0.0.4 ALARM #16: Deuteronomy 8:2; “And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God Led thee.”

…

Section 4—Deuteronomy 8:2.

And thou shalt remember

all the way which

the Lord thy God led thee

these forty years in the wilderness,

to humble thee, and to prove thee,

to know what was in thine heart,

whether thou wouldest

keep his commandments or no.

…

Adapted from The COMPLETE TEXT

of ORIGINAL MATERIAL in PDF,

here: in Part 1, Section 4—

John Gill

Cause of God and Truth.pdf  

…

It is said, that it is evident

from this and other passages of Scripture,

that the state of man in this world,

is a state of trial or probation.

It will be proper therefore

to make the following inquiries:

I. What this state of probation is,

or what is meant by it.

…

1. This state of trial, or ‘probation’,

is not a trial of men’s graces,

as faith, patience, etc.,

by afflictive dispensations of Providence;

for men in general are not in such a state,

since all men have not grace to be tried;

nor is the state of every man

an afflicted one in this life:

this is a state peculiar to the people of God,

and to them only when converted:

for before conversion

they have no graces to be tried;

and with some of them,

this state is very short,

and so far from being the state of man

whilst in this world;

and yet, as will be seen

hereafter, the proof of the state of probation

pretty much depends on passages of Scripture

which relate to the exercise

of the graces of the saints

by afflictions, temptations, etc.

…

2. This state of trial, if I understand it right,

is of man’s obedience

and conduct towards God during his life;

according to which

conduct and behavior God acts towards him,

both in this and the other world;

his state, as to happiness or misery,

being yet unfixed:

so that whilst this state lasts,

it is uncertain whether he

will be saved or lost.

…

II. What proof is given

of the state of man in this world,

being such a one.

1. All those scriptures are urged,

which speak of God’s proving

the children of Israel when in the wilderness,

and in their own land,

whether they would walk in his statutes,

and keep his commandments, or no;

such as Exodus 16:4, Exodus 20:20;

Deuteronomy 8:2, and 13:3;

Judges 2:2l, 22, and 3:1, 4.

…

It ought to be observed,

that these people were under a theocracy,

or the immediate government of God as their King,

who gave them laws,

according to which they should act;

to which they readily promised a cheerful

and universal obedience;

on condition of which obedience,

they were to enjoy, and continue in their

enjoyment of the land of Canaan.

…

Therefore, before they entered

into the land, and when in it,

God was pleased to try them,

sometimes in one way, and sometimes in another,

whether they would yield that obedience to his commands

which he required,

and abide by the promises

which they themselves had made,

or no;

all which he did not for his own sake,

who knows all things,

but that their obedience

or disobedience might be made manifest,

and he be justified in all his dealings with them.

…

This trial of their obedience

was not in order to their salvation

in another world, but

to their temporal good in this;

…

Because such of them as were saved

with an everlasting salvation,

were saved not by their obedience

to the commands of God,

but by the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

…

Besides, the scriptures produced,

speak only of the people of Israel,

and of what was their state

and case as a politic body,

under the immediate government of God,

in a certain period of time;

and not of all mankind;

and so fall abundantly short

of proving that the state of man in this world,

is such a state of

probation as before described.

…

2. This is attempted to be proved from all those places in which

God is said to try men, their works and graces, by afflictions,

persecutions, temptations, and the like; as 1 Corinthians 3:13; 2

Corinthians 3:2; 1 Peter 1:7, and 4:12; James 1:3; Revelation

2:10, and 3:10; Psalm 66:10; Daniel 11:35, and 12:10; Zechariah

13:9. What I have said in answer to the first query, is a sufficient

reply to what is alleged from these passages; since these only

speak of the saints, and of the trial of their grace, who only have

grace to be tried, and that not in order to fix and settle the affair of

their salvation; nor are these trials mere experiments of the truth

and constancy of their graces: but are also designed for the

further exercise and increase of them; the issue of which is their

own spiritual good, and God’s glory. Hence it must follow that

these scriptures are insufficient proofs of every man’s being in a

state of probation, and in order to everlasting happiness or

misery.

…

3. This is said to be evident from all the promises and threats

recorded in the Scripture, to engage all men to repent, and turn to

God; for it is added, no such thing is or can reasonably be offered

to them who are already in a fixed state either of happiness or

misery. To which I reply, that the promises and threats recorded

in the Scripture, which relate to men’s spiritual and eternal good,

may be reduced to and comprehended in these words, He that

believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved; he that believeth not,

shall be damned; which was the substance of the gospel ministry

the apostles had in commission from Christ to fulfill, and which

might be exercised fully and thoroughly, supposing a fixed state of

happiness or misery; since such a ministry might be, and is used,

through the grace of God, to bring those who are designed for

happiness, into a state of grace meet for the same; and to leave

others inexcusable, to discover the more the corruption and

vitiosity of their nature, and so to justify the righteous proceedings

of God against them.

…

4. This is argued for from all the exhortations of the holy Scripture

to men to watch and pray, that they enter not and are not led into

temptation, and from such scriptures which suppose men to be in

danger by temptation; the passages referred to are, Matthew

6:13, and Matthew 26:41; Luke 8:13; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; which

only regard the saints, or such who profess to be so, and not all

mankind. Besides, if God has put all men into a state of probation,

and this designed by temptation, how should any watch and pray

not to enter or be led into it? Moreover, this state of probation, is

either a good one, or a bad one; if a good one, why should men

watch and pray against it? if a bad one, can it be reasonably

supposed, that God has put men into it, in order to their

everlasting good? and why then should it be contended for?

…

5. This is said to be evident from the temptations of Satan, who

goes about continually seeking whom he may devour; and it is

added, to what end should he tempt, or endeavor to destroy the

elect, or strive to hinder the progress of the gospel, or the

conversion of any man; when supposing a fixed state by the

decrees of God, and a divine unfrustrable operation on the hearts

of men, he must know that his labor will certainly be in vain? To

which I answer, that Satan has not the book of life in his keeping;

nor does he know who are and who are not the elect of God, until

this appears by the unfrustrable operation of God’s grace on their

hearts, and it may be, not even then: so that it is no wonder that

he tempts, strives, and endeavors to hinder the success of the

gospel in their conversion, and to destroy them; and when he

does know who they are, endeavors to distress them by his

temptations, though he cannot destroy; and in ten thousand

instances will show his malice, when he cannot show his power.

Besides, the text referred to in 1 Peter 5:8, carries in the sense of

it the doctrine of a fixed state; when it supposes that there are

some whom Satan may devour, and leaves a plain intimation that

there are others whom he may not and cannot devour; who are

the sheep of Christ, and being in his hands, neither man nor devil

will ever be able to pluck from thence. This is the sum of the proof

offered in favor of this notion, by a celebrated writer, which how

pertinent it is, must be left to the consideration of others.

III. What reason there is to conclude that the state of man in this

world is not such a state.

…

1. Angels and man both, have been in a state of probation

already, in which their free-will, and power to obey the commands

of God, have been sufficiently tried; which trial has issued in the

fall and ruin of a large number of angels, and of the whole race of

mankind: and therefore it is not reasonable to suppose that God

would put man into such a state again; but rather provide in

another way for the good of those he designed to bring to

everlasting happiness.

…

2. If men were in a state of probation, they ought to be on equal

ground, enjoying equal privileges and advantages; whereas this is

not the case; some have only the dim light and weak law of

nature, whilst others enjoy the gospel revelation; and of these

some have larger, and others lesser, means of grace, light, and

knowledge; some have the grace of God itself bestowed upon

them, others have it not. Now were all men in such a state of

probation as is pleaded for, is it reasonable to suppose that there

would be such an inequality among them?

…

3. This state of probation, which renders salvation precarious and

uncertain, is contrary to God’s foreknowledge and decree of

election; for God, according to his foreknowledge, has chosen

and predestinated a certain number of men to eternal life and

salvation, by which their state is fixed, and their salvation sure, for

the purpose of God according to election shall stand. Whom he

did foreknow, he also did predestinate; whom he did predestinate,

them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified;

and whom he justified, them he also glorified

(Rom. 9:11; 8:29, 30).

…

4. This notion puts man’s salvation on the foot of his obedience

and works, contrary to the Scriptures, to the merits of Christ, and

to the grace of God; it ascribes more to the free-will of man than

to the free grace of God, and lays a foundation for boasting in the

creature.

…

5. Such a state of probation is contrary to all those scriptures

which represent the saints to be now in a saved state, and as

having everlasting life; such as Ephesians 2:8, John 5:24, and

John 6:47. In a word, it destroys the doctrine of assurance, and

leaves the saints themselves in a most uncomfortable condition,

because it leaves them in a most precarious, unsettled, yea,

dangerous one.

0.0.3c ALARM #15: Deuteronomy 5:27; “Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall Say…”

0.0.3c ALARM #15:

Deuteronomy 5:27;

“Go thou near, and hear

all that the Lord our God shall Say…”

…

0.3c.III

“Go thou near,

and hear all that the Lord our God shall Say;

and speak thou unto us

all that the Lord our God shall Speak unto thee,

and we will hear it, and do it.”

Deuteronomy 5:27

…

The flesh of men’s minds

are weak and blind in pathetic

SHORTSIGHTEDNESS,

to “think” that these expressions,

of God,

are thought to imply,

that God Gives to all men

Sufficient Grace for Conversion,

(??????)

and 

to militate against the necessity

of the Unfrustrable

Operation of His Grace

in THE TRIUNE GODEAD’S

Eternal Work

of God’s Salvation.

…

Adapted from The COMPLETE TEXT

of ORIGINAL MATERIAL in PDF,

here: in Part 1, Section 3—

John Gill

Cause of God and Truth.pdf  

…

0.3c.III.1 

 Admitting that

the Saving Work of Conversion

is here Wished for;

such a Wish does not necessarily suppose

that Sufficient Grace for that Work

either was or would be Given;

and if the thing Wished for was Effected,

it does not follow from hence,

that this was not Performed

by the unfrustrable 

Operation of God’s Grace.

…

0.3c.III.2 

Allowing that this Grace,

an heart to Fear the Lord,

and all that is requisite to it,

were given to the Israelites;

it ought not to be concluded from hence,

that all men have the same,

or that God Wishes the same to all men.

…

0.3c.III.3 

We are not to imagine

that such Velleities and Wishes

are strictly and properly in God;

Who here Speaks,

as R. Aben Ezra observes,

Mda ygb zwvlk,

by an anthropopathy,

after the manner of men;

such Desires are ascribed to Him

in the same way

as human passions and affections are;

as anger, grief, repentance, and the like:

nor do such Wishes and Desires Declare

either what God Does or Will Do;

but what He Approves of,

and is Grateful to Him;

as are an heart to Fear Him,

and a Constant and

Universal Obedience

to His Commandments.

