Well he’s wrong! Matthew 22 is referring to the Wedding FEAST, not the actual Wedding! It was furnished with GUESTS! (Matt. 22:11) This parable isn’t about the BRIDE OR the BODY of CHRIST. A Bride is not a GUEST at her own Wedding ! The parable is about those left behind who will be called to receive Christ AFTER the rapture. The GUESTS at the Wedding are those who will refuse the mark of the beast so that they will be allowed to the Wedding SUPPER, which takes place ON EARTH, AFTER Armageddon. After Christ comes back with his now WIFE. I’ve Capitalized some words below to highlight this. “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden TO THE WEDDING : and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my DINNER: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: and the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, HE WAS WROTH and he sent forth his ARMIES, and destroyed those murderers, and BURNED UP THEIR CITY. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. And when the king came in to see THE GUESTS he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into OUTER DARKNESS ; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:2-9, 11-14 KJV NOTE: THE KING WAS WROTH! Wroth= WRATH He sent forth his ARMIES to burn up the city. The CITY that is destroyed in Revelation is Mystery Babylon, Rev. 17 & 18. The entire parable of The Wedding SUPPER is referring to the time of wrath which believers are not appointed to. THE BRIDE HAS BECOME A WIFE IN HEAVEN DURING THE TIME OF WRATH ON EARTH…. “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and HIS WIFE hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” Revelation 19:7-8 KJV RIGHT AFTER THE WIFE IS MENTIONED, THEN THE FOLLOWING VERSE ABOUT THE MARRIAGE SUPPER.
Getting it right? They directly ignored what the text stated. It doesn't state "all who are called are chosen" or "all who are chosen are called", but instead it states "many are called, but few are chosen." This means God offers salvation to a greater number of people than the number of people who end up actually being saved. If salvation were the result of God compelling people to believe then this simply wouldn't be the case. Given the direct context from the parable, the reason why these people are not chosen is because they didn't attend the wedding feast, and the reasons why they didn't attend are directly stated to be reasons they came up with rather than some compelling by God to not attend, who invited them to the feast and therefore clearly wants them to attend.
The parable of the sower tells us that there are some who hear, and receive the word with joy. But because of various reasons, they fall away. This shows us that free will plays into our salvation. And why having the fear of the Lord is so important! This also refutes the OSAS belief, as we are warned repeatedly in scripture that we must finish the coarse, we must endure until the end, ect. And don’t forget the many “IF’s”! When we believe the gospel, we are given the right to become the sons of God! Faith is not a one time prayer, and one time belief. Faith is continuing to believe unto the end! And what is true believing? It is doing what you confess you believe! True faith in a person will always have the outcome of obedience!
@@RaptureHead1993 1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for (in doing this) thou shalt both (save thyself), (and them that hear thee). Obeying Gods word is not hating grace. Grace is not a covering for sin, so we can continue to sin and not be held accountable for our sin. If we continue in sin we will be judged for our sin. The wages of sin is death! We are servants to whom we obey! To righteousness unto holiness, and eternal life, or to sin unto death. But grace is given, so we can overcome sin! And learn obedience unto righteousness, unto holiness. We are saved by grace, through faith. During the sanctification process, we have trials and tribulations, to teach us obedience. Even Jesus learned obedience by the things which he suffered (Hebrew 5:8) And we learn obedience by being partakers of that suffering. Grace is our teacher! Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Modern western Christianity has watered down the gospel, to eliminate the suffering, the persecution, and the fear of the Lord! Sir, I don’t hate grace, to the contrary, It’s by his grace I live! Do I teach salvation by works? No! By grace through faith. And faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the word of God. Which tells us in James, Be not just hearers of the word, deceiving your own selves. But be doers of the word! Why doers? Because true faith is doing what you confess you believe! That’s why we’re told to workout your own salvation with fear and trembling! In Christs Love!
Praise God for your ministry and for this message and explanation. I live in the most unchurched region of the country - which generally implies that many of us who are followers of the The Way are potentially weakest in our doctrine. IOW, many in my bible study group believe it is their own wisdom of choice for which they are now believers heading for heaven. They struggle immensely with Ephesians ch 2. Ugggh. Anyway, in a recent bible study on the gospel of John, the question was asked, "Why did the Pharisees not believe Jesus?" My response was, "Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice and they follow me." And then I added, "Jesus' claim has to work both ways which implies, "They are not my sheep. Therefore, they cannot hear My voice, nor follow, nor believe in Me." Several nodded their heads in agreement but surprisingly, noone contested my answer. Thank God. Anyway, thanks for producing this excellent video. :)
Rather than be angry that God reserves the right to choose, we should rejoice that we are chosen, even before the foundation of the world. We tend to put God in the box and claim that we are more righteous than Him and would do things differently because will feel we have a better way. Let God be God. If God chooses us, we should be thankful because NONE of us deserve heaven, but justice.
Being chosen applies to those who practice righteousness to the point that rather than needing to discipline them God can finally test them. That’s how you get chosen.
And those who are approved that way are then given to Christ. At that point you’re looking at having eternal life in heaven. Many are called, few are chosen. There’s only one person in scripture referenced as being approved in Christ. Even Paul didn’t consider himself approved yet.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,👉 Even when we were dead in sins👈, hath quickened us together with Christ, 👉(by grace ye are saved;)👈 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 👉For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:👉 it is the gift of God:👈 👉Not of works👈, lest any man should boast. 👉For we are his workmanship,👈 👉created in Christ Jesus unto good works,👈 😊👉which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.👈Ephesians 2:4-10
🤔 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 👉According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 👉Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein 👉he hath made us accepted in the beloved👈. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of👉 his grace👈; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, 👉being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own wil👈l: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.👉 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, 👉ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.-Ephesians 1:3-14 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 👉Even when we were dead in sins, 👈hath quickened us together with Christ,👉 (by grace ye are saved;)👈 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 👉That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.👈 😉👉For by grace are ye saved through faith; 👈😊👉and that not of yourselves👈: 👉it is the gift of God👈: 🤔👉Not of works, lest any man should boast. 👉For we are👉 his workmanship👈, 👉created in Christ Jesus unto good works👈, 👉which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them👈.- Ephesians 2:4-10
Jesus put it all in one verse in John. 6:44 "No man can come to me except the Father which sent me draw him; And l will raise him up the last day.vs45> It is written in the Prophets, they shall all be "Taught of GOD." Every man therefore that hath heard, and Hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me." AMEN.
Every man that hears and learns from the Father comes to Jesus. Hone in on "and learns". It's not the case that everyone who hears believes, or every time we tell someone the gospel they'd believe. They have to hear, and then they also have to learn. Learning isn't a passive action done to a student; it's something the student must participate in. Many people hear the gospel, but only those who both hear and learn, and participate in understanding and therefore believing, come to Jesus. This verse is telling us that only those who believe the gospel are saved, and that there is responsibility on the part of everyone who hears to learn. This scripture seems inconsistent with the notion that God compels some people to believe and compels most people to reject Him because that would put the responsibility for a person's salvation exclusively on God, and therefore God would be directly to blame for all who reject Him. God did His part, but it's every person's responsibility to learn and believe the gospel.
It's not passive but active. Few choose to come at one time. We will all eventually return to God. Men have less patience and want to think they are the chosen ones making others less special, but God, who is eternal, has eternal patience.
Nice thoughts, but not very scriptural 🤷♂️...any one who takes pride in being chosen, is @ best, immature their relationship with Christ, because those that have been chosen will seek to be humble ❤️✝️
We come to Christ because the Father draws us.See John 6:44 We believe because God shines the knowledge of Christ in our hearts.See 2Cor.4:6 We hear because we are his sheep,and He callls all his sheep.See John 10:1-27 See John 6:37 and Rom8:28-30 Just as Abraham believed God it was counted to him for righteousness (Rom4:3),we believe God and we are justified. Salvation is of God.
Once you repent and believe on the Lord Jesus for forgiveness of sins your sealed with the Holy Spirit it can’t be undone. All sins were paid for past, present and future , praise God there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. Some backsliding Christians works will be worthless but they still belong to Christ, and only God knows who His children are, exam yourselves to see if you really are of the faith, there is no playing games with God.
Why do I need to forgive others then? If someone wrongs me I don’t have to forgive them because my future sins have been forgiven. But Jesus teaches if I don’t forgive neither will my sins be forgiven.
So it means what I thought it meant. Unfortunately I know a LOT of people that are called but will not be chosen unless they change their mimdset, I used to be one of them myself
Romans 9:20-24 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? 22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath-prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory - 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Well brother, If you go read that scripture(2 Peter 3:9) in the context of 3:3-9, then it should be clear that Peter is addressing Believers about the return of Christ & the Promise of His return. "Any" is referencing those God has chosen to escape His Wrath & be reconciled to Himself through the Faith He has Gifted them to believe in His Son(see Eph.2:8-10)..... although "God does not delight in the death of the wicked" (Ez.33:11) they stand condemned before Him & His Wrath abides on them (John 3:18, 36) .....think about Noah & the Ark...Noah was called "A preacher of Righteousness", but who repented & were saved from the flood after hearing all that preaching?😢...only those the Lord Chose to save❤....He has an appointed time to pour out His Wrath & will not do so until all His Sheep have been gathered into the sheepfold
@@jerrystatic256No it’s not. Rom 9 is not only speaking to the nation of Israel but also to the gentiles. ”and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?“ Romans 9:23-24
The Lord had sent His people like Noah, pleading that all will be saved. Accept Jesus' salvation, His ways but it's the pride and making our ownselves God to do whar we want. So it's man not choosing Him. He's always calling but we dont listen until we just cannot hear at all.
