Saturday, March 13, 2010

The Holy Spirit Given to All?

Will Father condemn one from whom He has withheld the Truth?

"For God shut up all into disobedience ..." [Rom 11:32a]
"Because of this they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, "He has blinded their eyes" and "has hardened their heart," "that they might not see with the eyes" and "understand with the heart," "and be converted," "and I should heal them."Isa. 6:10" [Joh 12:39-40]
"So, then, to whom He desires, He shows mercy. And to whom He desires, He hardens." [Rom 9:18]
"... in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the brightness of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God, should not dawn on them." [2Co 4:4]
"... that He may show mercy to all." [Rom 11:32b]

Can any believe without the Holy Spirit? [1Cor 12:3]

"But God revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of a man within him? So also no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. Which things we also speak, not in words taught in human wisdom, but in Words taught of the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But the spiritual one discerns all things, but he is discerned by no one. For "who has known the mind of the Lord?" "Who will teach Him?" But we have the mind of Christ." Isa. 40:13[1Co 2:10-16]

Shall not all confess Christ? [Php 2:10, Rom 12:11]
Can any confess without the Holy Spirit? [1Cor 12:3]

One is not granted the Holy Spirit because one believes. One believes because Father has granted the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 comment:

  1. That is absolutely "spot on". The believer today in the administration of grace, believes because God has imparted a measure of faith to each who believes.(Romans 12:3)
    God chooses us, we are His achievement. Our very belief is by the grace of God.

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