Jase's Dramatic Fight Embarrasses Missy in Front of Guests, and Did Judas Have Free Will? | Ep 333

[@ms.mojo_risin]

Awesomeness!! Peace&Respect and Love, Shelley Anne

[@sheilanewcombe2331]

Thank you for your faithfulness to God and sharing His truth. You do it in such a practical way....I can actually remember what you are saying and what you mean. Praying for many to come to know and love the Lord through your podcasts and the light you shine for Him!!

[@karibyers5032]

Thank you guys for sharing the word. I Look forward to your podcasts.

[@chrishere4272]

God is good

[@Christianministrycentral]

You guys are rooted in the word! Rare and beautiful!

[@gretelhance]

Whosoever will

[@dorothymckinney5352]

I have lived through the covid. I asked in the name of Jesus for God to heal my lungs and He did!! I went in the hospital in July and got out August 13. My husband is still in the rehab hospital. God says you have to ask Him so I do. I'm praying someone who is sick don't forget to ask God to heal you 🙏. Thanks for the podcast.

[@definit1on119]

All things are possible through God! Stay blessed

[@angelaflores4533]

Amen!

[@randy-9842]

Heavenly Father, if it be thy will, please heal Dorothy's husband quickly and fully! In Christ Jesus' Holy name, amen! Dorothy, I believe you are 100% correct, we must first ask (or have an intercessor ask for us) but we must also seek God's will. I think we should also remember to praise and thank Him for his answers whichever way they go. His knowledge is far, far superior to my own. Thank you for your prayers for us too, Dorothy! This is one of the examples and reasons I like Matthew 8:2 with similar quotes in Mark 1:40 and Luke 5:12 and, especially, with Christ's own prayer in Luke 22:42. Yes, even Christ prayed "if you are willing." Matthew 8:2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, *_if you are willing,_* you can make me clean.” NIV 1984 the emphasis is mine. Luke 22:42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

[@brandonlewis5135]

P2p. You gotta show respect in your videos. The world's greatest rock band drummer Charlie Watts died. The stones made music rock like no other band. Mathews could wait

[@C00LMakz392]

I lived through a decade long heroin habit. I didn’t ask Jesus to save me but he did anyways. I was baptized 8/22/21. After years of trying many different spiritual practices. I finally caved and found faith in Jesus and I’ve never felt so much peace so much comfort so much love and so much confidence in my purpose. I love Jesus so much and his grace is unparalleled. Hallelujah!

[@MegaDANNY777]

B. I. B. L. E.. Basic instructions before leaving Earth.. May the LORD JESUS be with you and your families. 👉🙏✝️

[@dorothymckinney5352]

Oh my husband is a veteran and the VA hospital gave him both vaccines and he still got the covid. God is good.

[@elsatello4016]

I am sorry God less your family

[@wftxidiot6518]

My mom got the vaccine and got it too

[@4windsfarmstead]

🙏

[@aprilraymond-smiedy6055]

I remember doing exactly what Al did on a back porch I had years ago..We moved, but I think I made it good for whoever moved in after us...🙂😀

[@wftxidiot6518]

Everytime I read my Bible I find my new favorite chapter or verse. I've realized that The Book relates to ALL parts of my life

[@biganttony6786]

Amen Mississippi got all those critters too. Ya'll got more gators tho lol. Love your podcast. Keep preaching the word I enjoy it. Somedays when I fall short, I watch ya'll and get my Bible back out. Thanks And Praise God for good people.

[@angeldogs4ellie]

I thank God for this podcast! Love the whole Robertson family!

[@gretelhance]

Still have not learned it all. Helpful

[@gretelhance]

God honors faith

[@helenwood1]

I completely understand about insects in Louisiana!!

[@jackschultz6673]

I wish there were alot more people like Phil who can explain the Gospel.... God Bless R from Ky. Love you all .

[@davemetz7368]

Yes, Phil can explain the Gospel so simply, and bluntly !! I just love it when He talks about Jesus. God Bless You Jack !!

[@gretelhance]

There are

[@chrisfortner4692]

To the few who always come just to give a thumbs down, we pray for you the most because you obviously are under conviction or you wouldn't act like a child. We pray God doesn't allow you any peace until you surrender to Him in Jesus Christ Holy Name we pray 🙏

[@gretelhance]

Hounds of heaven

[@michaelandrew1475]

Thank you Phil, Jase, and Al awesome Bible study !! !!