I feel like there is a lot of subtle misunderstanding of these passages that are commonly quoted by Calvinists. I am putting alternate interpretations of these passages here for anyone who might be stumbling over them and could use a thought-through Non-Calvinist understanding of them. Matthew 22:1-14: In the parable, God doesn't choose if the man would be clothed in Christ or not; rather, he didn't choose him for the wedding feast BECAUSE he wasn't wearing the wedding garments. We are all called to put on the righteousness of Christ (our decision to accept him or not) Romans 13:14 "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires." Those who come to the Father clothed in the righteousness of Christ are elected to join in the wedding feast. John 6:44: Before Christ came, God spoke to mankind through the prophets and the law but now he speaks to us through his son.(Hebrews 1:1-2) After Calvary, Jesus now draws all men to himself through the cross. (John 12:32) During the time Christ is on earth, all of the true followers of God are being drawn to Christ by the Father and none of them will be lost as John 6:44 says. Jesus is speaking to them in parables as a judgement to harden those who worship God with their lips but their hearts are far from him (Matthew 13:10-15, Matthew 15:8-9) but the true followers of God will accept his teachings and follow him. Those who God does not draw to Jesus during this time is because they are not God's people to hand over to him. This statement from Jesus was meant for this time while Christ was on earth, but now that Christ is risen He is drawing all to Himself. This is similar in scope to how Jesus says in Matthew 15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Does this passage mean he did not come to the gentiles? Obviously this is not the case and Jesus is saying this in reference to that moment - not as a statement that should be used to forever exclude the gentiles. Romans 9:21: Yes, God has the right to use some for honorable use and some for dishonorable use; that is the potters Freedom. And also, 2 Timothy 2:21 states we DO have a say in the matter: "if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work." That is Potter's promise. Yes, the potter is free to do as he chooses, and it is the good news that he freely chose that those who turn and believe in Jesus will be saved. Romans 9:22: Although God is desiring to display his wrath on vessels prepared for destruction, his patience should be counted as salvation (2 Peter 3:15) to give us time to turn (2 Peter 3:9) so he can instead prepare blessing for us as promised to us by God's own explanation of the Potter & Clay relationship in Jeremiah 18:1-12. This passage completely shatters the Calvinist's understanding of the Potter and Clay relationship. Romans 8:28-30: Is saying that faithful Jews of old before Christ are still included in the redemptive plan. Look at Paul usage of the word foreknew in Romans 11:2 just a few chapter later. We can clearly see that the word foreknew is referring to the Jews before Christ's incarnation, and not being used as a description of God's providence or omniscience. Understanding the passage correctly in this was snaps this scripture into place as it makes clear why Paul emphasizes that Jesus is the firstborn among them (Even though Jesus is their descendant - he is classified as the first born) and this also clarifies why glorified is in the past tense. The Faithful Jews of old are also included in the redemptive plan and have already passed through death, been called (called as in named - not called as invited), justified, and glorified. For the Calvinists out there, I would love to hear your thoughts why I am wrong. My goal is to follow the scriptures and I haven't heard a good Calvinist argument yet to convince me otherwise.
To be called is to receive salvation (Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2; Eph. 4:1), whereas to be chosen is to receive a reward. All believers have been called, but few will be chosen to receive a reward. (Rev. 17:14; 1 Cor. 3:15)
No, just read the parable this is being quoted from and you'd realize that your interpretation doesn't fit the context of the parable at all. Being called, in the parable, means being invited to the wedding feast which at the beginning of the parable is explained to represent the Kingdom of Heaven. To attend the wedding feast represents salvation. To be called means to be invited to the wedding feast, so it means to be invited to salvation.
John 6 44 is says we can't come to Jesus unless the father draws him. Jesus focus was on calling a select few, teaching them, and accomplishing the crucifixion. It wasn't time for the gospel drawing. He also was speaking to the Jewish leadership which were not listening and learning from the father. If these leader listen and learned from the father they would listen to Jesus. John 12 32 speaks of when Jesus will draw all men to himself through the holy Spirit convicting the world of sin righteousness and judgement.
I believe in both God’s sovereignty and human responsibility, based on Luke 13:23-24: 'And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, “STRIVE to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will SEEK to enter and will not be able.” Jesus said everyone will make every effort to enter His kingdom, but many fail… why? There are two reasons why they fail to enter God’s kingdom. The first reason: Jesus said, '“No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:62) This means that Christians cannot serve both God and the world. I’ve seen many who try to enjoy worldly pleasures while claiming to love and serve Jesus. Jesus said they won’t be fit for His kingdom. This is a human responsibility (a choice of free will). The second reason: Jesus said, “And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.” (Luke 18:29-30) Unfortunately, many Christian believers do not do this! Remember Luke 9:62? So, this is humanity’s free-will choice.
I appreciate your Insight, thank you so much for your wisdom. But I have a question regarding your second point: What about the kids and students who believe? How can they leave? What if they are spreading the gospel in their places of education? Or trying to in their own households? I just want to know cause I'm a uni student, living at home, and am the only Christian in my household. Everyone else in my family doesn't care about God, but for many years I yearned for him, only to discover the real God and accept Christ into my heart just over a year ago❤. I am now a born again believer. But I must know.
What did Jesus mean by his words that "there are many invited ("invited", Greek kletos, meaning "invited, i.e. appointed"), but few chosen"?(Matt 22:14) The invitation to be Jehovah's (God's name, see Isa 12:2, KJV) "special property (Hebrew cgullah, meaning "wealth, jewel, peculiar (treasure), special") out of all the peoples.......you will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" was given first to the nation of fleshly Israel in 1513 B.C.E. while at Mt Sinai.(Ex 19:5, 6) However, over their 1,500 year history, they failed to become Jehovah's "special property......a kingdom of priests and a holy nation", becoming morally and spiritually corrupt (Eze chpt 23; Hosea 1:2; 2:13; 4:12), so that when Jesus came to inspect the nation of fleshly Israel in 29 C.E. as "the messenger of the (new) covenant" (Mal 3:1), they had become incorrigible, deserving of destruction, "beyond healing" (2 Chron 36:16), as Jesus told them three days before they executed him on a stake: "Serpents, offspring of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of Gehenna (or everlasting destruction)?"(Matt 23:33) So, by Nisan 11, 33 C.E., when Jesus gave the illustration of "the marriage feast", the nation of fleshly Israel was worthy of destruction (which happened in 70 C.E. by the Roman armies), in which only a few fleshly Jews accepted Jesus as the promised Messiah while the rest "as a stone to strike against and as a rock to stumble over, to both houses of Israel, as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem".(Isa 8:14; 1 Pet 2:4-9) Thus, there were many Jews "invited, but few chosen", with the invitation to be part of the "marriage feast" (Matt 22:1-13), as a member of the "kingdom of priests and a holy nation" was now extended to the Gentiles in 36 C.E., with Cornelius being its first one "chosen".(Acts chpt 10) Jesus told the Pharisees as rulers of the nation of fleshly Israel: "Did you never read in the Scriptures (at Ps 118:22, 23), ‘The stone (Jesus Christ) that the builders (the Jewish religious leaders, as well as the rest of the nation) rejected (and murdered three days later, Matt 27:35), this has become the chief cornerstone (of God's heavenly Kingdom)." "This has come from Jehovah, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? This is why I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be TAKEN FROM YOU and be given to a (new, spiritual) nation (called "the Israel of God", Gal 6:16, that is composed of both Jews and Gentiles, Rom 11:11, 12) producing its fruits (of holy conduct, see Isa 2:2-4, whereby this new "nation" has "beaten their swords into plowshares", becoming "humble, broken in spirit and trembling at Jehovah's word", Isa 66:2). Also, the person falling on (or attacking) this stone (God's Kingdom of 144,001 members, Rev 7:4; 14:1) will be shattered. As for anyone on whom it falls (or attacks), it will crush him.”(Matt 21:42-44; see Dan 2:44)
Is the stone people are shattered on or crushed by the 144,000 or Jesus Himself? There is no third choice. Do not the 144,000 also only have these two choices? Come and be broken or be crushed, but Jesus can raise you up.
