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NASB	Acts 9:11 And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,
AMPLIFIED 2015	Acts 9:11 And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight, and ask at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul; for he is praying [there],

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Bible Question: I am new to this, but I am trying.......
I see what was answered concering the sinner's prayer, but, neither did I see any scripture references in the answer, nor, have I ever found one use of the sinner's prayer in the Bible. In Acts 9, Paul was told to go to Damascus; it would be told to him what he "must" do. The referenced scripture and those that follow seem to indicate that praying, by itself, was insufficient for Paul. Acts 22:16 tells us what Paul "must" do: NASB Acts 22:16 'Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.' Paul had spent three days in prayer. Can we not determine that "calling on His name" must be a physical act of obedience, rather than a vocalization?

Bible Answer: Dear DRDance,

Nothing we say, do, or think can merit salvation. Nothing we can say, do, or think can obligate God to save us.

The various steps in the blessing of salvation are called the ordo salutis (see Post #151193).

The third step is the gospel call or the effective call. It is also known broadly as the effectual calling. The previous two aspects of salvation, election and predestination, occur outside of the believer, that is, they are objective. This is the first of the subjective aspects.

"Effective calling is an act of God the Father, speaking through the human proclamation of the gospel, in which He summons people to Himself in such a way that they respond in saving faith." --Wayne Grudem

See Romans 1:6, 7, 8:28, 11:29, 1 Cor 1:2, 26, 7:20, Eph 1:18, 4:4, Phil 3:14, Jude 1, 2 Tim 1:9, Heb 3:1, 2 Peter 1:10, Rev 17:14, etc.

"Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, He doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the Gospel." --Westminster Shorter Catechism (Question 31)

When the person is effectually called by God through the Word and the Holy Spirit:

o God calls them "to be conformed to the image of His Son" (Rom 8:29)

o God calls them "out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9)

o God calls them "into the fellowship of His Son" (1 Cor 1:9; cf. Acts 2:39)

o God calls them to "belong to Jesus Christ" (Rom 1:6)

o God calls them to "be saints" (Rom 1:7; 1 Cor 1:2)

o God calls them into peace (1 Cor 7:15; Col 3:15)

o God calls them into holiness (1 Thes 4:7)

o God calls them into patient endurance of suffering (1 Pet 2:20-21; 3:9)

o God calls them to eternal life (1 Tim 6:12)

You can read more of the ordo salutis in this forum by using the search function.

In Him, Doc

"A man may be evidently of God’s chosen family, and yet though elected, may not believe in the doctrine of election. I hold that there are many savingly called, who do not believe in effectual calling, and that there are a great many who persevere to the end, who do not believe in the doctrine of perseverance. We hope that the hearts of many are a great deal better than their heads. We do not set their fallacies down to any willful opposition to the truth as it is in Jesus, but simply to an error in their judgments, which we pray God to correct. We hope that if they think us mistaken too, they will reciprocate the same Christian courtesy; and when we meet around the cross, we hope that we shall ever feel that we are one in Christ Jesus." --Charles Hadon Spurgeon

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