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| The Saviour is asking this beggar for his permission to save him! |
A friend
posted the above-captioned picture on his FB and asked me privately...
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(Anyone
who possesses in-depth knowledge of the BIBLE out there cares to respond to
this? Please go one step further to explain to others what SALVATION is all
about. My schoolmate from another different "religious" culture could
not accept this "selfish" behaviour of people who follow CHRIST. He
alleged that the "Christians" are selfish. As their GOD only
"saves" own people and abandons others. THAT IS NOT " LOVE
" AT ALL!.
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So, I
gave him my HUMBLE answer.
Sing
Sir, NO
in-depth knowledge needed... just read the PLAIN SCRIPTURES with its plain
meaning!
The
TRAGIC problem is people who claim themselves Christians DON'T READ the Book.
They are not the people of the Book!
Which do
you prefer:
a. The
SELFISH God who should have justly left the whole human race to PERISH in their
sins and suffer the just eternal damnation, or
b. The
gracious and merciful God who HAS chosen to save some out of that justly
condemned race and made them His people?
Many
SELFISH people would rather that God be selfish and has nothing to do with the rebels and enemies, leave every one of the
whole human race to perish... that God saves NO ONE. Their perverted mind and
wicked heart charge God as selfish when God actually show grace and mercy and
SOVEREIGNLY has chosen to save many BUT not all.
The
wicked are angry with God because He exercised His sovereignty, and has chosen
to save whom He will! They are wise and prudent when they exercise their choices! Brass-faced hypocrites.
Some
fools want to RESTRICT God's freedom to act, and charge Him as selfish! When
they themselves act in the same way, they see themselves as wisely exercise
freedom of choice!
Rom
9:14-21
14 What
shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For
he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So
then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that
sheweth mercy.
17 For
the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee
up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared
throughout all the earth.
18
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he
hardeneth.
19 Thou
wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his
will?
20 Nay
but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say
to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath
not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto
honour, and another unto dishonour?
Sing
Mat 1:21
And she
shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save
his people from their sins.
Who are
His people?
Those
whom the Father has chosen out of the fallen and cursed race of Adam, and given to Christ to redeem...
John
6:38-39
For I
came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent
me.
And this
is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I
should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.
Jesus
was born, and then sent when 30 years old... NOT to do any preacher's or any
idiot's will. He was sent to do His Father's will. Men who don't get this
should just hold their peace, instead of speaking as fools!
Run
Joggy Run
So..here again we come to the same point
again. NOT ALL ARE CHOSEN. SOME ARE JUST BYPASSED AND IGNORED. (unless they cry
for salvation and want it badly themselves, or sudden life events happen to
them and they want salvation. Even so..they may not want it. Because in the
first place..their name was not in the BOOK OF LIFE before the foundation of
the world).
So..based
on Roman 9. man ..the size of a grain of sand..can do nothing but be thankful
for being in the chosen group of GOD's child. Eph 1.4
THEN HOW
AM I SO SURE THAT I AM IN THE CHOSEN GROUP? (Eph 1.4)
I may
think that I AM CHOSEN when I may not be at all.
THIS
PART ..no one individual can tell the other the answer..though all may think
that "they are in" the Kingdom.
Sing
God
would still be perfectly just if He had bypassed all the justly condemned,
justly condemned by their own sins!
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So..here
again we come to the same point again. NOT ALL ARE CHOSEN. SOME ARE JUST
BYPASSED AND IGNORED. (unless they cry for salvation and want it badly
themselves, or sudden life events happen to them and they want salvation. Even
so..they may not want it. Because in the first place..their name was not in the
BOOK OF LIFE before the foundation of the world).
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The
"unless part" is illogical. Those in their native state of sin and
spiritual deadness can never perform the "unless" bit. It is as
nonsensical as saying "unless the dead man would wink his eyes and smile
at you..."
A man
dead in trespasses and sins is in ENMITY AGAINST God, in rebellion against
God... how could such a man want salvation? You better start reading and Bible
and actually believe what it says about a man in his native state of sin and
death!!! That's where we must begin!
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THEN HOW
AM I SO SURE THAT I AM IN THE CHOSEN GROUP? (Eph 1.4)
I may
think that I AM CHOSEN when I may not be at all.
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2Pe 1:10
Wherefore
the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure:
for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
READ and
STUDY what verses 5-9 says.
Your
perplexity is answered by the Scriptures.
Sing
"Can
I save you?"
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Interesting
question!
I assume
it is the Saviour asking the question, obviously to an unsaved man, a man still
in his native state of sin and death.
To whom
is this question intended?
To an
UNsaved man, OBVIOUSLY, i.e. a man who is still in his NATIVE state of sin and
death, still UNSAVED.
Do you
expect such a man to be able to answer the inquiry?
If such
a man is able to respond to the inquiry, what would the response be?
Also, is
the question asking about the ABILITY of the inquirer to save; or is the
question asking an unsaved man (i.e. still in his native state of sin and
death) for his permission to save him?
Do you
believe what the Bible says about an unsaved man, a man in his native state -
conceived in sin, born in sin... in the state of sin and death - spiritually
dead, completely incapable of perceiving any spiritual things, nor performing
any spiritual activity.
You
either don't believe what Christ stated, or you just don't understand at all...
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee (second person, singular), Except a man
be born again, he CANNOT see the kingdom of God,...he CANNOT enter the kingdom
of God."
Which is
which - you don't understand such plain simple declaration of truth, or you
just DON'T believe such plain truth??
You have
been fed JUNK for toooooooooo long!
I'm not
being rude with you, just speaking plainly with a friend.
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Run Joggy Run is an example of this indictment:
2Ti 3:7 "Ever
learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