@@deanfry879 I am not sure what you are asking. When the rebellion occurred in the garden of Eden some 6,000 years ago (Gen 3:1-6), Jehovah God immediately made legal arrangements to undo the damage by means of a symbolic "woman" and her offspring".(Gen 3:15) The symbolic "woman's offspring" are the 144,000 imperfect but "declared righteous" ones (Rom 3:24; Rev 7:4; 14:1), those "sealed with holy spirit" (Eph 1:13, 14), for "the heavenly calling" (Heb 3:1), as members of God's heavenly Kingdom, "the little flock" that Jehovah has approved of "giving you the Kingdom" (Luke 12:32), along with Jesus Christ as God's Kingdom's premier king/high priest "in the manner of Melchizedek" (Heb 5:10), so that God's Kingdom has 144,001 members. There are only two hopes, of being in heaven as one of the "chosen ones" (Matt 24:22, 24, 31), as the 144,000 selected imperfect members of God's Kingdom by Jehovah, that is the means by which Jehovah will accomplish his purpose of a paradise earth for the other hope, of living on the earth in perfect peace and security "in the abundance of peace.......forever", as he originally intended when he created the first human couple.(Ps 37:11, 29; Gen 1:26-31)
@@timhaley3459 If Jesus is only King to the 144,000, then why do so many call Him Lord? If there are only 144,001 people in the Kingdom of God, then someone else is Lord of all the rest.
In the parable, attending the wedding feast represents salvation. The very fact that more people are called than are chosen means that more people are invited to be saved than actually end up being saved. In the parable the reasons stated for why these people refuse to attend the wedding isn't because God compelled them not to, but rather because of decisions they made on their own. If Calvinism were true then this verse would need to state something to the effect of 'all who are called are chosen' or "all who are chosen are called' but instead it states that there are a greater number of people called to be saved than there are people who actually end up being saved. This necessitates the notion of free will on the part of those invited and their free will being the deciding factor as to whether or not they accept the wedding invitation, IE whether or not they accept salvation from God.
Calvinism leaves me with more questions than answers. I'm not convinced that Calvinism is true but I'm not convinced it's false either. Put a gun to my head and I'll agree with you that's pretty much where I stand. So my questions are Why doesn't God just choose more people? Why are only a few chosen? Why create some just to condemn them? So others can be saved? But if all it takes to be saved is to be chosen by God then I go back to my first question of why doesn't God just choose more people?
That, dear friend, is an excellent question. Why would God create the majority of people to end up in hell, rather than the other way around, if it was simply a matter of Him, choosing?Kind of goes against His nature, which is love, doesn’t it?
Calvinism began with Augustine who, prior to conversion, was a agnostic/Manichean. I’m currently digging deep into this doctrine and I suggest others do also.
Those are some very good questions, and I know I will consider them from time to time to get closer to the answers. But I also know if I could figure out God, He would not be worthy of being God. Can we have free will and be predestined at the same time? Humanly impossible, but impossible for God? (Luke 18:25-27). How much more important is it, then, that we understand His love for us, since there is no why that makes sense.
Sign of Jonah, Strait Gate, Narrow Way, Ancient Path, Zion, Holy Hill, Altar, Sign, Witness, Wonder, Delivering the Girdles HEREIN, BE THE LIGHT, God Bless Ya’ll! Master, are there few that be saved? Strive to enter in at the Strait Gate….search it out for yourself, do you really Christ, and does he really know you? I believe the ‘entrance’ is found not in the Torah alone, nor the Tanach alone, nor the NT alone, but rather by every word of God therein.
I would like to share with you a scripture that I shared with an atheist not too long ago. We discussed theories such as the Big Bang, evolution, etc.. and after hours of talking it almost seemed like we were not progressing. I told him something repeatedly and to remember what I told him; after I told him. He went to bed thinking about Church and the meaning of life. He fell asleep and then Jesus Christ came to him in light and glory and waved his arm in the motion of come and follow me. Then he messaged me asking me all about Christianity and he believed that moment that Jesus Christ came to him. Would you like to know what I told him? Jeremiah 29:13English Standard Version (ESV) 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. When you seek Jesus Christ with your whole heart you will find him. ❤️
I don't want to believe in predestination but isn't that verse suggests predestination? I mean "Many are called..." Meaning not all are called which means that those aren't called aren't destined to be saved. Again I don't want to believe in predestination but I can't blame Christian who believe in predestination this verse seem to suggest so.
Because not all will accept it, the same way I can invite you to a party or an event and you still have the free will to either accept or refuse my invitation.
All are called, few will have fulfilled Gods desire for us to forgive All (Matthew 6:14-15) Only those who can truly forgive All of Gods creation, will be chosen at the first Judgement, upon the return of Christ 🙏
If you hear 1 Corinthians 15 : 1-4 and believe it in your heart and confess with your mouth the Lordship of Jesus Christ , ( faith comes by hearing , and hearing by the Word of God ) you are saved and you are chosen , it’s that simple !
Exactly....believing in what folks refer to as "Calvinism" does not negate the fact that anyone who places their faith (which God Gifted them by Grace to believe in the Son Jn.3:3, 6:44,15:16,Eph.2: 8-10,etc)...i.e. entrusts their lives(believes, Gr. Pisteo) will be saved, whether they understand that GOD has decreed all things from the beginning, or not. To believe in God's Sovereign, immutability & will does not negate human responsibility...God is Perfect & in His Perfection & perfect, love & mercy,, HE CHOSE to Save Some from His Judgement that came on All mankind as a result of Adam's disobedience, for ALL have missed the mark of perfect obedience. No one but God Himself knows who the Elect are, so we preach the Gospel to all. "Those that endure to the end" identifies those that were Chosen by the Father, before the fondations of the world(Eph.1:1-14, Rom.8:28-39) those that don't endure to the end were not Chosen (1 John 2:19) All Glory to Christ! ❤️✝️
The covenant with Abraham was the template for our salvation. Faith gave Abraham righteousness before God so Abraham could enter a covenant with God. God doesn’t make covenants with the unrighteous.
@@joebolling "righteousness" means "right standing"....God gifts that position based on HIS good pleasure, plan & will, not based on man's effort, but by His Grace, which is a "free gift", or i.e. "unmerrited favor" 👉But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood 👉nor of the will of the flesh👈 👉nor of the will of man👈, 👉but of God.👈John 1:12-13. 👉And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, 👉and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.👈ACTS 13:48....ALL Glory belongs to GOD (Father/Son/Holy Spirit)
The Holy Spirit draws all men unto Himself ( calls, invites) and you have the free will to resist the Holy Spirit's drawing- you see people do this every day (the one & only unforgivable sin that sends one to hell) and God has predestined and chosen the "people group" (whosover)- that believes by faith ( trust for salvation the finished work of Christ alone) for eternsl life with Himself as adopted children.
God wants everyone to be a part of that group that's predestined for eternal life with Him. The group that rejects His salvation is predestined & chosen for hell. He doesn't individually by name choose you to hell and that guy to heaven (why would He long for those who are rejecting Himself for salvation... If He "chose" them for hell??? goofy!!!). If you were God would you choose "everybody" for heaven and nobody to hell? So that would make you more loving and forgiving than God... No way. YOU have to respond to the Spirit by faith
The world is yet in the Church Age. This is the age of “many are called and few are chosen”. This is the same as the “strait” and “narrow gate”( Matthew 7:13-14). Only those who have ears to hear are “the called” (Romans 8:28-29). The ones who are chosen are so because they qualified by “Overcoming” or conquering (Revelation 2:7,11,17,26; 3:5,12,21). Notice only those who have an ear to hear have been called into the Church(same verses). Not all accept the call. Those who do move forward and may or may not produce fruit(Matthew 13). Those who do not produce fruit(i.e. qualify) are cast into the Lake of Fire(John 15:1-8). The Church is called for a specific purpose, preparatory to Christ’s return to earth to set up the Kingdom of God! Satan yet sits on the throne of the earth. When Christ returns and Satan is removed, all mankind will be called( Isaiah 11:9). Thank God for that!
It’s a shame you’re a Calvinist. This parable is clearly telling people to come dressed in wedding garments. And if you have the right wedding garments, you will be chosen. Not telling people they are irresistibly chosen to wear wedding garments.