…

0.3c.IV 

The words are so rendered by some,

as that they express

no Wish or Desire in God,

but rather what was to be desired

by the Israelites themselves;

so the Arabic version,

it should be wished for by them,

that such an heart would continue in them;

that is, such an heart

as they professed to have in verse 27,

when they said to Moses,

“Go thou near,

and hear all that the Lord our God shall Say;

and speak thou unto us

all that the Lord our God shall Speak unto thee,

and we will hear it, and do it.”

…

The Lord takes Notice of this Declaration,

in verse 28:

I have Heard, says He,

the voice of the words of this people,

they have well said all that they have spoken;

and then adds, according to this version,

that a continuance of such a heart

to hear and do,

should be very desirable by them.

…

Moreover, the words zty ym,

may be rendered as they are by the Septuagint,

tisdwsei, who will give?

and so be considered as an inquiry,

as Dr. Whitby himself says

who will give them this heart?

they could not give it themselves:

no creature could give it them;

only God could Give them such a heart as this.

…

And perhaps this mode of expression

may be used on purpose

to convince them of their want of such an one,

and that God only could Give it to them;

and therefore they should apply to Him for it,

and not presume, as they seemed to do,

to hearken to His commandments,

and obey them in their own strength,

and without the assistance of His grace.

…

Or,

0.3c.V 

These words may be considered

as an upbraiding of these people

with the want of an heart to fear the Lord,

and with want of ability,

to keep all his commandments,

and that always,

notwithstanding the vain boasts

and empty resolutions

they had just now made.

…

In the same manner

are we to consider other pathetic expressions

of the like nature;

such as Deuteronomy 32:28, 29

and Psalm 81:11-13.

*****

1.0.0.2b: ALARM: What ‘Moved’ GOD to Predestinate His Elect to “The Praise of The Glory of His Grace?”

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AWARE of The GODHEAD 1.0 Intro-2b:

What ‘Moved’ GOD

to Predestinate His Elect

to

“The Praise

of The Glory of His Grace?”

…

God Simply Created,

to Manifest His Glory.

…

Do some of our readers imagine

that we have gone beyond

what Scripture warrants?

…

Then we appeal to the Law

and the Testimony:

…

“Stand up

and

Bless the LORD,

your God,

Forever and Ever;

…

“and

Blessed be

Your Glorious Name,

which is Exalted

above all Blessing

and Praise”

…

(Nehemiah 9:5).

…

God is No Gainer

even from our Worship.

…

He was in No Need

of that

External Glory of His Grace

which Arises from His Redeemed,

for He is Glorious enough in Himself

without us.

…

What was it that moved Him

to

Predestinate His elect

to the Praise of the Glory

of His Grace?

…

GOD ALMIGHTY

Predestinated His elect

to the Praise of the Glory

of His Grace

…

“According to the Good Pleasure

of His Will”

…

(Ephesians 1:5).

…

We are well aware

that the High Ground we tread here

is new and strange

to almost all of our readers,

so it is well to move slowly.

…

Let us appeal

again to the Scriptures.

…

As the Apostle brings to a close

a long argument on Salvation

by GOD’S ALMIGHTY

Sovereign Grace,

he asks,

…

“For who has known

the mind of the LORD?

…

“Or who has been

His counselor?

…

“Or who has first given to Him,

and it will be

returned back to him again?

( from God )”

…

(Romans 11:34-35).

…

The force of this

is that it is impossible

to bring the Almighty under Obligation

to the Created creature.

…

God Gains Nothing from us.

…

“If you are Righteous,

what did you give to Him?

…

“Or what did GOD Receive

from your hand?

…

“Your wickedness may hurt a man

as you are;

and your Righteousness

may Profit the son of man”

…

(Job 35:7-8).

…

But it certainly cannot Affect God,

who is All-Blessed in Himself.

…

“When you have done all those things

which are Commanded you,

say,

We are unprofitable servants”

…

(Luke 17:10)

…

Our obedience has profited nothing.

…

—our obedience has profited nothing,

as far as the ‘suggestion’ of ‘our obedience’

having “added anything to God”, you see.

…

Next: 

AWARE of Thee GODHEAD 1.0 Intro-3

“Who has known

 the mind of the LORD?”

& “To whom will you Compare God?”

…

Adapted from

Gleanings in the Godhead

by A. W. Pink, CHAPTER 1c

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…

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…

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0.0.9 ALARM: INTRODUCTION: The Distinction Between Free Will and Free Agency.

Adapted from:

The Distinction Between

Free ‘Will’ and Free Agency.

…

THERE is

A  TOTAL INABILITY

for a NATURALLY BORN HUMAN

to ‘COME TO’ or ‘RELATE TO’ GOD,

APART FROM THE NEW BIRTH:

…

FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS

ARE BOTH FREE in their ‘WILL’

AND ENSLAVED

to THAT SAME FREE ‘WILL’,

THAT ‘WILL’ NEVER CHOSE GOD,

UNLESS GOD ALMIGHTY, FIRST,

RENEWS THE LOST SOUL to ETERNAL LIFE.

…

BY J.I. PACKER

“The heart is deceitful

above all things

and beyond cure.

…

Who can understand it?”

–

JEREMIAH 17:9

…

Clear thought about the fallen human condition

requires a distinction between

what has been called ‘free will’,

since the start of Christianity.

and for the past two centuries

has been called ‘free agency’.

…

‘Free agency’

is a characteristic of human beings

in that:

All humans

ARE MORALLY RESPONSIBLE to GOD

when we make our own decisions

as to what we will do,

choosing as we please

in the light of our individual sense

of ‘right and wrong’

and the inclinations we feel.

…

Thus we are all are Moral Agents,

Answerable to God

and to each other for our voluntary choices.

…

 Adam was

MORALLY RESPONSIBLE to GOD

when he made his own decisions

as to what he would do,

both before and after he sinned;

…

We are all are Moral Agents,

Answerable to God

and so are The Glorified Saints

( ‘Saved’ souls,

who Have Experienced

The New, SPIRITUAL, Birth,

from Above)

who are Confirmed in Grace

( by That Activity of God

in Saving their soul,

by which they Become

“Partakers of

The Divine Nature”

and are

“Sealed, unto

The Day of Redemption”)

in such a sense that

they are still

Living in their ‘Old Nature’ of Flesh

and yet Possess

a New SPIRITUAL Nature,

which is no longer Capable of sin,

because

their New SPIRITUAL NATURE

is DIVINE.

…

Once,

The SPIRITUALLY

Born Again soul,

Leaves this Life,

their New,

SPIRITUALLY BORN AGAIN SOUL

still Contains The Divine Nature,

with the Inability to sin.

…

 That Inability to sin Will Be

One of the Delights and Glories of Heaven,

but it will not terminate anyone’s humanness;

Glorified Saints Will Still make choices

in accordance with their New Nature,

and those choices will all still be

 the product of human ‘free agency’

even thou, IN THAT ‘ETERNAL DAY’,

those choices Glorified Saints Will Make

will always be Good and Right.

…

‘Free will’, however,

has been defined

by Christian teachers

from The Second Century on

as ‘the ability to choose

all the moral options that a situation offers’,

and Augustine affirmed against Pelagius

and most of the Greek Fathers,

since original sin

has robbed us of ‘Free will’

in this sense, of ‘the ability to choose

all the moral options that a situation offers’.

…

Therefore, since original sin

has robbed us of ‘Free will’

in this sense

of saying ‘Free will’ would be

‘the ability to choose

all the moral options that a situation offers’,

we have NO natural ability

to Discern and Choose God’s Way,

…

We have NO natural ability

to Discern and Choose God’s Way,

because we have

no natural inclination Godward;

our hearts are in bondage to sin,

and only The Grace of Regeneration

can,

SPIRITUALLY,

free us from that slavery 

to our Natural Nature, of ‘sin’,

and, our Natural Nature’ to sin’.

…

This, for substance,

was what Paul taught in Romans 6:16-23;

…

16 “Do you not know,

that to whom you yield yourselves

servants to obey,

his servants you are

whom you obey;

…

whether of sin unto death,

or of Obedience

unto Righteousness?

…

 17 “But God Be Thanked,

that whereas you were

the servants of sin,”

( in your Natural flesh )

“you have”

( Been Made

SPIRITUALLY ABLE

and)

“obeyed from the heart

that”

(Spiritual) “Form of Doctrine

which was Delivered to you”

(Spiritually,

by THE NEW BIRTH).

…

 18 “Being, then,

Made Free from sin,”

(Spiritually,

by THE NEW BIRTH)

“you”

 ( the Saved Individual)

“became the”

(Spiritual)

“Servants of Righteousness.”

…

 19 “I speak after the manner of men

because of

the infirmity of your flesh;

…

because as you have

yielded your members

servants to uncleanness

and

to iniquity unto iniquity,”

( prior to your Spiritual New Birth,

while in your Natural flesh )

“even so now”

(Spiritually)

“Yield your members”

(Spiritual)

“Servants to Righteousness

unto Holiness.

…

 20 “Because when you were

the servants of sin,”

( prior to your Spiritual New Birth,

while in your Natural flesh )

“you were free from”

(Spiritual) “Righteousness”.

…

 21 “What” (Spiritual) “fruit

did you have then

in those things for which

you are now ashamed?

…

Because

the end of those things is death.

…

 22 “But now

Being Made Free”

(Spiritually)

“from sin,

and Become Servants to God,

you have your” 

(Spiritual) “fruit unto holiness,

and the end Everlasting Life.

…

 23 “Because the wages of sin is death,

but The” (Spiritual)

“Gift of God is Eternal Life

through Jesus Christ,

our Lord”.

…

Only THE SPIRITUALLY FREED WILL

(Paul says, the Spiritually Freed person)

Freely and heartily chooses Righteousness,

SPIRITUALLY.

…

Only THE SPIRITUALLY FREED WILL

Has The SPIRITUAL CAPABILITY

to Have

A permanent Love of Righteousness—

that is,

a SPIRITUAL Inclination of heart

to the SPIRITUAL Way of Living

that Pleases God—

…

THE SPIRITUALLY FREED WILL

that

Has The SPIRITUAL CAPABILITY

to Have

A permanent Love of Righteousness—

is one aspect of

The SPIRITUAL Freedom

that Jesus Christ Gives

as we see, in John 8:34-36;

 & Galatians 5:1, 13.

…

John 8:34;

“Jesus Answered them,

Verily, verily, I Say to you,

Whosoever committeth sin

is the servant of sin.

…

 35 “And the servant

abideth not in the house forever;

 but the Son Abideth Ever.

…

 36 “If the Son, therefore,

Will Make you Free,

you Wi Bell Free Indeed.” 

…

Galatians 5:1;

“Stand fast, therefore,

in the” (SPIRITUAL) “Liberty

wherewith

 Christ Has Made us Free,

and

be not entangled again

with the yoke of bondage.”

…

13 “Because brethren,

you Have Been Called to”

(SPIRITUAL) “Liberty;

only do not use Liberty

for an occasion to the flesh,

but by Love Serve one another”

(SPIRITUALLY).

…

It is worth observing that

‘will’ is an abstraction.

