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All three persons of the Godhead are involved in salvation, but until the call by the Father, it isn’t a done deal.

The beauty of His Plan is that since we are condemned before salvation, entering into fellowship by His grace removes the opportunity for arrogance to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Note the roles of the different persons in the Godhead in how He manifests Himself to us.

Our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus is the main object of our faith, in what He bore on the Cross and the Judgment made of all sin.

He remained faithful to God the Father, who then judged all sin at the Cross.

His Word is made flesh in the Son and by studying His Word, we come to understand the Gospel before salvation, by the work of God the Holy Spirit in Common Grace.

When God the Father makes the call, which He knows the right time and place to perform, God the Holy Spirit makes that call understandable while we lack spiritual faculties, by His Efficacious Grace.

Those who respond to the call of God the Father with positive volition, respond through faith in what Christ performed on the Cross and by confession of all sins through that faith.

God the Father is then free to forgive us of our sins, which have already been judged on Christ at the Cross. In His grace, He is then free to return to us a human spirit which God the Holy Spirit unites with our soul, which becomes a temple where God the Holy Spirit then indwells to further sanctify our thinking, slowly changing our soul and heart.

While the Son and the Holy Spirit might witness to us on numerous occasions prior to the call by the Father, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit only happens after chosen by God the Father with our positive receipt and acknowledgement and faith in Christ.

This also nicely explains why God the Son based His Church upon those chosen by God the Father. It isn’t His unique decision, rather it is a decision based upon what the Father has chosen, provided, called, and verified. It will prevail.