Whether awareness of spiritual truth to the sinner dawns as something initially muted, remarkably distinct, or nuanced as an effect of the Father’s regenerating mercy, it is nevertheless consistent in its outcome: a steadfast love toward and hope expressed as faith in the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. We affirm that by grace through faith a man is saved. That the initiative of the transition from death to life is with God the Apostle is emphatically clear to articulate. In the passage before us God’s sovereign work in redemption through the agency of His Spirit by means of the application of His Word is expressed unequivocally.
To the sinner the glorious metamorphosis from death to life appears and is often misinterpreted as his doing, for the Gospel is presented and he finds himself believing it, yet unbeknownst to him the new found faith expressed is the result of a prior work of grace; viz., the Spirit of God regenerating his dead heart of stone in bondage to sin, quickening the heart and creating a whole new nature, one inclined for the first time to the things of God, a nature drawn to that which earlier was considered detestable. Read it all
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