…

My ‘will’ is not a part of me

which I choose to move or not to move,

like my hand or my foot;

My ‘will’ is precisely me choosing to act

and then going into action.

…

The truth about ‘free agency’,

and about Jesus Christ

‘Freeing sin’s slave

from sin’s dominion’,

can be expressed more clearly

if the word ‘will’ is dropped

and each person says:

…

I am a free agent,

in my Natural

FLESH NATURE

that

ONLY HAS THE ABILITY

TO SIN,

however, I am

a CREATED SOUL;

and Morally Responsible, to

A SINLESS, HOLY,

PERFECT GOD.

…

I am the slave of sin

whom

Jesus Christ must Liberate;

…

I am a fallen, sin-cursed, being

who Only has the capability

in my Natural Created soul,

TO SIN AGAINST GOD

and to

BE THE ENEMY of GOD

and to always choose

to DO NOTHING BUT

sin Against God,

until

God Renews my heart,

to

a NEW SPIRITUAL CREATION.

*****

BECAUSE THERE is

A  TOTAL INABILITY

for a NATURALLY BORN HUMAN

to ‘COME TO’ or ‘RELATE TO’ GOD,

APART FROM THE NEW BIRTH:

…

FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS

ARE BOTH FREE in their ‘WILL’

AND ENSLAVED

to THAT SAME FREE ‘WILL’,

THAT ‘WILL’ NEVER CHOSE GOD,

UNLESS GOD ALMIGHTY, FIRST,

RENEWS THE LOST SOUL

to ETERNAL LIFE.

…

MAN’S FALL AND DEPRAVITY

None of these following 60 verses ‘teach’

that a soul may obtain ‘Salvation’, by ‘their free will’,

nor do any other verses in The Bible: 

SECTION 1. – Genesis 4:7 SECTION 2. – Genesis 6:3 SECTION 3. – Deuteronomy 5:29 SECTION 4. – Deuteronomy 8:2 SECTION 5. – Deuteronomy 30:19 SECTION 6. – Deuteronomy 32:29 SECTION 7. – Psalm 81:13, 14 SECTION 8. – Psalm 125:3 SECTION 9. – Psalm 145:9 SECTION 10. – Proverbs 1:22-30 SECTION 11. – Isaiah 1:16-17 SECTION 12. – Isaiah 1:18-20 SECTION 13. – Isaiah 5:4 SECTION 14. – Isaiah 30:15 SECTION 15. – Isaiah 55:1 SECTION 16. – Isaiah 55:6 SECTION 17. – Isaiah 55:7 SECTION 18. – Jeremiah 4:4 SECTION 19. – Ezekiel 18:24.7 SECTION 20. – Ezekiel 18:30 SECTION 21. – Ezekiel 18:31, 32 SECTION 22. – Ezekiel 24:13 SECTION 23. – Matthew 5:13 SECTION 24. – Matthew 11:21,23 SECTION 25. – Matthew 23:37 SECTION 26. – Matthew 25:14-30 SECTION 27. – Luke 19:41, 42 SECTION 28. – John 1:7 SECTION 29. – John 5:34 SECTION 30. – John 5:40 SECTION 31. – John 7:32 SECTION 32. – Acts 3:19 SECTION 33. – Acts 7:51 SECTION 34. – Romans 5:18 SECTION 35. – Romans 9:32 SECTION 36. – Romans 14:15 SECTION 37. – 1 Corinthians 8:11 SECTION 38. – 2 Corinthians 10:12 SECTION 39. – 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15 SECTION 40. – 2 Corinthians 5:19 SECTION 41. – 2 Corinthians 5:1 SECTION 42. – 2 Corinthians 11:2,3 SECTION 43. – Philippians 2:12 SECTION 44. – 1 Timothy 1:19, 20.8 SECTION 45. – 1 Timothy 2:4 SECTION 46. – 1 Timothy 4:10 SECTION 47. – Titus 2:11, 12 SECTION 48. – Epistle to the Hebrews SECTION 49. – Hebrews 2:9 SECTION 50. – Hebrews 6:4-6 SECTION 51. – Hebrews 10:26-29 SECTION 52. – Hebrews 10:38 SECTION 53. – 2 Peter 1:10 SECTION 54. – 2 Peter 2:1 SECTION 55. – 2 Peter 2:20-22 SECTION 56. – 2 Peter 3:9 SECTION 57. – 1 John 2:2 SECTION 58. – Jude 1:21 SECTION 59. – Revelation 2:3 SECTION 60. – Revelation 3:20

The Character and End of the Wicked,

Considered.

…

Jehovah’s Declaration,

Behold the Man is Become as One of Us,

Considered.

…

The Plague of a Man’s Own Heart,

what it is; to Whom Discovered;

and the Encouragement given to such Persons

to expect the Pardon of all their sins.

…

Myth of Free Will

Web Page by Walter Chantry

…

Can Free Will

Explain the Conversion of Sinners?

Web Page by Scott Christensen

…

Does Man Have a Free WIll?

Web Page by John Calvin

…

A Comparison of Systems:

Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism

& Augustinianism

Web Page by A A Hodge

…

The Pelagian Captivity of the Church

Web Page by R C Sproul

Arguments In Support of Free Will

Refuted

Web Page by John Calvin

…

Grace Creates a Truly Free Will

Web Page by St Augustine

Of Grace and Free Will

Web Page by St Augustine

…

Man Has Now Been

Deprived of Freedom of Choice

and Bound Over to Miserable Servitude

Web Page by John Calvin

…

Freedom of the Will (eBook)

Web Page by Jonathan Edwards

…

The Doctrine of the Will (eBook)

Web Page by William Cunningham

…

Top 6 Books on Free Will /

Bondage of the Will

Web Page by Monergism Books

…

Human Inability

Web Page by C H Spurgeon

…

Man’s Will – Free Yet Bound

Web Page by Walter Chantry

…

The Canons

of the Council of Orange (529 AD)

Web Page by Early Church

Free Will Synergism Vs. Free Grace Monergism

Web Page by John Hendryx

…

Augustine & The Pelagian Controversy (eBook)

Web Page by B B Warfield

Augustine’s Doctrine of the Bondage of the Will

Web Page by Monergism Answers

…

Are God’s Precepts “The Measure of our Strength”?

Web Page by John Calvin

…

The Doctrine of the Will

Web Page by William Cunningham

…

A Treatise on Grace and Free Will (eBook)

Web Page by St Augustine

…

On Free Will

Web Page by R C Sproul

…

If Fallen Men Can Only Give Themselves to Evil,

How Can God Still Condemn Them?

Web Page by John Calvin

…

Of Free Will, the Nature and Power Thereof

Web Page by John Owen

…

Please, listen to this Audio. 

Click ‘Play’ and/ ‘Download.

It’s very good.

The General Revelation of God

is Given to Everyone –

Brian Borgman

*****

1.0.3b ALARM: “The LORD your God Has Chosen you to be a Special People to Himself, above all people that are upon the Face of the Earth”.

…

AWARE of The GODHEAD

 Deuteronomy 5:29,

continued;

“O that they had

such a heart in them

that they would Fear Me,

and

Keep all My Commandments

always…”

…

Adapted from The COMPLETE TEXT

of ORIGINAL MATERIAL in PDF,

here: in Part 1, Section 3—

John Gill, Cause of God and Truth.pdf  

…

AWARE of The GODHEAD

 0.3b.I.2  

…

“The LORD your God

Has Chosen you

to be a Special People to Himself,

above all people

that are upon

the Face of the Earth”.

  …

It certainly seems revolting,

and repulsive,

to the Teachings of God’s Decrees

and

Almighty Determinations

for the sin-weakened,

mind of “men”

to

be tempted to

imply ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘guile’,

when they suggest

God would like to:

“Passionately Wish”

the Salvation of some people

‘whom the Scriptures Says’

are a group of sinners

who were

not Elected by God,

but were Rejected by God,

and

that God had Given Up

to that very same

God-hating Mind,

and

who are Vessels of Wrath

Suited and Prepared

for Eternal Destruction,

and

who are never eventually Saved.

…

However no one will say,

that the people whose good welfare

are Vehemently Desired by God

in this Passage of Scripture

were that group of sinners

who were

not Elected by God,

and were Rejected by God,

where The Bible,

in our text, Says, 

…

“O that they had such a heart

in them

that they would Fear Me,

and

Keep all My Commandments

always…”

…

0.3b.I.3  

These Particular people

are the most improper example

that could have been advanced

since these Individuals

were a Peculiar People to the Lord,

whom He Had Chosen

to be a Special people to Himself,

above all people

upon the Face of the Earth

…

Deuteronomy 7:6;

“because you are

 an Holy People

to The LORD your God:

The LORD your God

Has Chosen you

to be a Special People

to Himself,

above all people

that are upon

the Face of the Earth”.

…

0.3b.II  

II.  These Passionate Wishes

of God Expressed here;

“O that they had such a heart

in them

that they would Fear Me,

and

Keep all My Commandments

always…”

where God Vehemently Desires

the good welfare for these people

are also said by those who oppose

The Doctrine

of Particular Redemption,

to represent some instance

of ‘God’ being

 full of ‘guile’, ‘deceit’, ‘insincerity’,

‘dissimulation’, and ‘hypocrisy’;

to which we answer:

…

0.3b.II.1  

The Doctrine

of Particular Redemption

is

The Doctrinal Teaching

of The Scriptures.

…

Jesus Christ

DID NOT Die

for all Individuals.

…

Jesus Christ

Died for Only Some.

who are Called His people,

His sheep,

unless all Individuals

can be thought to be the People,

and sheep, of Jesus Christ.

…

0.3b.II.2  

 This blasphemous charge

“of guile, deceit, insincerity,

dissimulation, and hypocrisy”,

ought to be removed from God,

Who cannot lie,

deceive, dissemble,

or deny Himself.

…

Almighty Jehovah God

is a God of Truth,

and without iniquity;

Just and Right is He.

…

0.3b.II.3 

Nor, 

Does such a ‘Passionate Wish’

God Expressed here;

“O that they had such a heart

in them

that they would Fear Me,

and

Keep all My Commandments

always…”

for the Good of these people,

whom God had so Great a Regard

that God Delievered them

from Egyptian bondage,

imply anything of this nature,

of the blasphemous charge

against The Lord God

“of guile, deceit, insincerity,

dissimulation, and hypocrisy”,

by those opposing

The Doctrine

of Particular Redemption

because

as has been observed

in answer to former question,

we have a need to back up,

BEFORE THE ACCUSATION

is MADE

it ought to be proved,

that God

has ever used such

Expressions of Desire

for the Salvation of all mankind,

(?????)

and particularly of such

who are not Saved;

among whom

no one will include

these people of Israel,

especially since it is said

in Romans 11:26,

that

“all Israel Will Be Saved”,

of course Meaning,

“All SPIRITUAL ISRAEL

that Have Been Chosen

Will Be Saved”,

i.e., “ALL THE ELECT”. 

