The Narrow Path Ministries

Men choose to love their sin rather than God, and are guilty in their willful sin of choosing (death). Yet, God takes pleasure in the repentant heart. Ezekiel 33:11 (ESV) Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the (death) of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his...

"I shall endeavour to show"

I find it hard to believe that a contemporary Christian wrote this. May be I am wrong.

Who are you?

Jude Reardon

Those whom the Father gives to Jesus will come to Jesus, and they come by process of coming. John 6:37

Jude

Those whom the Father has given to Jesus, will never be lost to Jesus. John 6:39-40 (ESV) [39] And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me , but raise it up on the last day. Everyone who believes will surely have eternal life and be raise up on the...

The Lord is faithful to Himself; and His saving goodness toward men, is not
contingent upon men.

Malachi 3:6 (ESV)
"For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

The "will come" part is pretty definite.

Jude

The historic Reformed faith doesn't have a point to make as if a point can be made that is not a point already established in Scripture. So may be it is better put that the Calvinistic view of Scripture is that God has worked all in all for His own glory. Paul answers the rhetorical question in Roma...

If God has given you to the Son, you will come to the Son and forever be
His.

John 6:37 (ESV)
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

God will not forget His people. He has engraven us on the palms of His hands Isaiah 49:15-16 (ESV) "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. [16] Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my h...

Dear Sean, I do not think this text is strong proof for the biblical doctrine of the preseverance of the saints. Though it is in keeping with it. If the brother returns to the fold and dies in Christ, he has shown himself to be one of God's elect. If the chastisement of God through _ drives him back...