The Bible is the word of God such that to listen to the Bible is to listen to God; to believe the Bible is to believe God; to revere the Bible is to revere God; to obey the Bible is to obey God; to speak the Bible is to speak the words of God. — Eric Davis (of Cripplegate)
There is not a single person under God’s judgment who can truthfully say, “I wanted Christ, I came to Him, I trusted Him, and He turned me away.” Jesus Himself shuts that door completely: “the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” (John 6:37).
That matters because fallen man often wants many things from God without wanting God Himself. We want relief from guilt, escape from judgment, healing, peace, security, heaven, even religious respectability. But Scripture says something much darker about the natural heart: “There is none who seeks for God” (Romans 3:11). Jesus said, “you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life” (John 5:40).
Furthermore, nobody ends up condemned because Christ was unwilling to save a sinner who truly came to Him. The problem lies in the sinner’s heart. “Men loved the darkness rather than the Light” (John 3:19). That is hard truth, but it leaves man without excuse. The sinner’s bondage is not that he desperately wants Christ and is refused. His bondage is that, apart from grace, he does not want the Christ Scripture reveals.
And this is exactly why grace must go deeper than invitation. God must open the heart, grant repentance, give life, and draw the sinner to the Son (Acts 16:14; 2 Timothy 2:25; John 6:44). When He does, the sinner comes willingly. Grace does not drag a man into Christ while he is kicking against Him. Grace changes what he loves.
I must say, this also guards us from speaking as though election means God keeps willing sinners outside while admitting others arbitrarily. Jesus says, “the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” (John 6:37). The gospel can therefore be preached freely to every sinner: come to Christ. Turn from sin. Believe on Him. Anyone who truly comes will be received.
So no condemned soul will ever be able to accuse Christ of refusing mercy. The tragedy is worse than that. Men loved darkness, resisted the light, and would not come. And every sinner who does come eventually discovers that grace had already been at work long before he ever thought of seeking Christ.
John Cleese paid his third wife $20 million when they divorced. They had no children together.
The payout left her richer than him. At 70, he had to go back on the road on what he called “The Alimony Tour.”
They married in 1992. There was no prenup. Every hit that made him famous was written decades before they ever met.
During their 16-year marriage, Cleese even paid to put her two sons from an earlier marriage through private school and college.
In 2008, Alyce Faye Eichelberger filed for divorce in California. She asked for half of everything he had earned since 1992, plus $125,000 a month.
The judge gave her $13 million in cash and real estate, including a New York apartment, a London flat, and half of his Santa Barbara beach house. Then he added $1 million a year for seven years.
Cleese had to sell his own homes just to wire her the cash.
About the payout, he said: “Think what I’d have had to pay Alyce if she had contributed anything to the relationship, such as children, or a conversation.”
In the video below, Cleese walks out on stage and tells the crowd why he’s still working at 71: “I call it The Alimony Tour Year 3, or Feeding the Beast.”
The case for Alyce: 16 years is a long marriage, and California splits marital wealth 50/50 when there’s no prenup.
The case for John: handing $20 million from a childless marriage to a spouse who didn’t help build the fortune is legalized robbery.
Do the math. Sixteen years of marriage. No kids. $1.25 million for every year.
Should a childless divorce ever cost $20 million, or is that the price of skipping a prenup?
How did we go from Rising Tiger of Asia to having the highest inflation in SEA, a weakening peso, and 19.61 trillion in debt and still counting? I will never be sorry for saying putangina ng mga sumusuporta at naniniwala sa mga Duterte at Marcos :)
I'm a Kakampink, and I'll say this, BBM is doing below the bare minimum as a President. Palubog lahat, ekonomiya, utang, halaga ng piso.
Pati Natural Resources lulubog na din sa mga project na lumulusot sa kanya.
And NO, hindi si sara ang solusyon, parte sya ng problema.
BUMOTO NG MAAYOS SA SUSUNOD!!!
7 truths everyone needs to hear:
1. Life is shorter than you think.
2. Sin is more serious than you realize.
3. Death is an appointment you cannot cancel.
4. Judgment awaits every person.
5. Hell is eternal, and there are no exits.
6. Salvation cannot be earned through good works.
7. Jesus Christ is the only way to eternal life.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
- Romans 6:23