Yes....John 10:3-4 ❤️ To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, 👉and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out👈. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them,👉 and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.👈 Jn. 10:25-29 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. Mark 4:9-12 And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables. And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand, 👉otherwise they might return and be forgiven.”👈 Look @ the parables of the Sower & Seed (aka soils) ....only those in the "good ground" produced fruit....they were the ones that had "ears to hear" 🤔 Why?....because God Chose them to do His Will. (See John 1:12-13, 3:3, Chapter 10, 14, 15, Ro.8:28-39, Eph. 1:1-14, 2:8-10, etc, etc, etc, there are hundreds of passages & scriptures that tell us that God is Sovereign over the universe & affairs of man...we are not robots & yes, we make choices, but only within the confines of who we are....either Slaves to sin, or Slaves to Rghteousness...but, the man/woman without the Spirit of God can NOT receive the things of God (see 1 Cor. 2, spec.. v14 & also see John 6:44 & 15:16) If you have Faith in Christ for Salvation, it is because God decreed you Holy (set apart aka saint i.e to be sanctified..aka set apart for HIS service)before the fou dations of the world, according to His Word, but we are taught not to believe it & have adopted the Greek concept of "free will"🤷♂️....But did Pharoah have "free will"? Did the Jews opposing Jesus have "free will" according to John Chapter 10? I used to believe it...but the more I studied scripture, I began to accept that Jesus is truly LORD OVER ALL....God is Sovereign & requires no help from man. Those that belong to Him seek to obey Him & mourn their sin they once revelled in...the goats & wolves in sheep's clothing excuse, justify & defend their sin & seduce the other creatures who are not His Sheep. It is very humbling, as we can Glory in nothing, except Christ❤️✝️
@@naturematt4340 Romans 8:28-39 ❤️👉And we know that GOD CAUSES ALL THINGS to work together for good to those who love God, to those WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO 👉HIS PURPOSE.👈 👉For those whom He FOREKNEW, HE also PREDESTINED 👉to become conformed to the image of His Son👈, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 👉and these whom He PREDESTINED, He also CALLED; and these whom He CALLED, HE also JUSTIFIED; and THESE WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? WHO WILL BRING A CHARGE AGAINST GOD ’s ELECT? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.❤️❤️❤️✝️ That is the Bible, not Calvinism😉 So is this...... Ephesians 1:1-14 👉 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus BY THE WILL OF GOD,(See also John 1:13) To the saints(those set apart🤔by WHO? for WHO? For What Purpose?) who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, JUST AS HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD,(Why?🤔)👉 that we would be holy and blameless before Him. IN LOVE 👉HE PREDESTINED US TO ADOPTION AS SONS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His 👉GRACE 👈(FREE Gift, unmerritted favor! something we do not Choose, but do receive) which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His WILL, 👉according to HIS kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, HAVING BEEN PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE 👉who works ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL,(not our so called free will, found nowhere in scripture🤷♂️) to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory..... Brother, studying John 3:3 & Ephesians 2:8-10 should make it clear that it is God who is Sovereign over Salvation & even gifts us the Faith to believe in His Son! To Christ ALONE BE THE GLORY ✝️❤️
@@sandman9390 That statement is assuming the god of calvinism chose people for salvation and people for damnation before the foundation of the world. AKA calvinism's unconditional election (The Bible says no such thing). Those chosen for salvation were given ears to hear, and those chosen for damnation were not given ears to hear. AKA calvinism's total depravity mixed with limited atonement and irresistable grace. (Again, this concept is not found in the Bible)
@@rkitsune3549 What if God has no problem with that? All one has to do to make someone/something out to be evil is make a law, and God did that. But in doing that, He also had a promise prepared by which anyone could overcome evil, and humans rarely make promises for that purpose. It is very possible for Him to author evil without it making Him evil. Every novelist does it.
We have nothing to do with our salvation. Don't you know that it is all for His glory! That it is HE who will finish the good work in us, not us! (Phil 1:6). And that it is by His grace you are saved and it is this way so that no man can boast (Eph 2:8-9). Read the bible, seek the truth. We were all DEAD in our SINS before He showed mercy and grace upon us, and gave us life.. We have all sinned against God and deserve death, nothing more. Whether you hear or not is not of your own doing, your own free will. Whether we hear or not is according to Gods will, not ours. If He calls us than it is He who gives us the ears to hear. Salvation comes from the Lord, not from anything we do.. It is Him who decides who He saves and who He doesn't. Who He gives ears to hears and who He doesn't. If you have been saved, give all your thanks and glory to Him. Not yourself..
Ephesians 2:8 KJV [8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: John 3:5 KJV [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.
Christ, the disciples, and Paul all taught obedience to God’s commandments as a requirement. Satan taught it’s NOT required. If we follow Satan while claiming to follow Christ, what would that look like? Yeah. You guessed it. It’d look just like saved by grace alone.
Why is this always just labeled as “Calvinism”? All The reformers did was bring back to the forefront doctrine that was clearly taught by Jesus and the Apostles. If Jesus died for everyone then his blood would have been spilled in vain for the ones who reject him. Jesus told the Pharisees that they don’t believe because they are not of his sheep, his sheep hear his voice and they know him and he knows them. No one comes to Jesus unless the Father calls them.
It grieves me greatly that you would teach that God has decreed everyone a god hater from birth and he only chose a few to save while throwing the rest (who can do nothing other than rebel) into outer darkness. This is most certainly not the God of Scripture revealed from OT to NT. If there is an alternative interpretation to these texts, which there are, that don't make God into telling his creation to do things that they cannot do (repent) and then become angry that they don't respond, then why not interpret this way. Ephesians is written to "the faithful in Christ Jesus" they came to be in Christ when they heard the gospel and believed vs 13. God chose us IN CHRIST before the foundation of the world, all who will take refuge in Christ are the chosen. Please realize the damage determinism brings to the character of God and the blameworthiness of man.
They were never part of us if they were they would of stayed with us you have free will to be wicked were does it say in the Bible you have free will gid chose you you can't chose him
Those who will be called to the Wedding FEAST are all the left behind! ”So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with GUESTS .“ Matthew 22:10 The BRIDE is not a GUEST at her own Wedding! The Actual Wedding is held IN HEAVEN after the rapture of ALL BELIEVERS. The Wedding FEAST is held on earth after Armageddon!! Those who refuse the mark of the beast will be allowed at the Wedding FEAST when the bride is now a WIFE who comes back with the Lord. ”Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and HIS WIFE hath made herself ready.“ Revelation 19:7 KJV Those who do not make the wedding feast will be cast into outer darkness as the verses describe. ”Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.“ Matthew 22:13-14 KJV
Calvinism is idolatry. It creates a different god and gospel. "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
This parable is about Israel not the church, This is about wedding guest not his bride. Very poor interpretation, you are letting your calvinistic presuppositions control your exegesis of scripture. Callings is to service not salvation,.
Way to put your Calvinist twist on the scripture. “Many are called but few are chosen” contradicts Calvinism which states that the called will not resist. So go back and try again and quit putting your twist on this and have an honest conversation with yourself.
This is the Calvin heresy! ALL (everyone who has ever lived) are called to come to Jesus, not just a few that this man is promoting. He is speaking nonsense. Calvinist change the meanings of simple words: all does not mean everyone, whosoever does not mean any and every one, all men does not mean every person. Don't listen to this heresy, believe God and His Word!
🤔 I am pretty sure John Calvin didn't write this👉Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.❤✝️ Ephesians 1:3-14🤷♂️
@@naturematt4340 🤔what is demonic about it?....do you only choose to believe the scriptures that you like? Acts 13:48 👉When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; 👉and AS MANY AS HAD BEEN APPOINTED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED.👀😯 Mark 4:9-12👉And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables. And He was saying to them,👉 “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those WHO ARE OUTSIDE 🤔get everything in parables, 👉👉so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive👈👈, 👉👉and while hearing, they may hear and not understand,👈👈 OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN.”👀😯 We can't cause goats to become Sheep, brother!....we preach the gospel to all, but goats continue to be goats,....but His Sheep WILL hear His Voice & follow Him... John 10:25-30 👉Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But YOU DO NOT BELIEVE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP. ❤️👉My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and THEY WILL NEVER PERISH; 👉and no one will snatch them out of My hand👈. My Father, WHO HAS GIVEN THEM TO ME, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”❤️✝️
So hell is not real and God(Jesus Christ) died for nothing? If it is real then you guys TRULY NEED TO BE FEAR. It's necessary to be fear danger, that's why God give warning...😂 yall cannot be this lazy How can one know he is predestinated to be in Heaven or not( or maybe just reach paradise and then betrayal?????)
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Thank you, Jesus, for saving me!
Amen. Thank you Jesus for your mercy and grace!
Mercy and grace for the few elect or for all God calls?
This ministry has been such a blessing to me lo these many years...
Thank you for gettin it right!!!! ❤❤ Grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
Amen!! ❤❤❤
Well he’s wrong!
Matthew 22 is referring to the Wedding FEAST, not the actual Wedding! It was furnished with GUESTS!
(Matt. 22:11)
This parable isn’t about the BRIDE OR the BODY of CHRIST.
A Bride is not a GUEST at her own Wedding !
The parable is about those left behind who will be called to receive Christ AFTER the rapture.
The GUESTS at the Wedding are those who will refuse the mark of the beast so that they will be allowed to the Wedding SUPPER, which takes place ON EARTH, AFTER Armageddon.
After Christ comes back with his now WIFE.
I’ve Capitalized some words below to highlight this.
“The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden TO THE WEDDING : and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my DINNER: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: and the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, HE WAS WROTH and he sent forth his ARMIES, and destroyed those murderers, and BURNED UP THEIR CITY. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. And when the king came in to see THE GUESTS he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into OUTER DARKNESS ; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Matthew 22:2-9, 11-14 KJV
NOTE: THE KING WAS WROTH! Wroth= WRATH
He sent forth his ARMIES to burn up the city. The CITY that is destroyed in Revelation is Mystery Babylon, Rev. 17 & 18.
The entire parable of The Wedding SUPPER is referring to the time of wrath which believers are not appointed to.
THE BRIDE HAS BECOME A WIFE IN HEAVEN DURING THE TIME OF WRATH ON EARTH….
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and HIS WIFE hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.”
Revelation 19:7-8 KJV
RIGHT AFTER THE WIFE IS MENTIONED, THEN THE FOLLOWING VERSE ABOUT THE MARRIAGE SUPPER.
