We Believe - Effectual Calling
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6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Romans 8:30 (ESV)
30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Introduction
As we continue in our studies on what We Believe we continue in the Doctrine of the Grace of God and come to the truth of Effectual Calling.
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1. Predestination
1. Predestination
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Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966 6. Effectual Calling
Those whom God has predestinated unto life he effectually calls by his Word and by the Holy Spirit, their minds being spiritually enlightened and their wills being renewed, so that, being effectually drawn to the Lord Jesus Christ and enabled by His grace, they come most willingly.
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a. By Word and the Holy Spirit
a. By Word and the Holy Spirit
Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966
Those whom God has predestinated unto life he effectually calls by his Word and by the Holy Spirit,
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Romans 8:30 (ESV)
30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
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23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
5 because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
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b. Spiritual Enlightenment
b. Spiritual Enlightenment
Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966
Those whom God has predestinated unto life he effectually calls by his Word and by the Holy Spirit, their minds being spiritually enlightened
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17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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c. Willing Response
c. Willing Response
Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966
their wills being renewed, so that, being effectually drawn to the Lord Jesus Christ and enabled by His grace, they come most willingly.
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26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
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John 6:37 (ESV)
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
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2. By Free Grace Alone
2. By Free Grace Alone
Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966
This effectual call is of God’s free grace alone, not from anything foreseen in man nor from any power or agency in the creature, being dead in trespasses and sins until quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit. All men being dead in trespasses and sins neither can nor will truly come to Christ for salvation unless effectually drawn by the Father.
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a. Grace
a. Grace
Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966
This effectual call is of God’s free grace alone, not from anything foreseen in man nor from any power or agency in the creature
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8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
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b. Dead in Trespasses and Sins
b. Dead in Trespasses and Sins
Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966
being dead in trespasses and sins until quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit. All men being dead in trespasses and sins neither can nor will truly come to Christ for salvation unless effectually drawn by the Father.
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14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
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John 6:44 (ESV)
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Conclusion
Praise God for his glorious call.
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30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.