Elect election chosen blinded

Free-willed vessels of Honor Part 3

In this final segment of this mini-series, we cover who are ‘the chosen’, the foretold, those whose minds are blinded and the process by which that blinding takes place.

References include Jesus, Paul, Isaiah. Elihu and Jude. Though the language can sometimes be confusion, as I’ve said since the first installment of this series – “these statements do not appear in a vacuum”. The scriptures have to be taken as a whole on the subject before a well studied conclusion can be made and I am convinced it comes done on the side of free will!

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Elect election predestination

Free-willed vessels of Honor Part 2

This is part two in a three part mini-series regarding who the “elect” are and what is the “election” process. This includes other words in scripture such as foreknowledge, preordained, predestined, called and chosen as well as others I am sure.

The purpose of this mini-series is to clarify what the scriptures say about predestination and the free will of the individual regarding grace, salvation and eternal life.

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Free-willed vessels of Honor

Is the heavenly election rigged?

As we were going through 2 Timothy chapter 2 in our main series, we came upon the words of Paul in verses 8-10 which speak of “the elect” obtaining salvation.

As a pastor it is part of my job to teach sound doctrine and there are two diametrically opposed yet prominent views about election in Christian circles.

So I thought it prudent to stop and address this issue of the election of the elect before we moved on in our parent series.

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Steak ain’t for babies

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:17:33 — 133.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 12/11/22 Message – Steak ain’t for babies Share this:   Steak ain’t for babies Last week it was initially my intention to just introduce the simple truth that those who are Spiritual have “ear to hear” what the Spirit says, and that those who are carnal (babies) do not. Well, we DID do that, but we went a few places in more depth than I was expecting to go and as a result I left a few loose ends which need cleaning up. Difference between the Mind and brain If […]

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The Spirit, the Mind and the brain

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:15:48 — 130.3MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 12/04/22 Message – The Spirit, the Mind and the brain Share this:   The Spirit, the Mind and the brain Today the focus of our study is to better understand the difference between those who CAN hear the Spirit as opposed to those who CANNOT hear the Spirit. For weeks now we have been pressing more into our interactive relationship with the Holy Spirit. We have been examining what scripture tells us His role is in our lives as our helper, our Advocate, our Teacher, our Guide, and the One […]

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