Spiritual gifts part 35: Efficacious grace reveals the depths of God's riches
Pastor-Teacher Spiritual Gifts Part 35: Efficacious grace reveals the depths of God’s riches.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 How does an unbeliever become a believer?
Efficacious grace.
Efficacious grace. Without the Holy Spirit, in total depravity as unbelievers, we would be deaf to the Gospel, and our faith would be mute - voiceless. The word "that" in the Greek is the demonstrative pronoun touto which is in a neuter gender referring to grace, faith and salvation as all being a gift from God. Touto or “that” is referring to the concept of a grace-by-faith salvation with emphasis on the verb that precedes it, namely “you have been saved”.
EPH 2:8
Psa 51:5 We are born physically alive and spiritually dead. At birth, God imputes Adam’s original sin to the genetically formed sin nature in the cell structure of the body. God condemns each human being at the moment of birth because of the factor of Adam’s original sin having been charged to our account. Spiritual death is a legal status or position of condemnation, as well as a condition of separation from God. The immaterial soul that God prepares is perfect. The soul is tainted only because it comes under the corrupting influence of the old sin nature. Spiritual death is a legal status or position of condemnation, as well as a condition of separation from God. The soul is tainted only because it comes under the corrupting influence of the old sin nature. We are spiritually dead, not because of our own sins, but because of Adam’s sin. We sin personally only as a result of our spiritual death. That is not the cause of our spiritual death. |