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Struggles by Non-Christians
I think I'm unregnerate, reprobate, vessel of wrath, despairing, tried all I can think of
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<blockquote data-quote="ajcarey" data-source="post: 74248917" data-attributes="member: 420009"><p>I've actually been seeing many, many people on here feeling like you are. I think you've been talking to too many people and have got some very confused notions of salvation which are tormenting you unnecessarily. Know that God did not choose individuals to salvation or damnation before Creation nor choose individuals to salvation unconditionally. God has chosen all who believe on His Chosen One, the Lord Jesus Christ. And everyone who believes on Jesus Christ was previously a sinful, self-centered child of Adam who had a wicked heart and had nothing in them that God considered righteous. But it is not true that no one ever seeks after God. We are wicked until we seek God wholeheartedly and meet His terms of reconciliation acceptably before Him. We can seek God despite our wickedness because God has provided a means to reconcile us to Him through Christ's atonement and He is drawing us to Himself by His Spirit. We can cooperate with His drawing, which is not a feeling, but is more than anything else understanding of His Word and the testimony of God's Law written on our hearts and confirmed by the testimony of nature. By what you know and the pressure you are feeling to get right with Him, you are indeed being drawn. You need to cooperate with the Truth that you know, which is possible in your current wicked state, just as it was possible for Adam and Eve to heed the devil in their innocent, pure state and fall from grace; so you can heed God's voice (His Gospel call) in your fallen, guilty state and enter into God's grace and be born again through Christ's atonement. Look:</p><p></p><p>"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13)</p><p></p><p>"But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:30-32)</p><p></p><p>"28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30)</p><p></p><p>But it is nevertheless a yoke and a burden- and there is great opposition from the world, the flesh, and the devil to taking His yoke and His burden. Yield to Him to take His yoke and His burden- and follow through with what you know He wants you to do and what you know about how He wants you to order your life. And trust Him from there to follow Him still despite your doubts, trust Him from there to have mercy on you though you feel wicked tendencies (that will yet take some time to subdue). You are not a hopeless case. The Lord wants to salvage you. I will send you a good sermon also to help clear up your confusion. You are in my prayers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ajcarey, post: 74248917, member: 420009"] I've actually been seeing many, many people on here feeling like you are. I think you've been talking to too many people and have got some very confused notions of salvation which are tormenting you unnecessarily. Know that God did not choose individuals to salvation or damnation before Creation nor choose individuals to salvation unconditionally. God has chosen all who believe on His Chosen One, the Lord Jesus Christ. And everyone who believes on Jesus Christ was previously a sinful, self-centered child of Adam who had a wicked heart and had nothing in them that God considered righteous. But it is not true that no one ever seeks after God. We are wicked until we seek God wholeheartedly and meet His terms of reconciliation acceptably before Him. We can seek God despite our wickedness because God has provided a means to reconcile us to Him through Christ's atonement and He is drawing us to Himself by His Spirit. We can cooperate with His drawing, which is not a feeling, but is more than anything else understanding of His Word and the testimony of God's Law written on our hearts and confirmed by the testimony of nature. By what you know and the pressure you are feeling to get right with Him, you are indeed being drawn. You need to cooperate with the Truth that you know, which is possible in your current wicked state, just as it was possible for Adam and Eve to heed the devil in their innocent, pure state and fall from grace; so you can heed God's voice (His Gospel call) in your fallen, guilty state and enter into God's grace and be born again through Christ's atonement. Look: "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13) "But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:30-32) "28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30) But it is nevertheless a yoke and a burden- and there is great opposition from the world, the flesh, and the devil to taking His yoke and His burden. Yield to Him to take His yoke and His burden- and follow through with what you know He wants you to do and what you know about how He wants you to order your life. And trust Him from there to follow Him still despite your doubts, trust Him from there to have mercy on you though you feel wicked tendencies (that will yet take some time to subdue). You are not a hopeless case. The Lord wants to salvage you. I will send you a good sermon also to help clear up your confusion. You are in my prayers. [/QUOTE]
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