AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

own accord will choose to harden their hearts and instead persecute the truth. In
fact, in their case, they sought to destroy the Truth by nailing “it” to a cross.
22. Pastor Walter Chantry: Jesus, in Matthew 11, when He contemplated the fact
that many of the people in _____________________, where He did His main
public ministry, did not believe or receive the gospel, He thanked God that He
had hidden the gospel from the wise and the prudent and had revealed it unto
________________. And then He went on to express his reason for that
thanksgiving, because it was good in His Father’s sight. So, it was the Father’s
__________________, who would receive and believe the Gospel and who would
remain hard-hearted.
“You will say to me then, ‘Why does He still find fault? For
who has resisted His will?’” Romans 9:19
Paul’s answer is a stiff rebuke to any man who would dare to sit in judgment on
God:
“But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the
thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me
like this?" Romans 9:20
23. Paul insists that as sinners we have no _______________before God. We have
no claims on His mercy. God could have elected everyone. He could have
elected none. The choice, therefore, was His and His alone.
24. Dr. R.C. Sproul: Students come to me all the time and they ask me a myriad
of theological questions. And I have never had a student come to me and say
“R.C. why does God save ________________?” That is the ________ question.
Why would bother to save a creation that is in manifest, consistent, impenitent
rebellion against His glory and against His majesty. I don’t know why God
doesn’t save everybody. I don’t know why He saves anybody. Those are both
questions I would have to ask Him because I can’t answer them for Him.”
Paul continues:
“Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to
make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God,
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