Free Will Outline

​1. What is free will?
A voluntary choice or decision;  freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by things outside their control or by divine intervention.
2. Providential Will vs. Permissive Will
            A. Providential Will       Revelation 20:12-15
            B.  Permissive Will   His permissive will allows us to have free will.  Acts 21:4,11
3. Where does free will come from?
God designed us that way. The concept of free will is throughout the bible but there is no direct scripture stating the fact. Here are a few scriptures that show free will- that we choose.

 *Proverbs 16:9  A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
* Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve;  whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
* John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 
*Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
*Proverbs 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
*Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

4. Why did God design free will?         To choose Him, to glorify Him
 
5. Process of free will
            Chart 2        thought- decision- emotion/feeling- behavior
   
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7. Results of free will
            A. Accountability to God
            B. Actions affect others
            C. Actions affect self & relationship with God    Proverbs 8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.