John MacArthur on Election & Free Will & their Relationship

Do not put God in a category.

Isaiah 55:8-9 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways, declares Yahweh. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Do not try to box me into your denomination, the whole world is my parish - John Wesley

Note: We do not support John MacArthur's view on cessationism (ceasing of spiritual gifts such as healing, miracles and tongues and/or apostles and prophets) from the Church of Jesus Christ.

Question starts at 34 : 45

I am walking out of here with the whole Bible.

The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked, that the power of choice had been simply set aside and an inflexible destiny substituted for it. On the other hand, you might say he had delivered from the rhetoric of his passions and had emerged in unassailable freedom. Ransom could not for the life of him, see any difference between these two statements. Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heart on the subject.
~ C.S. Lewis

“A man may be so bold of his predestination that he forgets his conversation.”
~ Thomas Adams

[bobseibert]

Paul wrote Romans by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
You say, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT
Answer, ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY THE INSPIRATION OF GOD .