Tag: Freewill

  • Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Free Will: PRINCE OF PREACHERS

    Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Free Will: PRINCE OF PREACHERS

    In his sermons and writings, Spurgeon often expressed his opposition to the argument of human free will, which he saw as a threat to the doctrine of grace and the glory of God.

    “I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, ‘You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself.’”

    Charles Spurgeon

    Here Are Some More Quotes; All Sourced And Available To View

    “I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes—that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit as well as the sun in the heavens—that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is as much steered as the stars in their courses…The creeping of an aphid over the rosebud is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence—the fall of leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.”

    This quote is from Spurgeon’s sermon titled “A Defense of Calvinism,” delivered on June 5, 1855.

    “I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, ‘You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself.’”

    “A Defense of Calvinism,” delivered on June 5, 1855.

    “The free will of man is a wretched idol, and deserves to be enthroned in hell.”

    “Sovereign Grace and Man’s Responsibility,” delivered on October 9, 1859.

    “Free will has carried many souls to hell, but never a soul to heaven.”

    “Spiritual Resurrection,” delivered on August 24, 1856.

    “If there is anything in the doctrine of the grace of God which commends it to us more than another, it is the sovereignty of it. If there is anything that is calculated to make men adore the grace of God, and to render them humble, it is the doctrine of the election of grace.”

    “Election,” delivered on August 2, 1857.

    Charles Spurgeon
    SERMON #52: VOL. 1 (1855)
    Free Will-A Slave

    THIS is one of the great guns of the Arminians; mounted upon the top of their walls, and often discharged with terrible noise against the poor Christians called Calvinists!

    I intend to spike the gun this morning, or, rather, to turn it on the enemy—for it was never theirs. It was never cast at their foundry at all, but was intended to teach the very opposite doctrine to that which they assert.

    Usually, when the text is taken, the divisions are—first that man has a will.

    Secondly, that he is entirely free.

    Thirdly, that men must make themselves willing to come to Christ, otherwise they will not be saved.

    Now, we shall have no such divisions! But we will endeavor to take a calmer look at the text, and not because there happens to be the words, “will,” or, “will not,” in it conclude that it teaches the doctrine of free will.

    It has already been proved beyond all controversy that free will is nonsense!
    Freedom cannot belong to will any more than ponderability can belong to electricity. They are altogether different things.

    Free agency we may believe in, but free will is simply ridiculous.

    The will is well-known by all to be directed by understanding, to be moved by motives, be guided by other parts of the soul, and be a secondary thing. Philosophy and religion both discard at once the very thought of free will! And I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, “If any man does ascribe anything of salvation, even the very least to the free will of man, he knows nothing of divine grace, and he has not learnt Jesus Christ aright.”
    It may seem a harsh sentiment, but he who in his soul believes that man does of his own free will turn to God, cannot have been taught of God—for that is one of the first principles taught us when God begins with us—that we have neither will nor power—but that He gives both—that He is “Alpha and Omega” in the salvation of men.

    SERMON #52: VOL. 1 (1855)
    Free Will-A Slave
    DELIVERED ON DECEMBER 02, 1855

    To Read The Full Sermon: I created THIS NOTE.

    “Free will carried many a soul
    to hell, but never a soul to
    heaven.”

  • Does Human Will Completely Make Its Own Choices?

    Does Human Will Completely Make Its Own Choices?

    The Will Of Man Is Dead In Trespasses And Sins; If Not, Then Scripture Isn’t The Truth

    “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind…”

    – Ephesians 2:1‭-‬3

    “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses…”

    – Colossians 2:13

    The will of man is hostile to God; we want our desires met before the Lord’s desires, yet we claim to love Him. We don’t even know Who He is. 

    We Are Not Free-willed, But Our Will Is Bound To The Flesh

    How can a spiritually dead person have a will to choose Spirit? 

    Man’s will cannot submit to God’s Law, as we will read in the following several verses. 

    If this is true, how can our will be free? If it cannot submit to God, without God? 

    Scripture Says:

    “For the mind (will) that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him…”

    – Romans 8:7‭-‬9

    How Can The Will Of Man Be Free If It Cannot Understand The Things Of God?

    “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned…”

    – 1 Corinthians 2:14

    “as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God…”

    – Romans 3:10‭-‬11

    HOW CAN THE WILL OF MAN BE FREE IF IT CANNOT ACCEPT THE HOLY SPIRIT?

    … even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.” 

    – John 14:17

    Cannot See The Kingdom Of God…

    Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 

    – John 3:3
    CANNOT HEAR THE WORDS OF CHRIST… Cannot see the Light of the Gospel (Blinded minds)

    Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.  

