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| There is no offer of salvation in John 3:16. John 3:16 is a statement on the greatness of God's love: Jesus Christ secured eternal life for all those given to Him: the evidence: the believing ones have eternal life! |
February 15, 2018
God's offer of salvation? A popular fable.
God
created; He didn't offer to create.
God
saves; He didn't offer to save.
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God the Father purposed salvation before time;
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God the Son accomplished that salvation through His life and death;
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God the Spirit sovereignly applies that salvation to each one at God's own
appointed and approved time in the effectual calling.
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God ordained the gospel ministry to call out such to believe in the gospel of
their salvation which has been freely and sovereignly applied to them when they
were dead in trespasses and sins
There
is no offering of salvation; if that salvation in Jesus Christ had been
offered, NONE would be saved. None is able to accept the offer.
Salvation
is obviously offered to them that are without salvation; but those without
salvation are STILL in their native state of sin and death, absolutely
incapable of perceiving spiritual things, much less accepting it. Not only that,
in their native state, they are in enmity against God. The offer of a Big Mac
to a dead man stands a better chance of being accepted.
Many
folks don't seem or refuse to realize: offering something to the dead is far
from being loving or kind; it is superstitious, and it taunts and mocks the dead.
Eternal
salvation in Christ is FREELY and SOVEREIGNLY applied to a man when he is dead
in trespasses and sins. Then he is
called to believe the gospel of his salvation.
Ephesians
1:13 KJV — In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed
with that holy Spirit of promise,
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