Friday, July 29, 2011

Bible Truth #133 - Hebrews 11:6

Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

When you read this verse in light of two others about which I have already written (referenced below*), I once again ask how can anyone believe that a lost man can choose to believe?? A lost man can’t please God because he has no faith. And if a man has no faith, he can’t choose to believe in Jesus Christ. Who has faith? Only those to whom the Lord gives it, it’s a gift according to Ephesians 2:8. The gift from God TO man comes BEFORE any action of the man. The Arminian may try to say that God gives everyone the gift of faith. And some will even tell me that God gives it to those who ask for it, or those who are seeking Him - wellllll, they will have to quote me the Scripture. If they try to spin a verse or two to make it seem like lost have faith it will be in direct contradiction to 2 Thessalonians 3:2 where Paul tells us many have no faith.

BUT! I realize some may grasp at straws and say that God rewards those who earnestly seek Him. The problem is that throughout the Bible God makes it clear that the lost will not seek Him (Psalm 14:1-3; 53:1-3 and Romans 3:11), especially the wicked (Psalm 10:4). No Man Seeks God!

Now if the Arminian says that can’t be true because “I sought God,” then he simply doesn’t understand what he was experiencing when God was drawing him. I’m sorry, but when God says no man seeks Him, that includes everyone, including Arminians. I DO believe that the Arminian may have sought the benefits of God, but he didn’t seek God. I’m sure there are many lost people who want to be “blessed” by God. The problem is, most blessings a lost man gets are from his father the devil.

When God says no man seeks Him, he is referring to man in his natural sinful state. No man seeks God. The regenerated, converted man with the quickened spirit WILL seek God because his spirit compels him to do so. But a lost man has a dead spirit which compels him to do nothing which means the flesh is in control - and they that are in the flesh can NOT please God.

But as far as the certainty of “No man seeks God” - here’s another example: if God said 2 + 2 = 5, then I believe that God is right and all the world’s mathematicians are wrong.

Bottom Line - I say to the Arminian, if God said it, please accept it and believe it. NO MAN SEEKS GOD. It takes FAITH - believe it, even if you don’t understand it.

*Bible Truth #132, Romans 14:23 - But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
*Bible Truth #7, Romans 8:8 - Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

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