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By God's grace, still presenting the same old message from the same old Book...

It is necessary that a man come to Christ if they are to be saved, and it is important to see the part the Holy Spirit has in our coming to Christ. No man is forced to Christ, in the sense of being dragged against their will, and no unregenerate man, the old man, has any desire whatsoever to come to Christ. Therefore, it is written, ye must be born again. The things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the old man, however much religion they might have, or however much learning they might have, they will not come to Christ and they in truth do not want to come to Christ for the things of God are enmity to them (Rom 8:7), they hate the things of God. John 6:44 tells us, No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The Father choose certain ones before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4) and those He gave to the Son (John 17:6, 9-10), the Son redeemed those particular ones the Father gave Him (John 10:11, 15), and the Holy Spirit quickens those the Son died for (John 1:13). The very fact that any have faith is the work of God, in that God implants faith in us according to His will (John 6:29, 45).

Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

John 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

Free will tenets show man of himself makes him differ from other men. That free will tenet is contrary to what the Bible says. The Bible says it is God that makes one man differ from another. 

1 Corinthians 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

E. H. Bancroft, Professor of Theology in the Baptist Bible Seminary, Johnson City, New York, gives a concise and adequate definition of the effectual call of God: 

"By the effectual invitation or call is meant that exercise of divine power upon the soul, immediate, spiritual and supernatural, which communicated a new spiritual life, and thus makes a new mode of spiritual activity possible. Repentance, faith, trust, hope, love, are purely and simply the sinner's own acts; but as such are possible to him only in virtue of the change wrought in the moral condition of his faculties by the recreative power of God." 

Man that is born again, regenerate, is said to be a new creature (2Cor 5:17), and has a new nature with a new will, therefore is made willing to come to Christ (Ps 110:3). God is the creator, not man, and God does whatsoever He will. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

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A message of comfort from the Scriptures,
that we through patience and comfort
of the scriptures might have hope.

Come and hear, all ye that fear God,
and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms 66:16

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