#justification_regeneration_adoption_faith
#justification_manifested_by_faith
EVEN SO, faith is the consequence of
justification by God's free grace.
Why? An unjustified man is still in his
native state of condemnation and death, incapable of faith. Elementary. Period.
With the accounting of the righteousness of
Christ in justification, freely by God's grace, IT IS UNTO justification of
LIFE. LIFE enables faith.
Romans 5:18 KJV — Therefore as by the offence
of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness
of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Justification by God's free grace based on
the righteousness of Christ alone is logically followed by the regeneration by
the Holy Spirit; regeneration is accompanied by the adoption by the Father
and the bestowal of the Spirit of adoption to dwell in the justified; the
indwelling Spirit works the grace of faith in the child of God, enabling him to
believe.
Romans 8:15 KJT
For ye have not received the spirit of
bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father.
Please note: eternal salvation is the
gift, not faith; faith is a saving
grace, among all others, worked in a child of God by the indwelling Holy
Spirit. Eph 2:8; Gal 5:22.
"The reason why any are justified IS NOT
because they have faith; but the reason why they have faith IS because they are
justified." Dr John Gill and ALL his old school Baptists contemporaries.
The new school Baptists - whether the
Calvinistic or the Arminian variety - believe the reverse, i.e. "The reason why any are justified IS
because they have faith." That's ALSO putting the cart before the horse
but they are oblivious of their folly.
O LORD, open Thou their eyes to see the error
of their ways, and convert them to the gospel truth.
James 5 - KJT
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the
truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the
sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
multitude of sins.
