God knew His chosen ones in their mother’s womb, we are Born Of The Spirit , I had never heard of John Calvin as a new babe that I once was, yet I was accused of being one....for some it’s a form of manipulation, accusing another of being demon possessed...A Born Again can not be demon possessed because they have been Born Again of imperishable/ incorruptible seed....which is the Living seed of God...there old mindset will be renewed, they are also kept by the power of God......the Spirit Of The Living God is at work in everyone of his children.....they bring all Power and Glory to God by the witness in their spirit.....he opens up our heart and mind to understand scripture in the Spirit...not in the human intellect...
On this forum there are freewillers...then there are those who don’t believe in freewill..
One cannot conform to what one believes to be false teaching.....therefore we post what we believe the written word of God to be saying, which we should all be able to do without being attacked and accused of being demon possessed..my belief is, only Gods truth will prevail....
I don’t understand freewill because of the way I was Born Of The Spirit...I was Born Again by the “ Living “ word of God, the written word does not make one Born Again only Gods Living Spirit can do that.......reading scripture and believing it in our human understanding is not being Born Of The Spirit...only Gods Living Spirit can birth our spirit, “ Spirit gives birth to spirit....it can happen anywhere.....the spiritual rebirth is a one off supernatural event that you will NEVER forget as long as you live.....just as Gods written word says, we cannot believe in Jesus without the rebirth, we can initially believe, but, we cannot believe without the witness of the Holy Spirit when He and He alone does the will of the Father....it’s the will of the Father that we become Born Of God just as His word says...there is no freewill in becoming Born Of God/ Born Again/ regenerated..
We need the Living Spirit Of God to make our spirit Born Again...just as His word says, it’s the Spirit that gives birth to our spirit,” Spirit gives birth to spirit “....then we can believe in the Spirit Of God, because we have His witness the Holy Spirit in our hearts/ spirit...
You cannot believe in the Spirit Of God without the Holy Spirit as your witness in your spirit , the Spirit is the imperishable/ incorruptible seed that indwells our spirit, NEVER ever to leave just as His word says....
That all happens by the “ Living “ word of God, then we have the written word that backs up Gods Living word...my testimony and belief 100%.
Romans 9
King James Version
9 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
