The Arminian detractors of grace, SOVEREIGN GRACE, use the robot accusation against the true God. They say if God is absolutely sovereign and in control them people are robots, especially in the matter of salvation. Well, God uses the CLAY example. He is not embarrassed about His character attributes at all. He glories in them and so do His people. Listen to His word and worship Him. He is the ONLY God there is - Rom 9:11 (for the children had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,) Rom 9:12 it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger. Rom 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Rom 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be! Rom 9:15 For He said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. Rom 9:16 So then it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God, the One showing mercy. Rom 9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth. Rom 9:18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will, He hardens. Rom 9:19 You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will? Rom 9:20 No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me this way? Rom 9:21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor? Rom 9:22 What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; Rom 9:23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:21:34 +0000
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