The Sinner's Responsibility

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God's sovereign power in quickening a dead soul to life must never be set over against the sinner's responsibility to receive the grace of God and obey His voice. Men often try to set one against the other in order to evade or reason away the responsibility. But you will generally find that they attach responsibility to power, or the want of it in man, not to that to which God attaches it-to man's will. The Lord, addressing sinners, says, "Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life"; not, Ye cannot. Yet, speaking abstractly, He also says, "No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him." (John 5:40; 6:4440And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (John 5:40)
44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44).) Ask a man who speaks of having no power to come to Christ, if he has the will-the desire-and you will soon test where he is.