Now if you have a problem matching up that sovereignty of God with human responsibility, admit that you don't know everything and the problem is solved. Because I also know that the gospel extends to the end of the earth and Jesus was the one who said, 'Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I'll give you rest.' We understand the gospel invitation. We understand the call. We understand the tears of Jesus over those who wouldn't come. We understand the responsibility of the sinner who rejects the gospel and perishes and he is being punished for his own choice. We understand that. How that harmonizes with this doctrine, I do not understand. I may never understand it even in eternity because I will never be God. But I will let God be God and I will not redefine God on my terms… I also understand at the same time that God holds every sinner responsible for their own rejection and gives them the opportunity to receive Him. And it makes perfect sense to Him though it's apparently paradoxical to me. But I will not err on the severe side of diminishing the sovereignty of God by eliminating this glorious truth.
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#1 · April 21, 2005, 12:49 pm

Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>

"Anniversary Dinner" 
 
On their anniversary night, the husband sat his wife sat down in the den with her favorite magazine, turned on the soft reading lamp, slipped off her shoes, patted and propped her feet and announced that he was preparing dinner all by himself.
 
"How romantic!" she thought.
 
Two-and-a-half hours later, she was still waiting for dinner to be served. She tiptoed to the kitchen and found it a colossal mess.
 
Her hurried husband, removing something indescribable from the smoking oven, saw her in the doorway. "Almost ready!" he vowed. "Sorry it took me so long but I had to refill the pepper shaker."
 
"Why, honey, how long could that have taken you?"
 
"More'n an hour, I reckon. Wasn't easy stuffin' it through those dumb little holes."
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"Paying Bills" 
 
My wife and I, both graduate students, recently celebrated the arrival of our first child. At my wife's insistence, we had paid our entire medical bill and were now worried about meeting other payments.
 
We were discussing our sad financial situation one evening when our son demanded a diaper change.
 
As my wife leaned over the baby's crib, I heard her mutter, "The only thing in the house that's paid for, and it leaks."
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HIGHER POWER
 
 
A Sunday school teacher said to her children, "We have been learning
how powerful kings and queens were in Bible times. But, there is a higher
power. Can anybody tell me what it is?"
 
One child blurted out, "Aces!"
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"A happy heart is like good medicine" (Proverbs 17:22)
 
 
Have a Blessed Day
Dave and Barbara
 
 
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