Freewill
kills
Bible
Texts (Concordant
Version of the Old Testament and Concordant Literal New Testament with keywords
Concordance-CLNT: Psalm 48:14 and Galatians 2:20
Psalm 48:14
14 For this is
Elohim, our Elohim, for the eon and further; He Himself shall lead us for the
eons.
Galatians 2:20:
20 With Christ
have I been crucified, yet I am living; no longer I, but living in me is
Christ. Now that which I am now living in flesh, I am living in faith that is
of the Son of God, who loves me, and gives Himself up for me.
A few years ago, I
heard a young man lost his wallet. This man was very sad. I heard him screamed oh
God! Why me, God! A few hours later, his wallet was found and he screamed with
joy with the words, “oh, thank God!” Can you wonder why he mentioned God when he
was in the bad situation but still mentioned him when he was out of the bad
situation? What has God had to do with these? Was he there? Think about it. Have you ever experienced a bad beginning and a happy
ending situation in so many ways in your life too?
The question now
is, why should this young man mentioned God in his life experiences? Was God
there when all these things happened to him? In this passage, there is no
indication that God was doing anything and all we could read is that this young
man was in a bad situation before but later, he became happy. Why mentioning God
in this situation?
Other things to ponder upon are: Did this young
man plan to experience this situation? Could he have controlled this situation?
If your answers are no, where was his freewill? Does it mean God was in
that situation? If you must know, yes, he was! However, he was not physically
present there. God is Spirit (John 4:24).
Freewill in a
nutshell means the situation whereby you are independence of everything about you.
Free will is when you are free of God and Satan or anyone’s influence in your
life. It means you chose when you were born, where you were born, the family
you were born into, the gender you were born with, the skin color you were born
with, the name you were called, the food you were fed with among others and so on. You
even decide to be happy and when to be sad. If you cannot control any of these,
then you do not have freewill. Psalm 139:14-16 tells you that God made you fearfully and wonderfully and wrote how you would be when you were in your mother’s womb in his scroll. These, were not your
choices but were given to you as planned by Yahweh. There is no half-way in this issue. You either control everything about you or God does. You are not a robot but a tool in God's hands. You are made to fulfil his plan not yours.
Do you believe God was in the above picture's situation too? Can the baby's freewill make changes here?
Where
did freewill doctrine come from?
In a nutshell, it
comes from religions' theories and their frivolous conclusions. Religions make you belief that you can control
your life. This belief makes you feel a kind of ownership of your life and
future. This is what Satan likes you to belief. Do not be ignorant that
Satan organizes religions, not God. Satan makes you see yourself as the co-partner
with God. Something to make you feel in control, or a partner in control of your life.
However, it is all lie. In the last week's blog, the young child only saw himself driving the car but his father knows who was actually driving it.
We, the members of
the body of Christ live in relative sense just as every other human but we
believe in absolute sense of God. We may have such feelings as every human but we believe Yahweh controls all things. All
things are made for his pleasures…(Revelation 4:11). This helps us to rely on him to guide our steps everyday.
The Psalmist knew
this truth as he concluded that Yahweh will lead us for the eon. It means Yahweh has freewill to captain our lives according to the plans he has designed for us individually. Paul
realized this truth that he was not the one doing things but Christ in him. In other
words, Paul understood that to take credit for his evangel would be self-righteousness and sense of arrogation. This is what religious
people find hard to comprehend.
The true believers understand that only God has freewill because he controls everything. Yeshua said, not my will but thy will be done (Luke 22:42). Please, understand that having a mindset of freewill will eventually result
to self-righteousness. Our righteousness is like a dirty rags (Isaiah 64:6). In our lives, flesh battles spirit (Galatians 5:17) because Satan makes us believe we have freewill to do whatever we want. This is a dirty trick from Satan. His tricks are subtly
in so many ways. Freewill has been imposed on humans as their birthrights. This is what our societies have made us to believe. Majority does not win vote before God. Unfortunately, religions are misleading people a lot. Religious people keep battling with flesh and strive to please
God but do not realize that it is the Spirit of God that works through us to do God's biddings (Philippians
2:13).
We understand that we are not justified by the deeds of our flesh. We also understand that our will are at the mercy of God's will. Laws are created to expose sins but grace of God helps us to forge ahead victoriously (see Romans 3:19-20 for details). Faith is given to humans by Yahweh to believe in this truth about his sovereignty. Without this faith, we cannot please God (Hebrews 11:6). To diligently seek, him, his Spirit helps us to achieve it (Zechariah 4:6) because no one is seeking God (Romans 3:10-11). So, my dear blog readers, freewill kills people because it is a spiritual killer disease.
In conclusion. I hope this week’s
blog helps you cut out of satanic deceptions, webs of religions misleading theories and their evil conventions that keep spreading worldwide in the minds of many people.
Oh, by the way, see https://genius.com/Don-moen-you-make-me-lie-down-in-green-pastures-lyrics for what Don Moen sang about God's freewill concerning worshipping him. Hope this helps you too.
Grace and Peace!
