If you get one, or both of these issues wrong…then you will be sent inward for your assurance.
If you have a proper understanding of both, then you can forget about looking inward and instead look outside of yourself…to God…and HAVE REAL ASSURANCE.
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click Two HUGE ISSUES in a proper understanding of the Christian faith
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Too many in the church have never heard these things…and need to hear them.
Too much is at stake.
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Thanks, once again to Pastor Mark.
And thank you to flickr and ~.Erica.C.~, for the photo.
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The Old Adam Lives! 
This was my story. But late in life so many things did not add up. I was never around people who talked about our wills being bound. Decisional Christianity was IT. Years ago I was reading Oswald Chambers daily devotional and I will never forget this. It took me years to disbelieve it…He said and I quote “God does not give us overcoming life, He gives us life as we overcome”. That is the gist of a graceless Gospel. IMHO.
One other argument I have heard so often in support of the free will position. There cannot be love where there is no freedom to choose. I say horsefeathers. I love Him because He has loved me, a very great sinner.
I love listening to Pastor Mark. Undiluted Gospel.
Mary,
“Horsefeathers”. Now that is as great a description of the doctrine of “free-will” as I have ever heard! 😀
Our ‘wills’ do choose…but they always choose to sin.
I highly recommend Luther’s ‘The Bondage of the Will” for an in depth examination of our ‘wills’ and what they are up to.
Thanks so much, Mary.
– Steve