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January
4, 2020
#16th_century
#21st_century
#Still_parroting_the_same_fable
How
are "the means of grace [freely] offered" and "the gospel is
more than free offer and an open invitation...." be of any good news to those
who are dead in trespasses and sins?
How
is the offer of "the means of grace" good news? What is offered and
to whom?
How
is the gospel being "more than a free offer and an open invitation"
good news? What is offered, and who is invited to what?
How
is the command "to repent and believe" good news, and good news to
who? Who can obey such command?
Here
is the good news, the gospel of God/Christ/grace:
God,
through His Spirit, effectually call a sinner out of his native state of sin
and death to that of grace and salvation in Christ Jesus - freely and
sovereignly, without human or gospel instrumentality. The gospel ministry is ordained to call out
the effectually called to repent and believe the truth of their salvation by
the free and sovereign grace of God, and to disciple them in the context of
local churches.
Why
are so many following so blindly?
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#The_gospel_is_good_news
#It_does_not_offer_salvation
The gospel is the good news of what the
Triune God HAS DONE to save for Himself a people, and they are called to
believe that truth of their salvation:
- God had chosen a people and purposed
eternal salvation for them by a Redeemer;
- Christ the Redeemer secured that eternal
salvation through His redemptive for the same people;
- the Holy Spirit applies, at God's
appointed time, that same eternal salvation to each one (chosen of God, and
redeemed by Christ) personally when they were yet in their native state of sin
and death.
The gospel is not even an offer; so, it
can't possibly be more than an offer in any sense nor is it an open invitation.
Supposing that it is, please tell, what is offered, and to whom offered; and
who are invited, and unto what are they invited? PRAY TELL, who can accept such
an offer or open invitation?
The gospel ministry has been ordained by
Christ for the calling out of such whom the Spirit of God has applied the
salvation accomplished by Him for His people. There is no offer of anything.
The call to repentance towards God and faith
in the Saviour is intended for those to whom the Holy Spirit has already freely
applied the salvation secured by Christ, calling them to believe "the
truth of their salvation." Eph 1:13.
To repent and believe in Jesus Christ is the
duty and work God requires of His children, those whom He has saved; such are
required to believe the truth of their salvation.
"These do and be saved" is the essence of both Arminianism and Calvinism;
"These do because God has freely saved you" is the essence of the gospel of God/Christ/grace. Amen.