[@johnwest9577]

Concerning wasps nest - we rub a soap bar on the wooden roof inside of our bluebird house and it seems to prevent wasps building a wasp nest in there. Could you put a layer of soap or waxy coating on the inner roof of your duck huts to prevent wasp nests from building up? We know it would be on a much bigger scale than what we do with our bluebird houses - just an idea.

[@sharons4439]

Right Jase , we don’t know who is saved . I’ve heard many people say something about someone that has died . Saying they was or wasn’t saved . They don’t know ! God knows our hearts .

[@brandonlewis5135]

P2p. You gotta show respect in your videos. The world's greatest rock band drummer Charlie Watts died. The stones made music rock like no other band. Mathews could wait

[@dfischer5878]

Matthew 15:18 Our hearts are evil, scripture teaches that saving faith will always produce fruit in the life of s saved sinner

[@pappap1702]

You will know them by their fruit. So there are good indications of whether someone is saved or not but we don't know if they accepted Jesus on their deathbed if they had that opportunity

[@brandonlewis5135]

@@pappap1702 yes. Charlie watts isva great musical genius... the stones will continue to tour with the CBS drummer from David Letterman

[@cindyb24]

This is what we're learning in church, book of Romans and the Roman's Road to salvation. God is so good! Thank you for today's bible study. 👍

[@angeldogs4ellie]

CCCH?

[@cindyb24]

@@angeldogs4ellie yes ma'am! 😄

[@CowGirlKat8691]

Such a great road to be on!

[@cindyb24]

@@CowGirlKat8691 Amen to that! 🙌

[@brandonlewis5135]

P2p. You gotta show respect in your videos. The world's greatest rock band drummer Charlie Watts died. The stones made music rock like no other band. Mathews could wait

[@goodwoodBD]

Phil is the coolest senior citizen on the planet, he’s like Fonzi in a nursing home.

[@wftxidiot6518]

It's so amazing. I thought my salvation was like a lightening strike. Looking back I see all the times God helped, saved, or showed himself to me😁

[@gretelhance]

Without faith, it's impossible to please God 🙏

[@thegoodonez84]

Thank you Robertson family for taking the time out of your day to teach us the good news in computer land.

[@gretelhance]

God KNEW what Judas would do. God's never surprised

[@melindaramsey2522]

“ The whole book of Roman’s is the phone ringing!” Blessed to finally understand this topic of who God chose… all who answer the phone and catch the pass with fruits of the spirit evidence of a heart and lifestyle change. It is a pleasure to obey Jesus… to have the opportunity to love God, love your neighbor and be loved by Him! I want to be always where Jesus is! Thankful in CA !

[@dfischer5878]

If I have to answer the phone then I have taken part in my own salvation; I can then boast. Scripture teaches God alone is sovereign, He saved sinner we can not and do not choose Him until He changes our hearts and minds. Acts 13:48; john 17:6; 6:37 ; john 6:44,65 , rom 8:7:8 and so, so many more

[@SFTV73]

@@dfischer5878 Absolutely

[@f.o.c681]

I can’t even sit under my live oak tree here in bmt Texas in the evening because of the locus screaming

[@melissasanders55]

Loved this episode so much.

[@sandymontgomery7029]

QUESTION... if you are baptized and backslide do you get baptized again or pray for forgiveness and live right from that point on ????

[@robinkirk1821]

This study was so important! I was in a “Reformed” church and the doctrines taught hurt my faith deeply. I have found my way back to the truth and will gaurd my heart from false teachings going forward. I really appreciate you guys discussing this doctrine of election and exposing the truth through scripture!

[@brandonlewis5135]

P2p. You gotta show respect in your videos. The world's greatest rock band drummer Charlie Watts died. The stones made music rock like no other band. Mathews could wait

[@dfischer5878]

Election is all over scripture how can you dismiss it? Do you adhere to Ephesians 2:8? If so how do you square salvation is anything other than Of God?

[@robinkirk1821]

@@dfischer5878 Did you listen to what they said in the video? I agree with everything they said. Furthermore, you have to be told/taught by someone about this manmade view. You would never come to this conclusion on your own just reading straight from the Bible. The Bible teaches we are to repent and believe the good news. That is it. We hear the message and then respond to it. That is how God chose for man to be saved.

