Only a man whom God
has freely justified (yes, freely, not by your faith, an unjustified man is
impotent to exercise faith!) and regenerated and adopted and given the Spirit
of adoption to dwell in him is capable of believing because of the faith worked
in him by the indwelling Spirit.
Eternal salvation by the free grace of God
makes believing the truth of his salvation possible, and believing manifests
his justified state, freely by the grace of God. "The just shall live by
faith" is vividly demonstrated.
And believing the
truth of his salvation, freely by the grace of God based solely on the
righteousness and blood of Jesus Christ, saves a child of God from a whole host
of evils, lies, errors and superstition, and secures a whole host of spiritual
blessings in this life - i.e. temporal salvation.
From what did God,
in Jesus Christ and through His Spirit, save a man?
From what does
believing in the truth of the gospel save a man?
