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Pastimes : Prophecy -- HYPE or HOPE? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gregor who wrote (2571)	2/10/2004 8:34:26 AM
From: alan w	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5569

By that analysis, you must believe that some men are just good enough to accept Christ on their own. Impossible. Pharoah is no better or worse than any other man ever born. (except for Christ) Believers only believe because Christ gives some men faith. Ephesians 2:8&9 For by grace are ye saved through faith and that (the faith) not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. You can't simply decide to believe. Faith is given by Christ. Matthew 11:25 At that season, answering, Jesus said, I am acclaiming thee Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for thou hidest these things from the wise and intelligent and thou dost reveal them to minors. God hides and reveals. Not based on anything we do. Just according to His sovereign choice. You are exactly like Pharoah. Except for God granting you faith to believe by grace. It's not because God looked into your heart and said "he's really good, so I'll let him believe". You are no better than Pharoah without the faith given you by Christ. Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind (that's you and me without the grace given to us for no reason) is enmity against God. Romans 3:10&11 As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. God chooses believers for the ages. Matthew 13:11 Wherefore art thou speaking in parables to them? Now answering, He said to them that "to you has it been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, yet to those it has not been given. He only spoke to the masses in parables.(Matt 13:34) He only explained things to the disciples. Why? Because it wasn't given to the others to know the secrets. Yet. To some(most) it was impossible for them to believe, because faith must be granted. And not because some people are good and God looked ahead and saw it. Your analysis of Pharoah and the hardening is not biblical. It's simply your man made explanation. You are trying to relieve God of Pharoah's hard heart. God declared that He would harden his heart and He did just that. Quit trying to help God out. He doesn't need you to protect Him. He takes full responsibility. We are all Pharoah. God simply gives some the faith to believe. alan w