Matthew 7: 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Have you ever been addicted? At the end of the day we are the ones that accept the help or not. So why people after being saved, go back to the old ways?
@@reichardvega-reyes4028 No. While I abused my share of substances in my youth before I was Christian, I never had a serious substance addiction. But I want to be clear about the point of my addiction analogy - we often think God 'forcing' our will would make His love or our love for Him less real. But just as an addict's family doesn't love them less by intervening, God's sovereign work in changing our hearts doesn't make His love or our response less genuine. His sovereignty doesn't diminish the reality of relationship, it enables it. But yes, as sinners, we often return to our sin "like a dog returns to its vomit." The struggle with our fleshly desires is real. But if we belong to Christ, even our own will can not defeat His power to save us. He will have every soul that belongs to Him in the end.
See, and that is the very reason that in the end ALL creation will be reconciled to God, Col 1:20. What did Jesus answer the highly unsettled disciples in Matthew 25 when they asked in astonishment after the strange experience with the rich young man who could be saved? Verse 26 - ἐμβλέψας δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Παρὰ ἀνθρώποις τοῦτο ἀδύνατόν ἐστιν, παρὰ δὲ Θεῷ πάντα δυνατά. = But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” God accepts the free will of the individual? Don't make me laugh! Then Saul's surprise in Acts 9 could not have happened! I have subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Germany!
You explained it very beautifully.. a follower of christ from Pakistan
Thank you for the encouragement. To God be the glory
Matthew 7: 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
May we be found among them
Have you ever been addicted? At the end of the day we are the ones that accept the help or not. So why people after being saved, go back to the old ways?
@@reichardvega-reyes4028 No. While I abused my share of substances in my youth before I was Christian, I never had a serious substance addiction. But I want to be clear about the point of my addiction analogy - we often think God 'forcing' our will would make His love or our love for Him less real. But just as an addict's family doesn't love them less by intervening, God's sovereign work in changing our hearts doesn't make His love or our response less genuine. His sovereignty doesn't diminish the reality of relationship, it enables it.
But yes, as sinners, we often return to our sin "like a dog returns to its vomit." The struggle with our fleshly desires is real. But if we belong to Christ, even our own will can not defeat His power to save us. He will have every soul that belongs to Him in the end.
See, and that is the very reason that in the end ALL creation will be reconciled to God, Col 1:20. What did Jesus answer the highly unsettled disciples in Matthew 25 when they asked in astonishment after the strange experience with the rich young man who could be saved? Verse 26 - ἐμβλέψας δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Παρὰ ἀνθρώποις τοῦτο ἀδύνατόν ἐστιν, παρὰ δὲ Θεῷ πάντα δυνατά. = But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” God accepts the free will of the individual? Don't make me laugh! Then Saul's surprise in Acts 9 could not have happened! I have subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Germany!
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John 6: 44
Amen