Can a person resist the Father’s drawing?
Quick Answer
Yes, according to the Teaching. Yah can stir, convict, open, and draw the heart, while a person can still resist, grumble, refuse to seek, or hold to existing assumptions. The Teaching presents the response as voluntary rather than forced.
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Many Are Called Few Are Chosen – What does this mean?
This Teaching examines Yeshua’s statement in Matthew 22:14, “many are called, but few are chosen,” in the context of the wedding-feast parable and the broader scriptural pattern of Israel, the remnant, the Father’s drawing, and a person’s response. It challenges uses of the verse that make a denomination or religious organization the exclusive group of the chosen. The Teaching emphasizes that Yah desires people to repent and be saved, while Scripture also describes a faithful remnant. In the Teaching’s explanation, the call is an invitation that requires a response; the Father draws by teaching, stirring, opening, convicting, and changing the heart; and the person may respond or resist. The wedding garment represents being properly attired in the grace and righteousness provided through Messiah, expressed in a faithful life. The closing emphasis is Revelation 17:14: those with the Lamb are “called, chosen, and faithful.”