…

0.3b.II.4 

And,

 After all, these words;

“O that they had such a heart

in them

that they would Fear Me,

and

Keep all My Commandments

always…”

Do Not express

God’s Desire

for their Eternal Salvation,

but only of their

temporal good and welfare,

and that of their posterity.

…

Because their Eternal Salvation

was not to be Obtained

by

‘Works of Righteousness

done by them’,

by their ‘Fear’ or ‘Worship of God’,

or by their constant

‘universal obedience’

to His Commands.

…

They were Saved

by the Grace of

The Lord Jesus Christ,

even as we are.

…

Their Fear of God,

and Obedience to His Will,

did indeed result

in their Temporal Prosperity,

and as The Consequence 

of GOD’S DESIRE for THEM

that Temporal Prosperity

was Gratefully Received

and Tremendously

Enjoyed by them.

…

The Fear of God,

and Obedience to His Will,

by these Chosen children of God,

as The Consequence 

of GOD’S DESIRE for THEM,

Resulted in Temporal Prosperity,

that they might Live,

and

that it be Well with them,

and that their days

were Extended in the land

they were going to Possess,

as appears from verse 33;

…

Deuteronomy 5:33;

“You Will Walk in All the Ways

which The LORD your God

Has Commanded you,

that you may Live,

and 

that it may be Well with you,

and that 

you may Prolong your days

in the land

which you Will Possess”

and

with a view to how 

God Had so Strongly Desired

these Things for them,

and

for these Things

to be Done by them, 

we simply see

God Blessing His children

that they might Live,

and

that it be Well with them,

and that their days

were Extended in the land

they were going to Possess.”

…

2.0.0.0 Intro & Bibliography/ CREATION Looks Like ‘INTELLIGENT DESIGN’. Science Doesn’t Say ‘a speck of dust’ Different – ‘Scientists’ Do.

Creation

Aware of The Godhead 2.0.0.0

Intro & Bibliography/

Adapted from 

Bible Topics

Alphabetical Index  *

…

CREATION

Looks Like

‘INTELLIGENT DESIGN’.

Science Doesn’t Say

‘a speck of dust’ Different

– ‘Scientists’ Do.

…

SUBTOPICS

Audio Multimedia (29)

Creation (112)

Evolution (117)

Q&A (1)

Young Earth (14)

…

“Then God Said,

“Let Us Make man

in Our Image,

in Our Likeness,

and let them rule

over the fish of the sea

and the birds of the air,

over the livestock,

over all the Earth,

and over all the creatures

that move along the ground.”

…

“So God Created man

in his own image,

in the Image of God

He Created him;

male and female

He Created them…

…

“The LORD God

Formed the man

from the dust of the ground

and

Breathed into his nostrils

the breath of life,

and the man

became a living soul.”

Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7

…

“I Praise You

because I am Fearfully

and Wonderfully Made;

Your Works are Wonderful,

I know that full well.”

Psalm 139:14

…

“This only have I found:

God Made Mankind upright,

but men

have gone in search

of many schemes.”

Ecclesiastes 7:29

…

“It is I Who Made the Earth

and Created mankind upon it.

…

“My Own Hands

Stretched Out the Heavens;

…

“I Marshaled

their Starry Hosts.”

Isaiah 45:12

…

“With My Great Power

and Outstretched Arm

I Made the Earth

and its people

and the animals

that are on it,

and I Give it

to anyone I Please.”

Jeremiah 27:5

…

“And just as we

have borne the likeness

of the Earthly man,

so Will we Bear the likeness

of the Man from Heaven.”

1 Corinthians 15:49

…

The “Days” of Creation in Genesis 1

– An Overview and Review

Web Page by Gerhard F Hasel

…

Creation:

Foundational Doctrine of Scripture

Web Page by Douglas F Kelly

…

IN THE BEGINNING:

Why I Reject Evolution

and Embrace Wonder

Web Page by Dr Michael Milton, Douglas F Kelly

…

Trojan Horse:

An Incisive Critique

of The BioLogos Foundation

Web Page by Phil Johnson

…

Science, the Bible,

and the Promised Land:

An Analysis of

John Sailhamer’s Genesis Unbound

Web Page by Matt Perman

…

Genesis Creation:

Literal or Literary?

Web Page by Dr Kenneth L Gentry Jr

…

Origin of LIfe:

Where to Begin?

Web Page by Dr. Gary Parker

…

Hermeneutics

and the Creation Wars

Web Page by R Scott Clark

…

Covenant and Creation:

Covenant Overload

or Covenantal Deconstruction

PDF by Craig G Bartholomew

…

Of God’s Providence

Web Page by Henry Bullinger

…

Correlations with Providence

in Genesis 1

PDF by Vern S Poythress

…

Creation

PDF by Andy Davis

…

The Eyewitness Account

of Creation

Web Page by Dr. John MacArthur

…

Twenty-Six Reasons

Why Genesis 1:1

Is the Most Offensive Verse

in the Bible

Web Page by Daniel J Phillips M.Div

…

The God of The Bible

PDF by Dr Peter Jones

…

Creation, Evolution,

and the Age of the Earth

Web Page by Phil Gons

…

Creation

Web Page by Louis Berkhof

…

Faith and Science,

Falsely So-Called

Web Page by Dr. John MacArthur

…

Creation: God is the Creator

Web Page by J I Packer

…

Gender Identity in Creation

– Genesis 1:27

Web Page by Mark Dever

…

The Heavens (and the Hubble)

Are Telling the Glory of God

Web Page by Albert Mohler

…

Real history:

the timeline of the Bible

PDF by Paul Hansen

…

Debates on Intelligent Design

Web Page by Stephen Meyer

…

Was Adam Historical?

Web Page by Robert Strimple

…

Doubting on Your Part

Does Not Constitute a Crisis of Faith

or Mine

Web Page by Carl Trueman

…

Darwin and the Fundamentalists

PDF by K R Birkett

…

Refuting Evolution:

A handbook for students, parents,

and teachers

countering the latest arguments

‘for’ evolution

Web Page by Jonathan Sarfati

…

Refuting Evolution 2

Web Page by Jonathan Sarfati

…

Why Does the Universe

Look So Old?

Creation days,

inerrancy of Scripture,

the Fall,

and the age of the Earth

Web Page by Albert Mohler

…

Creative intelligence

Web Page by Steve Hays

…

Creation Series – A La Carte

Web Page by Dr. John MacArthur

…

Nagel’s Cosmos:

Teleology Without Intention?

Web Page by Dr. James E. Bruce

…

Bill Nye’s Reasonable Man—

The Central Worldview Clash

of the Ham-Nye Debate

Web Page by Albert Mohler

…

Lessons from the Ken Ham

vs. Bill Nye Creation Debate

Web Page by Richard Phillips

…

Married to Darwin

Web Page by Marvin Olasky

…

Do Genesis 1 and 2

Have Conflicting Accounts

of Creation?:

A Response to Peter Enns

Web Page by John Currid

…

The Presumption of Creation

Web Page by Steve Hays

…

Three Modern Myths

in Interpreting Genesis 1 (.pdf)

PDF by Vern S Poythress

…

Creation’s Bondage

to Corruption and Liberation

Web Page by Colin G Kruse

…

The Bible’s First Word

PDF by Derek Thomas

…

Why do human origins matter?

Part I

Web Page by Lydia McGrew

…

How would a Hebrew

have pictured Genesis 1?

Web Page by Dominic Bnonn

…

Book Review:

40 Questions

About Creation and Evolution

by Kenneth Keathley

and Mark Rooker

Web Page by Bob Hayton

…

The Doctrine of Creation

and its Significance

Web Page by John W. Keddie

Science Doesn’t Say Anything

– Scientists Do

Web Page by Frank Turek

…

The Theological Meaning

and Significance of Yom

in Genesis 1

PDF by Rick Wadholm Jr.

…

Genesis 1:1

Is the First Event,

Not a Summary

PDF by Vern S Poythress

…

Are the Bible

and Science Compatible?

Web Page by Keith Mathison

…

The use of Genesis

in the New Testament

Web Page by Lita Cosner

…

Creation, Incarnation

and the Immutability of God

Web Page by Nicholas T Batzig

…

Time in Genesis 1 (.pdf)

PDF by Vern S Poythress

…

In the Beginning…

Web Page by R C Sproul

…

“Spontaneous Creation”:

Meyer on Stephen Hawking’s

Category Error

Web Page by Evolution News

…

5 Lessons

From Visiting the Ark Encounter

Web Page by Jordan Standridge

…

…

*

“He Who Calls you

is Faithful;

He Will Surely Do It.”

(1 Thessalonians 5:24)

…

This reference site on Anthropology

is from a website with an odd name.

It is a theological term

in which

the prefix “mono” means “one”

and

the suffix “ergism” (ergon)

means “to work”.

…

Together

“mono” + “ergism”

means, “the work of one”,

or Eternal Salvation

is of The Jesus Lord Alone,

not

‘a cooperation of man and God’.

…

If anyone is to be Saved

Jesus Must Grant

Everything we need

for Salvation,

including a New Heart to Believe.

(Deuteronomy 29:4, 30:6:

Ezekiel 36:26;

John 6:63, 65, 37).

…

The Trinity,

is the purpose

for the name of this blog site,

“Aware of The Godhead”, or

in order to become

“Aware of The” Trinity,

and The Trinity

within The Eternal Godhead,

Work in Harmony

to Bring about the Salvation

of His Elect.

…

The Father Elects

His Chosen children in Christ,

before

The Foundation of The World;

in Eternity PAST.

…

The Son Redeems

His Chosen children in Christ,

The Father Elected

before

The Foundation of The World,

 and

The Holy Spirit

Applies Regeneration,

by The New Birth,

Making God’s Born Again child

a Partaker of The Divine Nature,

to the all those

The Father Elected

before

The Foundation of The World,

that

The Father Has Given the Son.

…

That is God’s

Revelation to Mankind,

in The Bible,

of HOW GOD

ETERNALLY SAVES

a HUMAN BEING’S SOUL.

…

The Gospel,

is THE GOOD NEWS,

of Jesus Christ’s WORK

of OBTAINING

ETERNAL SALVATION,

by HIS DEATH, BURIAL,

and RESURRECTION.

…

THE GOSPEL MESSAGE

indeed Goes Out

to all people who hear it,

but in the stubbornness

of people’s hearts

no one who is left to themselves,

Responds to this Outward Call,

Made by God’s Servants,

who

PREACH THE GOSPEL

to lost souls in The World,

as we see in

1 Corinthians 1:23, 24; 2:14.

…

So in Eternal Love

God Extends Mercy

to a multitude of ill-deserving

rebel sinners

by opening their blind eyes,

unstopping their deaf ears

and turning their heart of stone

to a heart of flesh,

WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY

GOD’S ELECT

Believe and Live

( Romans 9:15, 16).

…

OTHERWISE,

NO ONE WOULD BE ‘SAVED’

and

EVERY SOUL of the Human Race

would go to Hell, Forever.

