WOW, your answer is incredibly on the Naive side, in fact it is really on a very Naive side.
You really think YOU CAN after you are BORN AGAIN, do something that is totally against HIS WILL ? ? ?
Do you think you are more powerful than GOD, or JUST DON'T KNOW GOD ? ? ?
With GOD IN YOU, (that is the PART YOU TOTALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND), So YOU THINK WE CAN UPSET GOD's PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE ? ? ?
After you are truly BORN AGAIN, your human spirit, HAS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU, who will NEVER LEAVE,
John 14:16, and the MIND OF CHRIST,
1 Cor. 2:16. They are literally IN YOU, IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN. So you think YOU CAN OVER RULE THEM ? ? ? Are there disciples that
Do Not have the Holy Spirit and the Mind of Christ
IN THEM. Yes, and that is called Not BORN AGAIN. Not BORN AGAIN disciples are on the broad road heading towards the Destruction of Hades/Hell.
I normally do not quote the New Century Version, but you need it, to make sure you can understand it:
Isaiah 43:10-13 (NCV)
10 The LORD says, “You are my witnesses and the servant I chose. I chose you so you would know and believe me, so you would understand that I am the true God. There was no God before me, and there will be no God after me.
11 I myself am the LORD; I am the only Savior.
12 I myself have spoken to you, saved you, and told you these things. It was not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses, and I am God,“ says the LORD.
13 “I have always been God.
No one can save people from my power; when I do something, no one can change it.“
That is absolutely TRUE about BOTH HIS JUSTICE, and
HIS GRACE AND MERCY. You yourself CANNOT CHANGE once you are REALLY SAVED, BECAUSE YOU ARE CONTROLLED BY THE POWER OF GOD,
1 Peter 1:3-5. IT BECOMES OUR WILL to do what Pleases HIM. NO, we are not PERFECT, but the CONTINUOUS Direction of our LIFE will be to strive to do what Pleases HIM, and when we fail, we will automatically go to
1 John 1:9 and CONFESS IT, and get right back up GOING TOWARDS the Direction that PLEASES HIM.
We I was SAVED after my third attempt at SUICIDE, the last week of 1977; the OVERWHELMING WAVE, AFTER WAVE, AFTER WAVE of GUILT WASHED OVER ME as I Mourned. I CRIED LIKE A BABY, BEGGING HIM to FORGIVE ME FOR MY WHOLE LIFE STYLE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I fell from my kneeling position to a prostrate Position face down. Then something unusual happened to me. I usually do not tell this part of my Testimony to someone that is just an acquaintance or adversary. So do not make me regret this.
After Several minutes of laying face down on my bedroom floor, I had a Vision or Dream, I can't tell which it was. But in that Vision or Dream, I was at the FOOT OF HIS CROSS on my knees, Crying and Reaching up to HIM, and still begging HIM TO FORGIVE ME, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I know every one of my SINS was like a one pound weight pulling down on those
nails. Then I looked at the NAILS, and to my surprise, they were THROUGH HIS WRISTS, not HIS HANDS. I had never heard anything like that from the CHURCH that I attended thought the nails were only in his hands. {Years later I saw a Christian Medical Doctor, who explained that they had to be in HIS wrists because in the Hands they would have torn through the Flesh in HIS hands, and he added "That makes no difference, because Jews in that day, considered the WRISTS to be Part of the Hands."}
As I was Crying and Reaching up to Him, from my kneeling position, THE HOLY SPIRIT must have given me A PRAYER, that I had NEVER HEARD BEFORE, I PRAYED WITH MY WHOLE HEART,
"Lord FORGIVE ME, Lord FORGIVE ME. I you have a purpose for my life, YOU are going to have to come in me and run my LIFE, because I CAN NOT DO IT. I am making a Mess Out of it." I looked up at the NAILS in HIS Wrists, and saw the blood come dripping out and fell on my forearms, and that BLOOD WAS WARM! I KNEW I WAS FORGIVEN at that moment, AND I knew that prayer I prayed was a COMPLETE SURRENDER TO HIM, HE HAD ALL OF ME.
