FREE WILL versus PREDESTINATION part 3

                                Here read John 6:44 John 16:7-9(KJV)

No person can become a Christian at any moment they want. A person can only become a Christian at a particular holy moment when the Father, who is also the Holy Spirit, draws that person to Christ. This holy moment is often called "the conviction of the Holy Spirit." This miraculous moment affords a lost sinner the opportunity to decide his or her fate for all eternity. To choose, by faith, to accept Christ as Savior is to receive everlasting life as a gift from God. To choose to reject Christ is to put oneself in danger of being lost from God's presence forever. One rejection of Christ does not necessarily doom a sinner forever. A merciful God may give any lost sinner other opportunities at later times to accept Him. However, should a lost sinner, at any one of these moments of conviction, make an absolute and final decision to reject Christ, then God never allows that person to feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit again and that person is lost forever. Always, God and that person knows when this happens.

                                           Here read Romans 10:17

This miraculous moment of conviction by the Holy Spirit happens only when a lost sinner hears, or reads, or remembers the gospel in the Word of God. At this holy moment, the Holy Spirit causes that sinner to realize that he or she will be lost forever if he or she does not call on Jesus to save them. This supernatural moment activates the most important decision that that sinner will ever make in his or her entire life.

                                        Here read I Corinthians 15:1-4 John 19:30

Therefore, the overriding question must be: What is this gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ? This gospel is simply the good news about the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus died on the cross in the place of every sinner who ever lived, taking their deserved punishment on Himself, and providing His shed blood and broken body to cleanse them of all their sins which will damn them forever. Jesus was buried to remove their sins forever. Then, (hallelujah!) Jesus rose from the dead on the third day to justify believers and to give them His own everlasting life. Those who choose to believe do not have to worry about doing anything at all to acquire salvation. All they have to do is believe because Jesus has already done everything they need for their salvation.

                              Here read Hebrews 13:5 John 6:37

One thing is certain for those who choose to believe in the salvation which God has provided. They are absolutely saved forever and can never be lost. At the moment a believer accepts Christ as Savior, he or she has already been saved for and from all eternity. Not only that, the sincere believer can be absolutely certain that his or her free choice to accept Christ can never be invalidated by predestination because God has guaranteed that He will accept him or her forever. God's guarantee causes both free will and predestination to be real at the same time.