Thursday, July 29, 2010

God's acting in us and through us in unity

God's soveriegnty in Salvation actually upholds Evangelism. I look at this in two degrees. 1. Ontologically (Primarily as God is depicted in the Scriptures as being a Triune Person; God in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and 2. First Causes (Justification, Regeneration, Faith, Election, and Repentance).

My Scripture sources: Romans 12:1-2 and also Ephesians 2:8-10 for first causes and Galatians 3:1-14 for Ontological purposes.

My reason for this thought is that if all of History is for the Glory of God and God is by nature a triune God then that would mean that the Trinity is also at work in the salvation of His People and the purpose of Creation is to magnify the glory of Christ through the Cross and thus give heedance that if God the Father elects some to salvation, and Christ actually goes out and accomplishes that salvation on behalf of his Elect and then the Spirits job is to effectually call those that the Father has Elected and the Son has died on behalf for (Romans 10). For the reason is that the triune God does not work seperately but together, although they have different jobs they primarily work together in unity. (This is probably more of a Johnathan Owen argument) All this is to mean that in evangelism, the reason that evangilism is upheld with the person and nature of God is that the Spirit will not work without Jesus Christ and Him Crucified preached to the lost souls.

On the First Causes: Man's inability to come to God on his own unless the Spirit, who works through the preached word of Christ Jesus, regenerates the dead man and causes faith and repentance to come so that the dead man may believe and have faith in Christ Jesus and so may be Justified by faith alone in Christ Jesus Alone all by the grace of God alone.

Although I have seperated these two points they should really be read together as one. My whole point is that God soveriegnly saves men and women to be saved through the preached word of Christ Jesus that is the Gospel. It is through the power of the Holy Spirit that our nature is changed to go out and evangelise those who are dead in their trespasses and sins Romans 6:4.

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