That is where the Vision or DREAM ended, But if it was a DREAM, it was the MOST VIVID DREAM THAT I HAVE EVER HAD IN MY WHOLE LIFE. AND DID HE TAKE CONTROL OF MY LIFE? WOW, did HE EVER. Part of this mornings SERMON, my Pastor taught, and made this COMMENT, that literally is the story of my life. Pastor Gil said, "Everything HE commands me to do, HE will EMPOWER me to do it."
How does that relate to me? Without going into detail, HE eventually put on my heart to MOVE WEST of Nebraska, and I did not know why. We settled in California about small town 90 miles northwest of Reno, NV. It was there where I volunteered to visit one Inmate at a time, to help disciple him. HE put in on my heart to MOVE WEST AGAIN, but this time HE TOLD ME WHY. HE wanted me to start a Prison Ministry, in a new Prison just being built on the Coast.
I had NO BIBLE COLLEGE, I had no idea how to Start a Prison Ministry, or How to get in touch with someone at the Prison to Volunteer, but I KNEW JESUS WOULD HELP ME TO DO HIS WILL. So we moved to the COAST to Where I started a Prison Ministry. Makes no sense you say, My Boss was JESUS CHRIST AND HE LED ME EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. ALL IT DID WAS TRUST HIM TO DO IT THROUGH ME.
I had Never been the PULPIT, and the First time a Pastor forgot it was his Sunday to teach the Sermon in Minimum Yard, (I had to escort the Pastor in) and by 5 minutes after time to Start the Service, I REALIZED the Pastor FORGOT, and I HAD TO PREACH, and yes, my knees turned to JELLO, but I KNEW HE KNEW HOW TO PREACH. So I Trusted HIM, when in the Chapel Office got down on my knees and PRAYED,
"Lord God, You will have to give me what you wanted to be Said in this message, all I have is a few of the Salvation Verses, written in the back of me Bible, if you would like that to be the Sermon, I will Trust You to GIVE ME THE WORDS. In Jesus Name, AMEN." IT WORKED, AMAZINGLY as I TRUSTED HIM. So well, I wanted to take notes as HE preached through me.
After that the Head Chaplain asked me to take over the Wednesday night SERVICE and Sunday After Noon Service. I was working at the Post Office, and for ministry, I a Volunteer Chaplain, and did the Sunday afternoon Service in Minimum Yard, Wednesday Evening Service, and on Thursday night went into the Security Housing Unit {the Hole}. My Grandfather taught me IF IT WORKS DON'T FIX IT. So I trusted the Lord to Give what He wanted said in the Sermons every week, and trust the Lord to bring something into my life, to tell me what HE WANTED ME TO TEACH NEXT. I only gathered the appropriate verses, and HE WAS FAITHFUL, while I was just the busboy serving the FOOD, and as far as I am concerned HE DID IT ALL THROUGH ME, and all I did was want to be USED. That's right, I never wrote out a SERMON, I only gathered a few verses on a particular subject, and then TRUSTED HIM TOTALLY TO GIVE ME WHAT TO SAY.
You doubt, you devise hypothetical situations based on man's weaknesses without GOD, you say a man will can over ride GOD'S will, etc.;
BUT I HAVE BEEN THERE, AND I SAY THAT GOD IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO DO IT THROUGH ME, AND TO KEEP MY SALVATION SECURE.
Read this again:
Isaiah 43:10-13
Isaiah 46:11-12 (NIV)
11 From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.
12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, you who are far from righteousness.
Matthew 7:13-14 (NIV) [Both Roads only have disciples on it, unbelievers are not even pictured in this Parable.]
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"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the
road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
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But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life [Born Again], and only a few find it.
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