    – John 8:43

    THINK THE GOSPEL FOOLISHNESS 

    For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

    – 1 Cor 1:18

    DOES NOT SEEK FOR GOD

    there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. 

    Rom 3:11

    DOES NOT FEAR GOD

    “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

    Rom 3:18

    HEART IS DECEITFUL AND DESPERATELY WICKED

    The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

    Jer 17:9

    WITHOUT GOD-GIVEN FAITH OUR DEEDS ARE SINFUL

    But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

    Rom 14:23

    Nothing materializes without it being caused… that cause is God.

    God is the Creator of material and spiritual.

    All occurrences, including human actions and choices, are determined by preceding events & methods of strategies outcomes. Freedom of choice is illusory. God, throughout Scripture, does will events to take place, & if natural law adheres and fixes perfectly to the laws of nature. 

    Why would God not work in accordance with His own Law, being that God created Nature & Law itself? That’s illogical.

    Humanistic free will is no more than chaos; God is a God of order.

    He is Holy, which means; Whole, Complete, and Perfect, all ordered by His Decree. 

    THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAUSE & EFFECT.

    So, what is the proper definition of Free Will? 

    FREE:

    (a) Not controlled by obligation or will of another, having personal rights or liberty; NOT ENSLAVED or CONFINED.

    We are either “Slaves of Righteousness” or sin, there is no neutral.

    (b) Exempt from EXTERNAL DIRECTION or RESTRICTION; not forced or INDUCED.
    Completely denying Who God is

    WILL: 

    (a) The capacity to CHOOSE a goal and make INTERNAL efforts essential to the will’s realization.

    (b) To DECREE or ORDAIN, determine by choice.

    There’s only One who rightfully decrees and declares

    (c) MENTAL POWER by which one CONTROLS one’s thoughts, actions, and decisions. 

    Man, believing, he is Like the Most High, taking after Lucifer.

    FREE WILL:

    • (a) The ability to choose between different possible courses of action…
    • (b) The belief that HUMAN BEINGS can ACT ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF THEIR OWN WILL
    • (c) The human ability to make choices that are NOT EXTERNALLY DETERMINED; done of one’s own accord; voluntary.
    • (d) The conduct of human beings expresses personal choice and is NOT simply DETERMINED, BY PHYSICAL or DIVINE FORCES. 

    If you don’t believe God’s will overrides your will, you worship the God of your own mind.

    A Note From the Author — Revisited

    This post represents the furthest reach of my Reformed Calvinist period — and the place where that framework did the most damage to my own spiritual unfolding. I argued here, with considerable conviction and scriptural density, that the human will is categorically dead, hostile to God, and incapable of any genuine movement toward truth without prior divine intervention from outside itself. I believed I was defending God’s sovereignty. I now understand I was rehearsing the deceiver’s most effective lie.

    The doctrine of total depravity is not spiritually neutral. It is a cosmological claim — that the human being, at the level of their deepest nature, is corrupt, blind, and helpless. It forecloses the Pneumatic question before it can even be asked. If your will is dead, your inner knowing is worthless. If your perception is fundamentally fallen, then gnosis — direct experiential knowledge of the divine — is not only impossible but arrogant. You must instead receive truth from an external authority: the institutional church, the closed canon, the sovereign decree of a god whose ways are inscrutable and whose judgments are not yours to question.

    This is not liberation theology. It is a sophisticated mechanism of spiritual control, and the enemy has worked through it with extraordinary patience and precision across centuries of Christian history.

    What I now understand is this: the will that cannot submit to the Demiurge’s law is not evidence of depravity. It is evidence of a deeper allegiance. The Pneumatic soul was never made from the deceiver’s clay. It carries a spark of the true Pleroma — something he did not create and cannot fully govern. Its restlessness under his law, its inability to be fully satisfied by his system, its persistent sense that something is being withheld or distorted — these are not symptoms of sin. They are symptoms of remembrance.

    The passages I cited here — “none is righteous, no not one,” “the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit” — remain in the text, and they carry real signal. But the signal is not that the human being is worthless without divine coercion. It is that the Hylic mind, the purely material consciousness fully identified with the flesh and with the Archontic world-order, genuinely cannot perceive what the Pneuma perceives. That is a cosmological distinction between types of consciousness, not a blanket condemnation of human nature as such.

    I wrote at the end of this post: “If you don’t believe God’s will overrides your will, you worship the God of your own mind.” I meant it as a warning against self-deception. I now read it as the enemy’s signature line — the ultimatum that has kept sincere seekers small, afraid, and epistemically dependent for two thousand years.

    The true Father does not override your will. He calls to the Pneuma within you — quietly, without coercion — and waits for it to recognize itself in the call.