The DONE, and the DO of Christ's Religion, Christ-ianity

The meme is taken from this post on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/ReformedEvangelical/photos/a.2146920555328783/2146921358662036/

Some thoughts on the Protestant and Reformed's idea of the DONE vs the DO conveyed in the meme.

Few things about the meme:

1. The Great Confusion of the DONE and the DO

VERY few do understand the DONE even though many scream and shriek "DONE, all by grace alone" ever so loudly. They betray their confusion through their denial of the DONE by their addition of many DO parts. They insist that they are monergistic; in reality, they are synergistic. 

They say it is a DONE thing, and then insist that it is not DONE until their DO parts are included. At best, they give lip service only; at worst, they are deceitful and misleading.

2. The DONE part
Actually, the truth is there are both the DONE and the DO, in that number and distinct order. That which is DONE is the eternal salvation:

- PURPOSED (i.e. DONE) by God in eternity for all the elect,

- ACCOMPLISHED (i.e. DONE) by Christ on the cross for all the same elect,

- APPLIED (DONE) to each elect personally by the Holy Spirit at the effectual calling; calling each elect out of his native state of sin and death to that of grace and salvation in Jesus Christ, at God's appointed and approved time.

- The DONE by the activities of the Triune God makes a man perfectly fit for eternal glory; nothing more is required; It is DONE. 
- Christ saved to the uttermost. It is FINISHED. There is no place for man's DO in his eternal salvation by the free and sovereign grace of God. 

- In this manner, it is indeed DONE, as DONE as DONE can be; leaving no more room for the DOs of any blood, flesh, or man (John 1:13).

- DONE, all DONE, freely and sovereignly by the activities of the Triune God alone. This is DONE without any DO of man. This is by GRACE ALONE; it excludes all activities of man.
- This is monergism, pure and simple, without the admixture human role whatsoever. 

But so many who - claimed to be monergists - mouth and spout the DONE insist that it is not DONE until they DO their part. The Reformed folks are the worst and most culpable offenders.  There is the absolute necessity of their DOs of preaching, of understanding, of believing, of perseverance, etc, withOUT which the Divine DONE is not DONE! What impudence!

- But it is the Divine DONE that makes these human DOs possible, and relevant. The DONE and the DO mustn't be confounded.

3. There is the DO part.

- The DO part has to do with the temporal salvation of those that are DONE by God. With the DONE part wholly and solely by the divine activities, there are the DO parts.

- There is the Divine sovereignty in the DONE part, and there is the human responsibility in the DO part; the human responsibility of those whom the divine sovereignty has DONE the work of eternal salvation.

- The DONE part and the DO parts must be carefully distinguished; they must not be confounded, otherwise, it leads to endless inconsistencies and errors.

- This is where both the Misinformed, the Deformed, and the Reformed are all messed up big time!!!

4. The DO parts are many and diverse, for example...

2Tim 4

1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

The glorious truth of what has been divinely DONE needs to be proclaimed to those that have been DONE by the Triune God, so that they may be made wise unto their eternal salvation by the free and sovereign grace of God, and be called to DO DO DO - to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling.

Titus 2

11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts are great DOs that call for intense struggle; living soberly, righteously and godly are the necessary DOs of those whom God has DONE and made fit for eternal glory. 

Phl 2:12

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

- Working out their own salvation by those whom God has DONE is the DO of Christ's religion. 

John 6

28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
- Believing in the one whom God has sent is the work to be DOne by those in whom God has DONE the work of eternal salvation. 

Both the DONE and the DO parts are of Christ's Religion, and the two must be distinguished and rightly divided to avoid confusion and inconsistencies and contradictions.

The DONE is solely by the free and sovereign activities of the Triune God in the eternal salvation of the elect; the DO is by those whom the Triune God have DONE, they DO for their spiritual wellbeing and usefulness in this brief life before they are ushered into their eternal inheritance in Christ Jesus. 

Christ's religion is BOTH the DONE and the DO, and they must be precisely distinguished. May the good Lord grant the reader understanding. Amen.