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    Rights: Will my Choice be Free?
    Rights: Will my Choice be Free?
    Rights: Will my Choice be Free?
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    Rights: Will my Choice be Free?

    By Kirk Lee

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    This book discusses the subject of freewill and our choice around it in relation to God. If it is my freewill, then I have to have a choice.
    If God has predetermined our destiny, then why give us a choice? If I'm bound for hell, then do I really have freewill?
    How can a loving God send people to hell?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKirk Lee
    Release dateJan 17, 2013
    ISBN9781301757411
    Rights: Will my Choice be Free?
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    Kirk Lee

    As a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity in Apologetics, he is currently serving as an senior pastor at a small church. In the past he has been involved in church planting.

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      Rights - Kirk Lee

      RIGHTS:

      Will my Choice be Free?

      Kirk Lee

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      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Kirk Lee

      License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover designed and drawn by Scott Sams, 2012

      Ebook formatting by www.ebooklaunch.com

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      I Have Rights

      It's My Freewill!

      Where does Power of Our Will Come From?

      Is God Just Mean?

      The Enabling Mercy of God

      I'm Effectual

      I choose YOU or you!

      It's Time to Begin Again

      I Think I will Just Blame God.

      Conclusion

      Appendix One

      Bibliography

      End Notes

      .

      Psalm 50:15

      Call upon Me in the day of trouble;

      I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

      INTRODUCTION

      When it comes to choice on believing in God; where do the boundaries start and stop? Can my choices override others (God or family)? Is my choice made on my own? Do I make choices based on others' feelings? Is my choice influence-able by outside sources? Is my choice handed down to me through my family? Is my choice a reasonable one? I make choices every day, some last moments, some last a life time. Some last for eternity. Some choices even affect others directly. But all choices affect more than myself. Is it not a matter of do we get to make the right choice or the wrong choice? It is simply we get to make the choice itself, and the results of that choice? But, in the end our choices do affect us!

      .

      Before, I ever had choice to choose:

      there had to be something to choose,

      there had to be revelation,

      there had to be justification,

      there had to be glorification,

      there had to be foundations,

      there had to be world,

      there had to be parents,

      and there had to be life.

      But there was always:

      God!

      I Have Rights

      Rights, I have rights; we hear this all the time. If we think we have rights in front of an all Sovereign God, then our theology will never be right! Rights are legal, or ethical principles of freedom. Rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, or ethical theory. True rights are something that can never be taken away. Rights are not something we acquire. Rights must have a moral compass or they have no authority, and it would not be free if it contains in it, responsibilities. Sovereign rights come from one who is righteous. Righteousness is an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation one is leading a life that is pleasing to God. We should be aware righteousness is something the Lord is. The LORD was pleased for His righteousness' sake to make the law great and glorious.[1] God is under no obligation to save anyone, yet He offers the opportunity.

      Once we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior then we have certain rights. In the Gospel of John we are told, "My Father, who has given them (believers) to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand."[2] God gives us rights through His Son, not unto us. So what belongs to Christ belongs to God; rights that cannot be taken away. God is the holder of these rights. That's right; our rights are still not ours by ourselves.

      It is by God's mercy that He offers us rights, and by grace He accepts us through His Son. So our rights are a blessing from God. For example in Ephesians we read, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ..."[3]

      But wait a minute, I have rights! I have the right to choose God. People who need mercy, cannot really claim they have rights. But I decide whether or not to believe in God. Yes and No. No, we do not choose God by our own understanding. We live behind the veil of sin. He reveals mysteries from the darkness and brings the deep darkness into light.[4] What we think is a clear view, is still a translucent view of reality. We see through a filter of darkness. We do not see through the harmony of one's soul from this world. For You light my lamp; The LORD my God illumines my darkness.[5]

      Yes, we have the right to choose God; because He planned it from the foundation of the cosmos. Again, Ephesians helps us understand, Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love...as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself...[6] He did not choose us to heaven or hell. We are not predestined to heaven or hell. We are only predestined in Christ. He chose us in Him. God sees us through His Son. We are either behind Him (believers) or in front of Him (unbelievers). But, God only has eyes for His Son. Again, we are seen through His Son. That is how we receive righteousness.

      No, we do not just find God, or No we do not just discover God. We may be physically alive, but we are spiritually dead. And a dead person does not search for the living. A dead person must be resurrected or made alive. God does this on His own accord because God is love[7] and as such His love reveals Himself to us. God will bring honor unto Himself. In our decision of Yes, we place our spirit into His Spirit bringing honor and glory to Him. His glory is great in our salvation; honor and majesty we have placed upon him.[8]

      So God will make Himself known to us, and then we can say, Yes or No. Then we have rights. Rights of rejection or rights of Son-ship to our Father, because of His Son's willingness to die on the Cross for each and every one of us. For example, "...as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of

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