[@dfischer5878]

@@robinkirk1821 yes I did and reformed theology is what the Bible teaches. I had never heard of reformed theology , I was sitting under a church that taught we choose God first and I simply could not mind this in scripture. Scripture teaches so very clear we are dead in sin and trespass ( not sick but dead) utterly helpless. So although I totally agree we must choose I even more so know we do not choose God ( maybe the things we are told He provides) but not the God of scripture until He opens our eyes to that truth. ( john 12:40) God reveals who He is in His Word we however tend to try and “ soften “ that up. God is Holy and we are not. Knowing that not only had I sinned but I was a sinner deserving hell is what revealed to me the power of the cross. You say we hear the message and then respond to it? What about the one who does not, yet hears the same message? If your answer is “ I choose yes and they choose no” then that is man centered. Scripture teaches the one who choose yes had God open their eyes and heart to it. All of God. Reformed theology elevates God to His most high standing and man low where we belong. God bless

[@pappap1702]

@@dfischer5878 How about 2 Peter 2:39?

[@roeirwin1629]

Keeping the faith brother Phil ✝️

[@lisabrigman2722]

well the locust are here in Mississippi EVERY SUMMER. THAT MEANS HEAT 😅

[@gretelhance]

John 3:16

[@nkhart5520]

Favoritism...biblically to me basically means there isn't a get out of jail free card.. we will still experience action..reaction ...cause and effect there is no avoiding responsibility for our actions... his word does not come back void.... cheerio from Kansas City... Carry on Ahh can y'all touch on the topic of reincarnation??... or being indwelt with another spirit.... such as one of the disciples.. I know the last bit is a lot to consider...but I am seeking some genuine thoughts contemplating this... TY

[@petergiger1278]

"I came that they may have life more abundantly." John 10:10.

[@jaxup1985]

I'm kind of on the fence about calvanism... but predestination certainly has a better argument than is presented here.

[@dfischer5878]

Yes, it does. Please don’t look at it as Calvinism but scriptural. Predestination, election and God’s sovereignty came long before Calvin it began with God.

[@rettaderrick5824]

I love you guys. (Romans 9:11-24) For the children not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to ELECTION might stand, not of works, but of Him that (calleth.) As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

[@dfischer5878]

Amen:) we can not make God who we think he should be.

[@DeenaP91]

Grateful for you fellows. Enjoying every moment from Korea.

[@Christianministrycentral]

Baptism, faith, confession… all about surrendering to Jesus as Lord.

[@claudialsmith2996]

Scorpions burn like fire. Btw.

[@bethbanfill6049]

GOD BLESS

[@roeirwin1629]

Great Bible study , I tell you all the time thank you ✝️🕊❤️

[@chriscarpenter317]

We are not here to argue the gospel with people, but to proclaim it. They either accept it or they don't.

[@staceylott6676]

Phil knows,loscast is in the tree,grasshopper eats my garden,lol

[@butchp51]

At the 31 minute mark, listen to Phil's Pelagian heresy. No Phil, Paul didn't have some inherent ability or sovereignty to thwart God's plan. He was dead in his sins and trespasses! You seemingly think Paul made a choice based on your humanism presupposition, which would make God not omniscient, holding ALL knowledge. Ask yourself Phil, can God learn anything? If not, and He holds infinite knowledge, why are you saying basically God learned of what Paul would choose?

[@jamiefox8670]

I've been watching for a few months now and I can honestly say your guys love for the lord and your family and the way you explain how the lord works in your life's keeps it simple but real and has helped me to want to get closer with God, I struggle a bit and I'm to the point that I know God is the way and with this world getting as bad as it is the only thing that seems to make sense to get right with God! I would like to go to church but I worry if it's the right church because of false teachings but anyway god bless you and your family as always a great show!

[@davidcannon2162]

Look for a Church that uses Bible only not thier creeds try the( Chuch of Christ ) not the United Church of christ

[@carminemarcello7201]

Mr Phil, I grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. That fella' had never seen the ground moving because up in Missouri (southern anyway) the ground is either solid rock or red clay.

[@playersteven007]

I sometimes do not understand why bad things happens to Christians but Bible says rain falls on the just and unjust.

