Rachel Hammett

Saved by Grace- Blessed beyond measure & loving life!

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

@AMarch4OurLives And the problem is???

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

@JamesBryantWX Leave 🤣

[Joseph Spurgeon @Joseph_Spurgeon]

The Calvinism debate can be boiled down to one stubborn question that the Noncalvinist never really answers.

Imagine two twin brothers. Same home. Same parents. Same basic upbringing. Both hear the same gospel. Both are told they are sinners. Both hear that Christ died and rose again. Both are commanded to repent and believe.

One believes. The other rejects Christ. What made the difference? That is the question. Not whether the believer really chose Christ. Calvinists believe that he did. The question is: Why did he choose Christ when the other man did not?

Maybe you say one understood the gospel better. Fine. Why? Maybe one was more humble. Why? Maybe one had experiences that softened him. Maybe certain conversations, sufferings, relationships, memories, warnings, or circumstances prepared him to respond differently. Ok Why?

Because now you are talking about providence.

God put this man in this family, at this time, in this place. God brought these people across his path. God ordained these circumstances. God caused him to hear this particular preacher proclaim this particular gospel message at this particular moment.

So did those providential differences explain why he believed?

If yes, then God’s providence made the difference. And now you have to ask why God gave one man the providential influences that brought him to faith and not the other.

But suppose you deny that. Suppose you say none of those things actually explains the difference. Both men received sufficient grace. Both were equally able to believe. Their circumstances did not determine it. Their experiences did not determine it. Their understanding did not determine it.

Then what did?

Maybe you say the believer had stronger desires for Christ. Then where did those desires come from? If his desires explain his choice, then they are part of the explanation for why he believed.

Maybe you say it was his character. Then what shaped that character?

Maybe you say it was his nature. Then why did his nature move him toward Christ while the other man's did not?

Every time you give a real explanation for why this man believed rather than rejected Christ, you are identifying something that actually made the difference. And then we can ask where that difference came from.

But to escape the difference being God's decisive acts, the non calvinist eventually refuses to let anything explain the decisive difference.

Not providence. Not nature. Not character. Not desires. Not understanding. Not circumstances. Not differing grace.

So what finally explains why one man believed?

His will chose to. Why did his will choose Christ rather than reject Christ?

Because it just did.

That is not an explanation though. Its just arbitrariness. This is the fatal problem with what is called libertarian free will: the will becomes the unexplained explainer.

The libertarian can give you all kinds of reasons the man had for believing. But here is the question that matters: What was the choice-specific reason he believed rather than rejected Christ? If precisely the same nature, desires, reasons, circumstances, influences, and grace could have produced the opposite choice, then none of those things explains why this choice actually occurred.

Everything could remain exactly the same, and the will could simply fire the other direction. This is by definition arbitrary and rationally unintelligible.

The Reformed view does not have this problem because we do not imagine the human will as some autonomous little god floating above the man’s nature, affections, desires, and reasons.

Men choose according to what they want. Their choices are real. Their desires are real. Their reasoning is real. Their willing is real. But the will belongs to a person, and fallen man, left to himself, does not want God. He loves darkness rather than light. He will not come to Christ that he may have life.

So why does anyone believe?

Because God makes the difference. God chooses. God governs providence. God sends the preacher. God brings the gospel. And through that gospel, by the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit, God does not merely stand outside the sinner begging an autonomous will to make the right choice.

God gives life to the dead. He takes out the heart of stone and gives a heart of flesh. He renews the will. He opens blind eyes. He changes what the sinner loves. Christ, whom the sinner once rejected, is now seen as glorious and desirable.

And then the man chooses Christ. Really chooses Him. Freely chooses Him. God does not believe for the sinner. God does not repent for him. God does not drag him into the kingdom against his will. God changes the man, and therefore the man comes willingly.

So put the two brothers beside each other again. One believes. One does not.

Why?

The noncalvinist eventually says, “Because one will chose one way and the other will chose another,” and when you ask why, the explanation finally evaporates.

The Reformed Christian has an answer. God made the difference. And therefore the believer does not finally look at his unbelieving brother and say, “We received the same grace, but I arbitrarily supplied the decisive difference.”

He says with Paul: “By the grace of God I am what I am.”

