Be encouraged Rj
Acts 2:21
‘AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.’
Romans 10:13
for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.
Be encouraged also
@quietthinker
Whoever calls on the Name of Jesus....must be drawn by the Father...no one can come to Jesus only through God.
And we most definitely are taught of God through his Holy Spirit...he testifies the Living/ true word of God to our spirit....one must be “ Born Again “ in order for that to happen.
John 6:44-51 KJV
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is
patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Berean Standard Bible
Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
Meaning...everyone the Father gives to Jesus...
No one can come to the Son unless God draws them....Not One.
The Father is the one who chooses who he births in the Spirit.
Our will is already inline with that of God’s, when we are birthed in the Spirit..we were predestined to become Born Again ...therefore God does not force his will on anyone!
...our hearts were open to God to receive his Spirit...once we were drawn by him, through Godly sorrow/ repentance that God also brought us to....not human repentance....and before any of this can happen..we believe in the name of Jesus...who God also brought into my mind..
No one knows how he does it either as it’s like the wind.
All the Glory goes to God regarding the rebirth...that is when we become that New Creation in Christ.