[@Thumpertom]

I started a,,, go fund me,, to help with a trip to Monroe La for a baptism from Phil Robertson or Jase.. utube won't let me post and I don't have Facebook so I'm losing hope to make it.

[@87DAM1987]

I think the best argument for free will is the 40 days of temptation in the desert that Christ our Lord went through. He was tempted by satan after 40 days of hunger and thirst, and chose to follow the Fathers will. Also in the garden the night before his crucifixion. He sweated blood and asked the Father, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak if there is another way take this cup from, if not let Thy will be done

[@jamesosburn8253]

Can yall soon, go over the book of Revelations with us? Interpret it so people like me can better understand it.

[@e.hellertx3799]

You guys touched on tithing in a recent episode and Al mentioned something about the amount. We have always heard 10% of gross income but I think that he said that was unbiblical. I may have heard it wrong but have always been curious about this. Any help would be appreciated

[@melindaramsey2522]

“Catch the pass!” I love it!

[@joemabry9643]

Thank you!

[@mobilityplus1139]

I personally think some people have the touch when it comes to bass fishing. I cannot catch a bass to save my life but my son can.

[@justinmilford6138]

Not sure how you can say God does not show favoritism? Was not Abraham chosen by God to bless him and multiply his seed? Was not Mary "highly favored of the Lord"? I think maybe some things are "lost in translation " with the NIV. .out if the other versions say "God is not a respector of persons"

[@MargieM10]

When two of our boys were 3 and 5 and digging in the yard they came up on a ground nest. What a mess, between 20-30 stings each. The little one had an allergic reaction. I'm glad they made it to adulthood😂

[@debbiefromgeorgia1402]

It's what we call in Georgia, Yellow Jackets. Then, you have Preacher Wasps (Orange and Black), and Guinea Wasps.

[@debbierobertson5729]

Excellent study! Thank you! You guys answered a few questions for me. Thank you for pointing to Jesus and giving me strength in faith.

[@lauraedwins456]

I got to say hello yesterday My tablet went down so I'm watching it today

[@caroldee4576]

Bugs, snakes, etc...why I don't live in the south. Northern living cool and snowy! 😁

[@james6495]

I can 100% get on board with no snakes!

[@davidcannon2162]

Southern boy in Minnesota for last 45 years it's COLD winter and HOT summer and we have snakes, wasp, ground wasp, fish with rows of teeth plus I keep looking for SNOW 🐍

[@sueoneal2249]

I killed a scorpion crawling across the livingroom floor a couple of days ago. That's the country in NW Louisiana.

[@jenniferjahns4006]

It was a great study, thank you!

[@rickwarner9142]

Good words to hear thanks👍🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

[@dianeearl9526]

Sorry I believe in God our Father n his son Christ Jesus

[@sheriandreas8260]

In Southern CA, where I grew up, we didn’t notice that the cicadas were making a buzzing sound until the buzzing sound stopped or if someone visiting the area would say, “what is that sound?”.

[@roeirwin1629]

Love this

[@jaxup1985]

Judas did have a choice in the sense that he did what he wanted to do. But the idea is, what about Judas is it that makes him freely come to the decision that he did? Is it is his attributes? his environment? his personality? his soul? his place of birth? his friends? his nurturing as a child? Doesn't God ultimately determine all of these things? And if so, how was it not predestined?

[@dfischer5878]

Yes. Predestination in that God sets are steps and our free will is based on the fact that we are all tainted by sin through the fall. Not totally depraved in that we are a bad as we can be but all of our faculties are tainted. Until God changes our heart and replaces it with one of flesh ( Ezekiel 36:26) we will not seek Him we actually run from him.

[@peggygreen9908]

God Bless you

[@randysmith7426]

The Faith you believed through is the gift of God Eph 2:8-10; We are the gift of the Father to the Son; John 6:37. There is a paradox in our mind but God's ways are not ours and His Thoughts are not are not ours Isa 55:8. This is the theology of the reformation not something new. Even though we do not agree on this doctrine we can still love and respect one another as God's children regardless of our thoughts on how we were adopted. George Whitfield (election) and John Wesley (free will) disagreed but when asked if he would see Wesley in Heaven, Whitfield replied "I expect not, for he will be to close to the glory of God for me to see".

