Spiritual gifts part 33: Efficacious grace.
Pastor-Teacher Spiritual Gifts Part 32: Were it not for grace...The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts Point 2. The Giver of the Gifts: The Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit. The Doctrine of Efficacious Grace The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is one of the six permanent ministries of God the Holy Spirit at salvation.
1. Efficacious Grace Efficacious grace is the first permanent ministry of God the Holy Spirit to the believer at the moment of salvation. How does an unbeliever become a believer?
Col 1:13 Efficacious grace is that work of the Holy Spirit that takes the faith of a spiritually dead person and makes it effective for salvation.
Forever running Grace is free, limitless, unmerited blessing to helpless, undeserving sinners from the loving God... ...from the loving God whose righteousness and justice are completely satisfied by the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ. When you were totally helpless and without a hope in the world, God the Holy Spirit was there on the scene to do all that was needed to get you saved. Just like Christ died for you when you were His enemy, Rom 5:6. God the Father is the author of the fantastic salvation plan for the human race. The plan called for Him to impute and judge all our sins in Christ on the cross. God the Son received that imputation and was judged for our sins. His spiritual death as our substitute paid the price for the sins of the world. God the Holy Spirit performs two enabling grace ministries in evangelism for the spiritually dead human race. We call these common and efficacious grace.
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