So, you initiated having the gift of a sandwich made, and then offered, and then you refused? Do I have that correct?
Or did someone offer and then you resisted?
Did you receive or did you resist?
Since all major contractors know the rules and cannot afford to violate them (not in a meeting with hundreds of people!), the contractor required payment for sandwiches. If they had not, I would have refused the offer.
When someone discussed post-military employment, I simply told them I wasn’t interested. One small contractor offered me meals, and I said I couldn’t accept.
Like the Jews who rejected Jesus, I chose not to receive what I was offered.
We believe or not. That is an act. We actively do it. We do not receive belief as a gift. Faith (a noun) describes what we have when we believe (a verb).
Faith and believing are not gifts we are irresistibly given from God. The opportunity is a gift, and the salvation is a gift, if we receive by believing.
When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
“For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Jesus never says, “Receive belief in the Gospel.”