[@kevingibbons3866]

Love your show, thank you for sharing Jesus!

[@WVMntnMomma-lg2oy]

Love this show!!

[@gretelhance]

Teaching

[@EricDavidFloyd]

Why I love Minnesota - everything freezes and we don't see the ground move - we skate on frozen water

[@mmzab1489]

Praise God for your show gives me Kingdom principles that is very scant in today's programming . ❤🙏🇺🇲❤

[@scottcovell5267]

Great discussion. What about John 6:44 and John 6:65? No one can come to God unless He enables them.

[@gretelhance]

John 3:16, Whosoever will

[@scottcovell5267]

​@@gretelhance Did God enable everyone to believe and they just have to make the choice? This doesn't appear to be the case in John 6. Some did not believe and this was because God did not enable them.

[@dfischer5878]

@@scottcovell5267 The simplest way to explain is That we are all hell deserving sinners. But God in His mercy moves on the heart of some and they come to faith. He does not cause others to “ reject” Him He simply passes over them or leaves them in their sin. In order to be a gift it has to be the choice of the giver to grant that gift. Rom 9:13 ; mark 1:3 shows us the gift of salvation comes before we are born before the world began and has nothing to do with what we do or who we are. These two had the same parents andGod makes this statement before they were born. Romans 9:17 tells us that Pharaoh was raised for the purpose to display God’s power through Pharaohs evil. God did not create the evil in him but left him in it.

[@BossGoals]

I use stuffed brown paper bags and wasps won’t build a nest

[@dantco]

Loved this one!!! The discussion about Judas and why the Lord CHOSE him stumps a few. Phil swatted that one down. And, to add to his answer--I'm still watching--Judas'betrayal had been prophesied...one of Jesus' missions was to FULFILL prophecy. But, that doesn't help with the predestiny discussion...

[@mikeivancevic9690]

"Dan the eunuch" hahahah

[@MsSandraCGL]

I love the taste of crappie

[@MichaelSmith-zf1dw]

Isaiah 55 8-9 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts

[@maryriser7836]

When I was a child the boys would put fuel on a rag on a long pole and light it and burn the nest. My husband left a tractor in a field running when he hit a nest whilst disking one day.

[@mmzab1489]

Mine just told me the same thing he hopped off that tractor and ran!!!! ❤🙏🇺🇲❤

[@bevrawilliams4351]

We got the locust here in Brownwood tx this year

[@23710jh]

That's right, Jase! Jesus is the quarterback, and I want to be a receiver.

[@deborah5212]

I know how Missy feels I’m the same way with any bug 🐜 I hate hate hate bugs !!

[@pennyadams2814]

What a great study, thank you for all y’all do in sharing the word.

[@usernameyeryry3118]

EXCELL-ent episode. EXCELLENT. All praise to God and way to go Robertson fellows with being vessels in this episode of God Almighty. Lord Jesus is the Greatest of all lords. Jesus is the King of Righteousness.

[@lauraedwins456]

Few are chosen many are called

[@othalee]

I think its safe to say the Robertsons are not calvanist.

[@angeldogs4ellie]

I'm with Missy, I can't stand insects, most especially spiders!

[@Swygard]

The wader shake

[@nwren4637]

How can God know all AND mortals have free will simultaneously? The two are irreconcilable concepts. I love this channel. I love Duck Dynasty because it's clean fun and promotes family. I'm not religious but I still agree with a lot of what Unashamed says. This is one of several key concepts that I've never gotten a good answer to. It's always "take it on faith." I always retort with the following: "Do you take it on faith that your employer pays you?" Perhaps someone will provide an answer that blows me away.

[@gretelhance]

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Ask God to help you understand. He is faithful.

[@nwren4637]

@@gretelhance Your reply is appreciated.

[@dfischer5878]

Scripture is clear that God knows the future. Matt 6:8, psalm 139:1-4 and has total control. Colossians 1:16,17, Daniel 4:35. Also we are responsible for our actions .rom 3:19, 6:23, 9:19-21. How they work together is not possible for a finite mind to fully comprehend. Rom 11:33-34. God does not violate our will ( we’re not robots) rather He changes our hearts do it is our will to choose him . 1john 4:19, john 15:16.

