Paul's Passing Thoughts

The Sovereign Lord is my salvation from beginning to end and everything in between. I could not keep myself one day without Him. He is my Saviour, Lord and Keeper! He has promised to perfect all that which concerns me and it is HE that works in me to will and to DO of His good pleasure according to the scriptures.

He says in the gospel of John that…”All that the Father gives me I shall lose NONE but shall raise him up at the last day! Praise His name.

Sandi

Sandi,

Like all Calvinists, you dress up evil in a “humbleness” that totally depends on God and gives Him ALL the credit for your Christian walk as well as salvation. Like the “wicked lazy” servant in Matthew 25:14-30, you propose to merely give back what Christ has given you. You hide the gospel of “God does it all” in the ground for fear that anything you do in your Christian life is an attempt to fulfill the law of sin and death rather than walking in obedience to the law of the Spirit of life. You do not see yourself as free from the law of sin and death; therefore, your true role of loving Christ is relegated to the Holy Spirit. Like the wicked lazy servant, there is fear in your love because you are still under the law of sin and death.

Therefore, you are not a true friend of Christ, or a brother, but a parasite; viz, in the words of Calvinist Paul David Tripp we are only to “rest and feed on the living Christ.” That’s what a Calvinist is: a parasite that only “rests and feeds on Christ” instead of offering one’s body as a living sacrifice. Christ died for you, and you offer nothing in return but your blemished totally depraved self that is still under the law of sin and death. You are not free to…”if you love me, keep my commandments.” You must make those commands to the Holy Spirit because you are still under the law of sin and death.

Worse yet, like all Calvinists, and antithetical to love, you rejoice in this evil. As you plunge the depths of your own depravity (mortification), you experience the joy which is a gift from heaven (vivification). The doctrine of mortification and vivification is official and well documented Reformed orthodoxy. Clearly, it is a joy that results in the reality of our own depravity, and makes God a rewarder of such, but love “does not delight in evil.”

Granted, there is to be fear in sanctification as we look for the redemption of the body, but you make that the same as a fear of judgment in regard to justification because you are still under the law of sin and death, and not freed by the perfect law of liberty. You are not free to love Christ as a “doer of the word.”  Your “love” is therefore full of fear.

I beseech all Calvinists to cry out to Jesus and affirm that His death has ended the law of sin and death, and freed us to love Him with the Holy Spirit as our counselor resulting in a life that is built upon a rock.

paul