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NASB | John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth. |
Subject: A work of God's Free Grace |
Bible Note: I listened to the podcast and found it interesting. In the beginning 15 minutes or so they spent a lot of time defining justification but no time on defining “beliefâ€. In there is where our differences lie. At the 16 minute until the last 5 or 6 minutes I agree with what they said ( I will re listen to make sure of this). In fact they talked as no Calvinist I ever heard ever has. But then they slipped in the agenda at about the 5-6 minute to the end with their take on Noah. Again the differences are not Justification, Grace or works the differences are our understanding of the word “believeâ€. To me that is a verb, an action word, a word that in and of itself is work. It requires a conscious decision of the part of the believer to believe. If we remove the conscious decision then we remove any responsibility of man in both sin and salvation. We either make a decision or the decision is made for us. If is made for us then our responsibility ends. If we are charged with the making the decision which clearly John 3:16 says we are then it is man that effects receiving or rejecting the salvation freely given. That is the work of James, along with the what the podcast discussed at minutes 16 through to the last 5 or 6 minutes. |