Chosen, Convicted or Resist the Invitation?

"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what as lost."* Luke 19:10 (Many are called, but few are chosen.) The rest of mankind... still did not repent.* Revelation 9:20 "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." (Hebrews 4:7c). Many have been putting off salvation because the sinful life is hardening a sinner's will and making it more and more difficult for a sinner to repent. The sinner's heart, for selfish reasons deliberately hardens against the Holy Spirit's conviction. If they continue reject the conviction of the Holy Spirit, they are to embrace error of the consequence which really is very heart-hardening. For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, / and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." (Romans 9:15). "Have mercy...pardon" are the changes God makes in and for a sinner. To be saved a sinner must submit to the Holy Spirit's conviction to repent and be changed. To enter the kingdom of God, our Lord explained, a sinner must be born again (John 3:3-7). Later in John 6:65, Jesus went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him." A.W. Tozer: Quote

"Most persons are apathetic, insensitive to matters of the heart and the conscience, and so are not salvable, at least not in their present condition. But when God begins to work in a man to bring him to salvation He makes him acutely sensitive to evil. Inward repulsion toward the swine pen that rouses the prodigal and starts him back home is a gift of God to His chosen."

Another by A.W. Tozer "When God begins to work in a man to bring him to salvation He makes him acutely sensitive to evil. Another mark of the Spirit's working is a mighty moral discontent. It does take a work of God in a man to sour him on the world and to turn him against himself; yet until this has happened he is psychologically unable to repent and believe!" Can a sinner accept the invitation without repenting? "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28 Remember the story about the rich ruler? Jesus looked after the rich young ruler as he walked away, but Jesus did not follow him or attempt to coerce him. Jesus wants people make their own moral choices; and Christ knew this and permitted rich ruler to go his own chosen way. Jesus is saying that He cannot do our repenting for us. He died for our sins, now it is up to us to pick up the cross. "Salvation is free, ... but discipleship will cost you your life." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) A disciple must understand that God is both holy and loving; that I am a sinner, are made in the image of God; that Christ's death was the substitute payment for my sin; and that because of Jesus' payment, I am granted access to the heart of God. Luke 14:27 And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:33 In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.