08/29/17 TRUSTING GOD IS OBEYING GOD

08/29/17 TRUSTING GOD IS OBEYING GOD

EVEN IF God had arbitrarily decided to save some people and to leave others in their sins without the hope of salvation (the erroneous belief in the false doctrine of unilateral, double election or double predestination), then that would have to do with His choice and we cannot do anything about that. However, we can, and must do something about the things He requires from us.

The truth is we cannot determine the sovereign will of God, but we can either receive it or reject it. The will of God is for sinners to believe, repent, follow Jesus. To presume on the false doctrines of unconditional election and irresistible grace is to neglect salvation, and those who neglect salvation are lost.
Hebrews 2:1-4
(1) Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
(2) For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
(3) How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
(4) God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

After we believe and receive Christ we are expected to follow Christ in faith, to live by faith, to walk in faith.
Galatians 3:26
(26) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

When we follow we have a part in our salvation. God did unilaterally choose to provide salvation through Christ, but He also chose to require people to have faith in Christ in order to be saved.
Philippians 2:12-15
(12) Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
(13) For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
(14) Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
(15) That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;