Thank you for sharing these messages here! Thank you all so much for uploading these messages so that I can listen when I am not in town! Praise the Lord!
This verse is pulled out of its context and trotted out as proof of 'free will'. Who was being addressed? God's people; they had gone astray and were being reminded of the allegiance they already claimed to God. This has not one thing to do with sinners being able to choose or reject salvation. Who would ever choose to perish in their sins? Man is dead in trespasses and sin; go to a cemetery and tell a corpse to choose to raise themselves from the dead.....