…

If anyone is to Be Saved,

it is not because someone

‘naturally had a good will’,

was ‘more humble’,

was ‘wiser’,

and someone else did not,

but

Because Christ Saved them.

…

If someone

Fully Trusts in Jesus Christ,

SPIRITUALLY

it is because

Jesus Christ

Gave them a Good Will

that they

May Believe The Gospel Call.

…

No one ‘Believes the Gospel’

apart form Effectual Working

of The Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:3;

1 Thessalonians 1:4-5

…

This link is a concise overview

of this term, “Monergism”,

their content and new features…

(I Do Not see ‘Reform Theology’,

or ‘Covenant Theology’ in The Bible,

particularly, as relating to ‘Salvation’.

So, If they do, I’m sorry.

Ask me, if you have questions about it.

It’s something to do

with

Old Testament Ordinances, or Sacrifices,

and

The New Testament Ordinance of ‘Baptism’,

having to do with ‘a Promise’, or ‘Covenant’,

THAT CAN BE USED to ‘COVER INFANTS’

and

Include them in ‘Salvation’ THAT WAY???

Sounds real ‘sentimental’,

and a ‘way’ to make ‘Parents Happy’,

…but, that’s not How God Saves

and those ideas of

‘Reform Theology’,

or ‘Covenant Theology’

are NOT in The Bible.

…

SENTIMENTALITY

is NOT SPIRITUALITY) 

*****

2.0.6a ANTHROPOLOGY: Saved, Children of God BECOME Partakers of the Divine Nature, through The New Birth.

…

Anthropology

…

 

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…

“He Who Calls you

is Faithful;

He Will Surely Do It.”

(1 Thessalonians 5:24)

…

This reference site on Anthropology

is from a website with an odd name.

…

It is a theological term

in which

the prefix “mono” means “one”

and

the suffix “ergism” (ergon)

means “to work”.

…

Together

“mono” + “ergism”

means,

“the work of one”,

and when referring to

Eternal Salvation;

Eternal Salvation

is ACCOMPLISHED 

by “The Work of One”.

…

Eternal Salvation

IS ‘BY’ ONE PERSON

and

‘IN’ TRUSTING

The PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST

AND JESUS’ ETERNAL

WORK of SALVATION

that The Jesus Lord

Accomplished Alone,

and is in no sense

‘a cooperation of man and God’.

…

If anyone is to be Saved

Jesus Must Grant

Everything we need

for Salvation,

including a New Heart to Believe.

(Deuteronomy 29:4, 30:6:

…

29:4 “Yet the LORD

 has not Given you

an heart to Perceive,

and eyes to See,

and ears to Hear,

unto this Day.”

… 

30:6 “And The LORD your God

Will Circumcise your heart,

and the heart of your seed,

to Love The LORD your God

 with all your heart,

and with all your soul,

that you may live.”

…

Ezekiel 36:26;

“A new Heart also

Will I Give you,

and a new Spirit

Will I Put within you;

and

 I Will Take Away

the stony heart

out of your flesh,

and I Will Give you

a heart of flesh.” 

…

John 6:63, 65, 37; 

“It is The Spirit that Gives Life;

the flesh profited nothing.

The Words that I Speak to you, 

They are Spirit,

and They are Life.”

…

65 “And He said,

Therefore Said I to you,

that no man can Come to Me,

except it were Given to him

of My Father.”

…

 37; “All that the Father Gives Me 

Will Come to Me;

and him that Comes to Me 

I Will in No Way Cast Out.”

…

The Trinity,

is the purpose

for the name of this blog site,

“Aware of The Godhead”, or

in order to become

“Aware of The” Trinity,

and The Trinity

within The Eternal Godhead,

Work in Harmony

to Bring about the Salvation

of His Elect.

…

The Father Elects

His Chosen children in Christ,

before

The Foundation of The World;

in Eternity PAST.

…

The Son Redeems

His Chosen children in Christ,

The Father Elected

before

The Foundation of The World,

 and

The Holy Spirit

Applies Regeneration,

by The New Birth,

Making

God’s Born Again child

a Partaker

of The Divine Nature,

to the all those

The Father Elected

before

The Foundation of The World,

that

The Father Has Given the Son.

…

That is God’s

Revelation to Mankind,

in The Bible,

of HOW GOD

ETERNALLY SAVES

a HUMAN BEING’S SOUL.

…

The Gospel,

is THE GOOD NEWS,

of Jesus Christ’s WORK

of OBTAINING

ETERNAL SALVATION,

by HIS DEATH, BURIAL,

and RESURRECTION.

…

THE GOSPEL MESSAGE

indeed Goes Out

to all people who Hear it,

SPIRITUALLY,

AFTER BEING GIVEN

THE HOLY SPIRIT,

but in the stubbornness

of people’s hearts,

WITHOUT THE SPIRIT of GOD,  

no one who is left to themselves,

Responds to this Outward Call,

Made by God’s Servants,

who

PREACH THE GOSPEL

to lost souls in The World,

as we see in

1 Corinthians 1:23, 24; 2:14;

…

23 “But we Preach Christ Crucified,

to the Jews a stumbling block,

and to the Greeks foolishness;

…

 24 “But to them who are Called,

both Jews and Greeks,

 Christ The Power of God,

and

The Wisdom of God.”

…

2:14; “But the natural man

Receiveth Not

The Things of the Spirit of God;

because

They are foolishness to him;

neither can he Know Them, 

because

They are Spiritually Discerned.”

…

So in Eternal Love

God Extends Mercy

to a multitude of ill-deserving

rebel sinners

by Opening their blind eyes,

Unstopping their deaf ears

and

Turning their heart of stone

to a heart of flesh,

WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY

GOD’S ELECT

Believe and Live

as we read,

in Romans 9:15, 16;

…

15 “Because He Said to Moses,

 I Will Have Mercy

on whom I Will Have Mercy,

and

 I Will Have Compassion

on whom I Will Have Compassion.

…

 16 “So, then, 

It is not of him that willeth,

nor of him that runneth,

but of God that Shows Mercy.”

…

GOD SAVES.

JESUS is THE SAVIOR.

…

OTHERWISE,

NO ONE WOULD BE ‘SAVED’

and

EVERY SOUL of the Human Race

would go to Hell, Forever.

…

If anyone is to Be Saved,

it is not because of someone

‘naturally having a good will’,

or being ‘more humble’,

or ‘wiser’,

and someone else

‘just not having’ 

a good will’,

or weren’t ‘humble’,

or ‘wiser’,

(as if ‘those things’

were ever ‘possible’

from

The Spiritually

Perfect Perspective

of their Judge, God,

Who is Eternally Holy

and

DEMANDS THAT THEY BE)

but

Because Christ Saved them.

…

If someone

Fully Trusts in Jesus Christ,

SPIRITUALLY

it is because

Jesus Christ

Gave them a Good Will

that they

May Believe The Gospel Call.

…

JESUS SAVES.

…

No one ‘Believes the Gospel’

apart from

The Effectual Working

of The Holy Spirit.

…

1 Corinthians 12:3; 

…

“Wherefore,

I Give you to Understand

that no man

speaking by the Spirit of God

Calls Jesus accursed;

and 

that no man can say

that Jesus is The Lord,

but by The Holy Spirit.”

…

1 Thessalonians 1:4-5;

 …

4 “Knowing, brethren beloved,

your Election of God.

…

 5 “Because our Gospel

Came Not to you in Word only,

but also in Power,

and in The Holy Spirit,

and in much Assurance;

as you know

what manner of men

we were among you

for your sake.” 

…

This link is a concise overview

of this term, “Monergism”,

their content and new features…

(I Do Not see ‘Reform Theology’,

or ‘Covenant Theology’ in The Bible,

particularly, as relating to ‘Salvation’.

So, If they do, I’m sorry.

Ask me, if you have questions about it.

It’s something to do

with

Old Testament Ordinances, or Sacrifices,

and

The New Testament Ordinance of ‘Baptism’,

having to do with ‘a Promise’, or ‘Covenant’,

THAT CAN BE USED to ‘COVER INFANTS’

and

Include them in ‘Salvation’ THAT WAY???

Sounds real ‘sentimental’,

and a ‘way’ to make ‘Parents Happy’,

…but, that’s not How God Saves

and those ideas of

‘Reform Theology’,

or ‘Covenant Theology’

are NOT in The Bible.

…

SENTIMENTALITY

is NOT SPIRITUALITY) 

…

ANTHROPOLOGY.

SUBTOPICS

flesh, soul, spirit (21)

Greek Versus Hebrew (7)

Imago Dei (66)

Incarnation (29)

Man & His Fallen Condition (63)

Man Related To God (4)

Multimedia (34)

The Priesthood of Believers (12)

Total Depravity (17)

Trichotomy vs. Dichotomy (33)

Original Sin & The Fall / Total Depravity of Man

…

Anthropology

 is derived

from the two Greek words …

meaning “man” and …”word.”

…

Biblical Anthropology

deals with

The Study of the Bible’s Revelation

of the Nature of man

both before and after The Fall

and both before

and after Regeneration.

…

A fundamental idea

in Biblical Anthropology

is The Image of God.

~ Two-Age Glossary.

…

Man was created

by an Immediate Act of God

and is thus not the result

of ‘evolutionary’ processes.

…

God Created man

in His Own Image

and, therefore,

Gave to man

a transcendent value and worth.

…

We believe that man

was Given a Will and Placed

under A Covenant of works

and that all of ‘mankind’, in Adam,

chose to rebel against his Creator

and he sinned,

and thus

all of ‘mankind’

was Plunged into Spiritual Death,

whereby the Image of God was marred

and man’s will

was left in the thralldom of sin

[enslaved to sin].

…

Through the Covenant of Grace

by The Work of the Mediator

and the Holy Spirit,

man may be Regenerated,

that he may Believe the Gospel,

become

A New Creature in Christ,

and the image of God

(in the Form of

Spiritual Re-Generation) 

may be Restored in him

and an Individual Becomes

“A Partaker

of

The Divine Nature”.

…

Saved, Children of God

BECOME

Partakers of the Divine Nature,

through The New Birth;

…

II Peter 1:3

“His Divine Power Has Given us” 

(Saved, Children of God

through The New Birth)

“everything we need

for” (Eternal) “Life

and” (Spiritual) “Godliness

through the Knowledge of Him

Who Called us”

(Saved, Children of God

through The New Birth)

“by His Own Glory

and Excellence.” 

…

4 “Through these

He Has Given us His Precious 

and Magnificent Promises,

 so that through them

 you may become 

Partakers 

of

The Divine Nature,

 now that you have escaped

the corruption in the world

 caused by evil desires.”

…

 5 “For this very reason,

make every effort

to add to your Faith Virtue;

and to Virtue, Knowledge;……”

…

Systematic Theology:

Anthropology (Volume 2)

PDF by Charles Hodge

 

Truth About Man:

A Biblical Study of the Doctrine of Man

PDF by Paul Washer

Pneumatologia:

A Treatise of the Soul of Man (eBook)

Web Page by John Flavel

 

What Are We?

