christ says shortly later in the same dialog "
I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes" (
Matthew 11:25), so you adulterate the Holy Word of God.
Verse 25
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Jesus was happy that God had taught His ways to the Apostles,,,,the children who were not learned as the Pharisees were.
But they were WILLING to learn....the Pharisees were NOT WILLING to learn.
God does not keep His promises hidden....
It's the same as when Jesus said that we must hate our parents if we want to follow Him....
It's the language of the day...
Hermeneutics Kermos.
Lord Christ's prayer is absolutely beautiful:
I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes
(Lord Jesus Christ,
Matthew 11:25).
I thank You, Father, for revealing your Son, my Savior, to me, I am so unworthy and utterly inept in my own initiative, but You are almighty, the crown of wisdom, and worthy of all PRAISE!!!
You have provided a number of points of departure for examining your heart's treasure (
Matthew 15:16-19,
Matthew 6:21), and a journey begins with the first step.
Your "
God does not keep His promises hidden" conveys your heart's deeper sentiment nullifying the Word of God recorded in (
Matthew 11:25) because the Lord says
You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent.
I deserve wrath and punishment, but You, Holy Father, reached down into the catastrophy that was me, and You, Good Father, delivered me with Your Mercy and Grace and Peace! Thank You, Jesus, for cleansing me!
With your "
Jesus was happy that God had taught His ways to the Apostles", your thoughts adulterate the Word of God by wrongly restricting affected individuals in a like manner to where you adulterate the Word recorded in
John 15:16 and
John 15:19; furthermore, you wrote "
the Pharisees were NOT WILLING to learn". As a result of all that, here are your adversarial thoughts against God's thoughts:
| GodsGrace's thoughts | | Holy God's Thoughts |
| | |
I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that the wise and intelligent Pharisees, who were unwilling to be taught, chose to hide these things from themselves and the Apostles, who free-will chose to learn from God and reveal to themselves these things
(GodsGrace 11:25) | | I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes
(Matthew 11:25) |
so Lord Jesus Christ declares repentance in man is controlled by God because the Word of God says "
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) in the same dialog, so your heart adulterates the Holy Word of God.
Your "
Hermeneutics" are truly your extreme opposition to the Word of God.
You think, in your free-will, that you are among
the wise and intelligent because your flesh is free-will
wise and intelligent enough to choose to believe in Jesus according to your Free-willian Philosophy. God's beauty is right in front of you as recorded in
Matthew 11:25, yet your ears hear not the beautiful sound of the Voice of Truth (John 14:6).
Self-will or image of Christ will
These 16 parts integrally contribute to one full composition. A response to post #6,699.
Part 1 of 16: Illegitimate Isolation
Part 2 of 16: Self-exaltation
Part 3 of 16: Unity Prayer (Acts 4:24)
Part 4 of 16: CHOOSE, ABLE, list
Part 5 of 16: God creates all
Part 6 of 16: Matthew 11 examined
Part 7 of 16: Free-willian NT Conflict
Part 8 of 16: John 3 16/Matthew 11:25
Part 9 of 16: Free-willian Self-savior
Part 10 of 16: Faith, the gift of God
Part 11 of 16: Free-willian are self-willed
Part 12 of 16: The Potter and the clay
Part 13 of 16: the problem here
Part 14 of 16: you confuse Calvin for Christ
Part 15 of 16: Christ controls Christians
Part 16 of 16: Christians hear Christ
