Scott Downey
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Those scriptures do not deal with the truth that man is a fallen creature and makes bad choices according to his evil nature which he himself as scripture shows is aligned with Satan and seeks to do the devil's will, not God's will.So you continue to reject God's Word as He spoke thru His Apostles in these scripture references....
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Acts 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Jesus said of people like that in this way. v19-20
John 3
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
God must show mercy towards someone, opening their heart for them to believe in Christ.
Otherwise, no one would believe in Christ.
God does that by teaching them by His Spirit because God granted them to know Him. And God does not do that for everyone does He.
So therefore, God may desire all to repent and believe, But God only grants some to know God.
Just like Jesus says in John 6, and here in Luke 10, saved people should rejoice their names God has written in His heaven.
Implying the others have not had their names written in heaven.
The Seventy Return with Joy
17 Then the [e]seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but [f]rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
Jesus Rejoices in the Spirit
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.22 All[g] things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”
Revealed the things of salvation only to babes, and not all people.
The truth of Christ HIDDEN by God to others God has not willed to know Him.
That is a choice God made.
And, no one knows God and Christ unless the Godhead wills for them to know Himself, GOD. That is God's choice to make.
God's will be done, and it is done.
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