TULIP - Irresistible Grace

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Irresistible Grace​

I stands for irresistible grace, which refers to God’s loving power in salvation. Essentially, it says that if God loves you and wants you in His family, He is going to get you. He loves you so much that He will ensure that you come to faith, and He is powerful enough to guarantee your faith.

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Let’s examine the core meaning of Irresistible Grace which is summed up in this phrase …

• if God loves you and wants you in His family,

Jesus plainly says that God loves the world, and desires for them to be saved, to have eternal life, which clearly means He wants everyone to be a part of His family; to be His children.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

God loves us before we are born again.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 1 John 2:2

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:17

God loves the unsaved people of the world and desires for them to be saved and be His child.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:3-4


The truth is God loves you and I.

He loved us while we were unsaved sinners.

Jesus Christ was sent into the world that the world through might become saved a be in the family of God.


Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.
Acts 16:31


The doctrine of Irresistible Grace is not biblical.


God loves the unsaved people of the world and desires for them to be saved.

 

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God loves the unsaved people of the world and desires for them to be saved.

Here are two passages that actually tell us about God's desire, pleasure

Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,'

Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Your interpretation of certain verses makes God a liar. He accomplishes what He desires, but He certainly does not accomplish the salvation of "all the unsaved people of the world."

Even before Jesus came and gave His life a ransom for many, there were millions that perished like those in Sodom and Gomorrah.

Irresistible grace:
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

 

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Irresistible Grace is premised on the work of Christ versus the work of Adam, the death that Adam effected is overcome by the Grace Christ effected by His Obedience, and so through Him Grace reigns, and is more irresistible than death Rom 5:21

21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now is death irresistible ? Grace much more !