Riddle me this. Most preachers teach that in order to be born again one say a Little prayer and exercise faith to be born again….

If we had nothing to do with our first birth what makes us think we had anything to do with our second birth? Both were acts of Gods divine will. The Bible says man is dead in sin. Dead men can’t pray. Dead men can’t believe. Dead men can’t confess Jesus is Lord.

Regeneration precedes faith and confession. We had nothing to do with it. Zero. Zip. Nada. Lest any man should boast.

I can’t believe I never saw this. Verse after verse chapter after chapter screams man’s depravity and man’s inability to seek God. No not one seeks after Him. It is complete and utter grace. And if the reborn can’t chose to be reborn neither can the lost. No exceptions.

At first my brain argued fairness. “God that’s not fair that some are chosen and some are not.”. Until I read that all hate God and all are at war with Him and no one deserves the grace and mercy.

Fair would mean no one can be saved. Then I read God said I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. It’s a tough pill to swallow but it’s what is written over and over and over.

At first I thought “ well then to be saved one must drop to their knees and beg mercy to be given faith to believe”. Yes that’s true but we need His divine will to even drop to our knees. So then we must beg for the mercy to have the ability to drop to our knees?

Yes BUT we cant even beg for the mercy without Him giving us the ability to beg for the mercy because we hate Him and are at war with Him and our only intention is to do evil continuously!

And on and on it spiraled down to the bottom line which is this … no man chooses to be saved. It is a divine act of God and once again if the saved can’t choose to be saved neither can the lost and it is up to the sovereignty of God.

Therefore if a single person is saved it is one more than deserved to be. The lost can’t claim a fairness issue. Only the saved can say “ I don’t deserve this “. The Bible does not teach universal salvation but it does teach that He determined The Who and when long before the foundations of the world.

Some can pull a verse here and there out of context to say that we have a choice. But I see literally hundreds of verses saying otherwise. I can have no other conclusion but see Gods sovereignty, man’s inability , to chose and absolute grace to be chosen by God. It is not what I wanted to see or believe but it is what the book says