Jn 6:44
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
No man can come here means no man has the ability to come to Christ. That cancels out the myth that man has a freewill,
It also means that no man has the ability to believe on Christ for Salvation. Because Christ equates believing on Him with coming to Him. Jn 6:64-65
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
What about those Jesus says to them Jn 5:40
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Thats answered in Jn 6:44 they simply will not come because they cannot come unless the Power of God draws them and makes them willing
Ps 110:3
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
If and when one comes to believe on Christ willingly, the credit goes to Gods Power !
GODS WORD is how GOD works today.
HOW are we drawn by GOD? By what means does His power work 'inward' in us, how are we lead/impelled to come/drawn and to 'abide'? We learn in Romans
9:31 Israel, however, pursuing a law of righteousness, to [that] law not did attain
32 Because of why? Because [it was] not by FAITH, but as by works.
They stumbled over the stone of stumbling
33 as it has been written: Behold I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and the [one]
BELIEVING on Him never will be put to shame
10:1 Brothers the indeed desire of my heart and the supplication to God on behalf of them [is] for salvation
2 I bear witness for about them, that zeal for God they have, but not according to KNOWLEDGE
3 Being ignorant of for the of God righteousness, and the own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God NOT they submitted (hupotassó: To subject, to subordinate, to submit, to be under obedience)
4 [The] end for of law [is] Christ, unto righteousness to everyone
BELIEVING.
5 Moses for writes [of] the righteousness that [is] of the law, that The having done these things man, will live by them
6 The however of faith righteousness, thus speaks: NOT you should say in the heart of you, Who will ascend into heaven? That is Christ to bring down
(Salvation does not come through OUR works but by CHRISTS WORK)
7 or, Who will descend into the abyss? That is, Christ out from [the] dead to bring up.
8 But what says it?
Near you the word is, in the mouth of you and in the heart of you. THAT IS the word of faith which we proclaim
9 that if you confess the saying with the mouth of you, [The] Lord [is] Jesus,
and BELIEVE in the heart of you, that God Him raised out from [the] dead, you will be saved.
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In the heart for is BELIEF unto righteousness; in the mouth now is CONFESSION unto salvation.
(homologeó: To confess, to acknowledge, to agree}
11 Says for the Scripture,
Everyone BELIEVING on Him not will be put to shame
12 Not for there is difference Jew between and Greek; for the SAME Lord of all is rich toward all those CALLING Him
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Whoever for that shall call upon the name of [the] Lord will be saved (deliver out of danger and into safety; used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin – and into His provisions (safety))
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How then shall they call on [Him] whom not they believed?
How now shall they BELIEVE on [Him] of whom not they have heard? How now shall they hear apart from preaching? (to herald (proclaim); to preach (announce) a message publicly and with conviction (persuasion))
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How now shall they preach if NOT THEY ARE SENT? As it has been written: "How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming peace, of those proclaiming good news of good things!" (Not all the prophets WANTED to be prophets at first but HAD NO CHOICE, they weren't called, they were PREDESTINED to spread HIS words, GOD knew them BEFORE they even came out of the womb (water) ...born of flesh and BLOOD... as opposed to those who left their first habitation)
16 But NOT all heeded the good news. Isaiah for says, Lord, who has BELIEVED the report of us?
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SO faith [is] FROM hearing, and hearing THROUGH [the] word of Christ
18 But I ask, no not did they hear? Indeed: into all the earth has gone out the voice of them; and to the ends of the world, the words of them
19 But I ask, not Israel not did know? First, Moses says: I will provoke to jealousy you by [those] not a nation; by a nation without understanding, I will anger you
20 Isaiah then is very bold and says; I was found by those Me not seeking; manifest I became to those Me not inquiring after
21 As for however, Israel, he says: All the day, I have stretched out the hands of Me, to a people disobeying and contradicting
11:1 I ask then, not did reject God the people of Him? NEVER may it be! Also, for I an Israelite am, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin
2 Not did reject God the people of Him,
whom HE FOREKNEW. Or not know you in Elijah what says the Scripture how he pleads with God against Israel
3 Lord,
the prophets OF YOU, they have killed; the altars of You they have torn down; and I have been left alone, and they are seeking the life of me
Some are predestined, some are called, some will abide, others will not... then some will fall sleep and be raised up to follow Him and be where He is (SAVED from the penalty of sin/death and the GWTJ) while others will die and be buried and will NOT to be raised up
until He returns for HIS DAY, The Lords Day, the 1000 years in which those who didn't get their names in the book of life FROM THE BEGINNING will have 1000 years to WORK to get their names in it before the GWTJ when they will finally be judged and either come to life/immortality or death/lake of fire.
Isaiah 28
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
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For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
And what happens if we don't do it GODS WAY? If we approach the words of God all harry scarry whichever way WE FEEL like it rather than in the ORDERLY way in which GOD DOES EVERYTHING...we create our own 'religion' not much different than those who came before us and MOCKED believing they knew better with
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little;
that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
In conclusion, I believe the Bible tells us we can choose to be
either of God or of this world and WE choose our path. Hear the words of GOD, obey them, repent and be baptized then ABIDE in our NEW creation as a new creature ALWAYS striving to walk holy, calling on the Lord and Savior, constantly growing, maturing and looking to serve GOD as a willing servant of His or fallback into the ways of this world and find oneself to be snared and taken...FREE WILL, life or death...
