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To: RnMomof7
Eph 1:13
297 posted on 09/02/2003 10:52:24 PM PDT by Cvengr (0:^))
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To: Cvengr
 I asked you..How does a dead man take the medicine that will cure him? So you do not mean REALLY DEAD just sorta dead I assume??

I do not see this as responsive ,

BTW You NEVER want to quote Ephesians to A Calvinist.

  Eph 1:1   Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:     

Eph 1:2   Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

     Eph 1:3   Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ:   

  Eph 1:4   According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:   

  Eph 1:5   Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,     

Eph 1:6   To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.     

Eph 1:7   In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;   

  Eph 1:8   Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;   

  Eph 1:9   Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:   

  Eph 1:10   That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:

     Eph 1:11   In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

     Eph 1:12   That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.     

Eph 1:13   In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

If you notice here it is the word of God that God uses to bring the faith to believe .

Isa 49:8   Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

This is a prophecy about Christ

From Matthew Henry

God will own and stand by him in his undertaking (v. 8): In an acceptable time have I heard thee, that is, I will hear thee. Christ, in the days of his flesh, offered up strong cries, and was heard, Heb. 5:7. He knew that the Father heard him always (Jn. 11:42), heard him for himself (for, though the cup might not pass from him, yet he was enabled to drink it), heard him for all that are his, and therefore he interceded for them as one having authority.

Father, I will, Jn. 17:24. All our happiness results from the Son’s interest in the Father and the prevalency of his intercession, that he always heard him; and this makes the gospel time an acceptable time, welcome to us, because we are accepted of God, both reconciled and recommended to him, that God hears the Redeemer for us, Heb. 7:25. Nor will he hear him only, but help him to go through with his undertaking. The Father was always with him at his right hand, and did not leave him when his disciples did. Violent attacks were made upon our Lord Jesus by the powers of darkness, when it was their hour, to drive him off from his undertakings, but God promises to preserve him and enable him to persevere in it; on that one stone were seven eyes, Zec. 3:9. God would preserve him, would preserve his interest, his kingdom among men, though fought against on all sides. Christ is preserved while Christianity is.

318 posted on 09/03/2003 11:05:22 AM PDT by RnMomof7 (Saved by grace , Calvinist by choice)
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