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There are children of God that do not have a personal relationship with God. For instance, When a child of God is disobedient he is considered to be dead to his fellowship with God until he repents of his disobedience. David tells us in Ps 73 that the non-elect that God has left to his own destruction gets along better in this life than do God's children.
Sorry, I apologize. I misunderstood.
Sorry, I apologize. I misunderstood.
MANKINDS FREE WILL. GOD doesnt want anyone to perish but WE can still CHOOSE to accept or reject Him 
If the natural man can not decern spiritual things etc..how do WE become saved? God persues us ..the Holy spirit works with EVERYONE...the "invite" is given to all but it is OUR choice..God wont manipulate or force.
To say the natural man is doomed cant be or NO ONE would be saved and BE christians because ALL have sinned and fall SHORT of the glory of God..
To say the natural man is doomed cant be or NO ONE would be saved and BE christians because ALL have sinned and fall SHORT of the glory of God..
ALL WILL BE INVITED..BUT PEOPLE MAKE EXCUSES ETC NOT TO BELIVE OR ACCEPT THE INVITAION OF SALVATION...
Scripture: Luke 14:15-24
15 When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!” 16 But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; 17 and at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, `Come; for all is now ready.’ 18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, `I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.’ 19 And another said, `I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.’ 20 And another said, `I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21 So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, `Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.’ 22 And the servant said, `Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant, `Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.'”
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Meditation:
What does it mean to “eat bread in the kingdom of heaven”? In the ancient world the most notable sign of favor and intimate friendship was the invitation to “share bread” at the dinner table. Who you ate with showed who you valued and trusted as your friends. A great banquet would involve a lavish meal of several courses and a large company of notable guests and friends. One of the most beautiful images of heaven in the scriptures is the royal wedding celebration and banquet given by the King for his son and friends. We, in fact, have been invited to the most important banquet of all! The last book in the Bible ends with an invitation to the wedding feast of the Lamb and his Bride, the church: The Spirit and the Bride say, Come! (Revelations 22:17). The ‘Lamb of God’ is the Lord Jesus Christ and his bride is the people he has redeemed by his own precious blood which was shed upon the cross for our salvation.
Jesus’ “banquet parable” must have startled his audience. If a great lord or king invited his friends to a banquet, why would the guests turn down his invitation? A great banquet would take many days to prepare. And personal invitations would be sent out well in advance to the guests, so they would have plenty of time to prepare for the upcoming event. How insulting for the invited guests to then refuse when the time for celebrating came! They made light of the King’s request because they put their own interests above his.
Jesus probes the reasons why people make excuses to God’s great invitation to “eat bread” with him at his banquet table. The first excuse allows the claims of one’s personal business or work to take precedence over God’s claim. Do you allow any task or endeavor to absorb you so much that it keeps you from the thought of God? The second excuse allows our possessions to come before God. Do you allow the media and other diversions to crowd out time for God in daily prayer and worship? The third excuse puts home and family ahead of God. God never meant for our home and relationships to be used selfishly. We serve God best when we invite him into our work, our homes, and our personal lives and when we share our possessions with others.
The second part of the story focuses on those who had no claim on the king and who would never have considered getting such an invitation. The “poor, maimed, blind, and lame” represent the outcasts of society – those who can make no claim on the King. There is even ample room at the feast of God for outsiders from the highways and hedges – the Gentiles who were not members of the chosen people, the Jews. This is certainly an invitation of grace –undeserved, unmerited favor and kindness! But this invitation also contains a warning for those who refuse it or who approach the wedding feast unworthily. Grace is a free gift, but it is also an awesome responsibility.
Dieterich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who died for his faith by opposing the false Nazism, contrasted cheap grace and costly grace: “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves… the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance… grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate… Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.”
God invites each of us to his banquet that we may share in his joy. Are you ready to feast at the Lord’s banquet table?
“Lord Jesus, you withhold no good thing from us and you lavish us with the treasures of heaven. Help me to seek your kingdom first and to lay aside anything that might hinder me from doing your will.”
I perceive that you hunger to understand the truth of the doctrine that Jesus taught. I am not a preacher, I do attend church regularly, and love to discuss the scriptures with people who are interested in gleaning the truth of what Jesus taught. There are quite a few scriptures dealing with "THE ELECT" that most people have a hard time understanding and explaining. Most people want to believe that God, by his foreknowledge, looked down through time and saw who would seek him and do good works. and chose them, but they have no scripture bases for that view. Ps 53:2-3, God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. This is the reason in Eph 1 that God says in verse 4, 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 ( after that Jesus died on the cross for the sins of those that God chose and gave, him [John 6] ) Had God not chosen some out of their depraved condition, he would not have had anyone to praise and honor him. God looks upon them as Holy and without blame, and says their sins are as far away from him as the east is from the west. All mankind is born into this world as sinners, void of the Spirit, and stay that way until God regenerates them, as stated in Eph 2:5. Sometime between those that he chose natural birth and their natural death, God regenerates (gives them spiritual life by putting his Spirit within them). As just natural men, they had no response to making this transition, It was made by the sovereign grace of God. After they had been regenerated, the Spirit within them began to reveal some truths unto them. I expect that you would now have many questions, so, lets hear them.
Interesting comments. Jesus is the husband and king of his church which is his bride. His church has several names that it is called by in the scriptures, The church of God, the new Jerusalem, the church of the first born, the little flock, church in the wilderness, The banquet feast is being fed with the gospel in his church. I have to take intermission fight now, be back to explain more later.
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