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Golf is a good walk spoiled, as they say. We are commanded to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere, confident those to whom He gives new ears to hear and new eyes to see and a new heart of flesh to understand and a renewed mind to believe will, in perfect fact, at a time of His choosing, according to the purposeful, eternal determination of God through the Holy Spirit, hear, see, understand and believe in Jesus Christ as Lord, Savior and God.

All because God ordained it to be so from before the foundation of the world.

Of course our earthly sanctification is worked out in gratitude and awe in the mighty power of the Triune God. We know who we were without it. We also know not to fear, but to trust in Him for all things. -- "Be not afraid; only believe." -- Mark 5:36

By the will of God, for the glory of God, we do.

I Peter 1:23-25 God says we have been born again through His word which has been preached to us. I understand you to say that you preach the gospel in the hope that someone who has already been saved will happen upon you and respond to the word of God? Is God not powerful enough to make his predestination stick on the front end? Why make me muck about sinning everywhere, if I can just do it right from the start? This isn’t the God I read of in the Holy Scripture.