We choose Jesus or Jesus choose us
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SovereignGrace, I have been watching this thread for a while.
I agree with your doctrinal position as set out in this thread.
However, I cannot help wondering whether there is a misunderstanding here.
Jackson123 is Indonesian and English is his second language.
Reading your posts and then his posts I just feel that if Jackson123 could communicate in his first language and you could understand it you may find that your positions are much closer than it appears at first glance.
To me Jackson123 does not have the English vocabulary to express himself adequately given the subject matter.
I agree with your doctrinal position as set out in this thread.
However, I cannot help wondering whether there is a misunderstanding here.
Jackson123 is Indonesian and English is his second language.
Reading your posts and then his posts I just feel that if Jackson123 could communicate in his first language and you could understand it you may find that your positions are much closer than it appears at first glance.
To me Jackson123 does not have the English vocabulary to express himself adequately given the subject matter.
Because He is God. You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. As He says also in Hosea,'I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, ‘MY PEOPLE,’ AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, ‘BELOVED.’” “AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, ‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’ THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.”[Romans 9:19-26]
God took from the same lump His ppl, the elect, the sheep. He did so because He is God and we are not. We have no right to question God about anything.
So, why do you question God, my Brother?
God took from the same lump His ppl, the elect, the sheep. He did so because He is God and we are not. We have no right to question God about anything.
So, why do you question God, my Brother?