BTW- I do not subscribe to this...
I - Irresistible Grace
The fourth Biblical truth in the five points of Calvinism teaches
that God's grace to save a person cannot be resisted. Grace is God's
free and unmerited power to save a person from his sins which would otherwise lead us to hell. Grace brings him to heaven who naturally would end in eternal hell.
That grace is irresistible. That means that if God gives grace to you, there is nothing in the world that you can do to resist it and thwart God's intention to take you to heaven. The certainty of salvation for God's elect is seen in
John 6:37 where Jesus says: "All that the Father hath given me shall come to me..." There is no doubt that they will be saved. Verse 44 says that those who come to God come
because God draws them. Not our will, but God's will is first and powerful.
Now, some ridicule this truth of the Bible and say that it makes man go to heaven against his will. "He kicks and screams all the way to heaven." But that is not how the Bible presents God's grace. God makes His people "
willing in the day of His power"
Psalm 110:3. For a wonderful illustration of that truth, just consider the converted Apostle Paul. "By the
grace of God' he was what he was (
I Corinthians 15:10). And immediately after his conversion he said
willingly, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
Acts 9:6. That surely was not against his will.
God's grace is sweet and irresistible. He makes us love it and want nothing else. He is as irresistible to us as a husband to his newly-wed bride. Come with us and hear God's wonderful grace proclaimed in Christ any Lord's Day.