Judging everyone by ourselves is foolish. {edit}Last time I checked, no one ever always chooses to obey.
Rom 3:3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
People who believe in continued disobedience to God, are speaking by their own lust, not by the righteous faith of Jesus Christ toward God and His righteousness.
no one ever always chooses to obey.
That's because not everyone is an obedient son of God choosing to walk as Jesus walked, rather than as the children of disobedience.
Not everyone naming Christ is a lukewarm believer, that is doing both good and evil deeds according to their own will.
{edit}Only grace keeps us from being extinct. But as sinners, we are God's enemy and he is ours, so we cannot come near to him even if we wanted to, which we don't.
{edit}and we are as him.
One's own lust for the world pushes the sinner one way or another. God's will does not push anyone anywhere, except casting the wicked into perdition.Our will is acted upon and pushes us one way or another.
No if. Unbelievers doubt God's words as written. Jesus Christ has lightened every man coming into the world beginning with Adam, and still does today, and will continue to do so tomorrow.If Christ lightens every man coming into the world with the desire to choose the good,
Hebrews{13:8} Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
And He does not lighten men to do any evil.
The god of this world is not a creator nor maker of men and women from the womb. The devil does not make his own children by creation and birth into the world.
{edit}Now our will is in bondage to sin.
2 Cor 6:2(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Psa 95:8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
If any man will repent of their own sinful works of the flesh for Jesus' sake, then the Lord will have mercy and circumcise their old heart from the foreskin of lust, and be made a whole new creature of pure heart and blamelessness created in Christ Jesus.
Rom 3:24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Col 2:6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Gen 2:16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Being created in God's image and lightened by Christ coming into the world, with freedom, liberty, and power to choose to serve the Lord, which is done away by lust and sin, is now restored to any man that repents, to be made a holy new creature by birth in Christ Jesus.
He can't be Lord and not Lord at the same time.
He is Lord of heaven and earth all the time. At no time is He Lord of the lusting sinners.
It's the god and spirit of this world now working in the children of disobedience, not the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He is Lord over all people on earth, but by hardened unrepentance, He is not the Lord of all people on earth.
And now you speak the truth. Lusting sinners have free will to do evil, but not to serve the Lord. So long as lust for sin remains untaken away by Jesus Christ from a corrupt heart, then that man cannot freely choose to serve the Lord God.The opposite of free.
Obeying, serving, and doing the will of God can only be with a pure heart. Once any man sins, his own lust blinds and kills the soul to God, so that he cannot please God by any deeds done with a corrupt heart of lust.
It is the very fact that he is Lord that makes him the judge of those who reject him.
Which is by works against Him.
Tit 1:16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
1 Peter{1:15} But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; {1:16} Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. {1:17} And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:
He is the righteous and true Lord and Judge of all the earth, that judges every man by his work, without respect of anyone personal faith, doctrine, or will.
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