Yes ... it is quite possible for Jesus to refuse ... He can do, or not do, anything as it pleasaes Him. But His promise is such that He would accept anyone who sincerely comes to Him for salvation. |
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---alan8869_of_UK on 5/2/08 |
Heb.12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled,
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears
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---steven-rem7000 on 8/15/07 |
The verse says, "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out." What did Jesus say? He will cast out "no one" whom the Father gives Him. Not a one. No special interpretation is needed for that verse. Very simple passage. Hermeneutics is not needed. Only faith. |
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---mark on 8/1/07 |
Numbers 21:8
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Not everyone looked! The scriptures teach WHOSOEVER will....
John 3: 14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. |
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---kathr4453 on 7/29/07 |
Jesus will not refuse anyone who comes to him with a sinceir heart. If a person is just uttering words with their lips and their heart is far from God, God doesn't hear them, for they are not sinceir. |
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---Rebecca_D on 7/22/07 |
Bruce If a person continually refuses to accept His gift then as it says in John 3 "He that beleiveth not is condemened already becauase he hath not beleved in the name of the only begotten Son of God." So really He doesnt refuse to save us we refuse to accept it. In RM 8:29 it says, "For whom he did forknow, He also did predestinate to be CONFORMED to the image of his Son..." As far as I can tell that is the point of predestination. |
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---douglas on 1/26/06 |
Rickey,
I did not say he would, but could. Thank God "He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities." Psalms 103:10
The warning of Prov 1 still stands and as I said, I think it will find particular application during the tribulation when those who had every chance to accept him now refused. |
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---Bruce5656 on 1/26/06 |
Jesus won't refuse salvation to a person who has rejected salvation at a previous time. If He would then I would be on my way to hell. I had many chances to get save, but didn't until I was 18. |
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---Rickey on 1/26/06 |
Douglas,
I did not read that scripture before I answered the question. It raises the issue of predestination etc. In quoting Proverbs 1 I was making the point that it is in fact possible for Jesus to refuse salvation to someone who has rejected his offer previously. |
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---Bruce5656 on 1/26/06 |
John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out |
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---douglas on 1/25/06 |
v.24 "Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
v.25 "But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:..."
the person who continually refuses to hear God, was he saved or self deluded? When we come to Him in repentance His Spirit comes to dwell in us, maybe I'm wrong but I cant see a true christian refusing His counsel or reproofs |
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---douglas on 1/25/06 |
Read Prov 1
In part it reads:
Proverbs 1:26-30, "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof." |
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---Bruce5656 on 1/25/06 |
Jesus states in John 6:44 that no one can come to Him unless the Father draws them. It is God that does the choosing, not man. So if one is drawn, that one would not have slavation refused. Today's teaching that WE can decide to "accept Jesus into our hearts" is not valid. When one is "drawn" he/she receives the same rheyma truth as did Peter. Mt 16:16 This belief of Who Christ is, is the "rock" upon which His Church is built. Mt.16:18 (Peter is not that rock) |
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---Jo on 1/25/06 |
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