[Roundtable] A Calvinist looks at the promise of Healing

[Jefferis Peterson]

On 10/10/09 4:18 PM, "RAY MARSDEN" <ray.marsden at btinternet.com> wrote:


> The outworking of regeneration is not just the journey towards all truth by

> the leading of the Holy Spirit but the empowered dynamic witness in living out

> that truth to the world. We have been given all things necessary for the work

> of the Lord and the apprehension of every successive truth must bear fruit in

> our own growth in holiness, in our better expression to love our neighbour and

> in our competence to bring the lost to Christ. There are only front line

> soldiers in the work of the Lord and very few of them are not wounded at some

> time or other and many of them would actually die if they were fighting in the

> right war.

> We have been given a present of inestimable value to use in the markets of

> time and eternity. It would be a significant move forward if we stopped just

> analysing the box in which it came, or just thanking the sender, or just

> losing ourselves in inexplicable expressions of joy, or just creating ornate

> rituals celebrating the giving. Unfruitful theology is a most divine road to

> Hell paved with the definition of every good doctrine at the end of which the

> dreadful words are heard "I never knew you"


Hi Ray, 
Not sure if you think this article is unfruitful, but I expect it to bear
fruit. It is born out of revelation and repentance as I was in prayer and
the Lord was revealing to me my hesitancy in proclaiming Him to others.
Something broke in my spirit as I realized what it was that was holding me
back.  Bad doctrine is a stronghold  which Paul says we pull down to make
every thought captive to Christ. If we have a  mistaken belief about who God
actually is, it will thwart our witness or cause it to miss the mark.  Paul
asked others to pray for him that he might proclaim the message with all
boldness as he ought.  Boldness of our proclamation is what I am talking
about and I believe the Lord¹s power will be present when we are not
hesitant about his goodness.

Jeff
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