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NASB | 2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 1:12 This is why I suffer as I do. Still, I am not ashamed; for I know Him [and I am personally acquainted with Him] whom I have believed [with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in the truth of His deity], and I am persuaded [beyond any doubt] that He is able to guard that which I have entrusted to Him until that day [when I stand before Him]. [1 Cor 1:8, 3:13; Phil 1:6] |
Subject: Ephs 4:30; 1:13-14 |
Bible Note: Dear WOS, Without presuming on Matt Perman or Albert Barnes, I'll try to answer as I understand it: Sanctification is both a state and a process. (See the discussion of the ordo salutis for more particulars.) Upon regeneration the entire man -- will, affections, intellect, spirit -- is transformed. As a new creature a man is able to freely choose -- although not entirely without some internal conflict -- that which is pleasing to God. The general bent of such a life will manifest itself in a progressive sanctification. (The habits of the old life often require a great struggle to set aside. In the regenerated man, that struggle does not cease in the present life.) As Barnes points out, if the change were simply a matter of intellect, it would not be regeneration. This is an extremely broad subject into which much Scripture could be brought to bear and many minds have deliberated over the centuries. (This is, by the way, particularly Protestant, but not unique to any single denominational persuasion.) In a very tiny nutshell: The will is the mind [in the operation of] choosing. Three general factors contribute to this operation: the intellect (the ability to reason), knowledge (what we are fully committed to as being true), and the affections (the heart). Man, being what he is, can and does do things contrary to his reason and his knowledge. Ultimately, however, his heart has the final say. (That is why preachers speak of the need for a "heart transplant," etc.) To see what the Bible has to say on the nature of man, I'd recommend a good systematic theology. Louis Berkhof does a pretty decent job of summing it up. Man in His Original State http://www.mbrem.com/shorttakes/berk11.htm Man in the State of Sin http://www.mbrem.com/shorttakes/berk12.htm Man in the Covenant of Grace: http://www.mbrem.com/shorttakes/berk13.htm For a more exhaustive discussion on the Biblical particulars of the operation of the will (as I described above), I'd recommend Jonathan Edwards. Freedom of the Will http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/will.html I'm sorry that this answer is not nearly as exhaustive as we'd both prefer. In Him, Doc |