Getting it right? They directly ignored what the text stated. It doesn't state "all who are called are chosen" or "all who are chosen are called", but instead it states "many are called, but few are chosen." This means God offers salvation to a greater number of people than the number of people who end up actually being saved. If salvation were the result of God compelling people to believe then this simply wouldn't be the case.
Given the direct context from the parable, the reason why these people are not chosen is because they didn't attend the wedding feast, and the reasons why they didn't attend are directly stated to be reasons they came up with rather than some compelling by God to not attend, who invited them to the feast and therefore clearly wants them to attend.
The parable of the sower tells us that there are some who hear, and receive the word with joy. But because of various reasons, they fall away. This shows us that free will plays into our salvation. And why having the fear of the Lord is so important! This also refutes the OSAS belief, as we are warned repeatedly in scripture that we must finish the coarse, we must endure until the end, ect. And don’t forget the many “IF’s”! When we believe the gospel, we are given the right to become the sons of God! Faith is not a one time prayer, and one time belief. Faith is continuing to believe unto the end! And what is true believing? It is doing what you confess you believe! True faith in a person will always have the outcome of obedience!
Amen!
Grace Hater
Many dismissed the "IF'S": thinking that they are the chosen before the foundation of the world .
@@RaptureHead1993 1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for (in doing this) thou shalt both (save thyself), (and them that hear thee).
Obeying Gods word is not hating grace. Grace is not a covering for sin, so we can continue to sin and not be held accountable for our sin. If we continue in sin we will be judged for our sin. The wages of sin is death! We are servants to whom we obey! To righteousness unto holiness, and eternal life, or to sin unto death. But grace is given, so we can overcome sin! And learn obedience unto righteousness, unto holiness. We are saved by grace, through faith. During the sanctification process, we have trials and tribulations, to teach us obedience. Even Jesus learned obedience by the things which he suffered (Hebrew 5:8) And we learn obedience by being partakers of that suffering. Grace is our teacher! Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Modern western Christianity has watered down the gospel, to eliminate the suffering, the persecution, and the fear of the Lord! Sir, I don’t hate grace, to the contrary, It’s by his grace I live! Do I teach salvation by works? No! By grace through faith. And faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the word of God. Which tells us in James, Be not just hearers of the word, deceiving your own selves. But be doers of the word! Why doers? Because true faith is doing what you confess you believe! That’s why we’re told to workout your own salvation with fear and trembling! In Christs Love!
@@gojohnnygo3209oh yeah, people believing what the Bible says…
Amen! Thank you Lord Jesus for saving me ❤❤
Amen. Praise Jesus, our Lord, God, and Savior. ✝️
Praise God for your ministry and for this message and explanation. I live in the most unchurched region of the country - which generally implies that many of us who are followers of the The Way are potentially weakest in our doctrine. IOW, many in my bible study group believe it is their own wisdom of choice for which they are now believers heading for heaven. They struggle immensely with Ephesians ch 2. Ugggh. Anyway, in a recent bible study on the gospel of John, the question was asked, "Why did the Pharisees not believe Jesus?" My response was, "Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice and they follow me." And then I added, "Jesus' claim has to work both ways which implies, "They are not my sheep. Therefore, they cannot hear My voice, nor follow, nor believe in Me." Several nodded their heads in agreement but surprisingly, noone contested my answer. Thank God. Anyway, thanks for producing this excellent video. :)
Which region?
1 Peter 4:18 "And if the righteous be scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
This clears so much up for me, thank you! Oh wow, relief. Im so much better now.
Rather than be angry that God reserves the right to choose, we should rejoice that we are chosen, even before the foundation of the world. We tend to put God in the box and claim that we are more righteous than Him and would do things differently because will feel we have a better way. Let God be God. If God chooses us, we should be thankful because NONE of us deserve heaven, but justice.
WOW THANKS MAY THE HEAVENS BE IN YOUR FAVOR
sounds like new age.
All we need is the Grace (favour) of God.
Being chosen applies to those who practice righteousness to the point that rather than needing to discipline them God can finally test them. That’s how you get chosen.
And those who are approved that way are then given to Christ. At that point you’re looking at having eternal life in heaven. Many are called, few are chosen. There’s only one person in scripture referenced as being approved in Christ. Even Paul didn’t consider himself approved yet.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,👉 Even when we were dead in sins👈, hath quickened us together with Christ, 👉(by grace ye are saved;)👈 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 👉For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:👉 it is the gift of God:👈 👉Not of works👈, lest any man should boast. 👉For we are his workmanship,👈
👉created in Christ Jesus unto good works,👈 😊👉which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.👈Ephesians 2:4-10
🤔 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
👉According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 👉Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein 👉he hath made us accepted in the beloved👈. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of👉 his grace👈; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, 👉being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own wil👈l: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.👉 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, 👉ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.-Ephesians 1:3-14
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 👉Even when we were dead in sins, 👈hath quickened us together with Christ,👉 (by grace ye are saved;)👈 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 👉That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.👈 😉👉For by grace are ye saved through faith; 👈😊👉and that not of yourselves👈: 👉it is the gift of God👈: 🤔👉Not of works, lest any man should boast. 👉For we are👉 his workmanship👈,
👉created in Christ Jesus unto good works👈, 👉which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them👈.- Ephesians 2:4-10
All thanks and Glory be to Almighty God
AMEN, and HALLELUJAH!!! 🙌✝️❤️🔥
Amén! Great message!
Jesus put it all in one verse in John. 6:44 "No man can come to me except the Father which sent me draw him; And l will raise him up the last day.vs45>
It is written in the Prophets, they shall all be "Taught of GOD." Every man therefore that hath heard, and Hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me." AMEN.
Every man that hears and learns from the Father comes to Jesus. Hone in on "and learns". It's not the case that everyone who hears believes, or every time we tell someone the gospel they'd believe. They have to hear, and then they also have to learn. Learning isn't a passive action done to a student; it's something the student must participate in. Many people hear the gospel, but only those who both hear and learn, and participate in understanding and therefore believing, come to Jesus. This verse is telling us that only those who believe the gospel are saved, and that there is responsibility on the part of everyone who hears to learn. This scripture seems inconsistent with the notion that God compels some people to believe and compels most people to reject Him because that would put the responsibility for a person's salvation exclusively on God, and therefore God would be directly to blame for all who reject Him. God did His part, but it's every person's responsibility to learn and believe the gospel.
AMEN...Thank You Jesus.. ❤
Amen! THANK YOU❤ God is perfect, almighty, all knowing, holy and sovereign about this. JESUS IS KING!
Thank you for explaining that to me
It's not passive but active. Few choose to come at one time. We will all eventually return to God. Men have less patience and want to think they are the chosen ones making others less special, but God, who is eternal, has eternal patience.
Nice thoughts, but not very scriptural 🤷♂️...any one who takes pride in being chosen, is @ best, immature their relationship with Christ, because those that have been chosen will seek to be humble ❤️✝️
We come to Christ because the Father draws us.See John 6:44
We believe because God shines the knowledge of Christ in our hearts.See 2Cor.4:6
We hear because we are his sheep,and He callls all his sheep.See John 10:1-27
See John 6:37 and Rom8:28-30
Just as Abraham believed God it was counted to him for righteousness (Rom4:3),we believe God and we are justified.
Salvation is of God.
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Once you repent and believe on the Lord Jesus for forgiveness of sins your sealed with the Holy Spirit it can’t be undone. All sins were paid for past, present and future , praise God there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. Some backsliding Christians works will be worthless but they still belong to Christ, and only God knows who His children are, exam yourselves to see if you really are of the faith, there is no playing games with God.
Why do I need to forgive others then? If someone wrongs me I don’t have to forgive them because my future sins have been forgiven.
But Jesus teaches if I don’t forgive neither will my sins be forgiven.
So it means what I thought it meant. Unfortunately I know a LOT of people that are called but will not be chosen unless they change their mimdset, I used to be one of them myself
Why not choose most people. For God is not willing that any shall perish...
Romans 9:20-24
20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath-prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory - 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Well brother, If you go read that scripture(2 Peter 3:9) in the context of 3:3-9, then it should be clear that Peter is addressing Believers about the return of Christ & the Promise of His return. "Any" is referencing those God has chosen to escape His Wrath & be reconciled to Himself through the Faith He has Gifted them to believe in His Son(see Eph.2:8-10).....
although "God does not delight in the death of the wicked"
(Ez.33:11) they stand condemned before Him & His Wrath abides on them (John 3:18, 36) .....think about Noah & the Ark...Noah was called "A preacher of Righteousness", but who repented & were saved from the flood after hearing all that preaching?😢...only those the Lord Chose to save❤....He has an appointed time to pour out His Wrath & will not do so until all His Sheep have been gathered into the sheepfold
@@jerrystatic256No it’s not. Rom 9 is not only speaking to the nation of Israel but also to the gentiles.
”and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?“ Romans 9:23-24
The Lord had sent His people like Noah, pleading that all will be saved. Accept Jesus' salvation, His ways but it's the pride and making our ownselves God to do whar we want. So it's man not choosing Him. He's always calling but we dont listen until we just cannot hear at all.
