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"He
hath made us accepted in the beloved"
versus
the popular lie of
"I
accepted Christ as my Saviour."
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Eph 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
"... HE HATH MADE US ACCEPTED..."
Saw this meme above and it stirs a thought.
It has been liked and loved by 488 people and shared 460 times. Of the 50 comments, nearly all are a simple and hearty "Amen."
What if I repeat it this way:
"The most important decision you can make in your life is accepting John (your father's name) as your father."
How does that sound?
I left the 51st comment,
"Only an ALREADY SAVED man can believe Jesus is his Saviour. Jesus is ALREADY his Saviour without any acceptance on his part; acknowledging the fact that Jesus IS his Saviour and accepting Him to be his Saviour are two vastly different concepts."
The former is the truth, the latter is a fable. It assumes that an unsaved man, still dead in trespasses and sins, is capable of perceiving spiritual things and accepting Jesus as the Saviour in order to be saved be saved by Him.
It is like saying that when you accept John as your father that he becomes your father and you his child; without your acceptation, he is not your father and you, not his child.
How stupid (i.e. without common sense) can one get? That's the effect of the ignorance of God's word.
1 Corinthians 1:18 KJV — For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which ARE SAVED it is the power of God.
There is one acceptation that matters and hardly any boast about it. They are obsessed with their acceptation but are oblivious of having been made accepted in the first place.
Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
