LOL! Preach the gospel unto all the world, even though you have to put up with all those vulgar unelected that think they're saved according to the gospel.
Once in a while you might get lucky and find one of the real elect. You'll know because they'll immediately start telling you that they're elected and everybody else isn't!
xJones: “LOL! Preach the gospel unto all the world, even though you have to put up with all those vulgar unelected that think they’re saved according to the gospel.”
It is interesting that you post this statement. It reminds me very much of the parable of the sower: Mark 4:3-8. There are obviously many of those folks in various stages of “followers” that never quite make it to the harvest - at least as far as Jesus saw it. Do you think Jesus knew amongst the throngs who had “ears to hear” and who did not (I suspect He did)? It never seemed to keep Him from preaching the Gospel.
Mar 4:3 “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
Mar 4:4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
Mar 4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.
Mar 4:6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.
Mar 4:7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
Mar 4:8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”