@@aroB777 He's not talking back to God; he's talking back to your incorrect interpretation of God's word.
I feel like there is a lot of subtle misunderstanding of these passages that are commonly quoted by Calvinists. I am putting alternate interpretations of these passages here for anyone who might be stumbling over them and could use a thought-through Non-Calvinist understanding of them.
Matthew 22:1-14: In the parable, God doesn't choose if the man would be clothed in Christ or not; rather, he didn't choose him for the wedding feast BECAUSE he wasn't wearing the wedding garments. We are all called to put on the righteousness of Christ (our decision to accept him or not) Romans 13:14 "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires." Those who come to the Father clothed in the righteousness of Christ are elected to join in the wedding feast.
John 6:44: Before Christ came, God spoke to mankind through the prophets and the law but now he speaks to us through his son.(Hebrews 1:1-2) After Calvary, Jesus now draws all men to himself through the cross. (John 12:32) During the time Christ is on earth, all of the true followers of God are being drawn to Christ by the Father and none of them will be lost as John 6:44 says. Jesus is speaking to them in parables as a judgement to harden those who worship God with their lips but their hearts are far from him (Matthew 13:10-15, Matthew 15:8-9) but the true followers of God will accept his teachings and follow him. Those who God does not draw to Jesus during this time is because they are not God's people to hand over to him. This statement from Jesus was meant for this time while Christ was on earth, but now that Christ is risen He is drawing all to Himself. This is similar in scope to how Jesus says in Matthew 15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Does this passage mean he did not come to the gentiles? Obviously this is not the case and Jesus is saying this in reference to that moment - not as a statement that should be used to forever exclude the gentiles.
Romans 9:21: Yes, God has the right to use some for honorable use and some for dishonorable use; that is the potters Freedom. And also, 2 Timothy 2:21 states we DO have a say in the matter: "if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work." That is Potter's promise. Yes, the potter is free to do as he chooses, and it is the good news that he freely chose that those who turn and believe in Jesus will be saved.
Romans 9:22: Although God is desiring to display his wrath on vessels prepared for destruction, his patience should be counted as salvation (2 Peter 3:15) to give us time to turn (2 Peter 3:9) so he can instead prepare blessing for us as promised to us by God's own explanation of the Potter & Clay relationship in Jeremiah 18:1-12. This passage completely shatters the Calvinist's understanding of the Potter and Clay relationship.
Romans 8:28-30: Is saying that faithful Jews of old before Christ are still included in the redemptive plan. Look at Paul usage of the word foreknew in Romans 11:2 just a few chapter later. We can clearly see that the word foreknew is referring to the Jews before Christ's incarnation, and not being used as a description of God's providence or omniscience. Understanding the passage correctly in this was snaps this scripture into place as it makes clear why Paul emphasizes that Jesus is the firstborn among them (Even though Jesus is their descendant - he is classified as the first born) and this also clarifies why glorified is in the past tense. The Faithful Jews of old are also included in the redemptive plan and have already passed through death, been called (called as in named - not called as invited), justified, and glorified.
For the Calvinists out there, I would love to hear your thoughts why I am wrong. My goal is to follow the scriptures and I haven't heard a good Calvinist argument yet to convince me otherwise.
To be called is to receive salvation (Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2; Eph. 4:1), whereas to be chosen is to receive a reward. All believers have been called, but few will be chosen to receive a reward. (Rev. 17:14; 1 Cor. 3:15)
No, just read the parable this is being quoted from and you'd realize that your interpretation doesn't fit the context of the parable at all. Being called, in the parable, means being invited to the wedding feast which at the beginning of the parable is explained to represent the Kingdom of Heaven. To attend the wedding feast represents salvation. To be called means to be invited to the wedding feast, so it means to be invited to salvation.
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John 6 44 is says we can't come to Jesus unless the father draws him. Jesus focus was on calling a select few, teaching them, and accomplishing the crucifixion. It wasn't time for the gospel drawing.
He also was speaking to the Jewish leadership which were not listening and learning from the father. If these leader listen and learned from the father they would listen to Jesus. John 12 32 speaks of when Jesus will draw all men to himself through the holy Spirit convicting the world of sin righteousness and judgement.
Jesus draws those that the father grants Him (John 6:65;44)Jesus is talking about drawing all types of people (Jew and gentile) that the father gives.
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I believe in both God’s sovereignty and human responsibility, based on Luke 13:23-24:
'And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, “STRIVE to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will SEEK to enter and will not be able.”
Jesus said everyone will make every effort to enter His kingdom, but many fail… why? There are two reasons why they fail to enter God’s kingdom.
The first reason: Jesus said, '“No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:62)
This means that Christians cannot serve both God and the world. I’ve seen many who try to enjoy worldly pleasures while claiming to love and serve Jesus. Jesus said they won’t be fit for His kingdom. This is a human responsibility (a choice of free will).
The second reason: Jesus said, “And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.” (Luke 18:29-30) Unfortunately, many Christian believers do not do this! Remember Luke 9:62? So, this is humanity’s free-will choice.
I appreciate your Insight, thank you so much for your wisdom. But I have a question regarding your second point: What about the kids and students who believe? How can they leave? What if they are spreading the gospel in their places of education? Or trying to in their own households?
I just want to know cause I'm a uni student, living at home, and am the only Christian in my household. Everyone else in my family doesn't care about God, but for many years I yearned for him, only to discover the real God and accept Christ into my heart just over a year ago❤. I am now a born again believer. But I must know.
What did Jesus mean by his words that "there are many invited ("invited", Greek kletos, meaning "invited, i.e. appointed"), but few chosen"?(Matt 22:14) The invitation to be Jehovah's (God's name, see Isa 12:2, KJV) "special property (Hebrew cgullah, meaning "wealth, jewel, peculiar (treasure), special") out of all the peoples.......you will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" was given first to the nation of fleshly Israel in 1513 B.C.E. while at Mt Sinai.(Ex 19:5, 6)
However, over their 1,500 year history, they failed to become Jehovah's "special property......a kingdom of priests and a holy nation", becoming morally and spiritually corrupt (Eze chpt 23; Hosea 1:2; 2:13; 4:12), so that when Jesus came to inspect the nation of fleshly Israel in 29 C.E. as "the messenger of the (new) covenant" (Mal 3:1), they had become incorrigible, deserving of destruction, "beyond healing" (2 Chron 36:16), as Jesus told them three days before they executed him on a stake: "Serpents, offspring of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of Gehenna (or everlasting destruction)?"(Matt 23:33)
So, by Nisan 11, 33 C.E., when Jesus gave the illustration of "the marriage feast", the nation of fleshly Israel was worthy of destruction (which happened in 70 C.E. by the Roman armies), in which only a few fleshly Jews accepted Jesus as the promised Messiah while the rest "as a stone to strike against and as a rock to stumble over, to both houses of Israel, as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem".(Isa 8:14; 1 Pet 2:4-9)
Thus, there were many Jews "invited, but few chosen", with the invitation to be part of the "marriage feast" (Matt 22:1-13), as a member of the "kingdom of priests and a holy nation" was now extended to the Gentiles in 36 C.E., with Cornelius being its first one "chosen".(Acts chpt 10)
Jesus told the Pharisees as rulers of the nation of fleshly Israel: "Did you never read in the Scriptures (at Ps 118:22, 23), ‘The stone (Jesus Christ) that the builders (the Jewish religious leaders, as well as the rest of the nation) rejected (and murdered three days later, Matt 27:35), this has become the chief cornerstone (of God's heavenly Kingdom)."
"This has come from Jehovah, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? This is why I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be TAKEN FROM YOU and be given to a (new, spiritual) nation (called "the Israel of God", Gal 6:16, that is composed of both Jews and Gentiles, Rom 11:11, 12) producing its fruits (of holy conduct, see Isa 2:2-4, whereby this new "nation" has "beaten their swords into plowshares", becoming "humble, broken in spirit and trembling at Jehovah's word", Isa 66:2). Also, the person falling on (or attacking) this stone (God's Kingdom of 144,001 members, Rev 7:4; 14:1) will be shattered. As for anyone on whom it falls (or attacks), it will crush him.”(Matt 21:42-44; see Dan 2:44)
Is the stone people are shattered on or crushed by the 144,000 or Jesus Himself? There is no third choice. Do not the 144,000 also only have these two choices? Come and be broken or be crushed, but Jesus can raise you up.
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I am not sure what you are asking. When the rebellion occurred in the garden of Eden some 6,000 years ago (Gen 3:1-6), Jehovah God immediately made legal arrangements to undo the damage by means of a symbolic "woman" and her offspring".(Gen 3:15)
The symbolic "woman's offspring" are the 144,000 imperfect but "declared righteous" ones (Rom 3:24; Rev 7:4; 14:1), those "sealed with holy spirit" (Eph 1:13, 14), for "the heavenly calling" (Heb 3:1), as members of God's heavenly Kingdom, "the little flock" that Jehovah has approved of "giving you the Kingdom" (Luke 12:32), along with Jesus Christ as God's Kingdom's premier king/high priest "in the manner of Melchizedek" (Heb 5:10), so that God's Kingdom has 144,001 members.