[@nwren4637]

@@dfischer5878 I appreciate the response. However, I disagree. If God made us in his image as thinking, feeling creatures with dominion over animals and plants AND above angels, then it's not unreasonable to think that we could logically deduce things. What I mean is this: from a logic standpoint, an all knowing entity and free will are not equally possible. It is either, or. You could say, "well it's all in God's mind." That's fine and well but it still means our actions were KNOWN in advance, from the very founding of the universe, by God. To know something 100% you've had to already seen / experienced it (or imagined it, like a plan). That means no one under God can have free will. Otherwise, God would not know everything. If God is also infallible, then it means God is equally responsible for all good AND all evil that exists. What's the point in testing mortals, if God already knows they will fail. That seems arbitrarily cruel. So...something has to give. Either God knows all, is responsible for all good & evil, and there is no free will OR...God doesn't know all, there IS free will, and evil is relative to those that experience it. It can not be both, it must be one or the other. This is the conundrum that I cannot get around.

[@claudialsmith2996]

Jesus loves me and you. A child. Can understand that.

[@Lotsaslots6747]

Thank you for your podcasts. We are all so fortunate and blessed. God has provided all the answers along with everlasting life through our rebirth in his son the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen brothers.

[@lauraedwins456]

Paul was chosen some are chosen and some are called

[@gretelhance]

Right. Many are called, few are chosen. Thank you!

[@lauraedwins456]

All the book of proverbs is wisdom

[@chrisfortner4692]

2 Timothy 2:3 💪🙏

[@gyatchmenoff6353]

His life on earth was a mirror, so we can see how we treat each other, given that He has been and gone, and until He comes again.

[@dfischer5878]

His life was a in perfect obedience. He took on flesh , lived a perfect life , died and rose again. It’s the atonement.

[@aprilraymond-smiedy6055]

I think it was wasps, not hornets,,,woops...

[@danielsimpson9601]

Without the Sun of God we All would die in a few weeks..So yes the Sun..which belongs to God is the Sun of God..That means anyone who Worships on Sunday is worshiping The Sun God....

[@judithdowell3164]

Wow! This was good stuff!!!

[@lauraedwins456]

God is the only judge as you judge you will be judged

[@dfischer5878]

I know of no one who says only a few are saved. Bottom line is if God is sovereign then He is also sovereign in salvation. We are dead in sin and trespass; unable to save ourselves. If I did something to gain it I then have reason to boast. It’s like two people who sit under the preaching of the word and one walks away saved and one unchanged. When we pray for the lost do we plead with God to allow someone to save themselves?? No, we plead for mercy. All of God.

[@gretelhance]

We pray for laborors to Cross their path

[@dfischer5878]

@@gretelhance yes and then for the Lord to have mercy on them.

[@jamestrotter3162]

Here's one thing we should keep in mind. The Lord says that many are called, but few are chosen. The Gospel is to be proclaimed to all people, but it's obvious that not all who hear the Gospel believe and respond to the Gospel. Why? Yes, we all have a choice, and our will does play a big part in what choice we make. But there's another factor we must consider. The Scripture teaches that all of us are spiritually dead. A dead man has no faith. Paul put it like this." As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were BY NATURE objects of wrath. But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions- it is by grace you have been saved.- Ephesians 2:1-5. Now, since we are all spiritually dead, we cannot have any sort of faith to believe the Gospel unless God does a work of regeneration to make us spiritually alive so that we are able to even have the desire to make the right choice when hearing the Gospel. He must give us a new nature that is capable of responding in saving faith to the Gospel. I think a good example of this is in Acts 16:13-15. " On the Sabbath we went outside of the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshipper of God. THE LORD OPENED HER HEART TO RESPOND TO PAUL'S MESSAGE. When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. 'If you consider me a believer in the Lord', she said, 'come and stay at my house.' And she persuaded us." Even though she was a worshipper of God, she didn't know God because she didn't know Christ. There were many others who heard the same message that Paul preached that day, but the only ones who responded to it were those whom God had opened their hearts so that they could respond in saving faith, which was Lydia and her household. The rest heard the message, but were still spiritually dead and unable to have saving faith. I thank God that He opened my heart to respond in saving faith to the Gospel, and if you're saved, it's because He opened your heart as well.

[@dfischer5878]

Amen and well said;)