hmmm…what to say? I think I will just leave you with this quote.
God’s call, since it is effectual, carries with it the operative grace whereby the person called is enabled to answer the call and to embrace Jesus Christ as he is freely offered in the gospel. God’s grace reaches down to the lowest depths of our need and meets all the exegencies of the moral and spiritual impossibility which inheres in our depravity and inability. And that grace is the grace of regeneration. It is when we take into account God’s recreative power and grace that the condition of the called is resolved. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.” (Ezekiel 36.26) God effects a change which is radical and all-pervasive, a change which cannot be explained in terms of any combination, permutation, or accumulation of human resources, a change which is nothing less than a new creation by him who calls the things that be not as though they were, who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast. This, in a word is regeneration.
- Jonh Murray
Redemption Accomplished and Applied
