Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 28 September, 2026 A.D.
THE WORK OF THE SOVEREIGN SPIRIT Believing the gospel is no small thing. The message of salvation altogether by grace conditioned upon the merits and work of the Son of God is offensive to the natural man because it declares the inability of man to save himself. It proclaims that redemption has been obtained, reconciliation has been accomplished and righteousness has been brought in for all of God’s elect by the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ . When God the Holy Spirit comes to a spiritually dead sinner, He finds in that poor rebel nothing with which to work. The sinner’s mind is enmity against God, his heart as adamant stone toward the truth and his will set in opposition to the divine will. The Spirit must quicken the dead, break down the rebellion, convince of sin, grant repentance from dead works and faith in Jesus Christ and seal upon the heart and conscience of the newly regenerated ...