I constantly hear this idea of free will, and it is completely false - A Christian has free will - i will talk about it in a moment
Romans 3:11 : If no one seeks after God - what do we seek... Sin
Ecc 7:20 : If no one is good, then what do bad do.... choose sin
Jeremiah 17:9 : The heart is desperately wicked - what is wicked - choosing sin
John 8: 34 : a slave to something has to do what- ... obey it's master - sin
Without Christ, outside of Christ, we are unable to do anything but sin, how is that free will? I am a slave of sin, I obey when it calls, I have no freedom, but slavery under sin
A Christian is no longer a slave of sin, he is not a slave but he is free, dead to sin, alive to Christ (Romans 6:6)
It's for freedom Christ has set us free.
Implications
1) It's completely your fault and my fault when we sin - we freely choose it
2) What compassion we should cultivate for someone who, like us at one point, is a slave to sin, that Sin is all they know, that is all they will know in this life apart from Jesus Christ?
3) We need to stop telling the unsaved, that they have freewill, because they do not. That they can choose Jesus Christ, because they cannot choose out of their slavery, unless Jesus Christ draws them and gives them that faith
Romans 3:11 : If no one seeks after God - what do we seek... Sin
Ecc 7:20 : If no one is good, then what do bad do.... choose sin
Jeremiah 17:9 : The heart is desperately wicked - what is wicked - choosing sin
John 8: 34 : a slave to something has to do what- ... obey it's master - sin
Without Christ, outside of Christ, we are unable to do anything but sin, how is that free will? I am a slave of sin, I obey when it calls, I have no freedom, but slavery under sin
A Christian is no longer a slave of sin, he is not a slave but he is free, dead to sin, alive to Christ (Romans 6:6)
It's for freedom Christ has set us free.
Implications
1) It's completely your fault and my fault when we sin - we freely choose it
2) What compassion we should cultivate for someone who, like us at one point, is a slave to sin, that Sin is all they know, that is all they will know in this life apart from Jesus Christ?
3) We need to stop telling the unsaved, that they have freewill, because they do not. That they can choose Jesus Christ, because they cannot choose out of their slavery, unless Jesus Christ draws them and gives them that faith