Three Views on Human Nature

Web Page by James Anderson

Human Nature

in its Fourfold State (eBook)

Web Page by Thomas Boston

 

Human Nature

in its Fourfold State

PDF by Thomas Boston

The Struggle Between

the Old and New Natures

in the Converted Man

Web Page by Anthony Hoekema

 

Old Man, New Man;

Dead Man, True Man

Web Page by Nicholas T Batzig

What is Man?

PDF by Dr Gregory E Reynolds,

John R Muether, Danny Olinger, Carl Trueman

 

Anthropology: The Study of Man

Web Page by Stanford Murrell

The Urgent Need

for a Theological Anthropology Today

PDF by Stephen J Wellum

 

Toward

a Theology of Human Embodiment

PDF by Gregg R Allison

Biblical Anthropology

Web Page by unknown

 

Anthropology: The Study of Man

Other by Dr Robert D Luginbill

The Old and the New Man in Believers

Web Page by Thomas Boston

 

“What is Christian Anthropology?”

Web Page by Got Questions

The Origin of Man

Web Page by Charles Hodge

 

Humanity and Sin

Web Page by Bruce Ware

Human Identity in Crisis

Web Page by Peter Jones

 

The Life of a New Human Being

Begins at Conception

Web Page by Christopher O. Tollefsen

Why Christians Need

A Christian Doctrine Of Humanity

Web Page by R Scott Clark

 

Our Story

Web Page by R C Sproul

Man

Web Page by Dr Michael s Horton

 

The Gospel Is

the Only Stable Source

of Identity and Value

Web Page by Melinda Penner

The Two Natures

Web Page by A W Pink

…

*****

1.0.3a ALARM: “The Lord is not Slack concerning His Promise,…but is Long Suffering to US-WARD, not Willing that any” of US-WARD “should Perish”

…

AWARE of The GODHEAD

 Deuteronomy 5:29;

“O that they had such a heart

in them

that they would Fear Me,

and

Keep all My Commandments

always…”

…

COMPLETE TEXT of ORIGINAL MATERIAL

in PDF, here: in Section 3—

JG_AWARE Cause of God and Truth.pdf  

…

I.   These Passionate Desires of God

“that there was such a heart

in them

that they would fear Me”

for the good of these people, to

“keep all My Commandments

always,

that it might be well with them,

and with their children forever.”

are

‘said’ to be irreconcilable

with His Decrees of Election and Reprobation.

And then supposing that 

God’s Decrees of Election and Reprobation

to be True

these Decrees are then

‘said’ to be hypocritical:

…

So, to these assertions

that God Desires

for the good of these people,

are ‘irreconcilable’

with His Decrees of Election

and Reprobation

and that

they are then ‘are hypocritical’:

may be replied;

…

1.   For God

to Passionately Wish Good Things,

AND even Salvation itself,

for some Individual souls of Mankind,

and then

for God

to Passionately NOT Wish Good Things,

OR, even Salvation itself,

on all Individual souls of Mankind,

without exception,

are in no way contrary,

to The Doctrine of Election,

but are Both Perfectly Agreeable

to The Doctrine of Election.

…

If anything is said as an accusation

 against that Doctrine,

it ought to be said and proven,

that

‘God has Passionately

Desired the Salvation

of all mankind’;

…

Then when we view these words

“that there was such a heart

in them

that they would fear Me”

for the good of these people, to

“keep all My Commandments

always,

that it might be well with them,

and with their children forever.”

we see that they can be no proof,

that

‘God has Passionately

Desired the Salvation

of all mankind’;

since these words are Said by God

only with regard to the people of Israel,

who we read

in Deuteronomy 7:7

were the

“fewest

of all people”.

…

Deuteronomy 7:7

“The LORD

did not set His Love on you,

nor Choose you,

because you were

more in number

than any people;

because you were 

the fewest of all people.”

…

As for those Scriptures

which represent God

as Willing

“all men to be saved”; 

FOR EXAMPLE:

…

1 Timothy 2:3-5;

3 “This is Good and Pleasing

in the Sight of God our Savior,

…

4 “Who Desires all men to Be Saved

 and to Come to

 the Knowledge of the Truth. 

…

5 “Because there is One God

and One Mediator

between God and men,

the Man Christ Jesus,…”

where

“all men”

will mean,

“all kinds of men”,

including

JEWS AND GENTILES,

in other words,

“God our Savior,

Who Desires all men to be Saved”

with “all men”,

meaning

NOT JUST JEWISH MEN

but,

JEWS AND GENTILES.

…

And in 2 Peter 3:9;

“The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise 

as some understand slowness, 

but is Patient with you,

 not wanting anyone to perish”, 

but everyone to come to repentance”,

which would need to be read as;

“The Lord…

is Patient with you,

 not wanting 

anyone” OF YOU “to perish”, 

… 

And it may helpful

to see this same Scripture

in a more accurate

and precise Translation

from The King James; 

“The Lord is not slack

concerning His Promise,

as some men count slackness;

but is Longsuffering

to us-ward,

not Willing

that any should Perish,

but that all should come to Repentance.”

…

I Believe God

would Have us Understand

that He is Saying;

“The Lord is not Slack

concerning His Promise,…

but is Long Suffering

to US-WARD,

not Willing that any”

> OF US-WARD <

“should Perish”.

*****

So, in these Passages,

nor in any other Passages in The Bible,

can be seen any proof,

that

‘God has Passionately

Desired the Salvation

of all mankind’;

AND

that these Passages are

in no way contrary,

to The Doctrine of Election.

AND

THAT THEY ARE ALSO ALL

Perfectly Agreeable

to The Doctrine of Election.

 “everyone

that Believes…” 

*****

1.0.2 ALARM: “My Spirit Will Not Always Strive with man”, however, This Special ‘Day of Grace’ God’s Elect are now in, Will Change into The Everlasting Day of Glory.

…

…

Part 1

COMPLETE TEXT of ORIGINAL MATERIAL

in PDF, here:

JG_AWARE Cause of God and Truth.pdf  

…

Section 2

—An Examination of:

—Genesis 6:3.

“And the Lord Said,

My Spirit Will Not Always

Strive with man,

since that he also is flesh;

yet his days will be

an hundred and twenty years.”

                                                                        

I. It will be necessary,

in order to understand the sense of this text,

to inquire,

Who is meant by the Spirit of God; 

and whether the Holy Ghost,

the Third Person in the Trinity,

is intended to be meant or not.

…

1. Some of the Jewish writers ‘think’,

that the soul of man is intended;

by 

“My Spirit Will Not Always

Strive with man,”

which is called not only the spirit of man,

but also the Spirit of God;

…

as in those words of Job,

“All the while my breath is in me,

and the Spirit of God

is in my nostrils.”

(Job 27:3).

…

Some of them derive the word dg

translated strive, from zry,

which signifies the scabbard of a sword,

and say,

what the scabbard is to the sword,

that the body is to the soul;

…

and give this as the sense of the words; 

“My Spirit Will Not Always

Strive with man,”, to mean: 

“My Spirit,

or the soul which I have put into man,

shall not always abide in him

as a sword in its scabbard;

I will unsheath it, I will draw it out;

he shall not live always, seeing he is flesh,

corrupt, given up to carnal lusts;

yet his days, or term of life,

which I will now shorten,

shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

…

Another of them delivers the sense of the words

“My Spirit Will Not Always

Strive with man,”

to this purpose;

“My Spirit, which I have breathed into man,

shall not be any more

in contention with the body;

for it does not delight in

nor receive profit from the desires of the body;

because the body is drawn after beastly desires,

and that because it is flesh,

and its desires are plunged

and fixed in the propagation of the flesh;

however,

I will prolong their days

one hundred and twenty years;

and if they return by repentance,

very well;

but if not,

I will destroy them from the world.

…

The Targum paraphrases the words

“My Spirit Will Not Always

Strive with man,”

thus,

“This wicked generation

will not be established before Me

Forever.”

…

2. Other Jewish thinkers, as Sol Jarchi,

understand

“My Spirit Will Not Always

Strive with man,”

as if God Himself,

is Saying,

within Himself,

in this paraphrased depiction; 

“My Spirit, which is within Me,

will not always be,

as it were, in a tumult,

or contention about man,

whether I shall spare him, or destroy him,

as it has been a long time,

but it will be no longer so;

I will let man know

that I am not fluctuating

between Mercy and Judgment,

but am at a point,

being determined to punish him,

since he is wholly given up to carnal pleasures,

when I Have Spared him 

a hundred and twenty years more.”

…

This sense, above, of the words

“My Spirit Will Not Always

Strive with man,”

is widely received among learned men.

…

And if either of these senses is received,

the reasonings in their minds 

of the professed lost,

Spiritually blind Arminians from these words,

in favor of any branch of their scheme

fall to the ground;

because their ‘thinking’ has been affected

by the curse of Adam’s fall,

which placed all human thinking in the flesh, 

and

“to The Law and to The Testimony,

if they speak not according to this word

it is because there is no light in them”

but I am willing to allow,

…

3. That by ‘the Spirit of God’,

we are to understand the Holy Ghost;

so Jonathan Ben Uzziel, in his Targum,

expressly calls Him;

…

and I am the rather induced

to believe this to be the meaning of the phrase;

…

since the apostle Peter,

when he speaks of Christ being

“put to Death in the flesh,

and Quickened by the Spirit,”

which is to be understood of the Holy Spirit,

adds,

“by which”,

that is, ‘by which Spirit’,

also he went and preached

to the spirits in prison,

which sometimes were disobedient,

when once the long-suffering of God

waited in the days of Noah,

(1 Peter 3:18-20.)

which words refer to those in Genesis,

and are the best key to them,

and comment on them.

…

I proceed to consider,

II. Whether the Holy Spirit

was in the men of the old world,

since, as it is observed,

the words may be rendered,

“My Spirit

Will Not Always Strive in man;”

and whether it may be concluded from hence,

that the Spirit of God is in every man,

from whom he may wholly remove

through man’s misconduct.

…

1. The Spirit of God is everywhere,

in every creature, and so in every man,

as he is the omnipresent God;

…

hence says the Psalmist,

“Whither Will I fly

from Your Spirit?”

(Psalm 139:7.)

…

The Spirit of God may also be in some persons

by His Gifts natural or Divine,

and that either in an ordinary

or in an extraordinary way,

or by some operations of His on the mind;

…

which are not of a Saving Nature,

nor designed to a Saving Purpose;

,,,

And in one or other of these senses,

the Manifestation of the Spirit

is Given to every man to Profit withal;

(1 Corinthians 12:7);

and the Spirit may be said

to be both in the men of the old world,

in THE OLD TESTAMENT

and in THE NEW TESTAMENT

…

2. However,

That ‘The Spirit of God

is in every man in a Way of Special Grace

and to Saving Purposes,

provided they ‘behave’ well,

must be denied;

because every unconverted man

is destitute of the Spirit;

…

…

Were the Spirit, in this sense, in every man,

the Indwelling of the Spirit

would be no evidence of Regeneration;

…

With the difference between:

a Regenerate and an unregenerate man

lying in this,

the

Regenerate one has

the Spirit of God

REGENERATED & BORN INTO

and LIVING IN THEIR SOUL

,

while the unregenerate soul

does not have the Spirit of God 

COMING INTO THEIR SOUL TO LIVE

and

MAKE THEM ALIVE, SPIRITUALLY, to GOD,

WHO is SPIRIT.

