Teacher of the Word

Written: March 26th, 2020

When a Man’s hand does the will of the Father that Man’s name is written in the Book of Life”- The Spirit of God – (September 14^th 2018)

What-is-Free-Will Download

Bible Study Rules

The Holy Spirit is our teacher.
All revelation concerning Gods written word is found in the scripture.
All questions for the sake of salvation are welcome.

What is free will? and how far does it reach. The ability to have free will seems gives one the opportunity to choose. Choice is a by product of possessing a free will. The expression to choose what colour of ice cream you want or what movie you want to watch is not the type of free will we are questioning in this study. This bible study will focus on the free will based on your ability to choose God or Satan.

Free will is a precious gift from God, for it lets us love him with our “whole heart”—because we want to.—Matthew 22:37 “……Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”

The problem is choice this is where Satan lives. For those that are not created in the likeness of God suffer with this problem. However, those that are created in the likeness of God, they do not have a choice, nor do they desire to have one. when God speaks, that’s what they say and that’s what they do so they and their seeds can life forever. Satan have deceived the word into thinking that God made us with a free will, instead the underlying truth is Satan is the one that desires man to have a free will.

Question: Didn’t God give the Israelites and option to choose life or death?

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Many read Deuteronomy 30:19 and see the word choose and think God gave us free will the ability to choose life or choose death. When in fact the word free will does not exist in the scriptures, unknown to many God is the one that actually chooses for us he said. “Therefore, choose life” Those that are created in God’s likeness, God himself has already chosen life for them, remember the phrase “As he is so are we in this world.” A true Christian do not possess a free will. In ignorance many Christians that are unaware of this reality contradict themselves out of ignorance.

Question: Can a person choose God?

Answer: No

John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Question: If God choose us then where is this free will that many claim God gave us to choose to Him or Satan.

Answer: Man can be influenced by anything But God to disobey God but can only be influenced by God to obey God.

Question: Can anyone operate in God’s without knowing God’s will?

The Duelist

The Duelist the man or a woman in your head. When Children play with themselves, they sometimes create character’s or pretend they are a teacher, bus driver or a police officer etc. This acceptable behaviour some would call it imagination. As adult psychologist and doctors tend to move away from these modes of reasoning, they would coin similar behaviour in adult as hallucination, in come cases schizophrenia a fancy word for dualism.

Anyone that possesses a free will has the voice of Satan the duelist within them. It’s the voice in your head attacking your spirit; positioned as a voice of reasoning in come cases to produce options, sometime comes as a feeling a choice that would lead you away from Christ.

In this world Satan tries to mimic God. Satan is the free will also known as disobedience. The definition of the word Free means not under control and the definition of will means Desire as you want. When we put it together it means you are not under any control to desire what you want.

Question: If Satan did not exist would you still have free will? If your answer is no, now you understand why the scriptures tells us to resist the devil. The real problem is choice this is where Satan lives, promoting that God give us free will and we are free moral agents the right to choose is it right.

The Problem is Choice

In the scriptures word choice is written 21 times. Out of the 21 verses none of them speaks about God giving us the right to create a choice. However, there is 1 verse found out of the 21 verse that speaks about God makes the choices.

Acts 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

Let look at the ability to choose. The word “choose” has appeared 58 times in the bible. Out of the 58 times God has chosen for us 51 times. The remaining 6 are below.

Acts 13:47-48 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

Again, In the scriptures there’s no such word as free will, however when you look for the word “free” it also appears 58 times. The word free in the scriptures is used to describe freedom from bondage, a wife, sin, slavery, agreements. There is only one account where a person being free to do what they want in found in the book of Matthew.

Matthew 15:4-6 4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Again, the free will The Pharisees expressed brought disobedience upon them. The told a lie one to another concerning honouring your parents. Do you know who the father or lies is? Satan, because free will belongs to him.

Question: Why do Christian leaders promote free will as something God us.

Answer: Many Christians support these ideas because they are told God will force his options on us, he gave us a gift the right to choose.

Then they would use Deuteronomy 30:19 to support their teachings.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV) 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV) ⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, ⁹not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

When God choose us, he places us in his hand. We then operate in a mutual will. God’s will being our will. Understanding this we would be able to pray for God’s will and be contented with it without worrying because his will is our will because we do not subscribe to a free will.

FAQ

Question: When God created man did, he gave him a free will?

Answer: No! , because in Genesis 1:26 God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

God did not say let us create man in his own image.

Question: God did give man a free will after all Adam did name the animals.

Genesis 2:19

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

Answer: Let us remember Genesis 1:26 God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

Let us remember Adam kept God’s word in him and participated with God during the creation process not his independent will but by the mutual will of God that was in him.

1 John 2:5-6 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Adam desired and loved God; the expression of God’s desires came out of him. When we read Genesis 2:19 you would see as if God was testing out his creation to see if this man was made in His likeness to resemble (Thought wise).

Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

God wanted to see if Adam would give the exact name as God had intended it to be. After all it seem as if God took pleasure to see Adam expression of Judgement and creativity. Let us do not forget that God created all things

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Question: What do you call the transaction of Satan giving us his free will (disobedience) and we accepting it? Itn’t that free will within itself choosing evil.?

Man can be influenced by anything, But God to Disobey God, but can only be influenced by God to obey God.

Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For more detailing in free will see teachings on The Will of God and The Needs of God

Glory to God!!