That is the difference between Calvinism and NonCalvinism. One ends with an autonomous will that has no rational explanation and yet did the most vital work for salvation.

The other ends with grace. From beginning to end, sovereign grace.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

@CapturingChrist @WesleyLHuff The New Testament is reliable and the Catholic Church is not, hope this helps 👍🏻

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

@BerylBaptist Excellent sermon!

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

Nope, you’re not ✌🏻

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

I am a Christian pastor in Texas and I am 100% against this.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

OR represent us in the Olympics ✌🏻

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Call me extreme, but I don’t think people who hate America should sing at the Super Bowl

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

Wait… I thought Republicans and Trump were going to destroy America?? 🤨

[Anthony Cabassa @anthonycabassa]

BREAKING 🚨: anti-ice protestors have just destroyed a federal security kiosk and celebrate as federal agents are in full retreat. They have completely taken over the federal parking lot, outnumbering agents hundreds to one.

No local police presence to what’s ongoing.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

Same ✌🏻

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

If you don’t believe

- Jesus is the only way to heaven
- Murdering babies is wrong
- Men can’t become women

I don’t care one iota what you think about theology, morality, or politics

If you only ever speak out about political issues when liberals are outraged, I am not at all interested in your take on anything going on.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

@tara42371 😂 I remember when that was said about Trump too 🤣🥴

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

Vance/Rubio 2028! ❤️🤍💙

[Fox News @FoxNews]

VP VANCE: "There's a part of me that feels very, very sad for this woman, not just because she lost her life, but because I think she is a victim of left-wing ideology."

"What young mother shows up and decides they're going to throw their car in front of ICE officers who are enforcing legitimate law? You've got to be a little brainwashed to get to that point."

"I certainly wish that she hadn't got there. I know there's an ICE officer right now who very much wishes he was not put in the position where he had to fire a gun to defend his own life."

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

Wasn’t this boy racing and winning against girls perk enough? The only victims here are the girls he cheated, twice.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Verónica García is a transgender athlete who won the girls high school 400-meter championship in Washington state — twice.

Her success did not come with any perks. Instead, she was subject to abuse from people who oppose transgender women participating in women’s sports. https://t.co/G6nr5Q94d5

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

@wadelentz I made it 22 seconds… he’s mispronounced Beryl and your last name, even spelled it wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️ Bless his heart

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

Tell me you didn’t attend the Bible Conference @BerylBaptist with @YourCalvinist without telling me… pray the Lord softens his heart and opens his eyes to the Gospel 🙏🏻

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

"I want to be good cause you want to prove to God that you're good so you go to that next step, right?"

People get mad at me every time I say it, but our president very sadly does not understand the biblical Gospel and we need to keep praying for him.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

Whoa now… is this that Christian Nationalism I’ve been told is so dangerous!?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Proverbs 21:13:
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

My 6 yr old boy’s prayer tonight before bed was that “Jesus would save the shooter’s heart before he was in the presence of God’s wrath.” 🥹

[Bradley Pierce @bradleypierce]

Pray for Charlie Kirk's killer.

Pray for his salvation, to repent and believe in Jesus.

And pray for his confession, conviction, and swift execution, as God demands.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man." Gen 9:6

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It’s all about Jesus.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

By the grace of God 🙌🏻

[Brian Sauvé @Brian_Sauve]

If you grew up in the public school and popular media world and still:

-got married
-had 3+ kids

You are probably pretty good at identifying and resisting propaganda.

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

@mrsdobbins_ Totally agree!!! ESP places food is served or sold 🤮

[Rachel Hammett @RachelHammett2]

This is unreal… accountability for your actions, not a new concept! There is no “restorative justice” when a life, or in this case 3, is lost. The people responsible for giving him a CDL should be held accountable too.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Over 1.65M people have signed a petition to free the illegal immigrant truck driver who made an illegal U-Turn, taking the lives of 3 Americans.

The petition argues that Harjinder Singh should be sentenced to counseling or community service.

Some supporters are leaving video messages, like the ones below.

"We, the undersigned, respectfully petition for clemency or sentence reduction on behalf of a 28-year-old Punjabi man who, in a tragic and unintentional incident, caused a truck accident that resulted in the loss of three lives," the Change . org petition says.

"Consider alternative sentencing options, such as restorative justice measures, counseling, or community service, aligning with both accountability and compassion."