Decisional JUSTIFICATION - Sovereign SANCTIFICATION

Your reply is so viral that you have questioned my salvation and had to edit your own personal attacks on me. I think you need to stop and examine your own heart before trying to examine mine.

The doctrines of God's grace are the doctrines of Holy Scripture.

 

wow, you have much to boast about.

RB

 

Skypair,

I am quite surprised I didn't take notice of this. But now that I have I wanted to reply that this statement is so antichristian and antichrist I can't believe I have read this from a Christian.

This kind of gospel preaching I personally classify as heresy equal to the errors of Rome, perhaps worse. I classify it as heresy because I see it as being damnable.

It is utterly man-centered puting the focus of redemption on man on the man himself to make a decision, and even more disgusting, putting the focus of our preaching on decision.

The center and focus of our preaching brethren must be Christ and Him crucified and the "it" that redeems our soul is NOT our faith. "It" is a He, and He is Jesus Christ alone.

RB

 

I am not imagining things. You wrote:

Are you saying your words that read "personal attack edited" are not your own?

RB

 

I will show you where those phrases appear in the text of Scripture when you show where the word "Trinity" appears in Scripture.

RB

 

Damnable and heresy are strong words.
The quote being referred to is this:

It is no doubt a summary and not the whole.
If it is receiving Christ that is the focus, then Christ is the object, not man.

RB, could you please explain very concisely how you would go about leading a soul to Christ. You believe in personal evangelism, don't you?

 

My "boast" (glory) is in the Lord who gave himself for me,
and paid the debt for all my sin to set me free.
For me he lives; For me he dies,
And everlasting life and light he freely gives.

CONSIDER him the author and finisher of our faith....
I considered. I believed. I was saved.

 

Or "free will."

 

John 8:36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. (WEB)

 

We should preach the depravity of man and necessity of repentance and faith in the divine Person and substitutionary work of Jesus Christ for salvation. The Bible commands Gospel preaching.
One should also understand that God gets the credit for applying His Word and effectually drawing people to Him. The Bible also explains this.

 

You are far from answering the question I asked.
Most people I talk to are Biblically illiterate. The Bible has its own vocabulary, and the unsaved don't have a clue what most of those words mean:
"depravity, substitutionary, effectual, and even repentance."
Those are the words you used.

How would you lead a soul to Christ (witness to him)? Not how would you preach a soul to Christ.

 

:laugh: :laugh:

Nice try though. lol

RB

 

I am hoping that is not what he meant, but he is usally pretty straightforward about his beliefs. And if that is the case, I see it as a damnable heresy. Why would you question whether or not I believe in "personal evangelism" ?

Concisely, I follow this example:

"Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." Acts 20:21

 

DHK,

You wrote,

Please understand I am not questioning your faith.

Why did you consider? Why did you believe? Why are you saved?

RB

 

Pity.God tried;but He wasn't successful.Man's will trumps God's.What a wretched theology.

In reality God gets the ones He wants -- the ones He has elected from before the foundation of the world.

Your understanding of 'drawing' is in conflict with the biblical presentation.In the Bible drawing is always toward completion -- toward saving union with Christ.

"Not saved in spite of the grace of God" is plain wrong,anti-biblical thinking.God's grace,as the Scriptures affirm is greater than your scripturally-challenged view.

One can be 'under conviction' yet it may not be God's will to save those individuals.The Lord's purposes,ways,thoughts are higher than our own.It may be that the Lord wants them to be under conviction for a time to suffer greater condemnation.

 

Ezr 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

Lev 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;

Lev 22:21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

Lev 22:23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Num 15:3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:

Psa 119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Don't give me that rubbish about a sign over Heaven's gate)