References:
https://www.concordant.org/version/read-concordant-new-testament-online
https://www.concordant.org/version/read-concordant-old-testament-online
No one can come to me except through my father (John 6:44). That is not negotiable. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand (John 10:29). That is also not debatable. No but, if or maybe. All these imply that humans do not have freewill to come to Yeshua. God has designed our lives like he told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:1-5. We have will, but they are subject to Yahweh's will because his will alone is free. Satan makes you think and feel otherwise. Religions are not helping either. Then, you engage in serious battle between your flesh and the Spirit of God. This is why you feel like a champion when all things are good with you but feel dejected when things are bad with you. Why mentioning God in either of the two situation, if you have freewill? If you understand that all is of God (2 Corinthians 5:18) and he has plan for your life; you would understand Psalm 23:1-6 that you are a Sheep and the Lord is your Shepherd. Today, please acknowledge him in all you do...(Proverbs 3:6). Amen.
ReplyDeleteThank you for today's blog on Freewill. It is very enlightening and a blessing. My question is, what do we call it when a person chooses to act contrary to God's will for their life? I believe that is possible or maybe not. Please explain and thank you.
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DeleteThanks for your question, Mrs. Tomiwa. This week's blog teaches us that God knows the end from the beginning. We humans are in the loop of God's plans. No one can resist God's will (Romans 9:19). However, since we all live in relative sense, it would appear to us that people can choose to do things contrary to God's will. However, in absolute sense, it is not. Whoever does things contrary to God's will performs the role meant for him/her for that moment. Since you and I do not know what tomorrow may hold, such person may choose to do good things. So, we humans are in the loop of God's overall plan. He does not need to persuade, force or coerce people to do his will. It is us humans that feel these ways. Out of our passion, we want people to do God's will (which is not a bad ideal). However, God knows what everyone will do at every point in time. Therefore, every second of humans matters as it all adds up to the overall plan God has for them. See what happened in Isaiah 6:9-11 below:
ReplyDelete10 Stouten the heart of this people, And make its ears heavy, And make its eyes squint, Lest it may see with its eyes, And with its ears it may hear, And with its heart it may understand, And it gets healing again for itself.
11 Then I said, How long, O Yahweh? And He answered: Until the cities should be decimated without a dweller, And the houses without a human, And the ground, it is decimated in desolation.
Does it means God did not want these people to choose to be good as they change from their evil ways to good ways? Why would God send Isaiah to deliver such a message? Have you ever wondered why Yeshua hid the truth from the Pharisees in John 10:6? I think he came to make people see the truth. Why did Yeshua same he came to make the blind see and those who see become blind in John 9:39? Would it not be great to have everyone's eyes to be opened to see the truth? Is there no reason for all these? If the Pharisees knew Yeshua was the son of God, would they be able to let him be crucified? I have spoken on all these in my previous audio podcast, especially on the role of Judas and Pilate. In this world, there will always be protagonists and antagonists. God has timing for every human deed. Humans may find themselves making choices but all these pieces of choices aggregate to fulfil God's choice for them in the long run. In the end, people will learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9). This understanding is far beyond our 5 senses. I hope this helps. Thanks for reading this week's blog once again.
(Modified): Thanks for your question, Mrs. Tomiwa. This week's blog teaches us that God knows the end from the beginning. We humans are in the loop of God's plans. No one can resist God's will (Romans 9:19). However, since we all live in relative sense, it would appear to us that people can choose to do things contrary to God's will. However, in absolute sense, it is not. Whoever does things contrary to God's will performs the role meant for him/her for that moment. Since you and I do not know what tomorrow may hold, such person may choose to do good things. So, we humans are in the loop of God's overall plan. He does not need to persuade, force or coerce people to do his will. It is us humans that feel these ways. Out of our passion, we want people to do God's will (which is not a bad ideal). However, God knows what everyone will do at every point in time. Therefore, every second of humans matters as it all adds up to the overall plan God has for them. See what happened in Isaiah 6:9-11 below:
ReplyDelete10 Stouten the heart of this people, And make its ears heavy, And make its eyes squint, Lest it may see with its eyes, And with its ears it may hear, And with its heart it may understand, And it gets healing again for itself.
11 Then I said, How long, O Yahweh? And He answered: Until the cities should be decimated without a dweller, And the houses without a human, And the ground, it is decimated in desolation.
Does it means God did not want these people to choose to be good as they change from their evil ways to good ways? Why would God send Isaiah to deliver such a message? Have you ever wondered why Yeshua hid the truth from the Pharisees in John 10:6? I think he came to make people see the truth. Why did Yeshua said he came to make the blind see and those who see become blind in John 9:39? Would it not be great to have everyone's eyes to be opened to see the truth? Is there no reason for all these? If the Pharisees knew Yeshua was the son of God, would they have him crucified? I have spoken on all these in my previous audio podcast, especially on the role of Judas and Pilate. In this world, there will always be protagonists and antagonists. God has timing for every human deed. Humans may find themselves making choices but all these pieces of choices aggregate to fulfil God's choice for them in the long run. In the end, people will learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9). This understanding is far beyond our 5 senses. I hope this helps. Thanks for reading this week's blog once again.
Yahweh be praised!
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