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1 | calling all sinners | Matt 13:11 | Overcoming | 160796 | ||
What a thought provoking question, I guess everone agrees The Truth must be revealed before ANYONE can understand it. How and to whom is it revealed seems to be the question. 1. Is it not but by the Holy Spirit that the Truth is comprehended. 1 Cor 2:10-12,10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. NKJV 2. Who does God give the Holy Spirit to? Acts 5:32 32 And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him." NKJV |
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2 | calling all sinners | Matt 13:11 | DocTrinsograce | 160803 | ||
Hi, Over... Actually, technically speaking, regeneration logically precedes conversion, in the orthodox Christian perspective. (See post 151193.) The natural man is unable and unwilling to accept the things of God (1 Cor 2:14), for it is not in his nature. As John Hendryx so aptly puts it, God must perform this spiritual change "in the heart of man by the Holy Spirit in which his/her inherently sinful nature is changed so that he/she can respond to God in Faith, and live in accordance with His Will (Matt. 19:28; John 3:3,5,7; Titus 3:5). It is an inner re-creating of fallen human nature by the gracious sovereign action of the Holy Spirit (John 3:5-8). This change is ascribed to the Holy Spirit. It originates not with man but with God (John 1:12, 13; 1 John 2:29; 5:1, 4). It extends to the whole nature of man, altering his governing disposition, illuminating his mind, freeing his will, and renewing his nature." "Just as in the beginning God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, so, at the moment He appointed for our new birth, he said, 'Let there be life' and there was life." --J. A. Motyer In Him, Doc |
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