There are only two hopes, of being in heaven as one of the "chosen ones" (Matt 24:22, 24, 31), as the 144,000 selected imperfect members of God's Kingdom by Jehovah, that is the means by which Jehovah will accomplish his purpose of a paradise earth for the other hope, of living on the earth in perfect peace and security "in the abundance of peace.......forever", as he originally intended when he created the first human couple.(Ps 37:11, 29; Gen 1:26-31)
@@timhaley3459 If Jesus is only King to the 144,000, then why do so many call Him Lord? If there are only 144,001 people in the Kingdom of God, then someone else is Lord of all the rest.
Amen GQ 🙂🙏✝️ thank you
In the parable, attending the wedding feast represents salvation. The very fact that more people are called than are chosen means that more people are invited to be saved than actually end up being saved. In the parable the reasons stated for why these people refuse to attend the wedding isn't because God compelled them not to, but rather because of decisions they made on their own. If Calvinism were true then this verse would need to state something to the effect of 'all who are called are chosen' or "all who are chosen are called' but instead it states that there are a greater number of people called to be saved than there are people who actually end up being saved. This necessitates the notion of free will on the part of those invited and their free will being the deciding factor as to whether or not they accept the wedding invitation, IE whether or not they accept salvation from God.
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Calvinism leaves me with more questions than answers. I'm not convinced that Calvinism is true but I'm not convinced it's false either. Put a gun to my head and I'll agree with you that's pretty much where I stand. So my questions are Why doesn't God just choose more people? Why are only a few chosen? Why create some just to condemn them? So others can be saved? But if all it takes to be saved is to be chosen by God then I go back to my first question of why doesn't God just choose more people?
That, dear friend, is an excellent question. Why would God create the majority of people to end up in hell, rather than the other way around, if it was simply a matter of Him, choosing?Kind of goes against His nature, which is love, doesn’t it?
Calvinism began with Augustine who, prior to conversion, was a agnostic/Manichean. I’m currently digging deep into this doctrine and I suggest others do also.
GotQuestions approaches everything from a Calvinistic bent - just so you know. I suggest people listen with great discernment.
@@emf49oh I'm aware.
Those are some very good questions, and I know I will consider them from time to time to get closer to the answers. But I also know if I could figure out God, He would not be worthy of being God. Can we have free will and be predestined at the same time? Humanly impossible, but impossible for God? (Luke 18:25-27). How much more important is it, then, that we understand His love for us, since there is no why that makes sense.
Sign of Jonah, Strait Gate, Narrow Way, Ancient Path, Zion, Holy Hill, Altar, Sign, Witness, Wonder, Delivering the Girdles HEREIN, BE THE LIGHT, God Bless Ya’ll!
Master, are there few that be saved? Strive to enter in at the Strait Gate….search it out for yourself, do you really Christ, and does he really know you? I believe the ‘entrance’ is found not in the Torah alone, nor the Tanach alone, nor the NT alone, but rather by every word of God therein.
I would like to share with you a scripture that I shared with an atheist not too long ago. We discussed theories such as the Big Bang, evolution, etc.. and after hours of talking it almost seemed like we were not progressing. I told him something repeatedly and to remember what I told him; after I told him. He went to bed thinking about Church and the meaning of life.
He fell asleep and then Jesus Christ came to him in light and glory and waved his arm in the motion of come and follow me. Then he messaged me asking me all about Christianity and he believed that moment that Jesus Christ came to him. Would you like to know what I told him?
Jeremiah 29:13English Standard Version (ESV)
13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
When you seek Jesus Christ with your whole heart you will find him.
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Amen
I don't want to believe in predestination but isn't that verse suggests predestination? I mean "Many are called..." Meaning not all are called which means that those aren't called aren't destined to be saved. Again I don't want to believe in predestination but I can't blame Christian who believe in predestination this verse seem to suggest so.
My takeaway: It doesnt matter how much I bang my head against the wall, if your God has not chosen me, I am a goner.
How are many called to salvation but only a few can have salvation
Because not all will accept it, the same way I can invite you to a party or an event and you still have the free will to either accept or refuse my invitation.
All are called, few will have fulfilled Gods desire for us to forgive All (Matthew 6:14-15) Only those who can truly forgive All of Gods creation, will be chosen at the first Judgement, upon the return of Christ 🙏
If you hear 1 Corinthians 15 : 1-4 and believe it in your heart and confess with your mouth the Lordship of Jesus Christ , ( faith comes by hearing , and hearing by the Word of God ) you are saved and you are chosen , it’s that simple !
Exactly....believing in what folks refer to as "Calvinism" does not negate the fact that anyone who places their faith (which God Gifted them by Grace to believe in the Son Jn.3:3, 6:44,15:16,Eph.2: 8-10,etc)...i.e. entrusts their lives(believes, Gr. Pisteo) will be saved, whether they understand that GOD has decreed all things from the beginning, or not. To believe in God's Sovereign, immutability & will does not negate human responsibility...God is Perfect & in His Perfection & perfect, love & mercy,, HE CHOSE to Save Some from His Judgement that came on All mankind as a result of Adam's disobedience, for ALL have missed the mark of perfect obedience.
No one but God Himself knows who the Elect are, so we preach the Gospel to all. "Those that endure to the end" identifies those that were Chosen by the Father, before the fondations of the world(Eph.1:1-14, Rom.8:28-39) those that don't endure to the end were not Chosen (1 John 2:19)
All Glory to Christ! ❤️✝️
Not even close.
The covenant with Abraham was the template for our salvation. Faith gave Abraham righteousness before God so Abraham could enter a covenant with God. God doesn’t make covenants with the unrighteous.
But God only fulfilled his side of the covenant because Abraham fulfilled his part and obeyed.
@@joebolling "righteousness" means "right standing"....God gifts that position based on HIS good pleasure, plan & will, not based on man's effort, but by His Grace, which is a "free gift", or i.e. "unmerrited favor"
👉But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood 👉nor of the will of the flesh👈 👉nor of the will of man👈,
👉but of God.👈John 1:12-13.
👉And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, 👉and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.👈ACTS 13:48....ALL Glory belongs to GOD (Father/Son/Holy Spirit)
Man I'm more confused. What the meaning of good work? Spread the gospel? Serve people? I don't get it😅.
Yea, Gods apparently not the author of confusion. I'm confused too.
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
The Holy Spirit draws all men unto Himself ( calls, invites) and you have the free will to resist the Holy Spirit's drawing- you see people do this every day (the one & only unforgivable sin that sends one to hell) and God has predestined and chosen the "people group" (whosover)- that believes by faith ( trust for salvation the finished work of Christ alone) for eternsl life with Himself as adopted children.
God wants everyone to be a part of that group that's predestined for eternal life with Him. The group that rejects His salvation is predestined & chosen for hell. He doesn't individually by name choose you to hell and that guy to heaven (why would He long for those who are rejecting Himself for salvation... If He "chose" them for hell??? goofy!!!). If you were God would you choose "everybody" for heaven and nobody to hell? So that would make you more loving and forgiving than God... No way. YOU have to respond to the Spirit by faith
Kinda like the draft everyone gets called but only a few makes the cut
But predestined means ordained
The world is yet in the Church Age. This is the age of “many are called and few are chosen”. This is the same as the “strait” and “narrow gate”( Matthew 7:13-14). Only those who have ears to hear are “the called” (Romans 8:28-29). The ones who are chosen are so because they qualified by “Overcoming” or conquering (Revelation 2:7,11,17,26; 3:5,12,21). Notice only those who have an ear to hear have been called into the Church(same verses). Not all accept the call. Those who do move forward and may or may not produce fruit(Matthew 13). Those who do not produce fruit(i.e. qualify) are cast into the Lake of Fire(John 15:1-8). The Church is called for a specific purpose, preparatory to Christ’s return to earth to set up the Kingdom of God!
Satan yet sits on the throne of the earth. When Christ returns and Satan is removed, all mankind will be called( Isaiah 11:9). Thank God for that!
It’s a shame you’re a Calvinist.
This parable is clearly telling people to come dressed in wedding garments. And if you have the right wedding garments, you will be chosen. Not telling people they are irresistibly chosen to wear wedding garments.
You didn't get it right!
So only those few God chose before the foundation of the world had ears to hear?
Yes....John 10:3-4 ❤️ To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, 👉and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out👈. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them,👉 and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.👈
Jn. 10:25-29 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Mark 4:9-12 And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables. And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand,
👉otherwise they might return and be forgiven.”👈
Look @ the parables of the Sower & Seed (aka soils) ....only those in the "good ground" produced fruit....they were the ones that had "ears to hear" 🤔 Why?....because God Chose them to do His Will. (See John 1:12-13, 3:3, Chapter 10, 14, 15, Ro.8:28-39, Eph. 1:1-14, 2:8-10, etc, etc, etc, there are hundreds of passages & scriptures that tell us that God is Sovereign over the universe & affairs of man...we are not robots & yes, we make choices, but only within the confines of who we are....either Slaves to sin, or Slaves to Rghteousness...but, the man/woman without the Spirit of God can NOT receive the things of God (see 1 Cor. 2, spec.. v14 & also see John 6:44 & 15:16)
If you have Faith in Christ for Salvation, it is because God decreed you Holy (set apart aka saint i.e to be sanctified..aka set apart for HIS service)before the fou dations of the world, according to His Word, but we are taught not to believe it & have adopted the Greek concept of "free will"🤷♂️....But did Pharoah have "free will"? Did the Jews opposing Jesus have "free will" according to John Chapter 10?
