According to free willer think and free willer feel, it is rude and arrogant to simply and plainly be spoken through by God His Truth. To hear God in His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is to know the whole of the lie of free will is indeed a lie. Yet God Himself mocks them.
To those who claim freedom of the will, God points out as spirit and life that they are the wicked and He will have them in derision:
Psalm 2:1-4 Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed: Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us! He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.
The lie of free will is plainly that they have already burst the bonds of God and have twisted their boast into supposed ‘gift’ of God none can escape. Yet again God Says of them and their speech:
Psalm 12:2-8 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak. Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things, Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who is lord over us? Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff. The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever. The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.
But such is the ignorance and wickedness of those who are spoken through by anti-Christ/non-creating speech as to claim that they get to make up truth and “what it means” and so sure are they in that deception that they see as justice the silencing of God. In a time of plenty and peace they are bold to speak lies; when they are full and prosperous as a blessing God has sent they are arrogant to say they have wrought such prosperity by their own hands and “choosings”.
Yet they are no more than the ostrich God has deprived of wisdom. They teach their children that new birth by the Word of God is a figment of what anti-Christ in them calls imagination and that it would be a “magic trick” and then teach their children, having supposedly successfully refuted God, that they must choose Jesus every day else lose their salvation. Then they leave their children to be sacked and raped by every lying spirit in total reality and blame the victim. They plainly leave their eggs in the dust and then blame the eggs and the young for getting stepped on. When violence rises up against them, they indeed, all the while claiming ‘free will’, scorn the horse and rider in flight. Their cowardice to live the real Christian life is revealed in truth even as they ‘do’ the false public piety all the day as anti-Christ does it through them in the stead of feeding any of what is truly the household of faith in Jesus Christ real food.
Job 39:13-18 The wing of the ostrich beats joyously–But is it the stork’s pinion and plumage? For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern. For God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding. What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
For a free willer “evangelist”, there is never a time to shake the dust of one’s feet off against those who have not received the gospel, even as we have a direct command to do.
Luke 10:10-12 But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh. I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.
For a free willer, that would be breaking the etiquette of the salesman. Who, on witnessing such a thing, would then choose that same truth that just invalidated its own emotional common sense of the ‘free willed choice’? No, a free willer must always be polite and then nonsensical in other ways in order deceive ‘the Spirit’ is in them. Then, in strange ways they must be angry on que as an emotional manipulation ..for the sale.
The Romanists among them in particular have many works by which that choosing is supposedly to take place: the Wafer / ‘Host’ ( supposedly Jesus is in the bread and they need a periodic dose of Him to empower their continuous re-choosing of Him and Mary..) , the genuflections, the jewelry, the icons, the idols, etc. The Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists among them, along with a host of others are more ceremony and visible-idol poor but make up for it in innumerable ways.
They are the enemies of the gospel, haters of Jesus Christ who have in arrogance made a false gospel a non-regenerate/ non-new creature in Jesus Christ can ‘have’ and thus supposedly ‘do’. God says the natural man CANNOT even understand the things of God. How then can the natural man ‘choose them’ even if free will was not a lie?
1 Corinthians 2:7-16 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;) but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man’s heart, which God has prepared for them that love him, but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God. But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God: which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means . But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.
The Arminians say they do not ‘discern’ Calvinists to be speaking truth and then act as if their own power of discernment as non-regenerate ‘choosers’ was God. They have at best a lie that is best called Decisional Regeneration that supposedly takes place if you grant God permission to be Creating Speech to you for the occasion. Supposedly, you control when God is Creating Speech and when He is not –as if God were not Himself all the time.
Even though God has plainly Said He IS Himself as Word and never changes:
That He IS His Word and is not at all merely using human language in a special way–He is a different Speech than non-creating speech:
John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
That God never changes:
Malachi 3:6 For I Jehovah change not, and ye, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
Neh 9:6-8 Thou art the Same, thou alone, Jehovah, who hast made the heaven of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the seas and all that is therein. And thou quickenest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, –to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.
God indeed mocks liars and thieves and false prophets, no matter the silly women who follow them.
2 Timothy 3:2-9 for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good, traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away. For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith. But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.
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Isaiah 44:1-22 And now HEAR, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen: thus SAITH Jehovah, that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who helpeth thee, Fear not, Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses. One shall say, I am Jehovah’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand: I am Jehovah’s, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God. And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? And the coming things, and those that shall happen, let them declare unto them. Fear not, neither be afraid. Have I not caused thee to hear from that time, and have declared it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a +God beside me? yea, there is no Rock: I know not any. They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; –that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a *god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up: they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together. The iron-smith hath a chisel, and he worketh in the coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm; –but he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he hath not drunk water, and he is faint. The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house. When he heweth him down cedars, he taketh also a holm-oak and a terebinth–he chooseth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh it grow. And it shall be for a man to burn, and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; he kindleth it also, and baketh bread; he maketh also a *god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he is warm, and saith, Aha, I am become warm, I have seen the fire. And with the remainder thereof he maketh a *god, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my *god. They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts, that they may not understand. And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it , and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood? He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant; I have formed thee: thou art my servant, Israel; thou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen