A deeper right than being right than being right.

July 29, 2024.

Therefore is the elect of God, holy and beloved. Put on tender mercies, kindness,

humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering, bearing with one another and forgiving

one another. If anyone has a complaint against another, even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

Colaions 3, 12 and 13.

In this passage, Paul does not just tell the Colaitions to act in a particular fashion. He tells them to do so as the elect of God.

The foundation of our behaviors, God's electing love for us in Christ,

as recipients of that love, we are instructed to live in a certain way.

Nothing is more incongruous, therefore are instructed to live in a certain way.

Nothing is more incongruous, therefore,

than to see individuals who affirm the doctrine of election

with whose lives are characterized by harshness.

We are taught here that the uniform of those who understand election is tender mercies.

But after God has initially brought believers into an understanding of the preciousness of sovereign election,

they frequently enter what a friend of mine is called the Cage, the time when the newly convinced Calvinist ought to be locked into a cage and not let out until he stabilizes.

This is because coming to a Calvinistic understanding of scripture is not a second experience that removes one from

temptation and sin and obviously our new temptations are tailored and

adjusted to our new understanding so I have listed below some of the more common

temptations and sins of those who hold to the doctrine of efficacious grace.

Ex aspiration, one of the benefits of having one's eyes opened is that one can now see.

The temptation associated with this is forgetting what it was like. is that anyone who does not immediately is

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