Saturday, July 27, 2013

Regeneration





The message of the gospel is simple enough for little children to understand, but the heart of man is corrupt and will not absorb the things of God.  A person may sit in church for forty years and hear the gospel time and again until he can recite it by rote, yet never comprehend or trust.  Such is the depth of our depravity.

Such people sit there weekly in your church and in mine.  Merely brushing shoulders with us doesn’t do anything for them.  You can take a corpse to a crowded ballpark, but he won’t watch the game.  Unless the Spirit grants resurrection, the dead remain dead.  The only hope of any person, regardless of his church or family background, is that the Spirit of God will call him savingly unto Christ.  

Excerpt from an article by Pastor Tom Chantry

http://chantrynotes.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/calvinism-and-the-presumed-gospel/

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