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March 13, 2010
The first order of business in dealing with a legally condemned, and spiritually dead sinner is to remove that condemnation by justification, and the deadness by regeneration. In both actions, it is wholly and solely by the FREE and sovereign grace of God ALONE... and necessarily so, because a man in a state of condemnation and deadness is utterly incapable of contributing anything, or meeting any condition.
Sing
F Lau
Before
God does these things, the most eloquent and faithful preaching of the gospel
would come across to the condemned dead sinner as utter foolishness.
But
to them that ARE SAVED - i.e justified, regenerated and adopted with the Spirit
of God indwelling the heart - the same gospel message, preached by the dullest
preacher, comes across as the message that speaks of the power of God in saving
him!
"For
the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us
which ARE SAVED it is the power of God."
When
the gospel comes to THEM THAT ARE SAVED... THAT IS, they are ALREADY SAVED BY GOD, i.e.
justified and regenerated (which necessary includes adoption and gift of the
Spirit to dwell within the heart) - the message SPEAKS OF, and IS PERCEIVED AS
the power of God unto salvation.
This
plain passage plainly CONDEMNS the FABLE of 'gospel regeneration.'
Sing
F Lau
God
ordained the gospel ministry NOT as an aid in His FREE and SOVEREIGN work of
justification and regeneration.
God ordained the gospel ministry as an instrument in the CONVERSION of His children (those already justified and regenerated by His free g… See more
Sing
F Lau
In
light of 2Tim 3:16-17, those who claim that the gospel preaching is the
necessary instrument for regeneration by God, therefore profitable to the work
of regeneration, is obviously LYING and are DECEIVED.
FREE
GRACE must produce the man of God first, otherwise all Scriptures would profit
the condemned dead man NOTHING. Instead, he is positively hostile and in enmity
against God, incapable of discerning any spiritual things.
'Salvation by grace alone' is just a religious shibboleth to so many.
Edna
Allen Strickland
You
are blessed with such a wonderful understanding of the scriptures--and able to
put your thoughts into words easy to be understood. Such a blessing from God.
Hope
and pray this helps many to understand that our eternal salvation does not
depend on ANYTHING we do. We do NOT accept Him. Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Sing
F Lau
But
to SO MANY, the first order of business in dealing with a legally condemned,
and spiritually dead sinner is to find a preacher, because they believe in a god
who needs and depends on the aid of man's preaching to regenerate, and man's
believing to justify!
Sing
F Lau
"In
both actions, it is wholly and solely by the FREE and sovereign grace of God
ALONE... and necessarily so, because a man in a state of condemnation and
deadness is utterly incapable of contributing anything, or meeting any
condition."
To
this, it must be added, that a man in the state of condemnation and deadness is
utterly UNABLE to benefit or profit from anything other sincere men zealously
endeavor to do. No amount of preaching would do him any good. The good news is
foolishness to him. He is utterly incapable of discerning spiritual things, of
which the whole gospel is completely spiritual in nature.
Cooking a most sumptuous meal for a dead man does not benefit him in anyway whatsoever! If he had been made alive by God's free grace, then such a meal would do him lots of good. The gospel ministry is profitable to those that are already justified and made alive by God's free grace... thus possessing the ability to believe.
Stephen
Gibney
We
are elected in eternity, regenerated and then justified by faith in time. There
is no such thing as eternal justification. That is imbalanced and unscriptural.
Stephen
Gibney
Christ
is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
election,
regeneration, then justification. If
there is no faith, there is no evidence of regeneration thus no
justification.
Sing F Lau
Check here for a biblical Order of Salvation:
https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2018/03/orderly-messed-up-order.html
[Rev
13:8 "And
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in
the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
1.
"From before the foundation of the world" is associated with the
names written in the book of life. It answers the question, WHEN were the names
written? From before the foundation of the world.
2.
"The Lamb that was slain" is related to the book of life. It answers
the question, WHOSE book of life? The book of life of the Lamb slain.
3.
To associate the Lamb slain with from before the foundation of the world is to
do violence to what is plainly stated in Rev 13:8.
Sing
F Lau
Stephen,
where did I even mention ETERNAL justification?
READ
this slowly and carefully. Stop imagining things. Stick to what is written.
Justification
was PURPOSED in eternity for all elect.
Justification
was ACCOMPLISHED in time for all elect by Christ at the cross
Justification
is APPLIED in time to the individual elect at the effectual calling
Justification
is EVIDENCED & EXPERIENCED in time by each child of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Justification
shall be publicly vindicated on the day of judgment.
Sir,
you have not even begun to realize that JUSTIFICATION is a multi-faceted
dazzling jewel. You see it as a common glass marble, i.e justification by faith
only!
Stop and think and study a bit.
Sing
F Lau
Men
come to faith in Christ BECAUSE they HAVE BEEN FREELY JUSTIFIED by the grace of
God; it's not IN ORDER to be justified! It's the just (the justified ones) who
shall live by faith!
Along
the way, some monumental and subtle errors took place. The crafty devil caused
the careless and unthinking children to exchange pure gold the fathers left to
them for a lump of gold-looking dung!...
Let
me explain.
The
Scriptures teach that God FREELY justifies an ungodly condemned dead man by His
grace, by freely applying the righteousness of Christ of life to him and
forgiving him of all his sins. This gives divine warrant for the Spirit to
regenerate this justified man.
Thus
FREELY justified and regenerated by grace, this man is able to believe when the
gospel ministry is ministered to him. In believing, his faith justifies him,
i.e. his faith demonstrates and manifests and vindicates that he is ALREADY
justified and regenerated by God's FREE grace, his believing gives him the
authority to claim that he is a child of God, since 'whoever believes HAS
eternal life' - believing is a manifestation eternal life.
This
is where the disaster took place.
The
LEGAL justification by the righteousness of Christ at the cross and the Vital
justification by God's FREE grace at effectual calling are not distinguished
from the EXPERIENTIAL justification by the believer's faith in Christ.
WORSE
STILL, the experiential justification by believer's faith is CONFUSED AS, and
FUSED WITH the justification by God's free grace.
Thus
they end up with the damnable heresy of legal justification by believer's
faith, and by believer's faith only!
How
the devil has deceived so many to embrace a lie as the truth!
Sing
F Lau
Brother
Stephen, 'justification by faith alone' as the sum total of the doctrine of
justification is likened to a one-fingered hand - a monstrous deformity, to say
the least.
Read
here:
