My Journal

I believe Christ because I was first chosen by God in His eternal foreknowledge of wisdom, of justice, of righteousness and of good willing. Not of my decision. For my decision to repent and receive Christ is caused by His own will.

In other words, this is later given to me to have the freedom to believe and have faith in Christ, eventhough such is predestined from the beginning of time.

Therefore, God does not depend on one's decision for salvation, but one depends on God. Otherwise it is not election, we would not be called "chosen" but consented with qualification. For all glory be to God. Since the fall of man, the perfect freedom has been corrupted. Our freedom has been corrupted. No one's freedom can be that of Adam's prior to his first sin. Adam's first freedom was unique.

It's either one of the three in predestination:

1. Does God choose one first?

2. Does one choose God first?

3. Does God and one choose each other at the same time?

God is neither equal nor below of the created, His creation.

Therefore, no one can even boast of his salvation by his own free will for there is no such unless it is given by the Father at a given time in his life in His eternal plan. Such free will is the perfected kind, not the perfect kind. If not, such is salvation and faith by work of man, and not by grace of God.

When elected, one is forever, for Christ will not lose him.

The "free wills" we all have without God's intervention in the courses of our lives are of the suicidal kinds.

I believe the failure of Arminianism to grasp the meaning of free wills between God and men is that of the failure of the statement "Can God create something so heavy that He Himself couldn't lift up?".

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Usually, the bold ones cannot preach right; and the smart ones are not bold enough to preach.

Nonetheless, the unison of both, ah but the art of a servant of God.

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One main reason people do not dare to rebuke (Titus 2:15), because they are unclean themselves, or that they believe they could never always resist temptation to sin even after salvation. They want "absolute freedom", thinking that absolute freedom exists in mankind even before salvation, not realizing such actually leads only to death.[@more@]

The more I stress on the validity of predestination, the more the need I feel to evangelize. Otherwise, I would be a hypocrite.[@more@]

For example:

One day you died and found out that Osama Bin Laden is in heaven and you're not.

So, to grasp the grace of God, one needs to understand the meaning "grace".

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Today, I have fixed ShuZhan's cell phone after our weekly prayer meeting. It was done quickly because it's easy.

The cellphone was dropped and all it was displaying a blank screen that was lighted on. So turning it off is not working either. Obviously the only option was to take out the battery and reload. Voila!

But what's interesting is that this little scenario can be based on the plan of God. Men sinned, thus although they are alive, their perfection is corrupted, gone, their spirits are dead. Unless God resurrect them, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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