WHOSOVER WILL MAY COME - NYOBS 11.09

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 11 - CALVINISM

WHOSOEVER WILL - RABBIT TRAIL

• This is hard to digest, but there seems to be two parallel lines of “The Elect” taught in scripture which both calumniate with God somewhere in eternity. – You cannot deny one or the other. – You cannot look at just one line, but the both of them at the same time.

1. There are those that God chose before the foundations of the earth; “The Elect” and then
2. Those who would be drawn by the Holy Spirit through the hearing of the word of God.

• Jesus flat out told His Disciples that He had other sheep that were not of this sheep pen.

• If you can just grasp the fact that God chose the nation of Israel to be His chosen people and then made a way for the Gentiles through “free will” to come to Him; to be grafted into the vine, then you will understand it. – Without this understanding, there is no reason to preach the Gospel if we are without freewill and predestined to “whatever”.
• NOTE:  All of the Jews did not “choose” to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Likewise, all of the Gentiles did not choose to either; Life is choice driven.
• On your own, you are incapable of doing anything to accept Christ – It is the seed of “truth” sown by the Holy Spirit that “enables you” to desire to receive Him.
• The Holy Spirit sows the seed of “truth” in man’s life - Some hearts are fertile ground for the seed to grow, other hearts are hard and full of thorns and the seed is choked out.

• The “Whosoever” that comes to God is included in The Elect and become predestined by God to receive the gift of eternal life with Him.

John 10:16 – I have other sheep that are not of this pen.

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. KJV

Mark 4:14-20 - Some hearts are fertile others rocky.

14 The farmer (the Holy Spirit) sows the word.

15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.

17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;

19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop-thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."

John 3:16 – Whosoever believes will have eternal life –

16 "For God so loved the world (every kind of person) that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. NIV

Rom 10:13 – Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord.

13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

NIV

Rev 22:17- The whosoever are the Elect.

17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. NIV

Josh 24:15 – Life is choice driven -

15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." NIV