Free Will and the Right to Use It

Psalms 81:13 KJV

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

This passage squashes the theology of the hyper-Calvinist who refuses to acknowledge human responsibility. God did not superintend over Israel's free will.

• He gave them His will
• He provided leadership from Moses
• He directed them through the pillar
• He delivered to them His Word

But He left them with a free will and the right to exercise it.

God is sovereign. His plan is in operation and will be accomplished just as He has deemed. His work with both the Jewish a day the Gentile world will end exactly as He has decreed. But multitudes of both Jews and Gentiles will miss the plan of God because they have refused to hearken and walk in His ways.