I have to ask: Do you agree, disagree with the video? Keep in mind the word used for ‘resist’ in this context is ‘antipipto’ (Acts 7:51)

STRONGS: From G473 and G4098 (including its alternate); to oppose: – resist.
THAYER: 1) to fall upon, run against;  2) to be adverse, oppose, strive against

Is it not true that all men strive against the Holy Spirit? Is it not true that all outside of Christ oppose the Holy Spirit? Of course it is! But I personally will stop short of saying of the Holy Spirit this claim:  “When I say irresistible grace, I do not mean you cannot resist it.” Irresistible grace can be resisted?  Where in the Scriptures does it say that God’s grace, or better, effectual calling, can be resisted?

Rom 9:18  So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. (ESV)
Joh 6:44  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. (ESV)

Yet this statement by Piper troubles me a tad, namely “He [the Father] makes Christ look so compelling, this is the way it works I think, that our resistance is broken and we freely come to Him and receive Him and believe in Him.”

It troubles me because I have all too often witnessed the attempt by preachers to portray Christ Jesus in such a way as to tug at the heart strings of people so that their “resistance would be broken.” And worse, that they ‘freely’ come to Him. This is not how salvation is wrought in a soul. This is precisely how easy-believism has entered into modern evangelicalism! Emotions. Man never comes freely. No, no, that is simply not in Scripture! This almost appears to be a subtle nod to free-willism does it not?

Brethren, when it comes to the effectual calling of a soul to salvation, that is, irresistible grace, God’s will is never resisted. Never. If He calls one to Himself, there is no resistance! There is no need to present Christ as to make Him “compelling” to a lost soul. Salvation has always been, is still, and always shall be, en totem, a work of the Lord, not of any man, nor a man’s ‘coming freely’ because Jesus has been presented in a ‘compelling’ way.  A clear presentation of the Gospel is absolutely sufficient, for it alone is the power of God unto salvation!