I used to believe it...but the more I studied scripture, I began to accept that Jesus is truly LORD OVER ALL....God is Sovereign & requires no help from man. Those that belong to Him seek to obey Him & mourn their sin they once revelled in...the goats & wolves in sheep's clothing excuse, justify & defend their sin & seduce the other creatures who are not His Sheep.
It is very humbling, as we can Glory in nothing, except Christ❤️✝️
That's calvinism take, not Biblical Christianity
@@naturematt4340 why is that Calvinism? 🤔
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Romans 8:28-39 ❤️👉And we know that GOD CAUSES ALL THINGS to work together for good to those who love God, to those WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO 👉HIS PURPOSE.👈 👉For those whom He FOREKNEW, HE also PREDESTINED 👉to become conformed to the image of His Son👈, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 👉and these whom He PREDESTINED, He also CALLED; and these whom He CALLED, HE also JUSTIFIED; and THESE WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? WHO WILL BRING A CHARGE AGAINST GOD ’s ELECT? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.❤️❤️❤️✝️
That is the Bible, not Calvinism😉
So is this......
Ephesians 1:1-14 👉 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus BY THE WILL OF GOD,(See also John 1:13) To the saints(those set apart🤔by WHO? for WHO? For What Purpose?) who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, JUST AS HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD,(Why?🤔)👉 that we would be holy and blameless before Him. IN LOVE 👉HE PREDESTINED US TO ADOPTION AS SONS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His
👉GRACE 👈(FREE Gift, unmerritted favor! something we do not Choose, but do receive) which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His WILL, 👉according to HIS kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, HAVING BEEN PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE 👉who works ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL,(not our so called free will, found nowhere in scripture🤷♂️) to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.....
Brother, studying John 3:3 & Ephesians 2:8-10 should make it clear that it is God who is Sovereign over Salvation & even gifts us the Faith to believe in His Son! To Christ ALONE BE THE GLORY ✝️❤️
@@sandman9390 That statement is assuming the god of calvinism chose people for salvation and people for damnation before the foundation of the world. AKA calvinism's unconditional election (The Bible says no such thing).
Those chosen for salvation were given ears to hear, and those chosen for damnation were not given ears to hear. AKA calvinism's total depravity mixed with limited atonement and irresistable grace. (Again, this concept is not found in the Bible)
He calls some but a few people are chosen. God choose them. Not they choose God
It is easy. The doctrine of Election and Predestination.
False
Calvinism is false. It would essentially make God the author of evil.
Amen!! Praise God for his sovereignty ❤
@@melissa2807 Scripture is very clear on this point: "many are called, few are chosen"
why are you making a mockery of God and His inspired holy Word?
@@rkitsune3549 What if God has no problem with that? All one has to do to make someone/something out to be evil is make a law, and God did that. But in doing that, He also had a promise prepared by which anyone could overcome evil, and humans rarely make promises for that purpose. It is very possible for Him to author evil without it making Him evil. Every novelist does it.
We have nothing to do with our salvation. Don't you know that it is all for His glory! That it is HE who will finish the good work in us, not us! (Phil 1:6). And that it is by His grace you are saved and it is this way so that no man can boast (Eph 2:8-9). Read the bible, seek the truth. We were all DEAD in our SINS before He showed mercy and grace upon us, and gave us life.. We have all sinned against God and deserve death, nothing more. Whether you hear or not is not of your own doing, your own free will. Whether we hear or not is according to Gods will, not ours. If He calls us than it is He who gives us the ears to hear. Salvation comes from the Lord, not from anything we do.. It is Him who decides who He saves and who He doesn't. Who He gives ears to hears and who He doesn't. If you have been saved, give all your thanks and glory to Him. Not yourself..
Ephesians 2:8 KJV
[8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
John 3:5 KJV
[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.
Christ, the disciples, and Paul all taught obedience to God’s commandments as a requirement. Satan taught it’s NOT required.
If we follow Satan while claiming to follow Christ, what would that look like? Yeah. You guessed it. It’d look just like saved by grace alone.
Many are called to Gods kingdom?? Are they really invited if they can’t come? Isn’t God drawing them by calling them?????
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Your ministry should be called; "Got Calvinism?"
Seems like Calvanism. Jesus died for everybody, not a select few.
Why is this always just labeled as “Calvinism”? All The reformers did was bring back to the forefront doctrine that was clearly taught by Jesus and the Apostles. If Jesus died for everyone then his blood would have been spilled in vain for the ones who reject him. Jesus told the Pharisees that they don’t believe because they are not of his sheep, his sheep hear his voice and they know him and he knows them. No one comes to Jesus unless the Father calls them.
@@manda23mcgee let me guess, he called you, but not most others?
The outer darkness is definitely not hell.
It grieves me greatly that you would teach that God has decreed everyone a god hater from birth and he only chose a few to save while throwing the rest (who can do nothing other than rebel) into outer darkness. This is most certainly not the God of Scripture revealed from OT to NT.
If there is an alternative interpretation to these texts, which there are, that don't make God into telling his creation to do things that they cannot do (repent) and then become angry that they don't respond, then why not interpret this way.
Ephesians is written to "the faithful in Christ Jesus" they came to be in Christ when they heard the gospel and believed vs 13. God chose us IN CHRIST before the foundation of the world, all who will take refuge in Christ are the chosen. Please realize the damage determinism brings to the character of God and the blameworthiness of man.
Calvinism is idolatry and not Biblical Christianity
They were never part of us if they were they would of stayed with us you have free will to be wicked were does it say in the Bible you have free will gid chose you you can't chose him
Those who will be called to the Wedding FEAST are all the left behind!
”So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with GUESTS .“
Matthew 22:10
The BRIDE is not a GUEST at her own Wedding!
The Actual Wedding is held IN HEAVEN after the rapture of ALL BELIEVERS.
The Wedding FEAST is held on earth after Armageddon!!
Those who refuse the mark of the beast will be allowed at the Wedding FEAST when the bride is now a WIFE who comes back with the Lord.
”Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and HIS WIFE hath made herself ready.“
Revelation 19:7 KJV
Those who do not make the wedding feast will be cast into outer darkness as the verses describe.
”Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.“
Matthew 22:13-14 KJV
Calvinism is idolatry. It creates a different god and gospel.
"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
This parable is about Israel not the church,
This is about wedding guest not his bride.
Very poor interpretation, you are letting your calvinistic presuppositions control your exegesis of scripture.
Callings is to service not salvation,.
Not many are effecutally called. Only those who are elected are. Rom. 8:28-30
Way to put your Calvinist twist on the scripture. “Many are called but few are chosen” contradicts Calvinism which states that the called will not resist. So go back and try again and quit putting your twist on this and have an honest conversation with yourself.
There is no such thing as a “Calvinist twist”, the Bible clearly teaches election and predestination. Study it.
This is the Calvin heresy! ALL (everyone who has ever lived) are called to come to Jesus, not just a few that this man is promoting. He is speaking nonsense. Calvinist change the meanings of simple words: all does not mean everyone, whosoever does not mean any and every one, all men does not mean every person. Don't listen to this heresy, believe God and His Word!
The Calvinism: doctrine of predestination
🤔 I am pretty sure John Calvin didn't write this👉Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.❤✝️ Ephesians 1:3-14🤷♂️
More like doctrine of demons
@@naturematt4340 🤔what is demonic about it?....do you only choose to believe the scriptures that you like?
Acts 13:48 👉When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; 👉and AS MANY AS HAD BEEN APPOINTED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED.👀😯
Mark 4:9-12👉And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables. And He was saying to them,👉 “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those WHO ARE OUTSIDE 🤔get everything in parables, 👉👉so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive👈👈, 👉👉and while hearing, they may hear and not understand,👈👈 OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN.”👀😯
We can't cause goats to become Sheep, brother!....we preach the gospel to all, but goats continue to be goats,....but His Sheep WILL hear His Voice & follow Him...
John 10:25-30 👉Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But YOU DO NOT BELIEVE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP. ❤️👉My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and THEY WILL NEVER PERISH; 👉and no one will snatch them out of My hand👈. My Father, WHO HAS GIVEN THEM TO ME, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”❤️✝️
So hell is not real and God(Jesus Christ) died for nothing?
If it is real then you guys TRULY NEED TO BE FEAR. It's necessary to be fear danger, that's why God give warning...😂 yall cannot be this lazy
How can one know he is predestinated to be in Heaven or not( or maybe just reach paradise and then betrayal?????)
Because God saved you from(helldamnation). That's why you need to fear God more when it is necessary to be so!
What is the book he recommends?🥲
And where on the site to find it
And what does it mean to be called?
Amen