The Calling that Actually Calls

August 17, 2006 at 10:54 am (Westminster standards)

All those who are elect will be called by God to be Christians. This call does mean a telephone call by God, pleading with us to become one of His children. No, it is a call in the same sense as the creation was called into existence. Has it ever struck you that creation obeyed the voice and call of God, even before it existed? God called, and things leaped…into being!

Something similar is going on in a Christian’s life when God calls him to be a Christian. God says, “Let there be a Christian,” and there was a Christian. God renews their will, as we have seen before, such that the new believer can now choose to believe in God’s Word.

In this call, God does not love us because we are so lovable. There was nothing in us that would tip anyone off that we should be chosen by God. As a matter of fact, God has made it a habit to pick those people who were most despicable to become Christians, in order that God’s grace might be the more glorified.

With regard to infants dying in infancy, see this post, last paragraph.

It is quite possible for the common operations of the Holy Spirit to look like saving faith. This is what has got Arminians snookered. They think that it is really saving grace, when in fact, it isn’t. If someone apostatizes, that was proof that they never were saved in the first place.

No one can be saved by being faithful to another religion. There is only one name under heaven by which we may be saved, and that name is Jesus Christ.

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