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#Who_errs_greatly?
Who
errs greatly? What if it is you yourself that err greatly? Will you repent of
your error?
One
Reformed Baptist Mr. Trevor Johnson, parroting another Reformed Baptist who is the principal of a ministerial academy, impudently said, "You err greatly
regarding this point, believing that it is possible for the Elect to be already
regenerate or justified chronologically prior to exercising faith."
My
response to his haughty ignorance.
Let
us take a few biblical examples to show that you err greatly.
Take
Abraham for example:
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Abraham was most certainly already JUSTIFIED by God, freely by His grace, as well as regenerated
when God called him out to leave the Ur of the Chaldean.
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Abraham had been an UNGODLY idolatrous man, dead in trespasses and sins in Ur.
But God effectually called him out of his native state of sin and condemnation and
death to that of grace and salvation.
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To call an ungodly man out of his state of sin and condemnation and death to
that of grace and salvation REQUIRES these activities of God (1) justification
by His free grace to remove the condemnation and apply the righteousness of
Christ; (2) regeneration by the sovereign act of the Spirit to give eternal
life, based on the righteousness applied personally, (3) adoption into the
family of God, to remove the alienation (4) and the giving of the Spirit of
adoption to dwell in Abraham.
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All these acts of God by His free and sovereign grace are NECESSARILY executed
in the effectual calling of a man out of his state of sin and dead.
The
effectual calling of Abraham produced the Abraham we see in Gen 12-14. What
kind of man do we see in Abraham?
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He was an obedient man. "And so Abraham departed, as the Lord had spoken
unto him." Gen 12:1,
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He often built altars unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord, Gen
12:8; 13:4,
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He was a man that the Lord has intimate dealings... 13:14,
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He was a man who feared and honoured the Lord... 14:22
But
so many Calvinists, not to mention the Arminians, in their obtuseness, insist
that Abraham was a condemned (i.e. un-justified) man before God in Gen 12-14,
and he was only justified by God in Gen 15:1-6.
According to Trevor's declaration, Abraham was both still condemned (i.e. UN-justified by God's free grace) and dead in trespasses and sins (UN-regenerated) in Gen 12-14. And he was NOT justified, nor regenerated, by God
UNTIL Abraham exercised his faith in Gen 15:1-6.
I
do believe these misguided folks deserve some sharp slaps from Father Abraham
for so grievously maligning him!
Let
God be true, and every Calvinist and Arminian who slander Abraham as
unjustified and unregenerated before his conversion in Gen 15:1-6.
Abraham
alone is enough to expose the lies and falsehood of this Calvinistic notion
"You err greatly regarding this point, believing that it is possible for
the Elect to be already regenerate or justified chronologically prior to
exercising faith.
Faith is an EFFECT of justification and regeneration.
excerpt
from here:
https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/151373898209910
p/s What about those devout Jews who came to Jerusalem to observe the Passover and Pentecost, the Ethiopian eunuch, Cornelius, Lydia, etc... Take off your coloured glasses and you will see better.
