Salvation is such an amazing miracle that I get lifted up by even talking about it: It is of God from beginning to end. There is no input of man involved worthy of boasting! For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Yes of course man has a God ordained function: God involves man in bringing a tidings but all that is so regulated by God man would not be wise to honest to claim it as his own. The believer gets up in the morning, feeds on God's presence and lives on the everflowing Rhema as he enters the mission field of the world.
Out of his innermost being is flowing rivers of God: songs; verses; psalms; special insights: And then God uses something of all that as tidings to activate on earth what has long been planned and finished in heaven. As Romans 9:16 explains it it's "not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:
Man had no part in it's origins, it's scope or it's working out. "You were chosen in Christ before the eons." You were chosen by God before the clock of earth time even began:"according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world" Eph 1:4
Out of his innermost being is flowing rivers of God: songs; verses; psalms; special insights: And then God uses something of all that as tidings to activate on earth what has long been planned and finished in heaven. As Romans 9:16 explains it it's "not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:
Man had no part in it's origins, it's scope or it's working out. "You were chosen in Christ before the eons." You were chosen by God before the clock of earth time even began:"according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world" Eph 1:4
Since God exists outside of time that seeing and creating is
instant in his eyes ("I am") The calling at a particular point on the
calendar, the sanctification and the justification and glorification is all a
finished work in God's eyes outside of time whereas we have to work these
things out on a day to day struggle.What keeps us going is that strong
expectation of Romans 8:24 "For to expectation were we saved. Now
expectation, being observed, is not expectation, for what anyone is observing,
why is he expecting it also?" When God reveals these things to you joy
fills your heart: The struggle ends: There can never be any hint of failure or
condemnation:Out of your innermost being comes a continous flow of living
water:(rhemas) Yes there is also a day to day war with the flesh and
Satan but we have God's dynamite inside to endure (Rom 8:25)
And the well never runs dry: new every morning: The spirit inside
you cant abide staleness or weariness for you are now joined to the main
supply from heaven, and everyone you encounter on this earth will know they
have met with something out of this world. ("He who is joined to the Lord
is one spirit with Him 1 Cor 1:17)
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