What if someone said to you,
“I want to be saved, but God won’t save me.”
What would be your reply?
Your reply ought to be based upon a correct understanding of what is meant by that.
To help you understand that statement, let me rephrase it for you.
“I want to be saved, but God won’t save me…because He has not chosen me for salvation.”
What this person is really thinking is that if they are not one of the elect, then even if they want to be saved, God won’t save them.
There should be 3 responses to this objection.
First of all, if there is any desire to be saved, then that desire was placed there by God Himself because man in his total depravity and radical corruption and sinful rebellion would never desire to be saved.
None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
Romans 3:10-12
Secondly, if one
