Mat 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Does it get any plainer than this?
Here, Jesus contrasted what had long been his will with the will of the people who had rejected, and still were rejecting, his will for their lives. In other words, Jesus had long been seeking to gather the Jews unto himself, and they had long refused to be truly gathered unto him. Prior to his incarnation, he repeatedly strove with them via his prophets who had the Spirit of Christ in them (1 Peter 1:11), and he was here still striving with them, but now in person. To deny this truth is to deny many hundreds of years of biblical history, yet many people on this thread are perfectly willing to do the same.
Stephen, before he was stoned to death, gave the same account of many hundreds of years of Jewish history.
Act 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Act 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Act 7:53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
As their forefathers before them had done, the Jews of Jesus' and Stephen's day were always resisting the Holy Ghost.
What do the Calvinists draw from this?
GOD'S GRACE IS IRRESISTIBLE!
Methinks that they need a lot of help.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Does it get any plainer than this?
Here, Jesus contrasted what had long been his will with the will of the people who had rejected, and still were rejecting, his will for their lives. In other words, Jesus had long been seeking to gather the Jews unto himself, and they had long refused to be truly gathered unto him. Prior to his incarnation, he repeatedly strove with them via his prophets who had the Spirit of Christ in them (1 Peter 1:11), and he was here still striving with them, but now in person. To deny this truth is to deny many hundreds of years of biblical history, yet many people on this thread are perfectly willing to do the same.
Stephen, before he was stoned to death, gave the same account of many hundreds of years of Jewish history.
Act 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Act 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Act 7:53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
As their forefathers before them had done, the Jews of Jesus' and Stephen's day were always resisting the Holy Ghost.
What do the Calvinists draw from this?
GOD'S GRACE IS IRRESISTIBLE! Methinks that they need a lot of help.
God's favorite nation Israel was elect, chosen, selected from all the nations.
They are the example set for or all of us and we learn that God's grace can be resisted.
The conclusion is even when you become one of the elect, do not resist the Holy Spirit.
Calvin clearly blundered on that tulip point, that is, 'Irresistible grace'.
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