…

Hence,

3. It is easy to judge

in what sense the Spirit of God does,

and does not depart

where he once is.

…

Where

The Spirit of God

is only Present by His Gifts

or External Operations,

He may wholly Remove,

He May Take Away those Gifts,

or Cease from those Works,

in that individual;

…

And those individuals,

notwithstanding these Gifts

that were Enabled in them,

may be Everlastingly lost;

…

But where

The Spirit of God

is by His Special Supernatural,

Spiritually Giving Grace,

The Spirit of God

never totally departs,

though he may withdraw

His Gracious Presence

of OBVIOUS INFLUENCE for a time;

The Spirit of God’s

INDWELLING PRESENCE STILL LIVES

in THE REGENERATED,

BORN AGAIN, SOUL.

…

The Spirit of God’s people

may not be Indulged with His Joys and Comforts,

and in their apprehension,

The Spirit of God

may ‘seem’ to be taken away from them,

yet He Always Lives in THE CHILD of GOD,

RE-BORN from ABOVE,

by

The Spirit of God, Himself.

…

Otherwise, Christ’s Prayers

for His Perpetual Continuance with His people

would not be Answered;

…

Nor would the Spirit’s Indwelling in their Soul

be a Security of the saints’ Perseverance

nor any Certain Pledge of their Future Glory.

…

To add no more,

the words of the text DO NOT speak

of the Spirit’s Being in, much less ‘Living in’

‘all’ the people

of The Old Testament

but of his striving with them.

…

Therefore the next inquiry

III. Is, what is meant

by the Strivings of the Spirit?

and

whether it is meant that

even with ‘the Strivings of the Spirit’

that

The Holy Spirit May ‘Strive’ with people

and

through that individual’s neglect of him,

or opposition to him,

The Holy Spirit

doesn’t Accomplish a WORK?

…

1, The Hebrew word zwd, here used,

signifies to judge, to execute judgment,

or punish in a righteous way;

…

And so some read the words,

“My Spirit

Will not Judge these men Forever”

or, as if God was Saying,

“I Will not Reserve them to Everlasting Torments;

I Will Punish them here in this World;

because they are flesh, frail sinful creatures;

as we see God Say, in

“I Will not Contend Forever,

neither Will I Always Be Wroth;

because the Spirit should fail before Me,

and the souls which I have Made”

(Isaiah 57:16)

or rather the sense is according to this version,

“My Spirit

Will not Exercise Judgment on them Forever,”

IN THIS LIFE, that is, immediately,

directly, at this very instant;

…

Even though they are so corrupt,

“I Will Give them the space

of one hundred and twenty years

to Repent in;

and after that, if they repent not,

I Will Deliver them Up to Destruction”,

which accordingly was the event of things

THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, AFTERWARD.

.

2. The word here translated “strive”

signifies also to litigate a point,

or reason in a cause;

…

God “strives” with individuals,

 to litigate a point,

or reason in a cause;

before the situation concerning their soul

is Ripe for Judgment,

or 

God “strives” with individuals,

 to litigate a point,

or reason in a cause;

before their soul is Called

to the Execution of Judgment.

…

Now the Spirit of God

had been Litigating

and Reasoning with these men

in the court

and at the bar of their own consciences,

about their sins,

by one providence or another,

and by one minister or another;

particularly by Noah,

a Preacher of Righteousness,

and that WITH NO RESULT.

…

Hence God, The Holy Spirit,

Determines to go on no longer in this Way,

but to Proceed to Pass

and Execute the Sentence of Condemnation

on thoses souls,

since they were so very corrupt,

being nothing else but flesh.

…

However,

for God to Show His Clemency and Forbearance,

HeGgrants them a Reprieve

for one hundred and twenty years;

..

That

“one hundred and twenty years”

Period of Time

 is that

Longsuffering of God

the Apostle Speaks of,

that waited in the Days of Noah,

while the Ark was Preparing.

(1 Peter 3:20).

…

Hence it appears,

that the ‘strivings’

of the Spirit of God with these men,

were only by the external ministry of the word,

and in a way of moral suasion,

which came to nothing,

because The Preaching of Noah

WAS NOT HEARD by DEAF EARS

and SPIRITUALLY BLIND HEARTS and souls.

…

This may lead us to observe

the insufficiency of moral suasion

and the external ministry of the word,

without the Supernaturally Powerful

and Efficacious Grace of The Spirit.

…

3. It is now easy to discern

in what sense the Spirit of God

may be ‘opposed’ and ‘resisted’,

and when

the Spirit of God

may ‘strive’ to no purpose,

and

in what sense

the Spirit of God

may NEVER be

‘opposed’ and ‘resisted’.

…

The things of the Spirit of God

are disagreeable to a natural man:

it is no wonder

that the external ministry of the word

and ordinances are despised,

‘opposed’, and ‘resisted’.

…

The external Call may be ‘rejected’;

Yes, some inward

motions and convictions may be ‘overruled’,

‘stifled’, and ‘come to nothing’:

…

It will even be granted,

that there may be and is an ‘opposition’

and ‘resistance’ to the Work of the Spirit of God

in Conversion;

but then

The Holy Spirit

cannot be so ‘resisted’,

in the Operations of His Grace,

for Him

‘to be obliged to cease’ from His Work,

or to be ‘overcome’ or ‘hindered’

in GOD’S ULTIMATE WILL 

because The Holy Spirit Acts with a Design

which cannot be frustrated,

and with an Almighty Power

which is unstoppable;

…

Were it otherwise,

the Regeneration and Conversion

of every one must be precarious,

and where The Grace of the Spirit is Effectual,

According to the False Teaching of free-will,

the Regeneration and Conversion

OF THE SPIRITUALLY DEAD SOUL(?)

would be more owing to the ‘will of man’

than to the Spirit of God.

…

IV. It may be asked whether the old world

had a day of grace,

and so all mankind,

in which they might be saved if they would;

…

during which time the Spirit strives with man;

and

when that is expired he strives no longer.

…

1. The space of one hundred and twenty years

allowed the old world for repentance

was indeed a favor,

and indulgence of divine Providence,

…

a time of God’s long-suffering and forbearance;

…

but it does not follow,

that because

they had such a space allotted to them,

in which,

had they repented,

they would have been saved from temporal ruin;

that therefore all mankind have a day of grace,

which if they ‘improve’,

they may be saved with an everlasting salvation.

…

Since,

2. If by ‘a Day of Grace’

are meant ‘The Means of Grace’,

the External Ministry,

Preaching of the Word

and Ordinances,

these

‘The Means of Grace’, alone,

are insufficient to Salvation,

without

the Spiritually Efficacious

Grace of God,

by

The NEW BIRTH by THE HOLY SPIRIT.

…

And besides, the

the External Ministry,

Preaching of the Word

and Ordinances,

are not enjoyed by all mankind.

…

Every man has not a ‘Day of Grace’ in this sense.

…

Sometimes the Means of Grace,

of the External Ministry,

Preaching of the Word

and Ordinances,

have been primarily

confined to one particular nation,

and all the rest of the World

have been without them

for a considerable number of years.

…

This was the case

of all the Nations of the World

whom God suffered to walk in their own ways;

Overlooked them, Took no Notice of them,

Gave them no ‘Day of Grace’;

while His Worship was only Kept Up

in the land of Judea.

…

And since the Coming of Christ;

The Administration

of the External Ministry,

Preaching of the Word

and Ordinances,

has sometimes been in one place,

and sometimes in another

when the rest of mankind

have been without them:

…

so that every man in this sense

has not had a ‘Day of Grace’.

…

3. The whole

New Testament Era of The Gospel

in General

may be called a

Day of Grace;

…

But this

New Testament Era of The Gospel

Day of Grace

does not ‘expire’ while men live,

or at their death;

…

This

New Testament Era of The Gospel

Day of Grace

Reaches from The Coming of Christ,

in His Virgin Birth in Bethlehem,

to The End of the World,

when

JESUS COMES AGAIN.

…

This

New Testament Era of The Gospel

Day of Grace

Will Continue until all the Elect of God

are Gathered in.

…

Nor can it be said of any man,

that,

‘he has outlived’ or ‘out-sinned this day of grace’;

for still it is said,

“Today if ye will hear his voice;

Now is the accepted time,

now is the day of salvation.”

(Hebrews 3:7; 2 Corinthians 6:2)

…

…

This Current

New Testament Era of The Gospel

Day of Grace 

is:

…

“Today if ye will hear His Voice;

Now is the Accepted Time,

now is The Day of Salvation.”

(Hebrews 3:7; 2 Corinthians 6:2)

…

And This Current Age of

The New Testament Era

of The Gospel Day of Grace

Will Continue until all the Elect of God

are Gathered in 

AND ETERNALLY SAVED

by THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD.

…

THEN WHAT HAPPENS?

…

4. Although they may go through

days of clouds and darkness,

this

New Testament Era of The Gospel

Day of Grace to God’s Elect

that

begins at their Conversion,

Will Never End,

and Will Never Be Over 

until

The Day of Grace to God’s Elect

is Changed into

The Everlasting Day of Glory,

in HEAVEN WITH GOD, FOREVER

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AWARE of The GODHEAD

1.0.1 ALARM: God has not lost His Authority to Command OBEDIENCE from MANKIND: “If you do well, will you not be accepted?”

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Part 1

COMPLETE TEXT of ORIGINAL MATERIAL

in PDF, here:

JG_AWARE Cause of God and Truth.pdf  

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Section 1—

An Examination of:

Genesis 4:7

…
“If you do well,

will you not be accepted?” 

…

I. It will be proper to inquire,

whether a wicked, an unregenerate man,

as was Cain,

can perform ‘good works’

that are:

“Acceptable to God”?

…

To which may be answered,

1. Adam had a power

to do every good work the Law Required;

which men, since the fall, have not.

…

Men indeed, in an unregenerate state,

might do many things which they do not;

such as reading the Scriptures,

attending on public worship, etc.

No doubt but the persons in the parable,

who were invited to the dinner,

could have gone to it, had they had a will,

as well as the one did to his farm,

and the other to his merchandise.

…

Men have an equal NATURAL,

SIN-CURSED ‘power’,

when they have a ‘heart’,

a ‘will’, an ‘inclination’,

to go to a place of Divine Worship,

as to a tavern, or bar;

…

But it is easy to observe,

that persons oftentimes

have it in the power of their hands,

when they do not have it

in the power of their hearts,

to do a ‘good’ work;

as a rich man to give alms to the poor.

