There’s not one person on Earth outside the will of God. He hardens people and he softens people. Even the wicked glorify God in doing his will. You, me, and every other person plays their part. Jesus can take me or any other person on Earth out of the picture tonight. We’d have no choice in the matter. You’re not as in control as you think you are. You’re subject to Jesus as much as me or anybody else. We will either bow down to his lordship in this life, or we’ll find out the truth in our afterlife. And pretending to be a Christian doesn’t cut it, if even you had a long and good churchy life here on Earth. God already knows, and he knew before he created the literal Creation. Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me THIS way?!” Imagine you physically die, and as you are being cast into the Lake of Fire, you scream at God, “I don’t like your plan! Why did you harden my heart and form me to be who I am?!” Now imagine how many people are unwittingly saying this very thing even now on Earth! If you could really see what the Bible teaches about the sovereignty of God, you’d know that God is definitely not obligated to reply to you as you are being cast into the Lake of Fire. He is God. We are not.

Romans 9:14-23, “14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,”