Let me put it in simple terms.

Anytime that you sin, what that action indicates is that the moment of your sin, your desire

to commit the sin is greater than your desire is to obey Christ.

If your desire to obey Christ were greater than your desire to commit the sin, you would

not sin.

But at the moment of choice, we always follow our strongest inclination, our strongest

disposition or our strongest desires.

All week we have been considering the topic of God's sovereignty in salvation, how it

relates to human-free will and who will be redeemed and who won't.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham and I'm glad you're joining us today for renewing your mind.

I think one of the biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to accepting the absolute sovereignty

of God, especially over salvation, is the idea of human-free will.

Didn't you freely choose to come to Christ?

How is it then that the Bible teaches that God elects who will be saved and who won't?

Well today, Dr. Sproul's going to answer those questions in a message titled, What is

Free Will?

Anytime that we examine the question of predestination, I think the question that is raised more often

than any other is the question of the relationship between God's sovereignty and our free will

as human beings.

And so in this session, I want to direct our attention to an examination of what we mean

by those words free will.

What does it mean to have a free will?

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