…

Unregenerate men

are capable of performing works,

which are in a natural and civil,

though not in a Spiritual sense, ‘good’.

…

They may do those things,

which externally, in appearance,

and as to the matter and substance of them,

may be ‘good’;

such as hearing, reading, praying,

giving alms to the poor, etc.,

when the circumstances

requisite to good works are left out;

…

because whatsoever is done as a good work,

must be done in Obedience to the Will

because whatever is done as a good work,

must be done in Obedience to the Will of God;

from a SPIRITUAL ABILITY

and Principle of Love to Him;

must be performed in Faith;

in the Name of Christ,

and to the Glory of God by Him.

…

Therefore,

It must be denied,

that wicked, unregenerate men,

have the ‘power’ to perform good ‘works’

in a Spiritual manner;

which is evident

from their natural estate and condition,

according to the scriptural representation of it,

Their natural estate and condition 

of the human soul is this:

The bias of their minds is to that which is evil,

and to that only;

that they are wholly carnal,

and mind nothing else

but the things of the flesh;

that they are weak and strengthless,

yes,

dead in trespasses and sins;

no, that they are under an impossibility

to do that which is Spiritually good;

“There is

none that doeth good,

no, not one”

 of them,

nor are they able;

they are

“not subject

to the Law of God”,

nor can they be.

…

When the

“Ethiopian changes his skin,

and the leopard his spots,

then may they also do good,

who are accustomed

to do evil”.

…

Men may expect as soon

to

“gather grapes of thorns,

or figs of thistles”,

as good fruit to grow upon,

or ‘good works’ to be performed by,

unregenerate men;

…

No, their soul Must Be

“Created in Christ Jesus”,

have the Spirit of Christ put into them,

and His Grace Implanted in them;

…

They must be Spiritual Believers in Him

before they are ‘Spiritually’ Capable of doing

that which is Spiritually ‘good’.

…

And even believers themselves

are not able to think a ‘good’ thought

or perform a ‘good’ work of themselves,

IN THEIR FLESH,

WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD

in their soul ‘Doing The Good Work, Spiritually;

It is God Who Works in them both

“to Will and

to Do of His Good Pleasure”.

…

Sometimes when they have a ‘will’

to do that which is good,

yet how to perform it they know not;

they can do nothing without Christ,

though all things through Him,

Who Strengthens them;

…

Much less

then have unregenerate persons

either a ‘power’ or a ‘will’

to that which is Spiritually good.

…

Nor,

Is there any foundation

for such a proposition in these words,

which are hypothetically expressed,

and therefore nothing absolutely

to be concluded from them;

that is to say,

we are not to argue

from God’s saying to Cain,

“If you do well”,

therefore Cain had a ‘power to do well’,

or to do that

which is Spiritually ‘good’, or ‘well’;

much less should we infer from hence,

as one does, that

“God could not have proposed

the doing of good as a condition,

if he had not given Cain

sufficient strength

whereby he was capable to do good.”

…

Since God could not only

have proposed the doing of good,

but have Required it According to His Law,

without being under Obligation

to give sufficient Strength to Obey;

…

Because though man by his sin

has lost his power to obey the Will of God

in a Spiritually Capable and Right Manner,

yet God has not lost His Authority to Command;

…

which he may use without obliging Himself

to find man sufficient strength to act in obedience to it.

…

Besides,

These words regard doing well, not in a moral,

but in a ceremonial sense.

…

Cain and Abel were very early taught the necessity,

manner, and use of sacrifices; …

and in process of time, they brought their offerings to the Lord,

each according to his different calling and employment;

…

the one brought of the fruit of the ground,

the other of the firstlings of his flock.

…

Now to Abel and his offering the Lord had respect,

that is,

He Accepted him and his offering;

…

but to Cain and his offering God had no respect;

…

which made Cain very wroth,

and his countenance fell;

…

upon which the Lord Expostulates with him after this manner,

“Why are you wroth?

and why is your countenance fallen?

…

“If you do well”,

Hebrew; yatab:

to be good, well, glad, or pleasing

…

“If you had offered rightly,”

as the Septuagint renders the words

which though it is not a proper literal translation of them,

yet agreeable enough to their sense,

“shouldn’t you be accepted?”

…

Cain failed either in the matter or manner of his sacrifice;

…

Probably in the latter;

…

Since the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews observes,

that by “Faith,

Abel offered

a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.”

(Hebrews 11:4)

…

Cain offered his sacrifice without Faith,

without any View to the Sacrifice of Christ:

…

Cain performed this his sacrifice hypocritically,

in show and appearance only;

…

He acted from no Right Principle, nor to any right end;

,,,

And therefore his works,

whatever show of ‘Righteousness’ they might have,

are, by the apostle John,

(1 John 3:12) rightly called evil;

…

THIS IS TRUE

also all the ‘works’ of wicked and unregenerate men.

…

I proceed,

To consider whether man’s acceptance with God

is on the account of his good works.

…

 

There is a difference between the ‘acceptance’ of men’s ‘works’,

and of their soul and persons for them:

…

There are many ‘actions’ done by men,

which are ‘acceptable’ and ‘well-pleasing’ to God,

when the Individual, in their person and soul, themselves,

are not Spiritually Accepted by God,

on ‘account’ of

those same ‘actions’ done by those lost souls

…

Besides, no man’s ‘works’ are accepted by God

whose person and soul is not previously accepted

AND REGENERATED by THE HOLY SPIRIT,

as A NEW CREATION: 

and

who is A NEW CREATURE in CHRIST JESUS.

…

God First had Respect to the person of Abel,

WHO HAD BEEN SPIRITUALLY BORN AGAIN

and then to Able’s offering;

…

This shows that ABLE’S SOUL was not accepted

for the sake of his offering.

…

The best works of the saints are imperfect

and attended with sin,

and are only Acceptable to God through Jesus Christ,

in Whom, and in Whom only, Who is The Beloved,

their persons are accepted and well-pleasing to God.

…

No man can be Justified or Saved by his ‘works’,

and therefore no man can be Accepted with God

on that account;

…

THIS is the Current Doctrine of the Sacred Writings:

this will help us to understand the true sense of such passages,

as Acts 10:35,

“But in every Nation,

 he that Fears Him,

and works righteousness

 is accepted with Him.”

…

Romans 15:16;

“to be a minister of Christ Jesus

to the Gentiles

in the Priestly Service

of the Gospel of God,

so that the Gentiles

might become

an acceptable offering to God,

Sanctified by the Holy Spirit.”

…

2 Corinthians 5:9,

“Wherefore, we labor that,

whether present or absent,

we may be accepted of Him.”

…

compared with

Ephesians 1:6;

“To the Praise of the Glory of His Grace,

wherein He Has Made us

Accepted in the Beloved.”

and

1 Peter 2:5;

“You also, as lively stones,

are built up a spiritual house,

a holy priesthood,

to offer up spiritual sacrifices,

Acceptable to God

by Jesus Christ.”

…

Nor do these words suppose

that man’s ‘acceptance’ with God

stands on the foot of ‘works’.

…

The Hebrew word 7613. שְׂאֵת (seeth)

“will you not be accepted”
s’eth  (seh-ayth’)

is an expression to be “an elevation”;

figuratively; ‘elation’ or ‘cheerfulness’;

or as an exaltation in rank or character –

meaning to – be accepted, have dignity, excellency,

highness, raise up self, rising.

because there is only one word in the original text,

which our translators render,

“will you not be accepted?”

and it signifies either excellency, as in Psalm 62:4;

“They only consult

to cast him down from his excellency;

they delight in lies;

they bless with their mouth,

but they curse inwardly.” 

and may design the dignity of primogeniture,

or honor of birth-right,

as it does in Genesis 49:3,

and so be rendered,

“will you not have the excellency?”

that is,

“will you not have

the right of primogeniture continue with you?,

in other words,

“will not the honor and privilege of being the first-born

still live we you as your privilege?”

…

God is Saying,

Cain, you don’t need to be afraid

that this honor and privilege of being the first-born

will be taken from you and given to your younger brother, Able,

who is willing to be subject to you, and ready to serve you;

…

And this agrees well with the latter part of the text,

“and to you will be his desire,

and you will rule over him;”

or the word signifies an elevation, or lifting up;

…

“you will rule over him;”

is to be understood

as Aben Ezra observes of 7613. seeth,

 yatab: to be good, well, glad, or pleasing

a lifting up of the countenance, which was fallen, verses 5, 6,

and then the sense is,

if you had done well, when you brought your offering,

you might have lifted up your face without spot,

and doubtless you would have done so;

…

But inasmuch as you have sinned and done evil,

and which is to be seen in thy fallen countenance,

sin lies at the door of your conscience;

…

which, when once your conscience is opened,

THE REALIZATION of YOUR SIN

WILL ENTER INTO YOUR CONSCIENCE

and make dreadful work OF CONVICTION;

as it did a little after;

…

which made Cain say,

“My punishment

is greater than I can bear.”

…

But admitting that the word in

HEBREW: אִם־ תֵּיטִיב֙ שְׂאֵ֔ת וְאִם֙ לֹ֣א

Genesis 4:7 

KJV: “you do well,

will you not be accepted? 

and if you do not well,” 

signifies ‘acceptance’,

and be rendered,

“will there not be an acceptance?”

it is to be understood,

not of an acceptance of his soul, Spiritually,

or CAIN’S person,

but an ‘acceptance’ of his CIVIL sacrifices and services.

…

III. It remains to be considered,

whether Cain had ‘a day of grace,’

in which it was possible for him to be ‘accepted’ with God.

…

1. There is no acceptance of any man’s person,

EXCEPT as THEIR PERSON and SOUL

is Considered in Christ the Mediator.

…

Now as there is no reason to ever believe that Cain,

 who was of the wicked one, the devil,

was ever in Christ,

or that Cain’s soul was ever considered in Jesus Christ;

…

So there is no reason to conclude, that Cain either was 

or that it was possible for him to be, ‘accepted’ with God,

IN JESUS CHRIST,

as A SPIRITUALLY CHOSEN and SAVED SOUL.

…

2. The text does not speak of Cain doing well

in a Godly Acceptable Moral or Spiritual,

but in a ceremonial way;

…

And the text does not speak at all

of the ‘acceptance’ of his person,

on the bases of so ‘doing’;

…

But at most, The text speaks only of the ‘acceptance’

of his sacrifice and ceremonious services,

supposing them rightly performed.

…

3. These words are not expressive of

‘a day of visitation’

in a ‘way of grace’ or ‘mercy’ to him;

but are to be considered as an expostulation with him

for his wrath, fury, and fallen countenance,

and an upbraiding of him

BECAUSE of CAIN’S EVIL ‘DOING’,

in order to awaken his conscience,

and bring him to a full sense of his sin;

…

which was so far from proving ‘a day of grace’ to Cain,

that it quickly issued in the utmost distress of mind,

torture of conscience, and black despair. 

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as we see and are made

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